Reminder: Date returns in 7 days.
You've pre-ordered right?

No, I haven't even played the previous two games and I don't plan to play them. Partially because of woke content and partially because they aren't really games I'm interested in.

I'll play it eventually.

I hate the humor in these games and this looks like they're tripling down on it, so I don't think this is for me.

ai somnium was a tranny game

why is date still in saito's body

>>715928091
they retcon it as him wearing a Saito mask, which is completely insane by normal standards, but it is Unchikoshi

>>715926658 (OP)
I haven't played 2 yet, despite having it
Is it as good as 1 in regards to the mystery elements?

>>715928389
Not really, but it's okay. However, the worst part is the humor, specifically the optional text when you click on everything. These were a highlight of the first game for me, but don't even bother in this one. It's either poorly recycled, plain or just shitty.

>>715928389
It is atrocious. Do not play it.

There is no mystery. The twist is that the player is shown events out of order to make it seem like there's a mystery, but this does not tie into the plot at all. There are several more contrivances to hide this fact from the player, like Mizuki's identical twin that dresses and acts exactly like here during events that take place years apart.

>>715927671
>tranny game
I know about this one out of context screenshot of Mizuki, and the fact that her VA (Paimon's) is a trash human being, although I did like her performance in this game specifically. Any other example of woke content that isn't clearly parody?

>>715926658 (OP)
Why is this diddy blud getting a 3rd game?

Just make Zero Escape 4 already, Uchikoshi!

>>715928091
Because we can't have continuity in our murder mystery series, it might spoil dumb people who don't start at the beginning. Even Danganronpa didn't do this.

>>715928091
Because generic depressed anime man body doesn't fit Date's character at all

>>715927438
You don't like hilarious Japanese wordplay?
Epic pornos mags, bro!
Snailman is a hack.

>>715928806
>Mizuki's identical twin that dresses and acts exactly like here during events that take place years apart.
She isn't her twin. Other Mizuki just happens to have an age gap with our Mizuki that matches with the time skip. She also has the same name and dresses in the same style that our Mizuki would adopt six years later

>>715926658 (OP)
Yeah. I generally enjoyed Uchikoshi (and Kodaka's) previous works. Probably getting Shuten Order in September as well.

>>715928237
It's the same world with a guy who has a square head and this isn't a genetic defect or condition, Date may be insane but he's just one of many.

>>715926658 (OP)
I still didn't bother to finish second game.
Also
>that bug where the dub suddenly switches to English for the final song in the first game

>>715928091
They realized the other design is pretty lame in comparison so they wanna keep using him despite it making no sense

I love my faggot suicidal schizo cop and can't wait for him to return

>>715930545
Not to excuse the bug, but I found this was one of the few games with good English voice acting. Must have had a good director.

>>715927292
cute sakura

>>715927292
sex sakura

>>715926658 (OP)
did they include another char with big boobs?

>>715930427
Funniest joke in the game is Gen having to hide his face because of his skull deformity meanwhile this nigga was a TV celebrity

>>715930965
Canon ending BTW.

>>715930815
It was the only part of English voice acting I've experienced so it was jarring to say the least.

>>715926658 (OP)
Sell me on this series, also what's the release order?

>>715931451
>Sell me on this series
The main guy powers up from porno magazines

>>715930563
Real Date looks cool and has a cooler voice, so I don't really get it.

Incidentally, what's up with all the drag queen shady informant bartenders in Japan? Seems like a very specific niche, but from recent memory you have Mama here, Bermotti from Trails through Daybreak and whatshername from Persona 5, with a few I'm probably forgetting. At least it's more fun than regular trannies so I'm not complaining, just curious.

>>715930756
I don't remember anything about him besides being schizo, the second game was that forgettable.

>>715931417
Yeah I can imagine. I have a theory that it was deliberate because of the unsubbed part after the song when they all talk over each other.

>>715931739
Maybe I'll try finishing the second game fully in English this time.
What could go wrong?

>>715928237
>>715929136
They should have just retired the whole AI1 cast if they were worried about muh spoilers. Their involvement in the second game's story was to the active detriment of some of the returning characters anyways.

>>715932334
You could, but the second game is worse in almost every aspect, and that includes voice acting (Date is still great though). The one thing it did slightly better imo is the somnia.

>>715932541
Huh, I dropped it around 2 hour mark. It didn't pull me in. Fuck, I have too many games to play as is, I have to be more picky.
Yet I'm shitposting on chink basket weaving forum.

I’m still very confused on this release, is this just the first game again but with like a few features or like a genuine rework of the first? I quite liked the first game but I’m still puzzled what this is

>>715930756
This game is before AINI so he probably won't show up

>>715928091
To allow newfags in

>>715932758
It's an actual new game that takes place between 1 and 2. In terms of gameplay the new thing they seem to be doing is escape rooms with Iris.

>>715931575
Bermotti isn't really a drag queen though just a regular faggot who paints his nails I think.
But yeah idk it must be an old trope.

>>715932758
Apparently it's a sequel set a day after the first game, which makes it somehow even dumber that Date looks like that.

>>715932930
I can't stand his Usopp face. I think that's why I assumed he was a drag queen, he's just too grotesque.

>>715932804
He and Tama are both in the game as rookies

>>715933437
oh neat

>>715926658 (OP)
Nirvana Initiative was ass, so no.

>>715928237
Unfortunately a necessity, Uchi understands that once the sequel's out there people who have not played the first game may see the second game, and if Kaname Date doesn't look like "Kaname Date" it spoils the first game.

>>715933080
>day after the first game
it's just a translation quirk, it more correctly translates to "some time after the first game", but the Japanese literally translates to "day after the first"

>>715934227
dumb subversion writer. Should make another Zero game then.
I still can't believe we went Zero Time 1/2/3, and instead of getting Zero 4, we get AI 1/2/3.

If we get Ai4 before Zero 4, a baby will die

>>715934627
This isn't really AI 3 since it's not even written by uchi afaik, just seems like more of a spin-off.

>>715934627
Nigga what the fuck do you expect a new Zero Escape to even do
The story's over

>>715934742
>story's over
>story is about diverging timelines
pretty obvious

>>715934671
fuck this gay earth

>>715934995
>multiple timelines means we can just milk it forever because uh I want to?
Story's over retard

>>715935123
why can't he just make another game as good as 999 then

>>715935237
Remember11 was pretty good

>>715935237
He did, it's called AI: The Somnium Files

>>715927005
>redditor culture warrior who doesn't play games
You'll fit in just fine on this board, newfriend.

I'm out of the loop, is it more Date/Aiba kino?

>>715935237
I feel like at some point after VLR, somebody told Uchikoshi he's really funny and he took that way too much to heart.

>switch AND switch 2
When it inevitably comes to PlayStation I hope it gets a ps4 release as well.

>>715936056
after NI, a few people in spike chunsoft told Uchi to sit down and back off since they think they can do better. So the new Ai game is led by some upstarts.

The only thing we know these upstarts did is make Date the main character again

>>715928091
They fucked up not making the canon ending one of the other ones (Mizuki end, obviously) that doesn't reveal the full truth of the situation. They could've easily not directly acknowledged it happening while letting people feel smart, and NI would be 98% the same.

>>715936764
>NI would be 98% the same.
So is in Iris's body along with a missing eye and looming brain cancer It would not be the same.

>Invisible Rainbow Arrow
>Half 2 Whole
>New song(?)
any news on the new ending flash mob?

Reviews are out
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/game/nintendo-switch/no-sleep-for-kaname-date-from-ai/the-somnium-files/.226015

No point playing this game now that we know the world is a simulation anyways.

>>715932853
is it an actual full game? I'm looking at the store page and it's priced way cheaper than the other 2 were on release

>>715928806
this is untrue, the twist was relevant because it lead to diverge. the "4 unseen Xs" of Naixatloz were the timeline crosses in the flowchart

>>715939618
no its way shorter. the reviews say it's more like a spin off or a fan disc. it's about 10-15 hours long

>>715939618
it's more of a spin off franchise attempt.
Hopefully it becomes episodic

>>715939897
Hopefully being shorter means they just cut all the boring bullshit. Every scene with cubehead or the thief guy in nirvana initiative put me to sleep. To the very end I did not give a shit about either of them or the people related to them.

>>715926658 (OP)
No. I genuinely cannot imagine having any faith in uchikoshi after nirvana initiative. I almost feel ashamed for giving him another chance after ZTD but I still liked the first AI.

it's supposedly only got 3 somniums, and it expects the player beat the first game and spoils it

It's entirely linear with silly alternate endings for making wrong choices. Some reviews said the mystery is whatever and you're basically just playing it for more character interactions

>>715934227
but you can play spoiler/non spoiler version based on how you answer during game show at the start
it probably took too much effort/budget to make 2 versions of the game with new date/old date
>>715926658 (OP)
I'm still playing through 100 days defence academy but I'm not really expecting much - 2nd somnium was fucking abysmal, the only thing I liked about it is 2nd small sister

>>715940173
so...a Telltale game?

>>715940286
both Date VA's aren't exactly cheap

>>715926658 (OP)
>burnt after aini
>escape rooms primarily feature a character i just don't care about
i remembered to do nothing

>The game also has several extras that can be “purchased” using eyeballs earned by progressing through the story and accomplishing certain goals in the game, such as finishing Psyncs with over a minute left. Of course, there's the usual album of production art; what's unusual is that there are also extras I wanted to engage with. The best were comedic alternate versions of some of the game's scenes, which were often laugh-out-loud funny
I guess they made little scenes like phoenix wright: asinine attorney?

i wanna suckle on Iris

>>715930427
GOD OF ENERGY

>>715926658 (OP)
Ryuki and Tama status?

>>715938540
>Still, it mostly does right by its characters. It's always a risk when changing writers that characters become flattened, caricatured versions of themselves, but that hasn't happened here. The emotional scenes with the established characters certainly hit harder. The banter is also on point, as Date, Aiba, and the supporting cast bicker and argue even as they come through for one another.
>There are no branching storylines, no jaw-dropping twist at the end that ties everything together
Seems like they fixed everything wrong with AI2

>>715940104
It'll be weird if spoilers are not optional here when the supposedly serious sequel made spoilers optional.

>>715926658 (OP)
isnt it 5 days

>>715941525
Uchi was forced out of the project after AI2 controversies ,
please understand

>>715927671
retard

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it's gonna be real fucking weird seeing Amame 5 years before she has a mental breakdown and becomes a murderer

>>715942219
>crazy serial killer (who murdered her father) lures her to his hiding place
>starts rambling about Nirvana and saving humanity, how her father was a sacrifice for the greater good and how he's going to make her his queen or something
>so she's alone with a crazy murderer who won't just let her go
A good lawyer could've made a case of justified self defense and saved Amame from jail.

>>715926658 (OP)
i'll buy it on launch, the first two games were both pretty good

am I retarded? I barely remember the story of the 2 AI games (I played through them all myself). Maybe my brain is just efficient at throwing away unneeded information

If they are not on screen at least 50% of the time, then this game has failed

>>715928890
All in due time.

>>715943052
Tama mogs Aiba so hard it's not even funny

>>715943847
This, but the opposite.

>>715933437
Another half-hour spent examining every item in Boss' office for the funny dialogue, here we come!

>>715926658 (OP)
Isn't Uchikoshi uninvolved with this game? Not sure how interested I am if so. If I'm going on an Uchikoshi ride, it had better be an Uchikoshi ride.

>>715943052
Trvke.

>>715944484
the people claimed they can Uchikoshi better than Uchikoshi, who admittedly dropped the ball with AI2

Is it true that this game doesn't have a flowchart or a murder mystery?
What makes it a Kotaro game then?

I swore off Uchikoshi after ZTD, but I watched a trailer for the newest game a few weeks ago and the Zero Escape sound effects in it got me to buy all three games out of morbid curiosity.
I hope they aren't completely terrible.
But if this is all leading up to a Somnium Files 4 featuring Kyle because the game releases in 2028 I will kill that fucking man.
>>715936214
It must have been the people who follow him on Twitter and think Sigma's unfolding dick and deciding characters' sexuality through community polls are just the most hilarious things ever.

>>715945693
The casual dialogue in the AI games IS very funny to be fair.

>>715945781
chouchin... chouchin....

>>715943847
Tama for lovey-dovey hugging under a blanky
Aiba for drunk philosophical discussions

>>715941432
>no jaw-dropping twist at the end that ties everything together
So it's not Uchikoshi-core, therefore skip

>>715941432
>does right by the characters
I WISH they'd make AI episodic.
We have like 6 other ABYS agents we haven't met.
Iris was fine but we need a damsel of the episode. It would really suck if Conan saved the same lady every time.

Date is supposed to be an Ace detective with 50+ murders solved. Give us the other 49 that doesn't involve Iris!

>>715946060
Chou chinko, wai!

>>715944903

>>715926658 (OP)
Fuck I have yet to play the first game.

"That" scene in AI2 literally turned me off from playing the games. Also, it doesn't help that Uchikoshi likes to earn brownie points on Twitter.

I got spoiled for >>715942219 before and I'm glad because now I know not to go anywhere near the sequels

>>715948370
the only thing wrong with AI2 is they didn't have Date lead. Mizuki and Aiba don't have the same chemistry