I'm all about playing as murder police and hunting a serial killer through dreams.
Also, I adore Uchikoshi's games, and Kozaki's character art. I'm so in.
Also, I adore Uchikoshi's games, and Kozaki's character art. I'm so in.
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AI: The Somnium Files announced (Kotaro Uchikoshi's new murder detective VN) - PS4/Steam/Switch
- Thread starter HardRojo
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ho yeah definitely, like the escape room in his first games! What i meant is doing whatever he did witht ZTD, that was a really bad idea, lol
Interesting tidbit brought up by a poster on reddit. The Spike Chunsoft logo having something ram through it at the start of the reveal could be a reference to Phineas Gage:
It's a very Uchikoshi thing to bring up.
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TL;DR: Gage is an oft-brought up case in neurology and psychology. A metre long iron rod shot through his head, obliterating the space behind his left eye. Most of his left frontal lobe was destroyed, and his personality radically changed. He lost the use of his left eye (the detective MC has an artificial left eye in this).
It's a very Uchikoshi thing to bring up.
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TL;DR: Gage is an oft-brought up case in neurology and psychology. A metre long iron rod shot through his head, obliterating the space behind his left eye. Most of his left frontal lobe was destroyed, and his personality radically changed. He lost the use of his left eye (the detective MC has an artificial left eye in this).
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I was thinking about this too.Interesting tidbit brought up by a poster on reddit. The Spike Chunsoft logo having something ram through it at the start of the reveal could be a reference to Phineas Gage:
It's a very Uchikoshi thing to bring up.
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TL;DR: Gage is an oft-brought up case in neurology and psychology. A metre long iron rod shot through his head, obliterating the space behind his left eye. Most of his left frontal lobe was destroyed, and his personality radically changed. He lost the use of his left eye (the detective MC has an artificial left eye in this).
This screams Uchikoshi.
Uchikoshi is definitely already beyond three times for recycling twists.
Disappointed to see the ugly art style make a return from ZTD. I still don't really trust Uchikoshi after ZTD. People point to the Sigma Team's story as being the "good" third of the game but it was just as bad, if not worse, than the rest of the game.
This game has a lot to prove to me that he's not just phoning it in.
This game has a lot to prove to me that he's not just phoning it in.
I'm more interested in this man's next game after Zero Time Dilemma than I was for ZTD after VLR... and I liked VLR a whole lot more than ZTD.
Also, AI = (jp) ai = eye = love; off to a good, very Japanese start
Also, AI = (jp) ai = eye = love; off to a good, very Japanese start
Yeah. ZTD was so good up until its ending, at which point it just imploded under its own premise.
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Other phrases are:
Prisoner No. 89
Cyclops Serial Killings
Geostationary Satellite X00639
Wadjet System
Abandoned Child
Endorphin Oxytocin
I can only find Japanese sources, but looks like Satellite X00639 was an unknown satellite 50m long orbiting the equator and speculated to be a US military satellite.
Prisoner No. 89
Cyclops Serial Killings
Geostationary Satellite X00639
Wadjet System
Abandoned Child
Endorphin Oxytocin
I can only find Japanese sources, but looks like Satellite X00639 was an unknown satellite 50m long orbiting the equator and speculated to be a US military satellite.
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Yes, they recently set up their own localization branch in America.
Uchikoshi, what are you doing? You just know that satellite is going to be some insane shit.
Cyclops serial killings. A man whose personality changed after having his eye and frontal lobe destroyed. AI = eye.
Eye theme running strong here.
I was a little worried that the game wouldn't be bonkers but just going by this it seems like I was wrong. I'm really excited to see Uchikoshi tackle a story that isn't "people trapped in a place".
50:50 chance it ends up being "people trapped in their dreamscapes".
The Eye of Horus can also be referred to as the Wadjet Eye, etc.
My thought exactly! Been holding out for vns to come to switch. The genre is PERFECT for switch
That's more persona shit than his usual storyline. Which I wouldn't mind.
I only heard of this game this morning. I'M FUCKIN IN. Can't wait.
I felt the worst parts of ZTD came from the low budget, but if this is well funded, I'm sure it will be really nice. And they're even starting from scratch with the story so it doesn't have to tie a 1000 things together to make it work.
I felt the worst parts of ZTD came from the low budget, but if this is well funded, I'm sure it will be really nice. And they're even starting from scratch with the story so it doesn't have to tie a 1000 things together to make it work.
Confirmed for 2019 according to Uchikoshi's end of year interview in 4gamer: https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20181219044/index_7.html#too_uchi
(At least assuming google is accurate).
Also funny that he mentions looking forward to the next Black Mirror, with how much today's episode felt similar to Zero Escape in some ways.
(At least assuming google is accurate).
Also funny that he mentions looking forward to the next Black Mirror, with how much today's episode felt similar to Zero Escape in some ways.
I was getting a bit concerned that this had been canned due to how quiet talk about it had been...thank goodness it's still coming along. Look forward to it.