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Spike Chunsoft Teases New Title with "Nine Eyes TV" ARG
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I say this with great affection for AI: I have no idea how this got greenlit if it is a sequel lmfao. I was under the impression it had a much bigger budget than other recent Uchikoshi works and didn't do that well sales wise.
Would be very on board for a sequel with better puzzles and less eye-rolling horniness.
Would be very on board for a sequel with better puzzles and less eye-rolling horniness.
From what I can gleam, AI sold between 50,000-100,000 copies on Steam, not including the other platforms it released on, which is already a good amount of copies for the size, scope and type of game this is.
Oh, that's quite a bit better than I thought actually. Wonder what the lifetime sales across all platforms were.
Wow, I would've never expected a sequel to AI. Really hoping it's good and significantly scaled back in the sex joke department.
I think the calendar one was:
The Sundays on the calendar were highlighted, the game is set in Japan, the first letter of Sunday in Japanese is "Ni". Maybe there's a better explanation, but still.
Edit: yes, there was a more logical answer for the solution to puzzle 1, see this tweet:
For 5:
7 letter word on a spectrum background =rainbow. The two highlighted letters were the answer
For 7
the clock hands point at 2 and 5 and the numbers tell you which letter of each word ("two","five") to take.
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Very into the idea of an AI sequel.
I wonder how it will continue though, it seemed like a very standalone story.
I wonder how it will continue though, it seemed like a very standalone story.
Uchikoshi has mentioned on twitter a few times about other people working at ABIS so probably that, there's also a few concepts from the ARG and original game that are touched but not expanded upon imo.
I always found it weird how there are five other syncers in their squad but they don't show up at all, so they could always explain that somehow.
Yeah he's talked on twitter about how they are busy doing their own thing, I've always hoped and taken that as he wanted to tell a bunch of different stories about how people use the Somniums
Honestly, I would be really interested in a Uchikoshi Silent Hill lol. Maybe more a Siren or something type thing actually, but either way. We'd probably end up with something Higurashi-y.
They feel they're too dark, or at least that's what he said around the time VLR came out.
We definitely don't need a follow-up to AI but if it's coming I'm sure as hell gonna play it. I'll try anything from Uchi even though he doesn't hit every single time (ZTD)
I believe it's because it's more darker/bloody and the games (specifically Zero Escape 2 and 3) dosen't exactly have an attractive artstyle/graphics compared to something like Danganronpa.
Crazy opinions when AI has Kozaki designs/art. I just bought the first game on sale over the weekend and the art was the main reason why!
I was mostly referring to how Zero Escape didn't sell well. Heck, the third one got cancelled but the fan base made a petition and donated to help revive the game. It wasn't exactly worth it lol...
But AI is a huge improvement, the art was definitely better and according to this thread, it sold between 50k - 100k copies on Steam alone. I assume it sold just as well on Switch and Playstation. Probably the most successful Uchi game.
Even 999 and VLR had Kinu Nishimura art though, although I'm not sure her art has really hit the mainstream outside of Street Fighter.
I think the main problem was her art (in my opinion) was horribly translated into 3D. If you look at VLR, the models are not that great, very stiff and low budget. ZTD was improved but felt very stiff and despite having better graphics, it still felt low budget. Another issue was I believe the game was rated Cero Z (Pegi 18/M) which dosen't exactly sell well in Japan.
You're not wrong.
ZTD was a different artist but yeah it looked super budget, even if it they had to downport it to 3DS.
What unanswered questions would these be? I felt like AI addressed everything fairly neatly by its conclusion.
I like Uchi as he makes really amazing stories but unfortunately if there's one thing that is consistent from him: it's the constant sex/dirty jokes. They were throughout the Zero Escape series (I'll admit, some of them made me laugh such as the wet joke in 999) but in AI, they went up by 100%. That was too much.
This is 100% AI related (the name is AI Nirvana) but I'm not sure if the nine eyes and now this Clover picture are a coincidence.
Zero escape had a good enough trilogy, AI was a fresh start in a new universe with different logical rules and I feel like I'd be happier keeping it that way.
A completely new cast and setting to make it self-contained would be the only way to avoid screwing it up, I'd say.
I didn't like VLR either, and will never understand what anyone ever saw in it. I wasn't being dismissive of only ZTD. In fact, I almost skipped AI because I didn't like either of those two.
The action scenes were some of the best parts.
Can't say I would picture them changing everything about the puzzles when the whole gimmick was dream logic not making much sense and varying according to the individual (some mitigation of trial and error perhaps, but not ditching the premise entirely).
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