![]() ![]() You start by selecting a piece to move (you can’t move the bolted 1 or any of the letters that start on the bottom) and it moves the piece into the “switch” box. It also only lets you move pieces from top to bottom. If you don’t notice it, you’re stuck cycling through the hints until it flat out tells you what to do. ![]() At the password input, the hint button is disabled and you can’t go back to the puzzle so I was freaking out for a good minute or two trying to figure out the password.Īs for why the puzzle is poorly designed: if you notice the gimmick, it’s trivially easy. I could’ve just guessed that without solving the puzzle.” But yes, the final password is 9. In my sleep deprived state, I kept overthinking it, assuming I had missed something. and magically all the digital roots turn into 9. And then, if you’re not completely sleep deprived like I was at the time, you swap the P with the 1 at the bottom, the S with the 3, etc. When you do that, the un-filled squares in the larger square above all get numbers put into them which was pretty easy to tell were the digital roots of all the numbers adjacent to it. So if you’re like me, you immediately see “oh, that thing at the bottom looks like the word ‘password'” and then you press the hint button to see what happens. The puzzles, however, were mostly fine, apart from the final puzzle.Īs you may have heard or seen for yourself at this point (I meant to publish this way earlier whoops), they replaced the sudoku puzzle at the end with a new custom one designed for a single screen which, in my opinion, was pretty poorly designed. I get that they wanted to make it obvious but I dunno, putting the text in brackets and turning down the distortion should’ve achieved the same effect without making me groan. It puts a silly blue water-reflection looking effect over the screen and some serious voice distortion. One thing I wasn’t a big fan of was the internal monologue in ADV mode. I skipped basically all of the dialogue, so I can’t really comment on the quality of the voice acting but the few lines I did hear seemed fine. The first and most obvious change to 999 was the updated sprites and voice acting. The other settings are pretty straightforward (choose a voice language, enable skip mode, and change BGM/SFX/Voice volumes) but a random funny tidbit is the voice volume will play the same audio clip from the start every time you change it. Another thing to note about the settings menu is that in both 999 and VLR it’s impossible to change the settings once you’re in game. You have to drop out to the main menu first (by hitting “save” in the in-game menu). There are too many points in the game where you have to accurately select a small target and turning up the sensitivity will probably get you into a loop of “try to press it -> miss -> get a dialog box about what you hit instead -> quickly move the cursor and try again -> miss”. ![]() First thing I did was change cursor speed to “fast” (gotta go fast, right?) but honestly, I don’t recommend it. Like any “good gamer” the first thing I did was tweak the settings. Granted, you’re not going to be doing this often, but because the default behavior is to suspend your game instead of closing it, changing from 999 to VLR proved to be more of an ordeal than I expected. That was shocking to me, because on PS4 the only way to go from one game to the other is to actually quit the application. It starts you off by letting you choose between 999 and Virtue’s Last Reward, but as far as I can tell there’s no way to change games once you’ve selected one. Now onto the good stuff (there will be spoilers).įirst off, a note about the presentation of the game. For both of these games, turning down the cursor speed might mitigate some of the awfulness associated with moving from a touchscreen game to a controller. Virtue’s Last Reward, on the other hand, remains basically untouched, which leads to awful controls for a handful of puzzles. I streamed a playthrough of the two games skipping basically all of the dialogue, which you can watch on YouTube if you so desire.Ī spoiler free tl dr: Despite some questionable/unfortunate changes to 999, the voice acting and quality of life improvements make the Nonary Games edition the definitive version to play. I bought The Nonary Games on PS4 for the primary purpose of analyzing the ports. ![]()
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