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Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

Chunsoft · Oct 23, 2012

3DS · Vita

Mature

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Virtue's Last Reward is the second adventure game in the "Zero Escape" series, in which players must make solve puzzles and make crucial decisions in order to survive a deadly game.

You thought you’d defeated the Nonary Game, but now it’s back, and more deadly than ever. It'll take cunning, skill, and more than a little luck to escape alive, but do you really have a choice?

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Scores by platform

Nintendo 3DS

Critic 8.8 (12 critics) · Gamer 9.5

8.8

PS Vita

Critic 8.5 (15 critics) · Gamer 9.3

8.7

Critic reviews

  • NintendoLife

    Mike Mason · Dec 05, 2012

    8.0
    Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward spins one of the year's best yarns, tackling various topics with maturity, intelligence and even a little humour. Its smart puzzles can be a little fiddly, but if you have any interest in story in games whatsoever and can deal with its murderous subject matter, this is a must play that will keep you engaged for dozens of hours.
  • Edge

    Edge Staff · Dec 04, 2012

    7.0
    It’s a pity the controls are rather awkward – on Vita at least – with neither touch nor button controls ever feeling entirely natural. Your ultimate destination, meanwhile, is determined by your choices to betray or ally with your fellow contestants after each room is conquered, an idea that would carry greater emotional weight but for the ease with which you can skip across the paths you’ve opened to reverse your decisions, a rare instance where the game’s structure is to its detriment.

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Gamer reviews

  • Malanore

    Sep 10, 2020 · PS Vita

    10

    Probably the best Visual Novel you could get on the PSVita. I don't want to spoil it, but this game brings to the table what many other games don't: the "What if I did that instead?" Basically, you'll need to find your way out, and given the name of the game, you'd probably want to be nice, but guess what: being nice does not always mean being nice! As I said, I don't want to spoil the game, and I want you to explore it from the beginning to the end, as that would make you fully enjoy the experience. That aside, this games is definitely a step up from the first game (999). I was kind of not happy how the protagonist's voice was not played like the first game had (I used to play the sound because spending hours reading on a small screen is not the best thing you do for your eyes), but I got used to it, and man. This game deserves being on your top list of games you should get on the Vita.

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