ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide and child abuse
In an eerily brief set of fragments, Axe and Nathalie must contend with poison capsules, rotating rooms, and a belligerent shotgun wielding Eric as they scramble towards a still ambiguous resolution. They scan some brains and swing some hammers before confronting a troubling child abuse backstory and its many unfortunate connotations. After the dust settles, Nathalie unveils a new set of 10 predictions that just might be her ticket our of this twisted game, and our hosts look forward to a holiday reprieve from Zero as they jump to a different game entirely.
This episode covers the fragments
- [C Team] -> Poison
- [Q Team] -> Pop Off
Next time on Zero Context
- Kamaitachi no Yoru: Rinne Saisei (Chunsoft, 1994) AKA Night of the Sickle Weasel or Banshee’s Last Cry.
Next next time on Zero Context
- Choose [C Team] -> Play the [Akane in front of Roman numerals] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [team standing by a sink on broken glass] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [D Team] -> Play the [team looking at a blue button] fragment -> Play all outcomes
Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Eric (JP: Akira Ishida; EN: Keith Silverstein)
- The terrifying passage of time (happy one+ year to us)
- How to pronounce Char Aznable
- Fentanyl
- #notmyculture
- Professor Akane Layton
- Eric gets the hammer power up
- The children’s puzzle game Rush Hour
- What’s Uchikoshi doing???
- Assigned serial killer at birth
- NScripter visual novels
- Fantasian (Mistwalker, 2021)
Intro: “Ustulate Pathos -Record-” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow” by Shinji Hosoe
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