{"id":9918,"date":"2017-03-24T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9918"},"modified":"2017-03-25T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T20:45:17","slug":"the-nonary-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9918","title":{"rendered":"The Nonary Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something to file under &#8220;things that may be of interest&#8221;, out on <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/477740\/\">Steam<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/#!\/en-gb\/games\/zero-escape-the-nonary-games\/cid=EP1024-CUSA06937_00-ZEROESCAPE999ZEN?utm_medium=ps&amp;utm_campaign=SIEE_Paid_Search_Store_Acquisition&amp;utm_source=Google&amp;utm_term=ps-we-5-89521&amp;utm_content=Mediacom_Paid_Seach_Acquisition_PlayStation_Store_EMEAR_Always_ON_Google&amp;emcid=ps-we-5-89521\">PS4\/Vita<\/a> today is <strong>Zero Escape: The Nonary Games<\/strong>, a remastered collection of <em>999<\/em> and <em>Virtue&#8217;s Last Reward\u00a0<\/em>previously released on Nintendo DS.<\/p>\n<p>I have played neither of the games previously, but I&#8217;m totally on board with the theme &#8211; nine people trapped in an unusual situation and having to solve puzzles and team-up\/betray each other in order to survive a deadly game. They sound like <strong>The Genius<\/strong> meets <em>Saw<\/em>, basically, but done as an interactive visual novel. A jumped-up Choose Your Own Adventure by the looks of things.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a355 on the PS Store feels a bit steep really but I think it will be my next purchase after I&#8217;ve finished Zelda anyway. Did you play them when they first came out? I&#8217;m aware there&#8217;s a third in the series also on 3DS released quite recently.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: H\/t Alex McMillan on Twitter, you can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.base.com\/buy\/product\/zero-escape-the-nonary-games-p4-uk-version-ps4\/dgc-zengps4.htm\">it for \u00a343 at Base.com<\/a>\u00a0physically. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Zero-Escape-The-Nonary-Games\/dp\/B01M35Z9VL\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490353671&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=nonary+games\">\u00a345 at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edit edit: Some stuff about the Red Bull Mindgamers thing in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something to file under &#8220;things that may be of interest&#8221;, out on Steam and PS4\/Vita today is Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, a remastered collection of 999 and Virtue&#8217;s Last Reward\u00a0previously released on Nintendo DS. I have played neither of the games previously, but I&#8217;m totally on board with the theme &#8211; nine people trapped\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9918\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2zY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}