
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is set to release next week in North America, and publisher Aksys Games has taken the opportunity to release the game's anime prologue.
Dubbed in English, the video reveals how main character Sigma was kidnapped, and how he must work together with eight other captives to escape the Nonary Game, hosted by a rather eccentric rabbit avatar named Zero III.
Zero Escape is a sequel to the cult-hit 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and is set to deliver a 'lethal dose' of escape the room puzzles and a thrilling story. With 24 different endings, multiple difficulty levels, and fully voiced dialogue, Zero Escape is looking to one-up its predecessor in about every way.

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I'm very grateful that this game will be subbed after watching the video.
Looks rather interesting! Might pick it up!
The rabbit sounds much much better in Japanese! But Sigma's voice sounds pretty good dubbed
Huh, the voice acting is pretty good. And yet, Europe gets stuck with the Japanese language version. Unless that changes (Extremely unlikely) I'll be giving this a miss.
It's a shame too, this trailer would be getting me pretty hyped otherwise.
@Linkstrikesback The game is still going to be really good, no English dub or not. I would say if you were a hardcore enough fan of 999, you should still look into getting it.
Ok, I'm convinced. I'm interested, but I'll wait for a review first
So this is like the cartoon video game version of Saw? It looks interesting. Awesome good to hear that it's going to be fully voiced.
I'm buying this day 1. I was a huge fan of 999 and I can't wait for this!
looks good but i somehow get the feeling im going to hate that rabbit by the end of this game.
@DoctorJohnAngus
Nope. It's not happening. I liked 999, but Japanese (Well, non english) voice acting straight up ruins games for me. English or nonsensical noises I can live with, but I really absolutely do not want to support ridiculous decisions when there is already a full on English Translation in existence that they refuse to include.
Include the Japanese dub if you wish, but they had better make it an option, and not force it on people.
Man, wish I wasn't underage.
I'd buy this and 999 in a heartbeat!
@Linkstrikesback
Couldn't you just play with the voices off? 999 didn't have voices; why should it break the game for you?
@moomoo: Based on the demo for the game, turning off the voices won't be an option short of muting the whole system. That seems needlessly drastic to me.
@Linkstrikesback: It sounds to me like your best option is to import the Vita version of the game...since Sony's smart enough to leave region locks out of their hardware.
Awwww crap
I LOVED 999 and it came by recommendation by a friend of mine... he will be pleased as punch to hear about a sequel.
@Linkstrikesback Why don't you take a look at the Japanese version of the OVA? They say the Japanese voice-acting is top-notch.
@kilicool64 They always say that about Japanese voice-acting because they can't really tell either way.
@Gamesake I heard that from people who played the Japanese version though, so they're familliar with the language. Personally, I think the Japanese voice-acting was quite a bit better in the OVA, though I don't speak Japanese, so I can't judge it perfectly.
i get the vita version it looks better
UH YEAH.
Hmmm, also has VIta Counterpart. But I bet it'll be better with 3DS as most 2D games so far looks AWESOME in Stereoscopic 3D.
I heard many complaints about the Vita version's controls though.
AWWWW YEAH
Food? Sleep? Both those things will be of no use to me once this game hits. Seriously, I was up for about 2 weeks straight with about 3 hours sleep playing 999, and this game looks to suck me in just as much, if not more. (24 endings, ohmygod).
Also, to everyone complaining about the languages:
"Dual Language Support – Early cases show that VLR allows communication in both English and Japanese, with dialog playable in both languages."
There. Now everyone go buy the game so they keep getting licensed.
@Rapido: But Virtue's Last Reward is actually rendered in 3D, unlike its predecessor.
@pariah164: Pro tip: Quoting from Aksys' press release to reassure European gamers (a region where Rising Star Games is publishing the game) isn't terribly helpful.
@Stuffgamer1 ... Well. Derp for me then. /facepalm
I apologize; I am very tired right now.
Want,want want.
This story would have ended shortly if Red was mistakenly knocked out as well...
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