Zero Context 17: big head blood mode

Distressed, dark blue background with the words "Zero Context" overload in blocky letters. The numbers 17 sit inside a red square.

Content warning: this episode discusses scenes involving heavy blood and gore, and briefly touches on suicide.

After a brief 90 minute absence, Axe and Nathalie return to Zero Time Dilemma ready to dive into the game’s first set of puzzles. Once again trapped in a pantry, Nathalie gets hung up on a sliding door diagram but eventually the pair unlocks the freezer and its gruesome rewards. Elsewhere, they fumble through yet another lesser library, unlocking a small arsenal in the process. Things quickly go south, however, when the duo comes face to face with an unexpected murderer…

This episode covers
- Repeating the [Vote] until each team has died once -> Playing the [Akane chainsaw] fragment -> Playing the [Q with a crossbow] fragment

Next time on Zero Context
- Choose [D Team] -> Play the [gun in front of Diana] fragment -> Play all described outcomes
- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [Q in front of a yellow button] fragment -> Play both outcomes -> Play the unlocked fragment

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Carlos (JP: Tomokazu Sugita; EN: Andrew Bowen)
- Cat ear headphones full of bombs
- Metatext and meta-metatext
- The iPod shuffle of inventory systems
- Skeuomorphism, baby
- Akane replacement theory
- Akane. Wielding. A. Chainsaw.
- Zero Escape movie fancast, Part 1
- Fragmented fragment writing
- Night of the Sickle Weasel (Chunsoft, 1994)
- The US health care system being so bad you join a death game
- Mira performing animal husbandry on her husband
- Dreading this game having thoughts about gender
- Blood Outfit cheat codes

Intro: “Ustulate Pathos -Record-” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow” by Shinji Hosoe

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