Zero Context 14: my life as a death game robot

Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.

Returning to the director’s office, Axe and Nathalie use their months of nonary knowledge to finally hack into the lion computer, finding no puzzles and fewer answers. Unmoved by Phi’s pleas to take our BP and leave, we abandon her in the elevator for another date in the garden with Robo Luna. She clues us in on some mysterious plans within plans, murders she didn’t commit, and teaches us how to build a faraday cage before disintegrating in our arms. Surely, this was all for a good reason…

Next time on Zero Context
- Go back and complete any outstanding bad ends
- Go back and get any missing gold files
- Choose the [Red] door -> Vote [Betray] -> Choose the [Cyan] door -> Vote [Betray] -> Vote [Ally] and continue to the end of the game

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Zero (JP: Akio Ōtsuka; EN: Jamieson Price)
- Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)
- Lemnisca’s Ever17 Anniversary Interview with Uchikoshi & Nakazawa
- Nintendo Power’s 999 interview with Uchikoshi
- CORRECTIONS
- Quark’s ending?
- Supervillain girlboss Akane
- Milk-E-Voli
- Voight-Kampff tests
- Surprise Zero III epilogue
- Danganronpa: Zero Despair Girls
- I, Robot (Isaac Asimov, 1950)
- Seeing the termite mound (it’s YU-NO)
- Virtue’s Last Reward oral history
- WikiHow faraday cage
- A death game for business majors
- Questions for YOU

Intro: “Virtue’s Last Reward ～Piano～” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Demise” by Shinji Hosoe

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