Zero Context Holiday Special: Kamaitachi no Yoru

Content warning: Kamaitachi no Yoru contains scenes of blood, dismemberment, murder, suicide, and transmisogyny, which are discussed briefly in this episode.

Axe and Nathalie take a break from Zero Escape for the holidays, having scored an all-expenses-paid trip to a ski lodge from a mysterious and generous listener. The time off gives them a chance to finally play the seminal sound novel, Kamaitachi no Yoru (Chunsoft, 1994) AKA Night of the Sickle Weasel, but unfortunately, the game becomes all too real as bodies start to pile up with the ceaseless snow. As frenzied accusations threaten to lock up our hosts for good, they search for a branch of the flow chart which will get them out of this nightmare…

This episode covers
- Kamaitachi no Yoru: Rinne Saisei (Chunsoft, 1994) AKA Night of the Sickle Weasel or Banshee’s Last Cry.

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
- Otogirisō (Chunsoft, 1992)
- The Portopia Serial Murder Case (Chunsoft, 1983)
- HITME (xiri, 2021)
- Sharin no Kuni: The Girl Among the Sunflowers (Akabeisoft2, 2005)
- ryukishi07
- Project Kamai translation group
- Kamaitachi no Yoru’s storied history
- Canada names
- How to make better visual novels
- Making Silent Hill f in OnScripter
- Inventing visual novels to get your girlfriend into games
- Getting porn for finishing the book
- Never trying to solve the murder as a woman in a mystery novel
- Uchikoshi’s GDC presentation talking about KNY’s influence on Virtue’s Last Reward
- Not associating with Mikimoto
- The Transmisogyny Route
- The Chunsoft dungeons
- 12 persons, 12 hours, 12 doors
- Turning the game off from the inside
- Amr Al-Aaser’s excellent canon fire essay on the game
- Saying goodbye to Twitter

Intro: “Amber Crescent Moon” by Kouta Kato
Outro: “Wonderful Introduction Time” by Kouta Kato and Paul McCartney

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