no game has accomplished as much as 999 with not just its medium, but its console. the revelation as to why this game is on the DS -- and there is a reason -- might be the greatest twist in all of fiction, and I'm not saying that hyperbolically. its status as a game is up for debate, I suppose, but its brilliance is not. the final four hours of this game are the greatest experience I've had with any work of art: book, movie, game, song. no interest in the sequels -- this is the emotional peak.

Rating based on having played The Nonary Games version on PC.

i'm usually rather averse to this sort of pseudoscience, but here it's kinda interesting: each character presents a story mostly grounded in reality, but retells it with a mystical twist. the curious part is that each falsification has a common theme of unperceived social communication, or "collective consciousness". well, that's what i thought it was about before the godawful ending. making that field thing a plot point was a terrible idea. well, 90% of a great game is still damn good, yeah?