Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

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.

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?

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