Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Video Game
ReportThis video game contains 47 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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ArcherDevon
While not on screen, a character discusses how their father was very absent growing up. Another discusses how they where abandoned at birth and was adopted by another character. A father character loses track of his adoptive son in multiple routes.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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EverestRycan
A character's father is revealed to have been incredibly neglectful to the point of abuse.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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ArcherDevon
I'd argue no, the people responsible for bringing everyone into the death game, regardless of the individuals' relationships with the perpetrator are viewed negatively by the people affected.
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Is someone stalked?
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tial
At one point, Phi follows Sigma around without him noticing until afterward and they get into an argument over whether or not that constitutes as stalking
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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ArcherDevon
I'd say yes and no, a major recurring theme in the Zero Escape franchise is trauma cycles and how individuals, in order to prevent more trauma from occurring to anyone else or to resolve their own trauma end up repeating the cycle in the process to others to do so. The cycle of trauma is core to the theme of the game and one could absolutely view that as this trope
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Is someone gaslighted?
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snowysnowwish
There is a character that often blames stuff on the others and tries to make them feel like they were in the wrong.
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baylaurels
One of the participants of the potentially-deadly game is a child, and references are made (as in the first video game) to a prior Nonary Game that contained multiple children.
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Addiction
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baylaurels
Multiple characters are injected with drugs against their will, sometimes fatally.
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Is there addiction?
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snowysnowwish
You could think one of the characters might have an alcohol addiction, but it's not confirmed.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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baylaurels
Alcohol does appear, and characters discuss drinking it, but there is no alcohol abuse/addiction.
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Animal
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SpritePepsi
In the Laboratory, there is a preserved frog you have to dissect. The frog is already dead, and the dissection is not graphic at all.
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Is there a dead animal?
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snowysnowwish
There is a scene where you need to dissect a frog.
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Does a cat die?
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baylaurels
No actual dead cats, but multiple discussions of the physics theory of "Schrodinger's Cat," which talks about the potential of a cat dying.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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tial
The bracelets have an anaesthetic and a poison in them that inject the wearer if their BP falls below 1 or they don’t reach a door in time. In one of the endings, two characters are cuffed to a wall so they can’t pass the doors before the time limit and the drugs in the bracelet kills them. Sigma can also die from this in a couple of the bad endings if the player picks a wrong choice during an AB game round with only 1 point.
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Is someone restrained?
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Crockist
Quite a few times in various circumstances. One character is locked inside a glass pod and is unable to get out on their own, and this character is found dead there later. Two characters are handcuffed to a sink and die due to game rules dictating that they needed to go somewhere. Various characters grab one another in order to stop them from doing things.
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SpritePepsi
Nobody is sexually assaulted, but Sigma is a creep on quite a few occasions and will harass some members of the cast- they obviously don't like it but all of these instances are moved past rather quickly and not mentioned again. They're rather mild, but could still be uncomfortable to read for someone who has been the target of harassment.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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ArcherDevon
No shaving nor cutting but a character is written to have slit their throat in an ending.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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AweStrikerNova
A character is shown dead of asphyxiation; their death is not shown directly.
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Is someone burned alive?
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baylaurels
Some bad endings involve fiery explosions that kill characters.
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Is someone buried alive?
15 supporters
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SalmonRunAround
Effectively, yes. There are coffin-like capsules in some areas of the game and a particular character can die in one of them depending on the route.
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Is there body horror?
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ArcherDevon
It is not shown on screen but it is mildly escribed and shown beforehand of a character having their attatched prosthetic arms cut off to prevent harm via the bracelets. The arms are attatched to their nerves so they aren't just detachable. We also see the individual with wireframed prosthetic arms in one CG. There is also visual of a robot character falling apart as their artificial hair and flesh dissolve.
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Is there amputation?
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baylaurels
No amputation is seen on-screen, but one character is revealed to have prosthetic(s) due to amputation that occurred before the events of the game, and additional amputations occur within the events of the game, just not depicted graphically.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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tial
In one of the endings, a character is locked in a pod with no oxygen by someone for an extended period of time. He is later found dead by asphyxiation by the other characters.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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breadache
Before and throughout the course of the nonary game several characters are injected with or breathe in anesthetics, some characters pass out during the game. Both can occur to the player character.
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Does someone break a bone?
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breadache
A single line mentions that a character has broken a bone in the past
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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ArcherDevon
Not finger or toe mutilation, but there is definitely hand and arm mutilation.
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Is someone tortured?
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OofItGabs
The entire Nonary Game is a form of torture.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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baylaurels
No eye mutilation occurs on-screen, but a character is revealed to have lost an eye prior to the events of the game which has been replaced with a prosthetic.
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Is someone stabbed?
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tial
More than half the endings feature at least one character stabbing themselves or someone else to death with a scalpel
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Is there excessive gore?
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RowanOakley
Significantly less gory than the last game.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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JewlShardz
No, but a child is
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Does a kid die?
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funnyguy
Yes. Some endings involve every character dying, including a child.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Apotheosis
Two endings have sacrifices, one being successful and one being attempted. Both endings are required for the true ending.
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Does a major character die?
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breadache
All major characters can die depending on the route
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Does a non-human character die?
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pinjau
a character who is in a specific route revealed to be a robot is shown dead in one of the endings, and technically faked death in another route.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Crockist
No, but it should be noted that a character tries to take a cyanide capsule at one point. Said character does not actually manage to take the pill.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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baylaurels
The game begins with the main cast having been kidnapped and brought together by an unknown person.
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Does a parent die?
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snowysnowwish
Characters ingame that are a parent can die depending on the route.
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Does a family member die?
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tial
An elderly man and his adopted grandson are two of the participants. There are multiple endings where one or both of them can die.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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baylaurels
There are a few scenes with quick dramatic cut-aways to surprises, some of which could be scary or alarming.
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Is someone possessed?
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ArcherDevon
No one is genuinely possessed but multiple characters behave as such due to a disease affecting their mental state and are described to be behaving as such. There is also a plot point of the concept of characters sending their consciousnesses to other points in time, effectively shoving that version's consciousness out. I wouldn't consider it to be posession but it may affect individuals triggered as such similarly.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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ArcherDevon
There may be some puzzles that could be considered as such but I do not recall any.
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ArcherDevon
No razors but there are scalpels.
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Gross
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Is there audio gore?
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SpritePepsi
Whenever there is injuries/deaths happening in-game, there will be sound effects to accompany it. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to predict when something like that will happen because there will be a long leadup, a cg/cutscene, a change in atmosphere, plenty of dialogue, etc, so there's plenty of time to turn down volume or take off headphones.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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SpritePepsi
Needles/syringes are exclusively used in an "injection gun", which doesn't resemble a traditional syringe at all. Characters get injected in the leg, the arm with no marks to show afterwards. But in certain endings- a character gets injected in the neck (you see a round mark where the site is for this one)
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Is there a hospital scene?
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snowysnowwish
There is an infirmary and treatment center.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
28 supporters
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ArcherDevon
While not stated as such, and no full on trauma attacks are shown, multiple characters have experienced severe trauma (especially the recurring characters from the previous game) and it does affect how they go about the game.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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EverestRycan
While not directly stated, one character has experienced suicidal ideation prior to the events of the game, and another suffers PTSD upon learning of their circumstances.
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SpritePepsi
Characters harm themselves in order to commit suicide (usually through stabbing themselves in the chest, though there's one instance in which a character slits their throat). In one ending, a character deliberately cuts their hand off.
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Apotheosis
Many characters, and in many endings this is successful. This includes the main character at one point.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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tial
One of the major plot points is time travel. There’s a recurring theme where after the player makes a different decision than the last route, something completely unrelated will change for seemingly no reason. The most common example of this being, if you pick to betray a character they will choose to Ally, whereas if you choose to Ally with a character they will choose to betray you, despite the other character being completely isolated from you, having no knowledge of your choice and no other circumstantial change that would cause them to change their decision. This is something that’s addressed in the narrative itself as something that makes no sense.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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levitheknifeweirdo
A disease that kills people by making them commit suicide is central to the plot. Multiple scenes with suicide attempts are present in the game, including one where a child tries to commit suicide with a scalpel. He never succeeds (the people around him restrain him, get the scalpel away, and put him to sleep with drugs), but if you go for the true ending you'll see this scene multiple times.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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SpritePepsi
the beginning of the game has you trapped in an elevator-type room that you have to escape from. A character also suffocates to death while locked in a small, coffin-like space in one ending.
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baylaurels
Multiple suicides appear, and to reach the final ending you will be required to watch several of these scenes. At least one ending also includes the player character dying this way.
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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ArcherDevon
There are many points where the main character gets hit with anesthetic or gets dizzy and the visuals on the screen will get warped and distorted and wiggle.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
9 supporters
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breadache
It is revealed that there are cameras that are too small to be seen throughout the facility that the game takes place in.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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tial
A major plot point involves characters retaining knowledge of events that took place in previous playthroughs and endings, despite it not being physically possible for them to know it otherwise. For example, at one point a character consciously decides to leave you to die because in another ending in a previous playthrough, you left them to die and they swore revenge against you.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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Anonymous
Not in the traditional way this trope usually occurs, but a black character is the first to die in multiple routes.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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JewlShardz
Sigma makes a joke about dressing Quark like a girl so a scanner will recognize him as female
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Does an LGBT person die?
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SpritePepsi
There aren't any lgbt characters :'''')
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
27 supporters
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Anonymous
Characters call others 'psycho's a few times.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
24 supporters
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Apotheosis
[SPOILERS] The main character makes several pervy remarks to several of the female characters, and there is even one relationship that is coded as romantic. At the end of the game, it is revealed that the character is elderly and that these characters were 40-50 years younger than him.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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baylaurels
There is no graphic sexual content or nudity, but characters do make sexual comments, and some characters wear outfits on the more revealing side.
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levitheknifeweirdo
Not directly, but the main character makes passes at all the women around him, including one who [SPOILERS] is revealed to be his daughter in the next game. One scene specifically shows him expressing how much he wants to see her "in a swimsuit".
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
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catnip34
There are multiple endings you can get, and many are bad to some degree, but the game's final "true" ending is good.
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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Mariana
A character describes instances of pilot suicide
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Apotheosis
Not nuclear, but an antimatter explosion, which is shown a few times and has more power than the Hiroshima bomb.
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Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
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baylaurels
As with the first game, more extreme character deaths are not depicted, but there is a fair amount of blood and death that is seen on-screen.
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Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
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ArcherDevon
No violence fully occurs but one does brandish a gun in one route.
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