AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative [FT] Part 17: Bring Him To Life

[A Visual Novelty First-Time Playthrough]
Wake Him Up (Wake Him Up Inside)
Wake Him Up (Wake Him Up Inside)
Save Him
Call his name and save him from himself-
Ahem! We get a rather touching ending to the Shoma/Komeji relationship, only to find ourselves primed to return to the very first Somnium and attempt to dive down the alternate branch, to explore Mizuki's timeline! And we have to traumatize Ryuki (and save him?)
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Six years ago, the right half of a corpse was discovered. The left half was never found…until six years later, completely fresh with no signs of decay.
Now, Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings while unveiling the mysterious plot known only as the Nirvana Initiative…
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative, developed and published by Spike Chunsoft!
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[@PokerJoker811]

This was, fun fact, the second Psync thus far with a hidden achievement in it: If you wear Ryuki's loafers, equip Mizuki's metal pipe, *and* approach the pumpkin in Boss's office (they all have cosmetkc effects), you get a little extra in your in-game achievement log.

[@pourtoujours1808]

Mizuki time! For real this time. I forgot about all of the different choices you have in this somnium. It seems like the theme had to do with recreating past events(to an extent). We knew he wasn't well mentally, but seeing him from the outside perspective really drives it home; that last bit of laughter was so much worse than just drunken happy mode. It's certainly not the last time we'll see him in a bad way on this route.

[@ToonMasta44]

Woooo welcome to the halfway point! (I think? I don't know if Mizuki's route is shorter or longer than Ryuki's) Either way, weve got Aiba back and now we get to see how her dynamic with Mizuki compares to her dynamic with Date and Tama's dynamic with Ryuki!

[@michaels4340]

1:08:53 This line became slightly anachronistic in April of last year, when Japan lowered the age of majority from 20 to 18.

[@michaels4340]

Yeah, I kinda missed the branchiness of AI1, but I imagine it would've been hard to pull that off for this game... for Reasons™

[@spouwnerring]

I watched a speedrun of this game and Dahlia Boat is the combination every time you need to progress your way through out the rest of the game as Mizuki. I don't know why it's mandatory to play through Ryuki's route before you can resume playing as Mizuki considering that fake name is never randomized. I mean, if you want to make sure 100% that every time the player wants to replay the campain and you want them not skipping Ryuki, then why not randomize the fake name each time they start a new game?

[@ToonMasta44]

I mean, it's the same as Zero Escape: they expect you to play through certain routes to get keys to unlock other routes. Like the username and password in VLR, which were also not randomized. The expectation is that you don't look up the answer and instead play through the game to experience it yourself. For the average player, it's gonna be more valuable to experience the game's story to get the answers rather than to input random words and skip half the game.

[@FeenieVonKarma]

Yep, Chikara up there in the category "most irredeemable characters" in this series ..

[@michaels4340]

DAHLIA BOAT is an anagram of IALDABAOTH, by the way... it has something to do with Simulation Theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaldabaoth