Zero Time Dilemma - The Moment Sigma Said "Sorry, Luna..."

Recently, I've been playing the Zero Escape trilogy. After I reviewed the first game "The Nonary Games: 999." I played and finished the second game Virtue's Last Reward. You'll see a bunch of threads I wrote as I played that game below. Now, I'm playing through the final game of the trilogy: Zero Time Dilemma.

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[Warning: Heavy Spoilers]

This article is written mostly for myself. To document my feelings about this scene. Though, if you found it useful or entertaining to read, I'd be happy.

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*Zero Time Dilemma is a very brutal story. Characters keep dying over and over, and I'm not sure about my position in the timeline in any given moment. During one of the chapters, after the The Healing Room puzzle. Some hooded person kills Sigma. At the time of writing, the identity of the hooded person hadn't been revealed yet, but Sigma's death scene is still stuck with me hours later.

"Oh, it's you... Luna?"

"I'm sorry it has come to this Luna. The me from the past won't be coming back here..." "I'm sorry... Now you won't be born in this world..."

"But maybe it's better this way..." "History changed..." -- Sigma (Paraphrased)

These lines may have been random to Diana, and I'm not sure if Phi remembers the events from the previous game... But for someone who loved LUNA's Ending in Virtue's Last Reward, this scene was such a treat!

The Sigma in Zero Time Dilemma is the old man version of the Sigma in Virtue's Last Reward and both of them inhabit each other's body. In the timeline this Sigma knows: His younger self would return to this body after he (barely) survives The Decision Game. He'd fail to prevent the Virus outbreak, and the majority of humanity would die. He'd spend the next 45 years perparing the stage for the Nonary Game. That includes creating Luna, Kyle, and Zero Jr.

Now that Sigma died in this timeline. The history described above won't happen... Luna won't be born. It's sad... But at least Sigma dies this time, with a faint hope that with History changed, the Virus won't spread and kill billions of people... Just a faint hope...

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It's clear from my playthrough of Virtue's Last Reward that Luna really respected her creator Zero. In other words, the older Sigma. She was so loyal to him...

It's nice to see this version of Sigma thinking of her first as he dies. He had more than a few people around him, helping with his project. Yet, Luna is the one he thought of first. That scene moved me so much, and the rush of what I felt playing the final parts of Virtue's Last Reward came back.

What do you think?

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