Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is an adventure video game developed by Chunso

ft. The second installment in the Zero Escape series, it was first released on F
ebruary 16, 2012, for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. The story follows t
he player character Sigma, a man who is abducted and forced along with eight oth
er individuals to play the life-or-death Nonary Game. The characters begin to un
ravel its secrets and its true purpose. Virtue's Last Reward was developed as a
result of the unexpected critical success that its predecessor, Nine Hours, Nine
Persons, Nine Doors, received in North America. Game director Kotaro Uchikoshi
wrote the script, which was localized for North America by Aksys Games, and for
Europe by Rising Star Games. Although critics were divided in their opinions of
the escape-the-room sections, they gave Virtue's Last Reward positive reviews, e
specially for its story and characters. Nevertheless, the game was a commercial
failure in Japan, which led to the temporary cancellation of its sequel. Develop
ment eventually resumed, and Zero Time Dilemma was released in 2016. (Full artic
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L'clair
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