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The third game in the ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors|Zero]] Escape'' series, '''''Zero Time Dilemma''''' is a 2016 [[Visual Novel]] and [[Adventure Game]] developed by Chime.
Nine people awaken inside a bomb shelter in Nevada, United States. They are held against their will by a masked, mysterious figure called Zero. He wants them to play a game that will affect the future of the captives, Zero and apparently mankind itself. The first challenge is simple:guess the result of a coin flip. And then...
Directed by Kotaro Uchikoshi.
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* [[Abusive Parent]]: Eric's dad became....meaner after his wife dad.
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* [[A Tragedy of Impulsiveness]]: In the "Gun and Incinerator" dilemma, {{spoiler|if you choose to shoot the gun and the result is a dead Sigma, Phi, overwhelmed by emotion, calls Diana a "murderer" seconds after the poor girl is forced to take this horrible decision. The end result? Two corpses and a immediate Game Over since Diana is the playable character}}.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Averted, at best a dog can walk through it. It is still of some use because the dog can be used to transmit messages between teams.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Akane
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Q is much smarter than he looks like at first. Not only he knows a lot about the virus Radical-6, he knows how to explain it in proper terms to Mira and Eric.
* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: {{spoiler|Codes for lockers written in blood. You use an aerosol to find them}}.
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Diana does that to Sigma after he is stabbed and killed by a hooded figure}}.
* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: Zero seems to be a firm believer on this trope, though he uses a snail rather than the traditional [[Butterfly of Doom]].
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Oh boy.
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* [[Legacy Character]]: Akane and Junpei believe that the present Zero is this to a past one.
* [[Malevolent Masked Man]]: Zero, wearing a plague doctor's mask.
* [[Mental Time Travel]]: {{spoiler|Sigma and Phi are able to do this through SHIFTing}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The game is generally very dark and serious with some dark jokes there and there. Eric's flashback to his childhood with his family is so heartwarming and nice it crosses right back into hilarious, specially when we see a zoom of adult Eric apparently thinking about this, with a goofy open mouth smile on his face.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Mira is clearly built to attract, showing her legs and with an open jacket exposing her bra that is containing...well, some volume.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Taken to the extreme; {{spoiler|Diana may accidentally blow the entire bomb shelter on one ending, despite the blatant warning to not press the button that activates self-destruction. Everyone is killed including Zero and is an immediate game over}}.
* [[Older Than He Looks]]: {{spoiler|Sigma looks 22, but is mentally 67}}.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Junpei is so cynical and pessimistic all the time that Carlos mistakes his joke about "hot dog" for an implication that the dog is really gonna be killed.
* [[Sarcasm Blind]]: Carlos really can't get Junpei's jokes.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: {{spoiler|The big blue button. Don't press it. If you do, it's an immediate game over where everyone dies. The characters even discuss of how obvious it is and maybe they should press it because no trap would be that obvious}}.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Carlos is really into Akane x Junpei.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Eric was one in the past to try to endure through his hard life.
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* [[Too Soon]]: Junpei mentions the trope while making a joke about the very risky situation his team is in. You could say it is exaggerated since the fact isn't even ''over yet''.
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* [[Violation of Common Sense]]:
** In the "Gun and Incinerator" dilemma, {{spoiler|it's more obvious to do what Sigma suggests and risk shooting him since Phi will survive regardless,right? Wrong. If you kill him, you trigger an "Game Over", but the game continues 100% of the time if you let Phi die.}}.
** In the "Inject the Radical-6" dilemma, {{spoiler|using statistical probabilities, you(and Q will demonstrate it to Mira and Eric if you chose the right choice in accord with this way of thinking) can determine that the chances of survival for the team will be bigger if they inject the virus. Right? Wrong, Mira will kill both Eric and Q if you do that, triggering yet another "Game Over"}}.
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