As fans are well aware, the Zero Escape series almost ended at the cliffhanger ending of the second game, Virtue’s Last Reward due to insufficient funding. That Zero Escape 3 is being rescued from its indefinite hiatus is largely due to the support of the fans.
Because of this, Uchikoshi promises that:
Zero Escape 3 will take place in a testing facility on Mars, focusing on a group of people living there to test out the logistics of sustained living on Mars for the purposes of establishing a colony there.
I intend to answer every mystery left during VLR and the mysteries in ZE3 would be solved as well. This game will not end in a cliffhanger.
Key art from Zero Escape 3 featuring two characters that will appear in the game.
Zero Escape 3 will also feature a dog, which one member of the development team is especially excited about.
Uchikoshi explained that the two preceding games, 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward were written to be games that would make the player re-think the obvious.
According to Kodaka Kazutaka, scenario writer for the Danganronpa series, appeared on the Aksys panel and promised that the ending of Zero Escape 3 is the most ‘out of this world’ ending for the series thus far.
Collectively Uchikoshi has written about 50% of Zero Escape 3’s scenario thus far. The game will be released sometime in Summer 2016 for the 3DS and PS Vita.
