999

This post's title will surely have attracted your attention, am I right? Well, in my case, it did. 

I want to talk you about a game I've played recently (even though I REALLY don't have much time) which is called 999: Nine hours Nine persons Nine doors

It's a visual novel game (you could say it's like an interactive book) which explains a very interesting story and makes you think really what you'd do if you would be in the same situation. I play this game in English, so it's a good training for me!

 

 The 9 victims

 A person (we don't know if it's a man or a woman... or anything else, because he's completely covered) who names himself "Zero" has abducted 9 persons, all at midnight by attacking them with a special gas, and brought them into a cruiser. They all wake up in different rooms when the water suddenly starts to raise and they have to find out how to open the door. When the protagonist (who you play), Junpei, comes out he meets up with the other 8 victims in a higher deck of the cruiser. While they talk, the deck where they all woke up ends up completely underwater but the water level stops raising anymore. 

In that moment, from a speaker in the hall, sounds a machine-like voice: Zero speaks to them. He starts to explain them the rules of the "Nonary Game". Every person has received (not really voluntarily) a special bracelet which cannot be removed without the necessary tools. Everyone has his own speficic number from 1 to 9. Junpei has got the number 5. There are 9 doors in the ship which have got a number painted in red on them. They have to seek the door with the number 9 to get out of the ship. But this isn't so easy. Every time they want to go through a door they have to do in groups of 3-5 persons. To open a numbered door, the group needs the digital root which is on the door. This sounds complicated, I know. Here is an example:

Our group is of 4 persons with the numbers 2, 4, 5, and 9. Their digital root would be: 

2 + 4 + 5 + 9 = 20 -> 2 + 0 = 2 

So they could pass the door with the number 2.

Now they have to organise themselves in groups to get through the ship and try to escape. And this always having in mind to not break any rules: they've got a little bomb in their body. 

I think it's a very interesting game and not the same like the "Jumping, shooting, driving, etc." of the other games. For this one you need to think. And it really fascinates you just like a good book.