Dumb Theory/Question

[Furtive Pygmy]

Is the whole game a chronos withdrawl? About midway through you start skipping ahead to the next level before going back the psychiatrist again. I'll post again when i get home but iirc there was a few more things like that to suggest it. I

[c0mplex]

to be quite honest it is a chronos withdrawal at some point after some missions even after skipping a day of chronos usage your character becomes "faulty" you could say and start having "glitches" in the game so could be it idk but i support

[Tinkuwu]

We can assume the withdrawal happens sometime when you see the masked men, as that is when things really get thrown around, and it's hard to tell if Zero is telling the truth. We see everything through Zero's eyes, but how much is shown because of the withdrawals? The masked men could be a symptom and just an illusion that Zero sees. Ultimately everything just gets to him at the end and he is left with nothing, except for that last bit of Chronos and the shipment he presumably is going for.

[Furtive Pygmy]

Originally posted by Tinkuwu:

We can assume the withdrawal happens sometime when you see the masked men, as that is when things really get thrown around, and it's hard to tell if Zero is telling the truth. We see everything through Zero's eyes, but how much is shown because of the withdrawals? The masked men could be a symptom and just an illusion that Zero sees. Ultimately everything just gets to him at the end and he is left with nothing, except for that last bit of Chronos and the shipment he presumably is going for.

Its a little strange to assume they are an illusion though, as the police can see them during your choice, and the little girl made a comment on them. As well as the post credits with them torturing her.

Though that could also just be zero withdrawing on its own.

[unreal_rik]

Originally posted by Script:

Originally posted by Tinkuwu:

We can assume the withdrawal happens sometime when you see the masked men, as that is when things really get thrown around, and it's hard to tell if Zero is telling the truth. We see everything through Zero's eyes, but how much is shown because of the withdrawals? The masked men could be a symptom and just an illusion that Zero sees. Ultimately everything just gets to him at the end and he is left with nothing, except for that last bit of Chronos and the shipment he presumably is going for.

Its a little strange to assume they are an illusion though, as the police can see them during your choice, and the little girl made a comment on them. As well as the post credits with them torturing her.

Though that could also just be zero withdrawing on its own.

I think the little girl is also in Zero's imagination. So are comedy and tragedy. The little girl is probably a manifestation of his 'humanity', in one of the flashback scenes you see Zero knocking away the shadow-y figure of a little girl and she turns into the Leviathan toy.

There are two instances which makes me uncertain about comedy and tragedy however, first is the police officers dying all at once when Zero was surrounded, the second one is the post-it note in Zero's apartment which read 'one life for another'. If they were imaginary then the note wouldn't have existed in the first place, unless zero imagined the note himself.