I dont think youll figure out the ending ever, but some things are definitely predictable? If you want endings you can predict, I can recommend Ace Attorney, Danganronpa and the Nonary Games

I predicted the plot halfway through the game.

Not 100% perfectly, but I got it right in broad strokes.
Funny story. Sometimes a bit cringe, but I did enjoy most of it.

Especially the funny skits when you interact with the environment.

Originally posted by Shadowskyt:

I predicted the plot halfway through the game.

Not 100% perfectly, but I got it right in broad strokes.
Funny story. Sometimes a bit cringe, but I did enjoy most of it.

Especially the funny skits when you interact with the environment.

spoilers for the big ending plottwist ahead, please DONT read if you dont want to be spoiled:
How did you figure out the entire switching body thing? Its been a while, but was it ever foreshadowed?

You can solve the whole chain of murders when you finish all the side routes. They give all the hints but not answers directly. If you will use twisted logic then you will succeed and probably find the true killer. One of the best detectives ever because this game urge you to think about the answer. Building the theories is the best part of this game

Originally posted by Ichmag:

Originally posted by Shadowskyt:

I predicted the plot halfway through the game.

Not 100% perfectly, but I got it right in broad strokes.
Funny story. Sometimes a bit cringe, but I did enjoy most of it.

Especially the funny skits when you interact with the environment.

spoilers for the big ending plottwist ahead, please DONT read if you dont want to be spoiled:
How did you figure out the entire switching body thing? Its been a while, but was it ever foreshadowed?

BELOW IS A HUGE SPOILER
DO NOT
OPEN IT
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO
SPOIL THE FUN
it could be done when you finish Iris's, Ota's and Mizuki's routes. Pewter tells you the core info about switching minds and that Sejima So had a son named Saito and that he killed a person when he was 12. And some others clues from the routes. So yes, you can predict the plottwist but you should emphasize body switching.

Originally posted by Ichmag:

I dont think youll figure out the ending ever, but some things are definitely predictable? If you want endings you can predict, I can recommend Ace Attorney, Danganronpa and the Nonary Games

I personnally predicted like 70% correctly every plot twist of this game while I had a lot more difficulties to do so in Zero Escape, VLR was a huge brain explosion for me when I realised the plot twist of the road system. Either it's the fact that VLR was my first Uchikochi VN (so I'd assume that his writing is mindblowing the first time and then predictable as he always do the same), or was it really gamer profile dependant (so I'd assume that everyone get to be able to make links with facts and hints differently depending on the universe, tone or anything).
My point here is that your statement is false, as it depends on whatever it is.

I think the order you do things matters in making certain ideas click together. My first route was the green route, which ended in the boss shooting So Seshima through the head before locking me out of that route . So I spent most of the rest of my playthrough pondering why on earth the chain of murders would happen in that order when things were going so differently on the other routes. I had even begun to theorize there was some sort of mental parasite/virus compelling these people to kill, since the sci-fi BS is absolutely in this creator's wheelhouse. And then when Pewter revealed the machine could swap minds, it all fell into place, especially since I'd already run into the prototype machine in a different route.

So yeah, not impossible, but especially in a series like this, the order can often matter ALOT.

If you are familiar with Kotaro Uchikoshi writing and have played zero escape & danganronpa you will be able to piece things together fairly quickly. If you are going in blind yeah you might have no idea wtf is going on until the end game.