meaning that if someone truly did enter the nil number before finishing the game, then we've truly found the Frayer. Try as we might to imitate the act of fraying through video games, perhaps this is a way to find one who can truly defy time, one who can assist us in reaching true freedom.

I dont see how this is amazing in any way

@@Nominal_GDP The game sets up you, the Player as a "Frayer," as a godlike being who leads mortals to freedom. By giving you an answer to the nil number, it sets up a way for you to have a small power fantasy for a 'better' ending. But that just lets the Player pretend that they're special, that we are the 'chosen ones' who have 'achieved enlightenment'. Because if there really is a Frayer out there, in our world, they don't have to play the game. They'll already know, before the game explicitly tells you that nil number.

actually, it’s not based on your save, but your “copy” of the game. you can start a new game from scratch and input the code the first time you come across this section, without having gotten to the end yet. and of course that doesn’t make sense, how can the frayer know something that hasn’t been shown yet, as well as all the details of the case? but really, that’s just one of the seams of this world.

@@Nominal_GDP I guess I feel the same but the reason is, Uchikoshi has already done this like in almost every game he has touched so seeing it again for like 7th time is just sorta like. "Ah, this again" I suppose this is probably only the 3rd time that he actually breaks the 4th wall though and says that the player is the one that can control destiny and whatnot.

She REALLY wanted to find the backrooms.

SHE WHAT

Wait, even Hegel and Aristotle!? Come on, surely you can...uh...skip SOME of those. ....70% of Locke's work too, while we're at it.

Not exactly The Nil number plan is not a backup plan: it’s her one and only plan that she ultimately succeeds in making into a reality. Everything that’s happened - it all happened so the Frayer(play on the pronunciation of the word player in japanese) would hear the hologram say the nil number so then they could tell it to her and create a seam in the world. That can easily be proved when replaying the last battle at the stadium. To be more specific the scene after two Mizukis stop the tc-perge rocket: Tearer’s video gets cut off and Tokiko appears saying that the plan was successful. She never intended for the Nirvana Initiative to succeed - it had to have failed for her own plan to work. So when she was saying that she actually was correct - the plan never failed because later she was able to give the frayer nil number that they will use later(or earlier, depends on how you look at it)

@@trivia_dex Oh, I always thought it was a way for Tokiko to say "screw everyone else I'm abandoning ship" so that she could escape alone just incase the initiative failed.

It did not take much effort to get my attention. I was so curious about the secret ending that I skiped the final dance.

Well you just made me remember, Parallel worlds were already discussed in the first game. Naix is mentioned too. So Iris was right all along. She talks a lot of bullshit, maybe everything is right lol

@@mrkores1848 I mean, all she was right about was the fact that Naix does exist, aha

@@Mugsi She was right about alternate dimensions too

@@Mugsi The rabbit hole for this ending goes deeper if you complete the Twitter ARG using the new final dummy entry unlocked in the Appendix by completing this route. Inputing its entry number into the website the ARG leads to results in a text exposition that explains Iris was part of a project involving exploring and contacting external and parallel worlds using Frayer interactions and seams in simulated reality. She's forgotten about all of this since then, for one reason or another. Iris Sagan, subconsciously, knows more about the true nature of reality than most characters in the series.

@@mythosinfinite6736 so potential sequel

Yeah despite being the "best" ending now Ryuki knows his existence technically isn't real and that everyone he knows is just part of a computer program

Same, I'm both shocked and impressed. This entire time I was solving this case I fell for the most cunning trap. Did not see that twist villain outcome happening.

I feel like you played danganronpa v3

But she can become. If our world can influence theirs, hers might be able to influence ours. My fanfic sagas are about me creating an entire multiverse organized like a human body, in order to give birth to a functioning human being, so she can truly be part of our world. Yes, I am aware I am writing works of fiction, but reality is all about dreams, is it not ?

@@JabamiLain Are you willing to link to some of these fanfics, incidentally?

@@CrowTR0bot I would, if Tube let me. What if I tell you the name to search them instead ?

@@JabamiLain sure, don't forget to say what website it's on either.

Pretty sure they will go with the one that the true ending is set in.

It’d be fun if the third game went with this timeline lol 😆

I hope they pull a steins gate zero and make a game of Ryuki with the knowledge of the truth in this timeline

Well the first game had 999 similarities, It introduced the themes while Spoon feeding the far out stuff, this one reminded me of VLR, so ill assume the last will be somewhat like ZTD?

I kinda want it to be this ending because after playing the first game, I want Mizuki to have those 6 years with Date T-T

fun fact, that song is called "796f756b6e6f7765766572797468696e67" which, when decoded, means "youknoweverything"

WE SHALL ALL PSYNC TOGETHER AND BECOME AS GODS

In story wise I wonder what the outside world looks like in this game. I read something online of another secret, but too a website. They told about some people and one other character. Hinting about the other worlds and timelines thing. The game said its the real world and tokiko is delusional. But what if in the next game she's right? Like how in AI 1 iris was right about niex

why did you watch this first

@@Freedster I didn't. I paused the video before I could get spoiled.

That... You are going to have (or have had) a really interesting experience with this game. That specific way of playing it actually plays into one of the "twists" (literally and figuratively)

How did it go?

@@manafy2522 in my fan made story: -Genny died; -Ryuki, Mizuki and Bibi remain in doubt regarding reality, and their respective partners, including Date, don't know how to console them; -Tokiko got what she wanted (Moksha); -I got what I wanted (make the characters crave for freedom out of the simulation and its rules because of the amount of psychological and emotional suffering they got).

This whole game is a much sloppier version of Ever17 with the identical looking protagonists and eternal youth character

How would you know about this ending since the beginning? Just by her asking you the first time are you a frayer? You only get the number at the end.

@@jasonl.7170 No, by asking you if you are a frayer and then LETING YOU WRITE IN RANDOM ASS NUMBER. The moment they did that you knew at some point you will get the number and story will diverge from that. Sure you dont know what exactly the story will be, but you can pretty much guess it will be some 4th wall break.

@@jaroslavbima765 why did you say yes to her question in the first place? That's asking to be spoiled and be on the lookout for the number.

The point of the game is to investigate everything, and try many option. Otherwise it will be hard to solve anything.

At the end of the game you will get the nil number from the hologram of Tokiko, complete the game and save. Load the game and go back to first chapter and talk to Tokiko and use the nil number.

It’s implied that everyone has a “real” body somewhere that they awaken into when they get out of the simulation

@@imcalledcool hmm.. what if AI the somnium files is actually a prelude to the next Zero escape

I interpret Tokiko as entirely right, except for the idea that she has a place to escape to. She's right, she's fictional in a simulated world. The simulated fictional world is called AI: The Somnium Files: nirvanA Initiative, and we know that it's fake and simulated because it's a programmed video game we can buy and play on our system of choice. However, she has absolutely nowhere to escape to. All she can do is peer out at us and live a new life aware of the limitations of her existence. She's simulated too, just like her reality, and there is no body in a "real world" that's controlling her. We, the Frayers, are the only reality beyond her. What's interesting about the philosophy is that she's entirely correct in the context of the game, but with a limited viewspace, her initial philosophy is flawed. She's risen above, but has no real means of escape beyond exploring the code above the plot and scenery of the main game. It's almost tragic for her, and it's interesting to see a game outright acknowledge itself as a game in a way that ends up _heightening_ immersion.

I think you're kind of missing the point of what "Moksha" is, and what its goal was in the plot. It's a liberation from desire and samsara (cycle of life). Her goal wasn't really "getting out" of the simulation, it was *freeing herself* from it. I think it's also worth saying that while she platitudes about saving humanity through Moksha, in the end, her ultimate goal was selfish. She wanted to free herself, and her plan was designed to free herself alone. In a way, though, she does save the rest of the cast through achieving Moksha herself. By creating the seam, she gave the Frayer the choice to create a brighter future for the characters, one that they never could've achieved in the main story. That said, that's not to say the game is necessarily endorsing her and saying she was right to do what she's done. While she gave little thought to the occurrences of other timelines, we know that, simulation or not, the pain and joy the characters feel is all equally real. If it wasn't for that pain, she would've never desired Moksha in the first place. In the end, AiNi leaves the end of its story in the hands of the Frayer-or more accurately, the player, and lets them come to their own conclusion on the events of the game, something further supported by the "answer" you unlock on the Hidden Bats website. "Now, it is your turn. [...] You can change the workings of the world itself. You are a Frayer. You can tear at the seams of this world..."

@@fey2450 ...Huh. Well when you put it like that, yeah. It makes sense. I feel like you hit the nail on the head.

I love the fact that players either love this game with a cult-like passion or hate it with a burning rage.