Nine Hours Nine Doors Analysis

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a game centered around the power of love. The characters within the story are driven by the connections they form with one another. Across the variety of endings of the game, both Snake and Clover are enraged if the other sibling dies and will go to unbelievable lengths to avenge them. They are similar to Santa, who acts the part of Zero just to make sure that Junpei will have the ability to save his sister Akane. Akane’s mental link with Junpei is so crucial to the narrative that it is woven into almost every aspect of the game. She used the bond the two of them had formed as childhood friends to find a way to change the future and save herself. To explain, as 999 is an interactive visual novel, it provides decisions for the player to make. The game …show more content…
In the case of Snake and Clover, the player knows that they are close regardless of which route they are on. When Snake disappears midway through the game, Clover is distraught at the loss of her brother. After what seems to be his corpse is found behind Door 3, she alternates between lashing out at the other players and acting sullen and depressed. Clearly, she is deeply mourning her brother; players will be able to gauge that even before reaching an ending. Depending on the choices made, however, the player may or may not realize how obsessed she is with finding her brother’s murderer. If Junpei goes with her into Door 1, she theorizes that the only people who could have killed him were Santa and Seven. In an extreme example of how powerful love can be, she decides to take revenge for her brother and kills both of them: “It could only have been Santa and Seven. That's why I killed them” (Chunsoft). But the grief of losing Snake completely breaks her, and she continues on her killing spree by murdering both Akane and Junpei before leaving for Door 9 by