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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

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90 10 December 2009

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is an adventure developed by Chunsoft, released 10 December 2009 on Nintendo DS.

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What Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and released in 2009. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"From somewhere far away, Junpei could hear the sound of metal squeaking. He felt his stomach tighten. There were a thousand things the sound could have been, but none of the things he could think of were good. In an attempt to distract himself, Junpei looked around the room once more. Set in the wall directly in front of him was a slightly dirty iron door. The first thing Junpei noticed about the door was the number roughly emblazoned across it. On the surface of the door, in red paint, someone had written... 5"
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery, survival and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Zero Escape series

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is the first of 4 entries we hold in the Zero Escape series. The next entry was Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward in 2012.

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How it was received

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 201 votes.

What it launched against

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors launched on 10 December 2009, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Final Fantasy XIII, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and King's Bounty: Armored Princess. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Final Fantasy XIII, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, King's Bounty: Armored Princess.

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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors was released on 10 December 2009 for Nintendo DS.

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