Yeah like… this is the entire game? Or at least a good 90% of it?
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Day 17-B: Well that escalated
The other thrilling finale
wavey dream lines
You know I was gonna go to the airport, but I wonder how that’d even work out…
a different set of wavey dream lines
shudders
What a nightmare, I’d rather be abducted and sold into slavery than possibly have to walk all over this city again with that lady. The city center it is!
Oh I just ended up here without any motorcycle riding segment, how vaguely disappointing.
Well it’s not that far, if I have to swim it I will.
…Oh, it is not even an inch deep, you are a real wimp lady.
It is rather dark here so I wanted to show off they very underused "MacGgver"ing system in play.
Now I look like a huge dork, but I see so much clearer. Granted if I weren’t wearing sunglasses at night I may not need this, but I’d sooner die than remove these glasses.
I was terrified for a second but you are in fact a different high school girl. You are full of needless complaints and yet are still the nicest one I’ve met this week.
Anyway have made it to this well lit and seemingly decently stocked shelter, glad to be free of that ugly hat.
Lots of people laying around on the ground under tents complaining about various things, such as how this disaster-spawned vacation will have to end eventually.
Of the many many people here I think you might just be my favorite.
Oh boo hoo, how bad can it be?
…Oh, yeah I’d just move to a different area of the shelter. This is on you for being lazy.
Yeah, also all those collapsed buildings should have maybe clued you in on this.
As I cross over into the rear portion of the shelter…
…the building next door lights up, so clearly someone has gotten some of the power situation sorted out.
Of course the government would get their building powered up first.
You know I could go for a bath…
Wait, why? I did not know there was an immoral way to take a bath.
…This was probably a mistake though, at least they are cleaner now?
There is a big rumor spreading around the camp as to when transportation will be lined up so that people can leave here and return to their homes. Given that some people have been here the better part of six days (apparently not everyone has decided to wander around the city getting into misadventures this whole time) it isn’t surprising that frustration may be setting in.
The gathering mob might also be a sign that is happening too.
Yeah, tempers are definitely starting to flare.
This person turns to me and I feel as if my destiny has finally reached me.
What about government for the people, huh?
Yeah, the deep state has hid from us long enough!
…Yes, let’s get the mayor, right now!
Okay gotta stay ahead of the stampede but we have broken past their barrier and are about the enter the government building, just like another certain set of patriots did!
Yes, no one is escaping us now.
Here’s a bunch of government workers, but no mayor. Bah, he can’t hide for long.
Hmm, no one has checked upstairs, that seems like an oversight. I’ll just take a peak and…
…and run for my life to avoid being trampled to death again.
Judgement is coming mayor, you can’t ignore the true will of the people any longer!
Bah, must have fled to a safe room.
Well I’ll just take a moment to peak at his documents, maybe rest my feet on his desk…
Yeah, answer us! What else are you hiding?
Good, he must be cornered now, let’s finish this!
Stop the Steal! Stop the Steal!
Hello mayor, it is time we talked.
About this supposed “earthquake”, the deep state you represent, all of it.
Pfft, like anyone here cares about these so-called “facts”.
…Ummm, wait, don’t let him trick you!
You are just trying to escape so you can join back up with the Bilderberg Group and plot more fake natural disasters so you can steal more of our freedoms and rig more elections, admit it!
Well… I mean…
No! I saw it online, I swear!
No, don’t come near me!
rumble
loses balance
Oh no, I Shinji/Rei’d the mayor.
Well…
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Oh, sweet.
I mean… yeah, but it’s not like God is gonna do anything about it.
rumble
Shiiit, my one regret was not stealing more!
Who… who saved me? What guardian angel has smiled down on me and…
No.
No!
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
pant pant
You… you think you are the bastard king of Disaster Report 4? You?!? There is no one more devious, more cunning, more…
Motherfuck.
I just wanted to say, after having spoken to my lawyers, that I am truly sorry for breaking into the government building and trying to… you know, abduct the mayor and all that. I also acknowledge that the devastating earthquake that struck Japan and killed hundreds actually occurred and was not a false flag operation by the deep state. I had suffered several concussions in the immediate aftermath of said quake and have been informed by my lawyers that I made several delusional, inflammatory claims in subsequent days, be it about the healing quality of water or being a living god, in addition to several baseless claims about the current government or about a supposed human trafficking ring existing right under our noses in this very city. I wish to apologize to anyone who may have been harmed by my words or actions while I was in this state.
…Oh, and yes I will return that two million I had stolen or otherwise gained during this time, that two million does not belong to me and hence I am glad to return the full two million that represents to total amount I had accumulated during those several days 
~Fin~
(Well okay not fin, forgot about the epilogue. Base game Fin though~)
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Day 128: A Christmas Miracle
You think I forgot the free Christmas epilogue?
Thank you for the reminder that it is best to encounter an epilogue after the work and not before/during it.
It was technically August for me, anyways been keeping my head down since attempting to overthrow the government and my several other lesser crimes and misdeeds. If only there was a montage of some sort…
Wait, did that montage both endings? How is that even possible?
Anyways I step off the bus to see how things have gone since the what my lawyer has advised me to say was definitely an earthquake and not a false flag operation.
…What the fuck did the game do to me? My beautiful hair, my lovely heart shaped sunglasses…
This is bullshit!
Okay this place had some changing rooms, maybe we can fix this.
Dang nabbit, this is not cool!
…Okay, let me try something.
Phew, that’s better. As backwards as this seems if you use your clear file save it acts like you did nothing and start from scratch, but if you load a late game save it maintains everything.
Glad to be sexy again.
It is currently snowing and I can literally see your breath, it is chilly now.
Oh hey, this old guy is still in the park, I wonder if he took my advice that the best way out of his situation was to lie to all those close to him?
It helped for a little while, I’ll consider that a win even if your ultimately still alone and in the park.
So you won’t let me use clear game data to start an epilogue save, but if I use the one you want it risks nuking the one for the game proper. Great system, will make sure I am very careful whenever saving.
This conversation is happening in a department store full of customers looking out at a high traffic street, you should talk to the “it may be chilly soon” guy.
Yes I heard that too, well I think I did, I’m not sure which route this save is from >_>
What do you mean by aftershocks not being as frequent, the quake was five or six months ago? Why are there still aftershocks at all? Earthquakes don’t work like that, well real ones don’t at least. if I say anymore I risk becoming a political prisoner.
I… did not do any of this (I accidentally missed this sidequest), but she seems slightly crazy so let’s just screw with her.
I just cold ask her for a store room key, fortunately she knows where it is but she wants something in return…
We’re just going full fetch quest BS right off the start, sure I’ll gladly find you a several months old newspaper (which I already have, was on the bench next to the old guy in the park) and something christmas tree shaped.
I assume these two are ghosts who died in the “quake” and will be stuck here arguing about her car forever.
I… can’t carry this.
None of these work, so I’m just gonna wander to the back on my own and hope no one notices.
Hmm, you look familiar but I can’t quite place why.
Oh hey, a christmas tree I can carry.
…Wait a tic.
The prick with the annoying girlfriend!
He says he has no idea who this Keith is. TBF I didn’t remember his name was Keith either.
I watch him walk away and… something doesn’t feel right about this. Hmm.
Yeah I don’t care, can I have the key now?
The security here is breathtaking.
I find the key and go to the storeroom and… I have no idea why I wanted to go to the storeroom in the first place?
Oh, I had to trigger a cutscene, that’s why. (Love that I still have the Disaster Report 5 logo on these loading screens)
I am worried by all the stuff I didn’t do here.
It has been 30 seconds since the last fetch quest, so sure I’ll take this bag to your other location.
Oh, the murder/sexual assault jewelry shop, yeah I can guess why you got a good deal on the rent.
Let’s see if there was anything interesting in this conveniently located newspaper from just after the events of my first visit here.
Snake? Snake!
The convenience store guy also hated that one jerk who kept ripping off everyone, including myself. I wish he just let me fall to my death, if that happened in this timeline.
Well the store is certainly looking better.
Oh great, one of the annoying high school girls from my last visit it unfortunately still alive and now working… wait, working here?
Here is where she watched her teacher fall to her death while saving your annoying classmate you nearly bullied to suicide.
Here is the place she chose to work, literally across the street from it. That’s some true sociopath level shit.
No shit, the store window you are looking out is literally aimed at the flower memorial for her. Every awful thing I ever said about you has been proven to be 100% justified.
Oh gee, maybe your bullying was more successful this go around.
Sure, I’m sure it’ll sound sincere when I tell her how much you care.
You both work here?!? How am I clearly the best human still alive in this scenario?
I really should yell at you about your hiring choices.
…Yes, the weather sure was hot in the midst of all the destruction and death that happened at that time, that’s what I remember most about things too.
I wander around, yet I cannot leave when I approach to only road out of here.
Let me perform this out of character action.
Ms. Higa, not a day goes by where I don’t wish one of your students died instead of you.
I pray I can now leave this area.
Prayer works.
It is still snowing, at this rate it may be chilly soon.
I still have the ring the murderer gave me, I think overall she was one of the nicer people I met over the summer.
More bad news: the Italian restaurant is apparently doing well.
I can ask this fellow about various people who were around back when it was flooded next to a burning hotel.
Disappointing, I was hoping she quit.
That’s… concerning?
Honestly? Good for her.
Yeah, how dare she want to be paid adequately for her work. Dick.
This is the take-out food at this much improved Italian place, this would literally be the worst Italian place within 5 miles of my house.
There she is, the much improved chef who can now make a passable Italian sub.
I once again did do none of this (besides the bathroom one), I feel much worse about how I spent my time here last go around. I lie about being the former owner because why not.
None of this happened.
I do like a fancy hat though.
Glad to see that despite the murder, robbery and sexual assault this back alley protecting these buildings is still left completely open.
Odd to see this backroom without a body or bloodstain.
I’m not gonna think about that train of logic too much. She tells me I can unlock the front door to the store and leave via there (seemingly leaving it unlocked, surely no more bad things can happen here), but also asks if I want to buy any high-end attire. Probably not but…
Ooh, neat gloves!
Man I love the red glove look, but these are snazzy as hell as well. I may have to switch to these later.
I leave and this crippled guy asks me if I know where a nearby crossing is.
If I pretend he’s not here hopefully he’ll leave, the disabled gross me out.
He says nothing and leaves… but the important sounding music during all that makes me kinda curious what his deal was.
I immediately remember that jerk I swore I’d make kneel before me.
Money is required for anything beyond this.
…I am kinda irked that walking out that door automatically forced me to leave this area before I could visit the car dealership. I also kinda wonder what was up with that guy. Eh, fuck it.
reload
All that other stuff was just a dream~
I can squeeze the guy here for more info, none of it useful.
This time I lie about selling her the rights for 120 million as a goof.
And here is the moment I realize that none of the choices I made actually mattered, the epilogue doesn’t actually check any of it and operates on the honor system. I got 120k (and lost a hat) but it really put a sour taste in my mouth.
In that case, when you’re done make sure to visit the convenience store across the street, the lady at the counter may have something to say about that and who knows, if you wanted vengeance the gods may just smile upon you.
Gonna be honest: seeing how poorly (i.e. not at all) the epilogue actually cares about your actions from the main game sucks, there’s really none of the “make difficult choices” bits here and revisiting to see how people are doing feels meaningless if it isn’t even tied to your actual deeds. That said I will set $8 on fire for the sake of completeness.
Next time: the paid content.
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Day 129: We Missed the Holidays
How long has it ever taken you to walk down the street?
It has seemingly taken me a few weeks to make it to this next block over, I guess this is no longer a Christmas update. A better version of me would have waited a few weeks to update this.
My main goal is to find up what the jerk president of that company has been up to, I still have yet to force him to bow down before me after knocking me to the ground several months back. I do recall his company being near bankruptcy and buying out many shares of it at the time with the money I stole from that cult I lead for a bit… yeah, those were some good times.
Oh yeah, that girl is still missing; I assume she’s dead.
Again, there should not still be aftershocks several months after the initial one. Does no one other than me realize how odd and dare I say man-made this all feels?
Damn it, have things just gone great for every single awful person/company I came across back in the summer?
I also technically own much of the company now, I probably still have the stock slips in my carry-all.
Guy’s as charming as ever, thankfully he manages to successfully walk around me this go around.
…Well, may as well eat his food and drink his wine.
I can’t interact with any of it, great, just great.
Good for you?
That’s the meanest thing anyone has said about me.
The company part is a lie, but I do consider myself his rival in any way I can be.
This reporter lady seems suspect about how convenient all this company’s good luck has been.
She could be rather useful.
I am generally anti-snitching, but I’ll make an exception for this tool.
Sadly I can’t break into his computer, likely due to not knowing anything about them. Damn technology.
Outside again I bump into this bum lady harassing passerbyers with her guitar music. Once again it diegetically gets louder as I approach, once again it is not an acoustic track. In this particular instance I walk up just as horn solo is playing.
Darn bums are multiplying since the so-called disaster.
Ummmmmmmm…
Oh right, you warned me about the thugs after they abducted me but before they attacked and assaulted that other lady. Have you considered telling the authorities about them yet?
No, of course not. I believe literally every criminal I came across back then (including myself) is still outside police custody, good to know that declaring marshal law produced results
I get a bit hungry so I enter the burger joint at the corner to see if they have anything worth eating.
That is the most beautiful burger I have ever laid eyes on. I treat myself and go find a table to eat this wonder at.
Oh no.
Maybe she’s like the human trafficker who pretends to be someone else just convincingly enough so that I don’t have to follow up…
Dammit.
I’m not gonna lie to her: no one is really all that worried.
Hell yes!
It never gets old.
Oh good, I was worried you were lying to yourself about that.
Well I earned my treat.
This ended up being a wonderful day.
I am back at the park I started at, thankfully in under three weeks this time.
All I want in life is to finally get my vengeance on that guy who mildly wronged me, and if I must destroy the careers of hundreds to do so then so be it.
Two screens just so you can see that the water in the pond is moving, between you and the chilly guy this park attracts the dumbest fools.
The guy with the cane is in the park now and you have to keep asking each follow-up option to get his full deal, which includes having to pretend that the dead teacher wasn’t the worst.
He raises the point as to why a junior writer is asking random outsiders for help with her story and tells me not to bother with her, clearly he doesn’t understand revenge.
Oh there is a 50% chance I am very aware of this. One of their leaders is pretending to be someone else and harassing an old guy a few benches from here, why do you ask?
You are clearly awful at your job, the guy’s face was likely on the front page of your paper.
The reporter walks off in the opposite direction, so I go see what Mr. Snake Snake who maybe pulled a gun on me after I blew up his slave ship is up to.
What an odd conversation, perhaps the old guy will actually be useful for once and tell me what’s up.
…Wha?
Legit, how does one get fired from an illegal organization that buys and sells people? Killed sure, but fired???
…I can’t deal with this right now.
This is not natural, open your eyes people! Don’t make me say what I’m legally obliged not to!
Gee, chocolate, thank you wealthy fashion designer who owns multiple stores, how very generous of you.
That he’s evil.
Even for an instance contemplating pretending to like him broke my language centers.
Now you get it!
That is the first not-awful idea someone has offered me in a while. Now to just quickly see how awful this high fashion crap you are selling is…
Oooooh, new star shaped glasses and purple eyeshadow!?!?
This is legit the first make-up I’ve found in the game and my eyes just pop now.
These are great too…
…but these complement my hair much better.
I know what you are thinking: this must be one hell of a press conference.
It is not.
I’ve had enough with this place and take a bus to the next screen over, which took me only a short period to walk to during the “disaster”. We call this progress.
Ooooh yeah, that cult I stole the millions from after pretending to be their god and who I had to flee from, they were swarming around this place back then…
…I’m sure it’s fine.
These are two top tier descriptions that have nothing to do with what they say at all.
See, you get it too!
At least some are still maintaining the faith.
Thank you! It’s so god damn obvious once you stop and think about it!
There legit may be a hundred NPCs in this spot all saying random stuff, she might be my favorite (other than the other quake truthers) for wondering why we can’t just move all that scaffolding out of the way so she can take this road.
There’s more of us each day, wake up!
…Okay we gotta do this I guess? Hopefully they don’t hold a grudge…
Oh this is much better than everyone wearing white t-shirts!
I mean…
Yes, obviously.
Eyeshadow, heart-shaped glasses, now these bunny ears, I’m cute AF right now.
Yeah yeah I should have asked about my mortal enemy, just had to make sure there wasn’t about to be an awful surprise.
I didn’t steal millions from this very place to not eat like a king.
Kawaii, just like me.
Maid cafes, what can’t they do?
That name sounds… familiar.
You know what? Good for you. You found a job that both paid you better and offered a quick path to promotion… wait a sec.
Okay so A) apparently whoever runs this place/cult just hands it off every so often no matter what, and B) one of them changed it to a maid cafe. I now see that my vision back then was too limited.
Oh, one thing before I go.
Excellent, may you vanquish your rival Italian restaurant as I will vanquish my rival… wait, almost forgot about that!
Yep, this is definitely the guy.
I mean maybe, my money did not change one yen between July and December so who knows.
“For some reason” should be convincing enough, right?
Yeah, that guy is a world class tool.
Social platform… is this president guy, how do I put this… Musky?
Fishy too.
Okay, someone at a rival company is good.
Damn people with morals, they make life so difficult.
Jeez, you’re not too bright yourself, are you?
…
So this man, established as someone so highly respected that people at rival companies think highly of him and who won’t consider pulling any tricks against rival companies… will drop said morals if I bring him his favorite food.
…If it is that 16 layer burger, I get it.
Next time: This is short so perhaps the thrilling finale… and revenge~
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Day 209: The menu says it is day 209
The true ending
Before we leave this place and follow up on that tip we received I saw a familiar face around the corner, our old partner from when we ran the scam with the miracle water (it’s why the game logos still say Disaster Report 5) who we then dropped all the blame on and helped stone along with all the rest of the shelter. I guess he recovered.
It is good to be consistent, as long as it stays his fault I am in the clear.
I know what you should do: you should go back where you came from.
Good, go poison that country’s blood or something.
Now I am free to move on and get back to what’s truly important: revenge.
For a sec I was worried that bus ride lasted a whole calendar year but no, she’s just awful at keeping track of time. This is also how I learned that the menu screen lists how many days it has been, hence the updated day count up top.
Wait… you can see those too?!?
Oh… oh no.
Goddammit.
You both saved me and ruined me, which means you are still literally the worst.
Good to see you are still charging as if a disaster was still ongoing, why would anyone shop here with all those other stores open.
Wait, he “worked” in all those stores, maybe he knows stuff.
…I truly hate you.
Okay if I do the installment deal I just have to hand over some of the money I got from that Italian place, I should still come out ahead on this.
Hey! That’s not how these things work!
I leave and bump into the reporter lady again.
I’m down 100k, I need something.
Yeah yeah, my reward?
What in the world would I need a space commander suit for?
Reporter lady leaves and I enter the competitor’s building, I had forgotten all about having to borrow the key from the receptionist back then.
Unfortunately the president is out, so I decide to poke around to see if I can dig up any dirt the old fashion way.
Wait… was it a Ms. or Mr. the bunny eared loser told me about?
It is you…
…why would the president of a rival company know or respect the receptionist that much?
Anyways she doesn’t want to help, but she is noticeably hungry. Sadly I still have no idea what her favorite food would be…
Expensive chocolates… hey! Oh my god, that stupid fetch quest actually did pay off!
*glances at the reader/player nervously
Well Disaster’s 7th and 2nd letters are E and I…
Oh my, with a pig you say?!?
Wait, what? I don’t think that’s how things work, but sure I guess, I can just lie about it after all…
…I think I love you.
My heart is still aflutter and pants are still tight but it is time to get back to…
…Oh, right.
Don’t look at me like that, she said to and I am not crossing her!
I stumble upon the rival company’s president, who is in a pretty bad mood about all of the jerk’s company’s success.
Would these shares of stock help you get vengeance on them?
I just came.
That’s so much money the counter here can’t even accurately report it.
Actually, I wonder…
Huh, someone is shorting me 90% of what they promised, still… I’m a billionaire!!!
And he’s gonna use these stocks to ruin him. I’m rich, I’m in love, everything is great!
So…what do billionaires actually do with themselves?
They get stars in their eyes, they go to space~
This random lady selling clothes out of a box even has the hat to complete the outfit, what a day!
Back outside the jerk’s company I bump into the reporter lady again. We do the usual “do you have any info” “I want a reward first” song and dance…
Yes, let’s go up there and bring him to his knees.
No way am I missing out on this.
I gotta admit, the fact that he didn’t drop to his knees begging for mercy leaves me a bit unsatisfied. Still between the article spilling his dirty secrets and his main rival being equipped with a ton of his company’s stock… that’s pretty good payback for accidentally knocking me down several months back.
…The billions help, too.
It is odd that he’s just wandering around freely after everything he was involved with.
(Fun fact: I forgot to check the article out during my playthrough, so I got some screens from a LP)
This… feels incredibly unlikely? I think it is much more likely he was working for the government abducting people for nefarious experiments and they concocted this tall tale when the local cops actually solved a crime for the first time in years.
I take a bus and go to that other convenience store as I have nothing better to do, so I should probably see if that girl is dead or not.
If this ends up not being true…
She says the guy stocking in the back would know.
Well there is only one other open building near here, so…
So we are gonna end on a cat and mouse chase? Fine. I’ll see if anyone in the neighborhood knows which apartment is hers.
Ooooh… that’s not good.
…
Maaaaan she is the worst and I wouldn’t stop her if she wanted to jump off of something tall again, but even I draw the line at leaving her at the mercy of some rapist scumbags.
Always choose anger, it makes you strong.
…wait for it…
Yes this may be the mechanically worst 2d fighter sequence I’ve ever encountered, but fuck if it wasn’t satisfying to uppercut these fools into oblivion.
Well… I guess as long as you stop that’s fine then.
Oh, that lady actually did call the cops. Someone tell the guitar playing and singing bums this could have happened months ago if they had tried that.
Oh good, her bullies are here.
You bullied her into a suicide attempt, you clearly are not friends.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills here.
Well… at least it’s not my concern any more, hopefully I never see any of those three again.
I am so glad I didn’t have Kanae following me around the city this go around, hopefully she’s in jail for her role in all that human trafficking.
…Did you have this when I was here a few weeks back?
…Who the fuck was Yayoi?
~fin~
And that’s a wrap on this journey. The second half of the epilogue was better but it is a legit drag that it doesn’t really remember what you actually did at all. That said it was good to tie up some of those loose ends and even though there were no morality points at play it is good to see that my character’s consistent choosing of the least moral options was rewarded highly.
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I am lost for words how that DLC turned out (and wrapped up the story!
I would never have believed that I would be able to say this, but the driving segment in ZettaiZetto2 wasn’t the worst mechanical offense Granzella/ex-Irem has wreaked upon this world?
You cannot believe how much I’d love to play this bemu-bit!
(and let me once again extend my gratitude for sticking with this game and LP :servbotsalute: This and @daphaknee's Mario RPG LP have been much welcome comedy relief during a harsh year, having lost my dad to cancer and all, so to be able to laugh out loud when watching screencaps & how you filled out the gaps has been a godsend. I just hope you had as much fun doing it as I had reading it!)
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Man… that’s a tough call. I would say the driving segment in 2 is worse as it is harder and longer, but is probably technically better executed?
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