Blick Winkle?[]
Is this confirmed by any actual source? as well as the actual hair color? I've never seen any official source link Zero Escape and the Infinity series like this. Darth Dracula (talk) 21:03, July 18, 2015 (UTC)
Uchikoshi confirmed on his Twitter account that Blick Winkel from Ever 17 and ? are one and the same. I don't have the link for it right now, but I'll try to find it! -JuneSlade (ドナルド)
? is the player[]
Yeah I don't know why this isn't mentioned in the article. Uchikoshi confirmed that ? is Blick Winkel and if I remember right Blick Winkel is the player. This really isn't that hard to see especially with in game dialogue pointing to it.--Volectro (talk) 16:00, July 26, 2016 (UTC)
- Because ? = player has never been explicitly confirmed. It's an assumption based on Ever17, and while I haven't played Ever17, I'd need a source that Blick Winkel is the player in Ever17. Also, I watched Another END and it never explicitly says ? is the player either, just stuff like "you're an uncontrolled variable". —AlexShepherd ツ 16:58, July 26, 2016 (UTC)
I believe it is fan speculation about ?, it is most likely the person who is playing the game making the decisions, but I also think it could be Delta's good side. Gbertolini
Who/What is "?"[]
this is from an interview with the director of ZTD explaining who is ?
When we talked before you mentioned that all of the mysteries from Virtue’s Last Reward would be solved in Zero Time Dilemma, but who is ? from the Another Time ending in VLR? My guess was it was the player, but since there was the neat trick in Q’s route where you play as Delta could you shine some more light on the ? character mystery?
I feel the need to explain that there has been a misunderstanding before answering this question. "? END (Another Time End)" in VLR was an irregular bonus script, which is like a post script of a novel. It caused confusion because it progressed in the format of a conversation. It wasn’t made as a follow up for the main script. It’s actually metafiction written through the viewpoint of higher realities/dimensions, and has no connection to the chronology of the official storyline. The official story of VLR ended with young Sigma witnessing the explosion of the antimatter reactors from the Crash Keys base on April 13, 2029.
But the tragic 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which claimed 20,000 lives, occurred during voice recording, and we began to wonder “was it appropriate to end the story of VLR like this? Should we add a scenario which brought more hope?” This brought about the addition of "Another Time End." The Japanese version didn’t include voices in this scene because the script was written after the completion of voice recording. However, during the process of adding this scene, I made two regrettable errors which caused even more confusion. The first was adding voices to the English version “Another Time End.” The second was putting the “Another Time End” right below “Phi End” on the flowchart. I did not incorporate what happened in that ending when working on ZTD. The reason behind that was because there was no assurance that everybody saw this ending. Some players only finished the escape rooms on easy mode. I wanted to be sure that they too would enjoy the story of ZTD.
People will probably wonder if what happened in “Another Time End” was all fake and whether I was deceiving the players. This is far from the truth. You said “My guess was it was the player” and that is correct. I wrote the script for this part with “?” being the player, and put some fragment of the player’s involvement in ZTD. This is the reason I made it appear that the player is capable of using an ability similar to Delta’s mind hack. But please don’t consider this to be the ultimate answer. The reason I don’t want everyone to see this as the only answer is because I’ve come across a number of interesting theories in forums which I do not want to deny. Maybe the character who was making the decisions in the Decision Game was the one who was participating in the game, or perhaps it’s Delta, or even the player. There are many ways of interpreting it, and I hope each fan will decide which fits best for them personally.
I’d also like to discuss Kyle. As mentioned before, “Another Time End” is metafiction, meaning the comment made by old Akane where she is speaking to the player himself is also metafiction. During this scene she said, “He (Kyle) was thrown out when you entered. Right now – in a manner of speaking – he has arrived at December 25th, 2028. His consciousness has gone into a body from that time." The year we are currently in is 2016 and not 2028. That’s my answer towards Kyle.
UltimateDiener (talk) 22:29, November 27, 2016 (UTC)
Mentionning of Blick Winkel[]
I think mentioning Blick Winkel in this page at all is bad taste. None of the games refer to "?" in such a way, and the one source that explicitly compares ? to Blick Winkel (as opposed to "the player") is a tweet by Uchikoshi that you could argue isn't accurate to what he intended. (e.g. he thought it as a personal headcanon rather than textual canon.)
Though my main concern is spoiling an entirely different game series for anyone that has completed ZE, but not touched Infinity. Tayruu (talk) 15:01, July 15, 2019 (UTC)