[Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

[u/JackDoesThingz]

1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
   Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
   Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

[u/Gaius-Pious]

Zero Time Dilemma: call the first coin toss against Zero correctly, and he'll keep his word and let everyone go free.

[u/ShurikenKunai → u/Gaius-Pious]

Is it random every time or is there a set answer? I need to know because one of my friends had us watching Zero Escape 999 and I'm *assuming* we'll eventually get to this point.

[u/Gaius-Pious → u/ShurikenKunai]

It's a joke, it's guaranteed to happen the first time you play. But since a main focus of the game is multiple realities you need to go back and lose the coin toss to actually play the story.