DRV3 is looped
I am certainly a supporter of the "DRV3 is a simulation" theory. There has been a lot of discussion about it before, both on reddit and tumblr. But if it is a simulation, how about an assumption that it is a looped simulation? There have been hints about it thrown in the dialogue, implicating that what is happening in the game can somehow happen again.
There's also a comment from Tsumugi in the Ultimate Talent Development Plan where she says that the "world" (and the Academy is referred to as a "world" many times) she's going to cosplay is the one she will cosplay 1,000 times.
But to me, the most obvious hint is the existence and the structure of Virtual World in ch4 - a looped structure with a wall that has been brought up a hundred times during the trial and plays a big role in it.
It makes me think about the End Wall that surrounds the Academy and the strange comments about it.
There's no way the whole Virtual World thing isn't representing at least something that happens in the main story. And as we see in epilogue, there is truly nothing outside of the End Wall, just like there's nothing outside of the Virtual World's map. The epilogue is in general practically a reveal that the whole Killing Game is a simulation (at least as I see it) but what do you think about the notion of it being looped?
