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Kira

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Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

Has anyone ever played this game before? It's free on steam.

If so, what did you think of it?

I personally enjoyed it a lot. It looks like your casual weeby visual novel at first, but it gets really interesting.

Sensei1

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

I didn't know it was free. I haven't played it but I've seen videos of it. Some parts of the ost are really great, and the game itself has some fun ideas.

▼Spoilers maybe?

I think this sort of disturbing sounding stuff is really cool

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

I only watched a playthrough and it scarred me.

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Luka504

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

Honestly, it's a brilliantly made game. The beginning is a bit boring, not gonna lie, but at the back of my mind was the thought that there had to have been more to the game under the hood; And boy, was I right.

▼Massive Spoiler

Sayori's suicide really cut me deep, man. The eeriee music and the way the game just reset, trying to function with her now being deleted from existence just got to me. It was the first time in a video game where I physically had to stop playing for a while just to process what just happened. I tried to reload my save to see if there was something different I could have done, but I couldn't reload; All my saves became unusable. She was gone, and there was nothing I could do to save her.

Yuri's suicide was disturbing, too; debatably even worse than Sayori's. The way you just stare at her dead body, watching her blood dry, her face growing pale, her eyes losing all color and life will always make me sick to my stomach. And mind you, this happened over the course of a weekend! Your character just sat there for two whole days next to their friend's corpse deceasing right in front of them!

Monika is a really tragic character. She's the only character who knew that she was in a game, but her love for you was so strong that she didn't care. She knows you're real, and she's hoping that, through you, she can become real, too, even if only partially. After you delete her, she realizes how much harm she's brought not only unto you, but to her friends, as well. Even though they weren't real, they meant a lot to her, and she wanted to see them happy. The game resets once more, and Monika's gone now, but she's still present in the game, evidenced by how she saves you from Sayori when she goes mad with love.
"I was wrong. There is no happiness to be found in the literature club." Monika says, deleting the game once and for all.

The way DDLC breaks the fourth wall is definitely its greatest strength. The only other games I can recall that interacted with the player in such manner are Undertale and One Shot. (Side note: If you haven't played One Shot, just trust me, get it. It's phenomenal.)

But yeah, DDLC is a 10/10 game. If you somehow managed to avoid hearing any spoilers about it, I recommend picking it up and playing through it untill the end.

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

DDLC too scary for me lol
And yea Oneshot was really an amazing game

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Kira

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

Honestly, it's a brilliantly made game. The beginning is a bit boring, not gonna lie, but at the back of my mind was the thought that there had to have been more to the game under the hood; And boy, was I right.

▼Massive Spoiler

Sayori's suicide really cut me deep, man. The eeriee music and the way the game just reset, trying to function with her now being deleted from existence just got to me. It was the first time in a video game where I physically had to stop playing for a while just to process what just happened. I tried to reload my save to see if there was something different I could have done, but I couldn't reload; All my saves became unusable. She was gone, and there was nothing I could do to save her.

Yuri's suicide was disturbing, too; debatably even worse than Sayori's. The way you just stare at her dead body, watching her blood dry, her face growing pale, her eyes losing all color and life will always make me sick to my stomach. And mind you, this happened over the course of a weekend! Your character just sat there for two whole days next to their friend's corpse deceasing right in front of them!

Monika is a really tragic character. She's the only character who knew that she was in a game, but her love for you was so strong that she didn't care. She knows you're real, and she's hoping that, through you, she can become real, too, even if only partially. After you delete her, she realizes how much harm she's brought not only unto you, but to her friends, as well. Even though they weren't real, they meant a lot to her, and she wanted to see them happy. The game resets once more, and Monika's gone now, but she's still present in the game, evidenced by how she saves you from Sayori when she goes mad with love.
"I was wrong. There is no happiness to be found in the literature club." Monika says, deleting the game once and for all.

The way DDLC breaks the fourth wall is definitely its greatest strength. The only other games I can recall that interacted with the player in such manner are Undertale and One Shot. (Side note: If you haven't played One Shot, just trust me, get it. It's phenomenal.)

But yeah, DDLC is a 10/10 game. If you somehow managed to avoid hearing any spoilers about it, I recommend picking it up and playing through it untill the end.

I really think any game that attempts to go out of it's way from the unconventional game turns it into something really interesting and make you believe in the game more.

I didn't know it was free. I haven't played it but I've seen videos of it. Some parts of the ost are really great, and the game itself has some fun ideas.

▼Spoilers maybe?

I think this sort of disturbing sounding stuff is really cool

Yep it's free, played it yesterday. Definitely a game to play

I only watched a playthrough and it scarred me.

Don't be, it's a good experience.

DDLC too scary for me lol
And yea Oneshot was really an amazing game

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

10/10 got screamed at by therapist when i mentioned it bc it gave me bad thoughts again

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

Oh, I heard a lot about it, but never played it. However, it did inspire me to create this cursed image:

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(I totally don't regret making this.)

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Kira

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Re: Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC)

Oh, I heard a lot about it, but never played it. However, it did inspire me to create this cursed image:

▼Open With Caution

https://i.imgur.com/NcE7YYm.png

(I totally don't regret making this.)

the top look like pork slices, love it

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ususally i joke about and **** but the truth is

I legitmately developed (and still deal with to this very day) a severe case of depression from DDLC, completely unknowing what the game actually behold. Before playing it, I was actually an optimist, had a lot of motivation, someone who went outside with friends during the weekends. And then my friend Kimberely brought up how I should try it out, because it was an interesting virtual novel. So I decided, "Well, why not? It'll give me something to do.". It did. I played it. After about 60 to 65 hours, that's when it hit. I stopped finding happiness in hobbies I used to enjoy, I stopped eating for weeks, I stopped going outside, talking to friends. I started thinking about jumping off a bridge, getting ran over by a train, blowing my brains out. A year or two passed and I actually got given medication to deal with it, but this was long after I forgot about DDLC. Depression worsened, not because of DDLC, but because of what went on and still goes on in my life. I'm not asking for any sort of sympathy or empathy or "hey here's some numbers you can call if you need help". I think it was early 2019 that I began to develop extremely nihlistic and pessimistic mindsets and ideologies, ultimately deciding that life in general is full of pain and suffering and that positivity is toxic.