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Arcade Rabbit posted:The incredibly stilted way Yuri days is fantasticly creepy. It's not even full animation, her body hardly moves when she stabs herself, and she just sort of slips under the screen when she falls. In most other games it'd be ridiculous, but the story has done such a good job building up the uncanniness and tense atmosphere that it works really well. The way the poster in the background vanishes right before she does it is a nice touch as well. It gives a brief "the wierdness is about to subside" moment before things go full-crazy.
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Monika moni ka monika monika monika moni
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Oct 29, 2017 03:33
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Are the other characters gone from the data folder, like Sayori was? ...and did she delete the sky?
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Oct 29, 2017 03:37
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someone awful. posted:but then you're stuck. waiting. for two and a half days. i didn't even know if there was another scene after this, or if i was supposed to skip through the text or what. sitting there with this slowly decaying corpse of this weird girl, with creepy gibberish text repeating endlessly for an unknown amount of time, was really effectively desolate. When I played through this, the bit that creeped me out the most was not having any clue if clicking through the text was even doing anything. Then I thought of hitting skip, and it just kept going, and I'm like... am I supposed to close the game now, maybe? Am I totally stuck? What do I do? Then it changed to sunset and night, so okay, something's happening... but then it went back to daytime again. And I wasn't exactly thinking about how this was supposed to be the weekend event anymore. I ended up just leaving it scrolling in the background while I checked the forums or something else, then looked back to see her sprite had at least changed, but yeah this scene was creepy in a really great way.
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Oct 29, 2017 03:45
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Bifauxnen posted:When I played through this, the bit that creeped me out the most was not having any clue if clicking through the text was even doing anything. Then I thought of hitting skip, and it just kept going, and I'm like... am I supposed to close the game now, maybe? Am I totally stuck? What do I do? Then it changed to sunset and night, so okay, something's happening... but then it went back to daytime again. And I wasn't exactly thinking about how this was supposed to be the weekend event anymore. yeah, exactly! One of the faults of experiencing this game through the LP is that you don't get hit with that sudden confusion. I was like, "what the gently caress? Is this the end of the game? that's horrible/hilarious/stupid/amazing, if it is." There's really no sign, other than the fact that the lighting changes and time passes, that there's any scenes beyond a dead girl glitching text ad nauseam. It's intensely weird.
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Oct 29, 2017 03:52
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Yeah I tried out a bunch of things, then shut down the game. When I next restarted it Natsuki started screaming and puking at me, it was really weirdhorrible 
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Oct 29, 2017 03:54
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bman in 2288 posted:Look, I'm this close to freaking out without Monika trying to address us, the people reading this LP. Makes me think of the premise behind Reboot. That show still makes me feel twinges of guilt for my video game exploits.
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Oct 29, 2017 03:55
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Glazius posted:Are the other characters gone from the data folder, like Sayori was? They are and she did, yes. someone awful. posted:yeah, exactly! One of the faults of experiencing this game through the LP is that you don't get hit with that sudden confusion. I was like, "what the gently caress? Is this the end of the game? that's horrible/hilarious/stupid/amazing, if it is." There's really no sign, other than the fact that the lighting changes and time passes, that there's any scenes beyond a dead girl glitching text ad nauseam. It's intensely weird. Yuri does noticeably decay (*shudder*), you can tell by her eyes going grayer and grayer as the days pass.
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Oct 29, 2017 03:59
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Its not just her eyes. Her skin loses color and the blood turns black.
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Oct 29, 2017 04:01
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Also, her cheeks get sunken. Thinking back to how likable Yuri was at first makes it fantastically unpleasant. I've never had a video game make me feel physically uncomfortable before. Cuntellectual fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 29, 2017 |
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Oct 29, 2017 04:03
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i was including that in the umbrella of "time passing" because it's gross 
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Oct 29, 2017 04:22
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I hit this part and tried to load a recent save, hoping maybe I could fix things, try another way. Nope, back to Yuri's corpse. Quitting and reopening? Yuri's corpse. You can't even go to the main menu - the girls start to come up from the bottom, and then it cuts back to this scene. Sometimes the time of day changes, but that's it. There's no way out of this except watching it all. It was sufficiently horrifying.
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Oct 29, 2017 04:22
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Bifauxnen posted:When I played through this, the bit that creeped me out the most was not having any clue if clicking through the text was even doing anything. Then I thought of hitting skip, and it just kept going, and I'm like... am I supposed to close the game now, maybe? Am I totally stuck? What do I do? Then it changed to sunset and night, so okay, something's happening... but then it went back to daytime again. And I wasn't exactly thinking about how this was supposed to be the weekend event anymore. I didn't notice that the skip function came active. I just kept hitting LMB and spacebar until the first color change, and then I assumed progress was happening and so I kept hitting them out of stubbornness until the weekend ended. It was almost more of a shock when it ended (I forgot the weekend bit too) than it was when it happened.
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Oct 29, 2017 04:29
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Do you ever think back and remember the time that the main character called Yuri "cute" for second-guessing herself a lot, way back in the first run, and then get a bit skeeved, but in a "good" way? Like the slight off-ness of the main character having Stock VN Dude dialogue while the girls have very intense and real dialogue about what's going on with them and it's made more obvious as the game goes on, but little things like that pop up at you in hindsight, like the Sayori and the cookie bit. Especially after this. 
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Oct 29, 2017 04:30
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That makes me think that we're not real and that our existent is contingent on Monika's. Please don't seed my soft brain with such horrible thoughts. 
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Oct 29, 2017 04:37
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Are... Are we a real person, or another character.dat?
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Oct 29, 2017 04:38
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I can't go to sleep. This game is affecting me worse than I thought. Probably has something to do with Monika not behaving like a good little NPC should, or Sayori loving hanging herself after having a super bad depressive episode, or us watching Yuri stab herself to death in some hosed up sexual suicidal glee and then spend the weekend doing nothing but watch her corpse decompose. I really want to get off Literature Club's wild ride. Like, I want to follow the game, but I'm legit having a difficult time reading through these updates.
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Oct 29, 2017 04:40
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I love anime!
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Oct 29, 2017 04:41
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bman in 2288 posted:I can't go to sleep. This game is affecting me worse than I thought. Probably has something to do with Monika not behaving like a good little NPC should, or Sayori loving hanging herself after having a super bad depressive episode, or us watching Yuri stab herself to death in some hosed up sexual suicidal glee and then spend the weekend doing nothing but watch her corpse decompose. Unironically: please take care of yourself, fellow poster 
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Oct 29, 2017 04:45
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bman in 2288 posted:I really want to get off Literature Club's wild ride. Like, I want to follow the game, but I'm legit having a difficult time reading through these updates. You are going to be okay even if this wild ride doesn't end happily ever after. Take a break for a bit and let the anxieties this game provokes recede. Take care of yourself and be kind to yourself. Rest. ... Personally, I can't really play horror games, even goofy ones. Imagine my shock when I received a game called the cat lady and it wasn't like neko atsume at all.
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Oct 29, 2017 04:49
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If it helps, I haven't been able to get this game out of my head either.
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Oct 29, 2017 04:51
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:You are going to be okay even if this wild ride doesn't end happily ever after. Take a break for a bit and let the anxieties this game provokes recede. Whoever got you to play The Cat Lady blind is a cruel and sadistic bastard  .
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Oct 29, 2017 04:53
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bman in 2288 posted:I really want to get off Literature Club's wild ride. Like, I want to follow the game, but I'm legit having a difficult time reading through these updates. You definitely should not read the last update of the thread, then. We've still got a bit to go before then but just, when I say it's time for kind-hearted people to leave, that's your ticket to exit.
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bman in 2288 posted:I can't go to sleep. This game is affecting me worse than I thought. Probably has something to do with Monika not behaving like a good little NPC should, or Sayori loving hanging herself after having a super bad depressive episode, or us watching Yuri stab herself to death in some hosed up sexual suicidal glee and then spend the weekend doing nothing but watch her corpse decompose. I'm saying this as someone who's been there, so with that in mind -get off this website. Put in an extension to block it if you have to -go do something else that lets you get into a groove but doesn't take up a ton of attention. Play a game that you've played over and over, clean your house, go to work, brush your cat or dog and play with them if you have one. -for sleeping, turn on some kind of white noise (a fan, rain sounds on youtube, whatever), and when you're going to sleep, focus on the noise. If graphic images start coming up, just go back to the noise. -do this for as long as it takes, but I'd give it a week. If you feel like you can come back to this (be honest about it), then do so. If you can't and still want to know what happens, read a synopsis. someone awful. posted:Unironically: please take care of yourself, fellow poster
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Oct 29, 2017 05:01
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I guess it's a testament to how good the psychological horror element is. I mean, it's making people who aren't even PLAYING the game become all anxious.
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Oct 29, 2017 05:05
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I think I found a temporary fix: playing the MGR soundtrack at loud volumes is working. On the other hand, I still can't go to sleep. But at least it's for a different reason, now. I know that this game can't hurt me. It's just, this game hits close to home sometimes (a lot), but I'm a different person than I used to be, when those "close to home" moments were a lot more relevant. It's just completely loving horrifying to see that used as a gateway to the world falling apart around us, when sometimes, it used to feel like that for me. I'm going to see this through. This is a good LP and some great source material, and this is what I want. I mean, I also want to go to sleep, but good horror has its price, I guess. That, and buttrock.
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Oct 29, 2017 05:15
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The price of buttrock is truly steep. And yes, experiencing the cat lady blind was uh unpleasant. I realized what I was in for pretty quickly, but, you know how it is, I tried to be game and play along. I don't even know if I got past the tunnel in the intro. The anxious among us have a particularly fraught relationship with dread. With antici... pation. Whether through biology or conditioning, the sensation is always there, lurking; it's the phantom stench that taints the otherwise mundane. Horror gives everyone a taste not just of disaster or supernatural terror, but also this specific experience. The establishment of the setting, specifically the look at the protagonist's every day life, is the very beginning of dread. You know something terrible lurks out of sight. You catch a whiff of blood and decay. You glimpse something grotesque in an otherwise innocent picture. Someone says something that isn't quite right. You can't put your finger on it at first, but it's there, and it's coming for you. If you're aware of that anxiety, then you soon realize that all of your perceptions may be questionable. Maybe you don't actually know the rules as well as you think you do. Maybe it's just Monika.
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Oct 29, 2017 05:47
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Roar posted:You definitely should not read the last update of the thread, then.
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Oct 29, 2017 05:56
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I had never heard of the Cat Lady before. I see it's in the archive, so I'll check it out... eventually. In a well-lit room during daylight. When I know people are in the house. Maybe after this LP. I MADE GOOD DECISIONS.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:17
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bman in 2288 posted:I had never heard of the Cat Lady before. I see it's in the archive, so I'll check it out... eventually. In a well-lit room during daylight. When I know people are in the house. Maybe after this LP. In all seriousness; do not do that. The Cat Lady is a miserable experience, and I say that as a complement.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:In all seriousness; do not do that. The Cat Lady is a miserable experience, and I say that as a complement. This is the truth.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:21
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Yeah, you know how Sayori got a little too real? The Cat Lady is worse. It's good story-telling, but it's so much worse.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:31
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Well, at least we know Natsuki ate breakfast today.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:35
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That's...a surprisingly positive way to spin things. And yet, it's still all sorts of horrible. Oh God, is the Cat Lady worse than this?
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Oct 29, 2017 06:38
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bman in 2288 posted:That's...a surprisingly positive way to spin things. And yet, it's still all sorts of horrible. In the crippling depression and other violent "fun" things way. Yes.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:40
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So far? Yes. Will that change? I don't know. Haven't seen all that the literature club has to offer. But if you're really shaken by how this game has gone so far, please don't torment yourself with the cat lady.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:42
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Oh my God, I just wanted to come up with cute poems and write our way into their hearts, what the Christ
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Oct 29, 2017 06:44
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The doki doki doesn't come from our heart beating fast out of love... The doki doki comes from horror movie adrenaline.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:51
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I like how Monika explained to us that Yuri's cutting WASN'T a depression thing, like, we might feel bad for her like ANOTHER depressed character who's name escapes me. Nope, she does it for the HIGH.
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coolusername posted:The doki doki doesn't come from our heart beating fast out of love... The doki doki comes from horror movie adrenaline. Honestly? I prefer jump scares to this poo poo. At least jump scares end. And are short. And are usually bad. Jesus, I haven't been this high strung since SOMA.
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