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The real kicker is that this ending seems happy, but maybe the girls are just following their programming, or maybe Sayori is just trying to push you away. There's no way to know for sure.
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# ? Nov 2, 2017 23:42 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:34 |
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Roar posted:If you were hoping for the 'happy' ending, this is your time to jump ship. Unbookmark this thread, clear your history, and forget that you read these last few sentences. Today's update is the last semblance of happiness that Doki Doki Literature Club will eake out. There is only something much, much darker coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOEmV7yT2w
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:02 |
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All right, I admit, I cried at the 100% ending. I dunno why, maybe it's the whole "You savescummed just to make sure we were all happy?" combined with the music. Maybe I'm just a big softie. But hey, I cried. And absolutely gently caress the "ending" coming up next. It's over, happy end, we can visit our friends in Literature Club anytime we'd like off-camera, as far as I'm concerned this is absolutely what happened.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:03 |
Really Pants posted:The real kicker is that this ending seems happy, but maybe the girls are just following their programming, or maybe Sayori is just trying to push you away. There's no way to know for sure. I always felt like the latter because of the whole 'delete ability to play game'.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:05 |
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It feels like a tacit admission that games have to run out of content eventually, and the player who gets to this point really has seen everything you'd want to see anyway. Besides, it's not like it's hard to "fix" the game.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:10 |
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quote:This image can be manipulated to read the text per the wiki, though I have no idea how they go about doing that and they don’t go into detail. Here’s the text
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:20 |
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Thanks for doing this LP, Roar! I never would've checked out the game otherwise, and I'm really glad I did. Even a couple weeks later, it's still in my mind constantly.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:21 |
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Snorb posted:All right, I admit, I cried at the 100% ending. I dunno why, maybe it's the whole "You savescummed just to make sure we were all happy?" combined with the music. Maybe I'm just a big softie. But hey, I cried. I'm still a little bit salty Prince of Persia 2008 didn't stick to their guns on the "you can just stop plying the game" angle.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:36 |
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Cuntellectual posted:Funny how someone brought up NieR Automata. That seems more like a "put together two things that are current" than any significant reference. But as long as we're on the topic.... Nier: Automata is the fifth game in a franchise that was started by a game called Drakengard right after the Square/Enix merger. Drakengard has a very similar flavor to DDLC in that it starts out as a pretty standard example of its genre (high fantasy, in this case), gets darker and darker as the game goes on, and then takes a hard left turn into some really weird poo poo. I'd recommend playing it for yourself, but that's probably hard to do since it was two console generations ago, and in terms of gameplay, it's genuinely awful. Fortunately, there's an LP you can read, or a couple recaps (part 1, part 2) if you want to hear an explanation of the game to a blind and increasingly confused audience.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:58 |
ultrafilter posted:That seems more like a "put together two things that are current" than any significant reference. But as long as we're on the topic.... I'm not sure if you meant me, specifically, but not only did I play Drakengard when I was like 13, I share a name with a major character from one of the games. Before you ask, every joke possible has already been made.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:07 |
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One fun little factoid is that the stacktrace the Sayori sequence shows you references a different line than in the traceback.txt (307, rather than line 289) . The stacktrace you see during that sequence is just an 'image' declared at the start of that scene, since an -actual- Ren'Py exception would take up the whole window and not go away until dismissed by the user.code:
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:12 |
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Cuntellectual posted:I'm not sure if you meant me, specifically, but not only did I play Drakengard when I was like 13, I share a name with a major character from one of the games. OK, Nowe.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:32 |
ultrafilter posted:OK, Nowe. You are unfortunately close.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:43 |
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Why would you acknowledge that? Don't be a Nowe.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 02:04 |
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For a bit more elaboration on what happens day 2: If you don't piss Yuri/Natsuki off by being slavishly devoted to one of them (say, if you go after Sayori), Mitsuyo actually gets to read both of their second day poems. After hearing both, and the explanation behind them, he makes a comment about how the other person wrote a poem on the same general idea (a hobby other people might not understand). Whoever he's talking to goes "huh, I should talk to her about that". Offscreen, they talk to each other about it and decide to come back with a poem explicitly about the same thing - the beach. I'm pretty sure the idea there is that they're starting to become better friends with each another just before things start going crazy.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 03:51 |
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Dawww, that's pretty sweet.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:12 |
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Cyouni posted:For a bit more elaboration on what happens day 2: And if they agree on the beach thing and you've been picking poems from the same girl all game, then you see the romance poem, but the protagonist mentions that this is a second poem she wrote just for him, not the same one she showed the rest of the class.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:15 |
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chiasaur11 posted:And if they agree on the beach thing and you've been picking poems from the same girl all game, then you see the romance poem, but the protagonist mentions that this is a second poem she wrote just for him, not the same one she showed the rest of the class. Yeah, I think there's a hidden scoring system beyond just "who liked it most". Like if you pick 20/20 Yuri words then Natsuki will hate it and refuse to show you hers or just do the "next!" dismissal we saw in the LP. But if you pick 11 Yuri and 9 Natsuki then you'll get the Yuri scene, but Natsuki will still show her poem allowing you to get the Beach poem. Or something like that. The real interesting thing is the equating of "Amy Likes Spiders" (about Natsuki being bullied for liking manga) and "The Raccoon" (about Yuri's cutting) because, as we all know, anime is blood
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:34 |
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Mazerunner posted:Yeah, I think there's a hidden scoring system beyond just "who liked it most". Like if you pick 20/20 Yuri words then Natsuki will hate it and refuse to show you hers or just do the "next!" dismissal we saw in the LP. But if you pick 11 Yuri and 9 Natsuki then you'll get the Yuri scene, but Natsuki will still show her poem allowing you to get the Beach poem. Or something like that. It’s not entirely hidden. Natsuki has a lot of dialogue for different scores and how much your score changed from the last poem. The character icons always pop up when you pick a word to let you know who likes it best, so you can keep track of it that way.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:46 |
There is one crazy scene we didn't get to see I was kinda hoping we'd cover. I don't want to violate the spoiler policy, can I post it after the Final Ending? EDIT: Also, I feel bad Monika doesn't get a happy ending.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 05:50 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:EDIT: Also, I feel bad Monika doesn't get a happy ending. Someone's making a mod that gives Monika a route of her own; Dan Salvato gave his approval.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 06:18 |
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Snorb posted:Someone's making a mod that gives Monika a route of her own; Dan Salvato gave his approval. He knows how to make an anime girl happy.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 06:30 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:There is one crazy scene we didn't get to see I was kinda hoping we'd cover. I'm...decently sure said crazy scene is the final ending.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 06:33 |
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Cyouni posted:I'm...decently sure said crazy scene is the final ending. Pretty sure he's talking about Yuri's third scene in Act 2 that Roar completely skipped over. I was hoping too, it's probably the funniest scene in the route.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 06:36 |
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I think those Monika route people should call off the project. The previous attempt did not end well at all.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 06:48 |
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Nah what's the worst that could happen? A gestalt of Monika emerges and makes the internet Just Monika?
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 07:04 |
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Annointed posted:Nah what's the worst that could happen? A gestalt of Monika emerges and makes the internet Just Monika? sounds like an improvement
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 07:08 |
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Super Jay Mann posted:Pretty sure he's talking about Yuri's third scene in Act 2 that Roar completely skipped over. That's deja vu, right?
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 07:09 |
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Annointed posted:Nah what's the worst that could happen? A gestalt of Monika emerges and makes the internet Just Monika? It's us. We are all Monika.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 07:14 |
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Cyouni posted:I'm...decently sure said crazy scene is the final ending. As far as I'm concerned, Sayori's heartfelt "please come back and visit anytime" was the definitive and final ending, but like I said before, maybe I'm just a big softie.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 07:45 |
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Super Jay Mann posted:Pretty sure he's talking about Yuri's third scene in Act 2 that Roar completely skipped over. haha, you weren't kidding, I just went and saw that one and it's amazing
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 08:41 |
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Snorb posted:As far as I'm concerned, Sayori's heartfelt "please come back and visit anytime" was the definitive and final ending, but like I said before, maybe I'm just a big softie. Well, it won’t be final for us. Super Jay Mann posted:Pretty sure he's talking about Yuri's third scene in Act 2 that Roar completely skipped over. It’s also really sad despite how funny it is. She knows she always had problems, but she also knows what Monika is doing to her, which makes her shift all the blame away and become unable to stop it.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 09:03 |
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this is why i'm amused by people who like, keep the monika character file around on their flash drive it doesn't contain any information having anything to do with her, the entire characters folder is just easter eggs used as flags for certain events. you're carrying around a spooky ring of fire with an enigmatic message from someone else entirely, that's all the file is.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 09:35 |
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I am glad I binged this entire thread through the filter of an SSLP. Even if it's late at night before I go to bed. Hats off to you Roar for doing it! Now
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 11:23 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:There is one crazy scene we didn't get to see I was kinda hoping we'd cover. If you’re talking about deja vu scene, sure, knock yourself out.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 12:21 |
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Another little touch about Sayori's calendar is that not only is one month entirely crossed out but the month after that is completely loving empty -- Sayori knew she wouldn't be around by then so she didn't even bother to put anything in her plans, even school stuff that she'd know about ahead of time
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 12:37 |
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I'm way behind but someone deserves an award for the Natsuki Vomiting in Horror sprite.
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 16:34 |
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Roar posted:I have no idea what any of you are talking about but I do like ddlc fan art On one of the in-character Twitter accounts fans created. Isn't the internet wonderful?!
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 16:56 |
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MillennialVulcan posted:I'm way behind but someone deserves an award for the Natsuki Vomiting in Horror sprite. From the game files. Spoilered for those who are not up for seeing vomit again. Some people have, uh, modified this image in a hilariously predictable way. I'll refrain from posting it here. Snorb posted:
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 17:01 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:34 |
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Roar, when the thread eventually hits the LP Archive, any chance that there'll be a collated "DDLC fanart goes here" post?
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# ? Nov 3, 2017 17:23 |