Write the Way Into Her Heart in Doki Doki Literature Club! (SSLP

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Write the Way Into Her Heart in Doki Doki Literature Club! (SSLP | NMS)

«‹›30 »

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

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.

:cry:

# ? Nov 2, 2017 23:42

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 3, 2024 06:46

DoubleNegative: Jan 27, 2010; The most virtuous child in the entire world.

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.

If you continue on from this point, you do so with the understanding that no one in the game will have a happy ending...especially your very dearest and best friend.

If you're okay with that...see you tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOEmV7yT2w

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:02

Snorb: Nov 19, 2010

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:03

Cuntellectual: Aug 6, 2010

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'.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:05

geri_khan: May 16, 2009; Fucking blocks... I'm gonna climb the shit outta you!

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:10

Tengames: Oct 29, 2008

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

The black bars are a sliiiiiightly different shade of black then the text hidden inside it. so just using a magic wand/fill tool with the sensitivity jacked up to max will let you reveal the message inside it.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:20

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:21

Glazius: Jul 22, 2007; Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.; Clapping Larry

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.

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.

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:36

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

Cuntellectual posted:

Funny how someone brought up NieR Automata.

Apparently they weren't the only one who thought of it.

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 00:58

Cuntellectual: Aug 6, 2010

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....

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.

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. :v:

Before you ask, every joke possible has already been made.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:07

Ismene: Apr 26, 2012; Pillbug

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:

image exception_bg = "#dadada"
image fake_exception = Text("An exception has occurred.", size=40, style="_default")
image fake_exception2 = Text("File \"game/script-ch5.rpy\", line 307\nSee traceback.txt for details.", size=20, style="_default")

# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:12

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

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.

Before you ask, every joke possible has already been made.

OK, Nowe.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:32

Cuntellectual: Aug 6, 2010

ultrafilter posted:

OK, Nowe.

You are unfortunately close.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 01:43

bman in 2288: Apr 21, 2010

Why would you acknowledge that?

Don't be a Nowe.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 02:04

Cyouni: Sep 30, 2014; without love it cannot be seen

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 03:51

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Dawww, that's pretty sweet. :unsmith:

# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:12

chiasaur11: Oct 22, 2012

Cyouni posted:

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.

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:15

Mazerunner: Apr 22, 2010; Good Hunter, what... what is this post?

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

# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:34

Double Punctuation: Dec 30, 2009; Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

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.

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

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 04:46

TheGreatEvilKing: Mar 28, 2016

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 05:50

Snorb: Nov 19, 2010

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.

# ? Nov 3, 2017 06:18

Annointed: Mar 2, 2013