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Yeah this is my first time seeing that scene with the chocolates. Saitama might be that kinda guy but Josuke certainly isn't! 
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TheGamerGuy23 posted:
It's...sort of like a hyper compressed version of a dating sim. Even then, usually you get more time to know them and the background, and things are more spaced out.
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Nov 13, 2017 21:09
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The game's fairly short, so there really isn't time to space things out. I think it's laying it on a little thick so far, but that's honestly the worst thing I have to say about the game, and that's pretty good by my standards.
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Nov 14, 2017 04:38
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Part 5 - Sayori's Problems Finally, things start ti get more interesting. Slowly, at first, but still. Seems like Sayori isn't quite as happy as she puts on, and is something I probably should've seen coming. It always hits extra hard when the fun, bubbly characters turn out to be not-so-happy. And by God, Yuri and Natsuki are thirsty as gently caress, they really went all out during that decision part near the end, and for some reason it really bothered me. And finally, a good old long stretch of Natsuki stuff coming up soon with baking. I have the slight theory that there's something going on between Natsuki and her bad. I dunno if he's outright abusive, or if things are just strained, but I have the feeling in my gut that something is going on there...
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Nov 14, 2017 22:34
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I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say these poor girls have some issues.
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Nov 15, 2017 06:31
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I have no idea what you could possibly mean.
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Nov 15, 2017 14:12
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I pick this person. No you can't. But what about this option then? No you can't. I don't want to pick either of those two. But thou must. That aside, it would probably make the most sense to help miss bashful with the decorations. Of course that would probably involve sitting right next to her writing on the same piece of paper or something.
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Nov 15, 2017 16:34
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I mean yeah, it would, but I wanted to avoid more Yuri-time here, and that's basically the only reason I went with Natsuki instead.
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Nov 15, 2017 17:39
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Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not blaming you for your choice and would have done the same. Baka.
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Nov 15, 2017 23:54
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say these poor girls have some issues. Nah, they're fine. 
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Nov 16, 2017 00:18
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Roar posted:Nah, they're fine. Plot twist: Saitama's the one making it weird.
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Nov 16, 2017 04:14
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ultrafilter posted:Plot twist: Saitama's the one making it weird. That's the problem with sending a B-Lister. If King, THE WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN, was here, then things would be pretty different.
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Nov 16, 2017 04:38
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Poil posted:Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not blaming you for your choice and would have done the same. Baka. chiasaur11 posted:That's the problem with sending a B-Lister.
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Part 6 - Baking With Natsuki Man, things just hit me like a God drat train in this episode. I knew sad things would happen, I knew things would get rough, but it still took me off-guard. And I know far worse things are coming. I may poke fun at Sayori like, constantly, but I honestly never disliked her. (I never particularly liked her very much either, but that's beside the point.) That first conversation with her especially was just brutal to sit through, it was genuinely pretty drat sad. Meanwhile, things moved so much faster with Natsuki than I expected. The near-kiss especially felt jarring considering how little time I spent with the girl before now. Like seriously, she's known Saitama for a week and she already wants in his pants. Though I have to say, the actual baking portion was far less painful than I expected. As for that decision near the end, I have a pretty strong feeling it's meaningless, and whatever happens next will happen no matter which one I chose. Still, I tried to make things right, but even then thinking back to it, it seemed like the wrong decision. And finally, it seems there's more to Monika than just someone that can break the fourth wall. Seems like she may be the villain of this game, and said some awful poo poo to Sayori...
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Nov 17, 2017 05:43
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Monika? A villain? She's not that remarkable, she's just Monika!
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TheGamerGuy23 posted:The near-kiss especially felt jarring considering how little time I spent with the girl before now. Like seriously, she's known Saitama for a week and she already wants in his pants. Yeah, that's the thing people have been talking about regarding the game being "compressed". This isn't a long game by visual novel standards, so while scenes like this are pretty common in romance VNs, they usually come at a much later part of the game when you've spent more time with the characters and built up a more plausible relationship. Doki Doki Literature Club squishes what could otherwise be several times as long into a few hours while attempting to still hit the same beats. Out of curiosity, how far ahead are you?
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Nov 17, 2017 10:22
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 Oh and don't date Sayori in her current state. It won't end well. Learn from e/n. 
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Yeah, that's the thing people have been talking about regarding the game being "compressed". This isn't a long game by visual novel standards, so while scenes like this are pretty common in romance VNs, they usually come at a much later part of the game when you've spent more time with the characters and built up a more plausible relationship. Doki Doki Literature Club squishes what could otherwise be several times as long into a few hours while attempting to still hit the same beats. And this next video is as far as I got. I got carried away and recorded a bunch of videos because I wanted to see what happened next. I forced myself to stop though, so at least my little reactions ITT would be more genuine. Like I know exactly what will happen next, and I've known it for almost a week now. Poil posted:
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TheGamerGuy23 posted:Yeah, as I've said before I don't usually play VNs, so I have no idea how normal some of this stuff is, and how much of it is parody or whatever. In the end it at least I can make light of it and joke about the girls being super thirsty or something. If you really want to know: It doesn’t; she still dies. You can’t magically solve chronic depression like that, and the game treats it realistically. Either way, the protagonist is a douche.
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Nov 17, 2017 14:25
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Now that it's actually come up, I should mention that this might have been noticeable beforehand if more attention were paid to the words Sayori likes. In the first video: hopeless, broken, depression, ocean, death, unrequited Third video: unrequited, empty, sadness, tragedy, misery, shame, lazy Fourth video: happiness, friends, dazzle, rainbow, sunny, smile, passion, beauty, bliss, warm Yuri may like the more complicated words, but Sayori really has the lock on the saddest ones.
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I really hate how a ton of anime and similar makes light of depression. Oh, just cheer up and take a genki-pill and everything magically becomes better with no problems again whatsoever. Natsuki baking was kinda cute. But a bit weird since they haven't even known each other for a week like mentioned. Oh I kinda like the cute little fang. 
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Double Punctuation posted:If you really want to know: It doesn’t; she still dies. You can’t magically solve chronic depression like that, and the game treats it realistically. Cyouni posted:Now that it's actually come up, I should mention that this might have been noticeable beforehand if more attention were paid to the words Sayori likes.
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Nov 17, 2017 21:45
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With regards to the line about manga, if you had written poems with more Natsuki words and gotten her scenes, you would've been reading manga with her. I guess they just assumed you wouldn't pick her without seeing some of those earlier.
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ultrafilter posted:With regards to the line about manga, if you had written poems with more Natsuki words and gotten her scenes, you would've been reading manga with her. I guess they just assumed you wouldn't pick her without seeing some of those earlier.
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Nov 18, 2017 03:31
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She does actually mention manga earlier - she perks up when you mention it. As much as people playing for the first time slam the beginning for being boring and anime, there is a LOT of subtle foreshadowing that goes over people's heads. Remember when Sayori said she would write poems till she died?
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Part 7 - Being Forced Into The Literature Club Alright, so, not too much to say right now. My assumption was correct and things are basically like a typical Visual Novel so far. Though I admit I kept expecting something really hosed up to happen at any moment. I'm not sure how much of this game is parodying typical VNs and how much is sincere. I can't help but notice each girl is just exceedingly like a stereotypical anime girl. The Tsundere, the shy one, and...Monika. As I said in the video, I expect something with the poems, like one of the girls will hint at some awful trauma that happened to them or something. And so far, as I mentioned, Yuri's probably my favorite since she at least shares similar tastes with her liking horror. My least favorite is the tiny Tsundere girl, since Tsundere characters never fail to annoy me. Well, the first big tragedy has occured. Sayori has killed herself, and the world...reset. I was actually really taken aback by that, and all the glitches. I really had no idea about this happening in the game. I think it's really safe to assume that there was no combination of choices that'd make Sayori not kill herself, but I really don't know for sure. As for Monika...I just wonder what her deal is. I mean, is she human? She clearly has full awareness as to what's going on and that we're in a game. Is she a person that somehow gained fourth wall awareness and weird reset powers, or is she some kind of demon or witch? Not enough to go on to really theorize on that. This was the last video I have recorded ahead of time, and I won't record ahead of time anymore. This also means I make the same mistake of picking depressing choices for poems, but from now on I won't do that anymore. I also predict Yuri will be the next one to die or something really hosed up happen to her, if only because she replaced Sayori as Vice-President of the club.
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I think Monika's poems are interesting. Really give you some good insight into her thought process when making them.
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A common gameplay thing in visual novels - dating sims in particular - is going back and replaying the game to get another girl's route after you're done with the first one. So now that one arc is over with, time to make some different choices and try another one, right? Good job on noticing the picture in the background in the classroom. It's indeed Sayori in her room and only appears once the glitch arc starts.
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Nov 19, 2017 10:26
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"You really left her hanging." gently caress you Monika! You're the one writing all this or something, aren't you? I played this game a little bit myself bit yesterday and only went to the first poem sharing bit (don't want to catch up to the lp). Of course I ended up with the tsundere scene and it was actually enjoyable. In a spoiler tag because it hasn't been shown in the LP but it doesn't reveal anything bad that we didn't already know. Reading her favorite manga with her and she was so happy to finally have someone to share her interest with. I'm tempted to see what Sayori's first day would be like too.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Did you check traceback.txt? Check the game folder. traceback.txt has this little gem in it: "RestartTopContext: Oh jeez...I didn't break anything, did I? Hold on a sec, I can probably fix this...I think... Actually, you know what? This would probably be a lot easier if I just deleted her. She's the one who's making this so difficult. Ahaha! Well, here's goes nothing." And there's another file called CAN YOU HEAR ME with the following inside: "There's a little devil inside all of us." Beneath their manufactured perception - their artificial reality - is a writhing, twisted mess of dread. Loathing. Judgment. Elitism. Self-doubt. All thrashing to escape the feeble hold of their host, seeping through every little crevice they can find. Into their willpower, starving them of all motivation and desire. Into their stomach, forcing them to drown their guilt in comfort food. Or into a newly-opened gash in their skin, hidden only by the sleeves of a cute new shirt. Such a deplorable, tangled mass is already present in every single one of them. That's why I choose not to blame myself for their actions. All I did was untie the knot. And finally, there's a picture called "hxppy thxughts" there too...  Now this is the type of poo poo I love. It's one thing to make the game glitchy, but to add all this poo poo to the game folder too is a great touch, and somewhat creepy too. I should also note that in the character folder, there's a .chr file for each of the girls...except Sayori is now gone from it...
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TheGamerGuy23 posted:Holy poo poo, so yeah there's a lot of stuff in the game folder, thanks. Keep it open, and sort by Date Modified.
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nice, we're into the good stuff now. I also accidentally clicked away from that poem, went back to see what it said. that last line is brilliantly chilling.
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If you leave that special poem up on your screen long enough, it gets replaced with something else:
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ultrafilter posted:If you leave that special poem up on your screen long enough, it gets replaced with something else: Double Punctuation posted:Keep it open, and sort by Date Modified. Augus posted:nice, we're into the good stuff now. I also accidentally clicked away from that poem, went back to see what it said. that last line is brilliantly chilling.
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Part 8 - The Fight Jesus Christ. I was...not expecting that. Things went pretty normal, though somewhat different, at first, but that loving fight...There's no way Natsuki's line about Yuri cutting herself was just so she could be mean. That's gotta be Yuri's personal issue: self harm. I wish that black text didn't go by so fast though, that honestly annoyed me because I couldn't read it at all. Also, Monika...I had no idea she could just interfere so directly, with her mind wiping and all. It raises some pretty awful ideas...And I did finally make a poem geared towards someone other than Yuri, so that's a plus. Also, the game folder has a new file called "iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" and it had this inside: "I hate this. I CAN'T DO ANYTHING. NOTHING. No matter how many times you play. It's all the same. It would be really, really easy to kill myself right now. But that would mean I don't get to talk to you anymore. All I want is for you to hate them. Why is that so hard?" I want to say it's from Monika's point of view. But the suicide talk fits Sayori better...though her wanting me to hate people doesn't really fit her...
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Jeez that thing with the eye is new, I've never seen that and I've been playing/watching farrr too much of this game
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From the looks of things, auto text seems to skip right over the black text boxes. It might not be the best thing in the world to use since the game's loving up.
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Cyouni posted:Some of them get auto-skipped on auto, some of them auto-skip themselves. I'm sure it's fine, though. Everything is fine. The game is working just as it's meant to.
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