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Let's Play Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! I've been devoting my Tuesday/Thursday release slot to more reading based releases. I just finished reading all of Heart of the Jedi, and now it's time to move onto the next project. What is this? Doki Doki Literature Club is a cute dating sim visual novel where the protagonist is recruited to join a high school literature club by his childhood friend. Some have described it as a psychological horror, and while high school may have been a horror for some people, that is complete slander. It actually isn't and if that's something that will turn you off from enjoying the LP, this is your warning). DDLC was originally released in 2017 as freeware. The Premium rerelease (DDLC+) came out October 2021. It was ported from Ren'Py to Unity. To the best of my knowledge, the story is still the same. However, there are a lot of new features, wallpapers, music, side stories, etc. Is this a blind run? Sort of, but no. I have played through this before, but only taking Yuri's route. I have also skimmed the guide for the good ending, but aside from some slight spoilers, everything that isn't on Yuri's route is new to me. You can see my old playthrough here. Because that's already been covered, Yuri's route is not going to be available for voting, although because I plan on getting 100% completion, I may end up her route as well last. However, that depends entirely on whether or not it is needed. Voting? That's right! Voting. To start us off, I need you to vote which route I take for the first run: Good ending: 1 (nweismuller) Sayori: Natsuki: 1 (Snowball) Voting will close on Friday June 10 at 9PM PDT, and I'll stream on Friday at 9:30PM PDT on my twitch channel Why is this voiced? Because I think it's silly, and I enjoy doing voices, even when 80% of the cast is girls. I hope it's not too off-putting. If someone does want to join for a stream or two to give their take on any of the girls' voices, do let me know and I'd be more than happy to have you cohost an episode (or a bunch!). Spoiler Policy? I'd prefer if you keep spoilers tagged. Episode 2 has some spoilers because nweis can't help himself with the puns in stream chat, and I hadn't formulated my spoiler policy yet when he was doing so. Also... The base game was previously LPed by TheLoneStar back in 2017. That obviously doesn't have any of the additional content that was in DDLC+ Episode List General Revil fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jun 7, 2022 |
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Episode 1: Return to the Beginning Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube I've played through this episode four times already. First for my original stream of this (lost the footage), second to rerecord (mic was broken and the sound quality was rear end!), third to rererecord (that's the version on the playlist above), and fourth for this entry. We get a rather cliche opening, loner high school student getting roped into an activity (or club) by his childhood friend. And the club consists of four archetypes, the childhood friend, the tsundere, the quiet girl, and the popular girl that leads the club. Is this all that there is, a cute dating sim? Or is there something deeper? There's something deeper.
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Episode 2: Did you say Manga? Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube So, with Snowball's vote, we're taking Natsuki's path for now. She's cutesy, likes manga, and is a complete tsundere. However, we're not too far down her route, and we can still switch to the good route instead. Depends on votes. Please vote which path I take: Good ending: 1 (nweismuller) Sayori: Natsuki: 1 (Snowball) General Revil fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Jun 9, 2022 21:18
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Are there any differences in the plot between this release and the original Ren'Py version? Like a new ending or alternate scenes?
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Jun 10, 2022 05:44
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I'm not positive. There the extra side stories that are completely new, but i believe the main story is the same.
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Jun 10, 2022 08:35
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I'm curious if the Unity version fixed something that I'd consider a bug from the Ren'py version. It was something that semi-spoiled the game for me before I could even play it. It would only run if it was located in a particular folder on your system.
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I'm actually not familiar about the bug you're referring to, so I can't say.
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Episode 3: Just a Little Peek Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Marissa breaks the tie for us, so we will be going down Natsuki's path. Natsuki is of course stubborn and set in her ways. That gets us very close to peeking up her skirt, and all the problems that that causes. Please vote which path I take: Good ending: 1 (nweismuller) Sayori: Natsuki: 2 (Snowball, Marissa)
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Episode 4: Four, Just Like the Wall that We Keep Breaking Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube The school festival is coming up, and that means we're close to the end of act 1. We've written all three act 1 poems to Natsuki, so we are firmly on her path. Sayori is acting quite weird though, it's almost like it's foreshadowing.
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Jun 16, 2022 20:12
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I vote good ending, please and thanks.
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Jun 17, 2022 13:03
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dervinosdoom posted:I vote good ending, please and thanks. Thank you for the vote. Sadly, it comes after voting was closed. (Even if it didn't, it would leave the final score a tie). Also, I'm going to be streaming episode 5 in about 30 minutes or so. https://twitch.tv/bring_stabity
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General Revil posted:Thank you for the vote. Sadly, it comes after voting was closed. (Even if it didn't, it would leave the final score a tie). DANG IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dervinosdoom posted:DANG IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry dude. But when I go for the second round, I'll have voting open again.
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Episode 5: Act I Has Experienced an Unexpected Error Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Sorry, the post is quite late. However, we have reached the end of Act 1. And the end of other things as well. This episode does get dark, but we at least have a wonderful date with Natsuki beforehand baking cupcakes, and we do reach the start of the School Festival. And we wrap things off with some really weird poo poo.
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Episode 6: Act II is Act I All Over Again Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube So, this was supposed to come out last Thursday. The uploads were up, I just could not get a post up. Too many things pulling me in different directions. I'm going to pause releases this week, partially because I don't have a backlog, partially because I have a ton of things to do in RL. Anyway, this episode has us teleport all the way back to the start of the game, but we're missing Sayori. The game behaves very strange, full of glitches, and it becomes obvious that Monica is able to mess with the game, almost as if she's aware that this is a game.
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Episode 7: Act II is a Glitchy Mess Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube So yeah, I'm back after 6 weeks instead of just one week. Oops! Anyway, it's quite fitting that Act 2 continues to be incredibly glitched out. Girls are talking with possessed voices, and lots of other things. Still we're back, and I even have the next episode already recorded, which wraps up Natsuki's route.
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Episode 8: All Hail Monica! Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube And so, with this two hour monstrosity, we wrap up Act 2, do all of Act 3, and get the bad end. That is the end for Natsuki's route. Next on the list is Sayori. Let's see if we can do any better. Spoiler, I'm pretty sure we can't. If things go according to plan, I'll be streaming the next part in 20ish hours.
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Episode 9: Natsuki didn't work out well. How about Sayori? Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube So, I at least told the truth that I'd be streaming soon after posting the last episode. I just didn't get around to uploading it until over 2 months later. Oops! Anyway, I'm back now, and starting off on Sayori's route to see how that goes for us, and if we have any better luck. We won't.
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Episode 10: Sayori is Still a Klutz Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube First new recording since my hiatus. Sayori is and always will be a klutz. Also, the foreshadowing of death in this episode is insane! They tried to cram as much of it as they could it seems.
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Episode 11: Sayori is Out of it Again Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Once again, we're coming to the end of act 1. We've written our third poem, and that just leaves the weekend event. Sayori is really out of it in this episode, and even leaves home early. It's almost like she's... hanging on by a thread.
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Episode 12: Saved With the Power of LOVE! ... Or Not Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Trying to fix our mistake from the last run, I confess my love to Sayori to try to save her life. I don't think it comes as any surprise to realize that it doesn't work. This game is quite cursed. However, Sayori's second death marks the end of Act 1, let's move onto our second round of Act II.
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Episode 13: Act II, But Fast Forward Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Just like with the start of Act 1, there's a lot of the same stuff in Act 2, so we skip all of it, and then start enjoying the glitchfest.
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Episode 14: Act II, But Quickly Finishing It Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube A little more fast forwarding, a little longer of an episode covering two days, plus the weekend, and we reach the end of Act 2 just like that. I've been collecting things I've missed on the previous runs, and the next episode is going to be a very annoying look at Act 3.
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I live and I'm back! This wraps up our second run through. And it also features a cohost, Snowball. Episode 15: Act III, But Doing it Slowly  Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube As promised in the last post, this episode was so annoying that it took me 9 months to do. Most of that was the first half of this year giving me no time for anything, but the rest of it was trying to get a time that worked well for me and a cohost. Because this episode is just sitting in the void and waiting for Monika to talk long enough to get the achievement for letting her monologue for long enough.
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Episode 16: Starting the third loop. It's Yuri Time! Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Snowball sticks around for another episode since these were recorded back to back. The third loop focuses on Yuri. This is now going over stuff I've done before, because I previously played the Yuri route on the original version of DDLC.
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Episode 17: Yuri Perfection! Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube We get the perfect poem for Yuri, and then continue down her route. General Revil fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Episode 18: This is (not) Yuri's Poem Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Compared to the other two girl's Yuri's route is a little different. We need to make sure that our poem is not written to Yuri in order to get the right poem. We'll do "3 poems for Yuri" in a later run.
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Episode 19: A Weekend Alone with Yuri Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Yuri's route means we help her with decorations over the weekend. So, she comes over and we paint a poster together. Plus, there are lots of moments where our protagonist could have seized the day, but he didn't.
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Episode 20: Wrapping up Yuri's Route, and Getting an Annoying Secret Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube In Act II, there's a secret that you can run into when you load the game. It took 90 minutes for the author of the guide I was using. Fortunately, it only took 20 minutes for me, and I edited out most of it.
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Episode 21: You Can (Not) Get the Good Ending Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Nweismuller joins us for this stream. It's great to have a friend co-hosting because there's a lot of dialogue skipping this time through. Sadly, on my first attempt of this, I reset too soon on Sayori's route, and I didn't get her last picture, and didn't get the good ending. Fortunately, I've edited down the two runs, so you don't need to watch through two full playthroughs. Despite this being the good ending, we still have a lot more content, so this is far from over.
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Episode 22: Cleanup and Files Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Nweismuller is still on the stream as it's the same one as last time. This time, we get all but one achievement from the story mode by writing a poem to each girl during act 1. After that, we move on to cheese the towekeys minigame. I'd say play, but I just used the guide to get the texts unlocked. I didn't bother actually trying to solve the puzzles.
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Episode 23: TRUST the Sidestories Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube The sidestories turn out to be prequels to the game. Right now, we're at the founding of the Literature Club. At first it's... Just Monika, but Sayori joins, and that starts the plot of this sidestory.
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Episode 24: Trust Monica (You really shouldn't) Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Monica learns Sayori's secret. It also makes it very clear that sidestories need to be done after the main story, even though they're prequels. Also, I just reached 100 subs on youtube. Woo!
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Double-header day! Two releases today. Episode 25 came out on time (it's been scheduled for two weeks), but I'm going to be MCing a festival this weekend, and I just got the program Monday night, so I've been scrambling to get a script/outline done, and didn't get around to posting it here. Episode 25: Understanding Yuri  Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Yuri finally follows up on the invitation she received from Monica and joins the club. It's a rocky start at first, but she makes it through. Episode 26: Understanding the Doki's Problems More  Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube What happens when Yuri admits that she hates people trying hard to make her happy, and Sayori admits that she loves trying hard to make people happy? A cute hug.
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Another extra delayed double-header! Two more releases today. Both episodes came out on time, but I basically have gone from festival prep, to festival cleanup, to wedding prep (not my wedding, but I am the best man, so I'm doing a bunch of stuff to get ready). Unfortunately, that also means I'm down to no backlog on this. In fact, I only have three days left in my backlog. I'm going to try to stream the next sidestory tonight if possible to make some more progress, but it's completely possible that there will be a weeklong gap in my releases soon. Episode 27: Respect the Manga Weeb  Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Natsuki finally joins the Literature Club. However, her brash personality clashes with Monica's and she is disrespected for liking manga. Episode 28: R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me  Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Monika falls in love with manga, and apologizes to Natsuki. She also sees just how badly Natsuki is bullied by her "friends".
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Episode 29: The Dokis are out of Balance. They Might Fall Over Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Just like with Yuri, Sayori is a bit too pushy when it comes to making friends with Natsuki. Natsuki isn't all too happy to open up and share the way Sayori is.
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Episode 30: Perfectly Balanced. As All Things Should Be Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Sayori and Natsuki finally talk it out, even if it takes Natsuki writing her feelings out in poem form. This also gives us the last of the poems, filling up that section of the pictures menu
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For whatever reason, this particular image has an alternate version I've seen circulating around. I'm sure it's just a fan being a goofball, but... 
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:For whatever reason, this particular image has an alternate version I've seen circulating around. I'm sure it's just a fan being a goofball, but... Monika! Obliterate!
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Episode 31: Reflecting Like a Vampire Preferred Hosts: Rumble, Odysee Regular Host: Youtube Monica tries to setup a dialogue between Yuri and Natsuki on how to better use language. She must have rolled a 1 because it was a critical failure. On the bright side, Natsuki just rocketed up to best Doki thanks to this side story. She's correct on not wanting to censor herself.
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