(Every asylum game out there can kiss my ass.) Honestly, this was my biggest fear going into the game.
One of the laziest tropes any media creator can partake in is using mental illness as a means of adding horror. Doki Doki ’s simplicity, though, is merely a farce and it’s not long until the game begins breaking down right beside the girls’ mental states. For example, if you want to get on Yuri’s good side, you should choose words that are expressive and a little complex, while Natsuki likes words that are simple and cute. The game’s main mechanic is writing poems that lean towards one of the girls’ interests. Enticed both by the cupcakes made by the resident tsundere, Natsuki, and the prospect of getting close to one of the four girls (Sayori, Natsuki, Yuri, and Monika), you decide to join. You play as a nameless male protagonist: a loner manga fan who is prodded into joining the literature club by your childhood friend Sayori. Massive spoilers below! Trigger warning for depression and self-harm. One more thing: please, please heed the content warnings on the game’s page-they aren’t fucking around. The first run will more than likely take around four hours to complete, but in my opinion it’s entirely worth it. Team Salvato is offering the game for a “name your price” cost on the game’s itch.io page, as well as for free download from Steam. Before you continue on, reader, I highly suggest you experience everything DDLC has to offer before I spoil it for you. While every dating sim and visual novel can be interpreted as a small, in-depth exploration of human (or human-like) nature, Doki Doki Literature Club uses its story to explore the extents of kindness and humanity, and if it can or should cross the boundaries of the narrative fourth wall, leaving players evaluating and re-evaluating their first impressions of the main characters. Luckily, I stumbled upon one before the urge became unbearable.ĭespite sounding like something I would name a fake game as a joke, Team Salvato’s Doki Doki Literature Club takes the typical slice of life school romance plots and uses its medium to make something truly memorable. So, I’m left getting my visual novel fix from other sources. As much as I want to play Mystic Messenger ’s newest route, the better part of my mind is annoyingly making a pretty convincing argument for not completely trashing my sleep schedule for the time being.
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