Doki Doki Literature Club

Warning: May contain graphic content and talk of graphic content. 

Well, I haven't done a Get It Out There Friday in a while so why not start again with literally the best thing ever that I've seen in a long while.

Doki Doki Literature Club

I absolutely adore this game. This is the best game (Or I think technically it's called a visual novel) that I have seen in a long time. (Beyond Two Souls is my number one favorite game.) But DDLC (Doki Doki Literature Club) is a very close second of mine. 

There's so much to this game to explore it would take me forever to explain it all, and a lot of people probably already know the main stuff about it, so let's get a little more in detail. 

It's a cutesy dating type game where you have to pick your favorite girl, blah, blah, blah. Then the twist. It's a horror game. Most people don't believe it at first, but it's easy to tell after a minute. 

Now this game is unlike any other game I've ever played. The files of this game actually delete themselves as you play. And if you chose certain paths sometimes secret files can be added in. This makes it very important you keep the file manager open while you play the game. Doing this you'll unlock easter egg after easter egg. And this game is terrifying. I've seen people play it and the game actually knows information about you that you do not give it! (This is more found in mods) I don't want to get to into this, or else I'd be typing for the next ten years so I'm just going to move on to the girls. 

Natsuki: Natsuki is my personal favorite. I mean just look at her. She's pink and cute and petite and just the one I identify with closest. Shes very much a tsundere type which I like compared to the yandere type that Monkia and Yuri are more of. I'm not really sure what Sayori would be referred to. I'm a little bit of a weeb, but not enough to actually... know about this stuff. Sorry guys. Feel free to educate me (If it's done nicely) But just everything about her character I find pleasing and enjoyable. Every time screen time with her ends, I'm left wishing there was more.

Sayori: Sayori was my favorite character in the beginning. She's pretty happy and just a fun character in general. But as the game went on I still like Sayori's character and still do, but Natsuki was just so much more appealing to me.

 There's a theory behind Sayori's death that I'm also going to add in. Most people who know all that much about DDLC have probably already heard it but I'm adding it anyway. 

When you hang yourself you're supposed to start high and then jump so then you break your neck on the way down and don't suffer and suffocate. Sayori, being her usual clumsy self just steps off a chair or whatever and suffocates herself. That's why you'll notice her bloody hands. Some say she changes her mind since it was Monika that drove her to kill herself in the first place and others say it was just human instinct to stay alive, but she starts clawing at the rope trying to survive. (I myself like to go with the "She changed her mind" route.)

Yuri: Yuri wasn't really all that much to me. I never really liked her all that much, but I definitely didn't dislike her either. Monika is the only one I actually dislike and even her I like at least a little. But she's kinda creepy and into that horror stuff which I did like about the character. She adds a lot of foreshadowing to the game and a big piece of development to the game. I guess the main part that made me kinda dislike her was when the cutting part was introduced. It seemed a bit too obvious and most of the game isn't quite as in your face like that. Not only that but I mean, it hit a little close to home lol. I guess that is why Dan put in all of those warnings at the beginning of the game, so I'm not upset or nothing. But anyway, a still have a bit of dislike towards the character.

Monika: Everything about Monika's character was made to make you uncomfortable and seem out of place. If you notice she's the only character whose name doesn't end with an I. Also she's not even wearing the same uniform as the other three girls. Team Savato was very tricky in this. If you notice on the main screen you can't see much of her legs... Well, she doesn't have the same knee white socks that the other three have. She wears thigh high black socks.
Monika is very sneaky and conniving so I do like her character qualities. She's very smart and is obviously very good at getting what she wants without getting caught. She does it slowly and from far enough away that no one really suspects her. (Let's be honest how many of us actually guessed Monika was behind the scenes of everything before our first run through of the game was finished?) To be honest I believe Monika might be on to be Tristan's (our other lovely publisher) favorite character once he actually finishes watching the game.(As of most recently he told me Yuri, which I assumed would be his first favorite character. Like how mine changed from Sayori to Natsuki)

Anyway, that's all I have to say about DDLC for now.