>>650 ah, feels like ages since this game came out. but apparently it was just 2017. I consider myself a VN snob but I liked it when everyone was hating on it. it's a good western VN. it's very bare bones. not that much to the characters at all. but it doesn't try to be a big deal. it's just fun. for me, natsuki and sayori are the best dokis. I'd take natsuki if I had to pick between the two. I'll save art and browse for natsuki/sayori from time to time.

>>650 I gave it a shot when it first came out and it was just... bad. The 'kawaii' aesthetic felt so fake and forced I could've told this was some 'subversion for subversion's sake' type game even without the countless warnings, like the entire thing feels like the dev only knows of the stereotype of a visual novel so making it all spoopy and glitchy would make it interesting. Could've been a great comfy title with something for the literature geeks, but it went for the normie 4th wall horror angle which feels like a total waste.

>>677 this is exactly how i feel. i really hate how popular it got...

I hate DDLC, the creator is literally a tr(...) who hates otaku culture, and he made this shitty dishonest VN to mock it. The only reason why this piece of shit got so popular is because of those soy face youtubers and streamers who play the shittiest indie "horror" "games" for some attention and ad/donation shekels. A better western VN is Katawa Shoujo. While it has some issues, it's a much more genuine work that tries to capture the soul of Japanese VNs.

>>682 Katawa Shoujo is a work of art. I wish I could experience that game for the first time again.

>>684 Sorry, but I'm a lolicon, not a pedophile.

>>685 it has a SFW mode that turns the child sex scenes off

>>688 No, it's down to the disgusting art style, and I assume writing. Those don't look like idealized "children" (lolis), those look like actual emulations of children. And no, I don't think that something like this harms real children and should be banned or whatever, but I just think it's disgusting.

>>689 well, uh...sorry for posting about it. i didn't like the art, either, but i thought the story was really good, and i wanted to share it, since i genuinely think it's one of the few good western VNs...

>>690 I didn't care for the story other than a few good jokes but I found the art style to be very cute and erotic.

>>691 I find the art style to be very unappealing

>>684 ew wtf?

>>698 fuck me for posting about it, sorry you added so much to the conversation, every positive thing i listed automatically countered by those five letters of discontent

>>699 >you added so much to the conversation, every positive thing i listed automatically countered by those five letters of discontent

>>650 The writing is terrible, it had a lot (I mean it to say this, the first act got to like, 10+ hours) of time to build up, but it didn't do that. Most of the time during the first act are shallow, you only get to know little about these people during that time, it's so little that made it forgettable thanks for their lack of quirks. Which funnily enough, their bastardized version was the only thing their known for. This act has zero foreshadowing outside of the infamous suicide scene, which even then it's so minimal because of reasons above that lost tension for seconds. And still is a nothingburger in the second act of this game. Their "secret" issues are non-existent because, again, we meet little about them outside of Sayori's in the end. It's all for the sake of shock value, and by that, it came up as insincere. Yuri's madness to Natsuki's daddy issues, Dan wanted the audience to BAAAWWW at these characters while at the same time subvert expectations by delaying a act. Failed miserably due to that does not how it works when it comes to writing. It's why you have edgy memes in the first place, because the game does a awful job at giving characters sad backstories. It made it null when it turns out to be all bullshit created by the main antagonist. Monika has no personality, nothing to get to outside of "I'm mad and I did this so that you could notice me!!", she's a generic yandere and her entire motivation is retarded. Could had made it a bit interesting if she was a dating choice as well. In fact, this game should have real routes between girls instead of two endings, one that is powerhungry while the other is the author self-inserting himself. Having different routes and endings between girls while having this gross meta would make it a fun ride at the very least. This game (alongside with Plus) shows that Dan doesn't know how to make a story, despite claiming to. And the very fact alone is why we won't get a sequel, "Project Libitina" or whatever the fuck it is. Because that would fuck it up more than he already did. There are a lot of good games that does it's deconstruction of a certain thing like a genre or a trope infinitely better, but DDLC isn't one of them.

>>650 i really like the characters and i like the concept but the execution and writing is mediocre

>>650 it's so fucking disgusting and weird that people play VNs with cute girls in them and actually get attracted to them and think of them as real despite the fact that they would never exist in real life. god the people who play these games are disgusting, weird, gross, freakish, worthless and don't deserve to live. how fucking dare they get a boner to beautiful fictional girls instead of yeast growing roastie whores like me. i'm going to make a whole game about it with some "clever" 4th wall breaking to make all the journalist candy asss and normalfags clap and celebrate my artistic genius

>>1403 are you gay

>>1400 >it had a lot (I mean it to say this, the first act got to like, 10+ hours) of time to build up Isn't the game like 2 hours long? I only played it once when it first came out but I remember it being pretty short.

>>650 The base game had interesting ideas but the ending was very rushed and disappointing. I prefer the plus version side stories where they all act like regular characters with their own issues. I think I cried during Monika and Sayuri's chapter, when Sayuri was talking about her issues. I related to it a lot

Its a mess of ideas that don't mesh well together. I really hated the shittily contrived 4th-wall breaking sonic.exe-esque creepypasta that took me out of the story as soon as the glitches and shit happened. Haven't read the DDLC+ side stories though, maybe its a lot better than the last.