What are TexasGoldRush's thoughts on Doki Doki Literature Club?

So when I was playing the indie breakthrough of the year cuphead Doki Doki Literature Club, I needed to know if I was actually playing a good game. The game is a visual novel and relies on its story telling ability, and as I played it I found myself examining it. Is this a genre savvy moment? Is Natsuki's character arc flat enough? Well when you want the facts, you turn to the expert. @texasgoldrush

What are his thoughts on this game?

Would it rank up there with such classics as Life is Strange: Before the Storm? I await his judgement.

What do you think his thoughts will be on the game system wars? Do they match up with yours? How do you feel about the game?

Before I am told otherwise, I think the game was very well done and the best way to go into it is totally blind. Easily one of the standouts of the year in my eyes, due to its unique take on the dating sim and that soundtrack was very well done.

Each of the club members bring something interesting and different to the game, it was honestly hard to choice what to do at some points. If you haven't already take a look at it, its free on steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/698780

Update:

THE MASTER HAS SPOKEN

Visual novels are not games, it's just stories with different endings

@ivangrozny: So im going to take it you didnt play it?

Is this memes?! :D

@jumpaction: half joking, half serious and half curious to know what other people think of the game. So thats a whole serious

Thread confirmed that Aigis can't get a real girlfriend :P

but they are real in my heart </3

@i_p_daily: et tu?

lol, I feel like a lot of you havent played the game and im being judged

The fact it gets dark isn't a secret. It's tagged as psychological horror after all.

@davillain-: I mean that tag is used on stuff wrong all the time :P

I get the feeling most people dont know the twist here. I dunno, I thought more people would be on board. The warning before the game really should tip people off though

@aigis: Good friends?

@aigis: When someone on my friends list playing was playing it, I was like is that some kind of learning game? Saw the Steam store page and thought it looked interesting.

@i_p_daily: "and you?"

@davillain-: Ya, I just saw it in the store one day and read the reviews saying there was more too it. Really the only reason I gave it a shot after that was because it was free, but im glad I did

@aigis: But you didn't see me.

@i_p_daily: im not sure I follow

@aigis: I'm not a murderer.

@i_p_daily: good to know

Now this looks like my kind of game!

I watched pewdiepie play through on youtube. Pretty interesting, but still not a game by my standards.

I dont really subscribe to that way of thinking, but either way I think its worth the time to go through. They do have a lot of interesting ideas and it rare for a game to come out and surprise you the way this one did

@aigis: How did you not follow when you initiated it LOL.

@i_p_daily: im not entirely sure we are on the same page lol

@aigis: You said et tu? which I assume (and that's where it gets dangerous :P) that you were referring to THIS.

@i_p_daily: I mean I was, but thats as far as my reference went :P

@aigis: That's why I said to about you not seeing me, not being a murderer and good friends lol.

@i_p_daily: Lol I got the murderer part, but I was lost for the others, thats ones one me, my bad. I need to brush up on my Shakespeare

I've been watching the Game Grumps play it and they finally got to THAT part.

Never thought I'd actually give a s*** about a "dating sim" visual novel yet here we are.

Looks like weeb trash

Monika is the best girl! Anyone know how to get her path?

Never played it. What other horror-themed visual novels would you compare it to? Is it anything like Higurashi or Corpse Party?

Looks like a horror game

I was told to play this from a friend, I love anime, visual novels and dating sim games are fun for me, so I went in knowing nothing about the game, thinking it was going to be another simple Dating Visual novel with a few choices. The first few hours where exactly that, actually those first few hours where very mediocre until more emotion was being shown by the characters, then it got real and I was impacted. Played the rest of the game loving every second of it, one of my favorite games of the year. Stuck with it after it finished as well, to see all I could.

For about a week I wished I never joined the Doki Doki Club to start with. Now I love the memes, can think back on it more warmly and light hearted.

@aigis: I couldn't tell with the call-out to Texas. :P

Still prefer Hatoful Boyfriend.

@jumpaction: naw, I am kind of curious what he has to say, but that part is mostly a goof

so you didnt play it?

I dont know what would give you that impression

I dont know the first one and the 2nd one I havent played through, so I dunno tbh. Its kind of hard to give a comparison to another visual novel just cause its so weird. It plays it really straight for a the first half of the game as a dating sim, its very cliche and uses tropes. Then it just spirals out of control

I think I'll pass. I prefer manly badass games like Doom.

@speedfreak48t5p: I dont think you know what you are missing, but I can always get a check on this

@ghosts4ever, thoughts?

lol my thoughts is its looks like girly pink weebo trash. but i respect you if you like it.

Don't play this game. Visual novels are more painful than walking simulators. If you want to check out the weirdness that happens in the game, I suggest watching it on Youtube. It's not worth downloading this garbage.

It's actually not that unusual for visual novels to pull the wool over your eyes, starting out like a light-hearted dating sim before shit hits the fan and it starts becoming dark and twisted. That's what happened with Grisaia and Muv-Luv, for example. And these visual novels (and their sequels) went on to have some of the best storytelling ever written for an interactive medium. To an extent, a similar tonal shift happens with Clannad (my pick for the best storytelling ever written for an interactive medium), where it starts out sort-of like some high-school dating sim, before the tone and mood changes significantly (not in a dark/twisted sense, but more in an emotional and heart-wrenching sense).

that literally makes zero sense considering the game is free and short

Ya, Im sure there are ones that have similar ideas, its worth a shot though. Its free and takes about 3hrs, if you are into that kind of thing theres not much to lose

Time isn't free, and doesn't this require multiple playthroughs? There's nothing unique enough about this poop to waste the HD space.

the exact same time would be spent watching it. You only need to play it once to get the idea, the multiple playthroughs are if you want all the scenes, but you can look that up if you want. Also its like 200 MB