Zero Punctuation: Hob and Hat in Time
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Yesterday was a strange day,
Because of thugs, was blown away.
Okay, rather, was sucked out,
An empty vacuum came about.
...
But luckily, still got my hat,
Can jump and dive this way and that.
And still wearing my finest clothes,
Guess I can?t go wrong with those.
...
Still got my trousers, socks and boots,
My shirt too, let out a whoop.
I must still get back to my ship,
My pride has taken quite a hit.
...
But no need to fear, I?ve got my hat,
Soon I?ll work out just where I?m at.
In these fancy clothes I?ll play,
And make the mafia scumbags pay.
...did I get the premise right?
Because of thugs, was blown away.
Okay, rather, was sucked out,
An empty vacuum came about.
...
But luckily, still got my hat,
Can jump and dive this way and that.
And still wearing my finest clothes,
Guess I can?t go wrong with those.
...
Still got my trousers, socks and boots,
My shirt too, let out a whoop.
I must still get back to my ship,
My pride has taken quite a hit.
...
But no need to fear, I?ve got my hat,
Soon I?ll work out just where I?m at.
In these fancy clothes I?ll play,
And make the mafia scumbags pay.
...did I get the premise right?
The game starts with a warning for anyone with depression, anxiety or easily disturbed not to play it. This game is not joking at all about that once you hit the two hour mark.HazardousCube said:
Doki Doki is if you mixed School Days with Eternal Darkness with a Japanese visual novel. (but free to play)
Doki Doki Literature Club, starts like a normal visual novel with your childhood friend that wants you to join a club after school. You do, and meet a cast of average anime trope characters. This club though is the literature club where your classmates and you write poems and then critique each others. ( sounds boring right , but wait)
As the days progress what you are given to read by your classmates starts to hint at darker undertones then what they are saying.Subjects that most people actual deal with in real life in secret and i am not kidding these are dark. Hints start to pop up slightly by the girls in normal conversation but they are very much on guard.
Choices in the game do matter, though whatever your choice is will lead to a very,very unhappy ending for the other girls.No matter what you do, something will happen to them. I am not kidding this is dark stuff.Death does follow and then the game itself starts to break the fourth wall. Things go hay wire and then the fun really starts.
Later game restarts, change the story slightly with dialogue.If you play it three times trying to get all the girls endings, a character will mention this and introduce you to a "special ending". This is not a game where you can save anybody except yourself.
For the limited medium which a visual novel provides, this game is able to screw with your mind and spit you out. What the game addresses is something real people deal with and by the third hour mark you are going to be really questioning things.
DO NOT LET THE FIRST HOUR FOOL YOU!. DO NOT LET THE COLORFUL WAIFU MATERIAL FOOL YOU!.
This is not some normal visual novel with trope characters and a simple plot.
If you want more info about the whole game besides this synopsis, then look at this
[link]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club![/link]
As the days progress what you are given to read by your classmates starts to hint at darker undertones then what they are saying.Subjects that most people actual deal with in real life in secret and i am not kidding these are dark. Hints start to pop up slightly by the girls in normal conversation but they are very much on guard.
Choices in the game do matter, though whatever your choice is will lead to a very,very unhappy ending for the other girls.No matter what you do, something will happen to them. I am not kidding this is dark stuff.Death does follow and then the game itself starts to break the fourth wall. Things go hay wire and then the fun really starts.
Later game restarts, change the story slightly with dialogue.If you play it three times trying to get all the girls endings, a character will mention this and introduce you to a "special ending". This is not a game where you can save anybody except yourself.
For the limited medium which a visual novel provides, this game is able to screw with your mind and spit you out. What the game addresses is something real people deal with and by the third hour mark you are going to be really questioning things.
DO NOT LET THE FIRST HOUR FOOL YOU!. DO NOT LET THE COLORFUL WAIFU MATERIAL FOOL YOU!.
This is not some normal visual novel with trope characters and a simple plot.
If you want more info about the whole game besides this synopsis, then look at this
[link]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club![/link]
It is only a masterpiece if you also consider a puddle after 5 minutes of rain to be deep. It wasn't subversive or clever when the game forces your hand at every step of the game with no alternative and then tries to be high handed about scolding you for it.Darth Rosenberg said:
There is a reason it was a commercial flop, and only a few people still even remember/mention it in anything regarding a positive manner.
Edit: Hell, the devs of the game have even gone on to create a (pretty decent) ship game and apparently have no desire to do anything like it again.