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blookmallow · 7 years ago

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and we finish this (for the first time, anyway, im still working on replays since theres loads of things i havent tried yet)

time for the ultimate Shit Gets Real bit

(massive #doki doki spoilers / unreality / etc)

fear,

ok i think even. the protagonist being dull and unlikeable was intentional. you’re NOT supposed to relate to him. him being a distinctly Not You one dimensional character was the point

:’ ) i. suspected

also right when i reached this screen my little sister suddenly burst into the room and said HAPPY THANKSGIVING and scared the fuck outta me :’)

i cant tell how far monika’s influence really goes

like. was she exaggerating traits that were already there (sayori’s hidden sadness, yuri’s obsessive personality), drawing out/forcing to the surface the darknesses that were already in them, or was she actively CHANGING their personalities. like. did she GIVE sayori depression, or just heighten it

or maybe it wasn’t literal code manipulation so much as just emotional/mental manipulation, subtly fucking with their heads until she convinced sayori she was worthless and should kill herself, etc

monika singlehandedly destroys the entire dating sim genre

i dont rly think deleting an entire character’s existence should be this easy to do in most games but alright :’)

om f g

also i... can’t. help noticing how she was. very blatantly directing me. to do. exactly what she did

the folder really is there and she’s the only thing left in it

:( :( :( :( :( :(

i like how she’s. really. obviously hinting at you that you could legitimately just fucking delete her right now

but i couldn’t bring myself to do it at first, both for fear of “what if this is actually an irreversible change since I’m directly messing with the game data” and because. i wanted to see what else could happen/what else she had to say, i have no idea how long this scene can actually run for before it starts repeating or goes silent or whether something else happens eventually

maybe if i reach this point again i might just. leave her up for a while

this direct... interaction really gets into your head it was legitimately difficult to make a decision / i was afraid of clicking on things or messing with things because She’ll Know (its REAL GOOD)

however this raises a LOT of questions. how many other things are hidden in the game files that you could do something with / that might have hidden messages or something. is it possible to recover the deleted character files without monika giving them back to you. what happens if you do this earlier in the game than you’re supposed to, what if you just delete her from the start. what if you deleted someone else. what if you deleted everyone but monika from the beginning. or everyone but someone else. if this actually does affect the game / really does serve as the “entire character’s existence file you can delete at will” there are a LOT of possibilities here that I’m probably gonna mess with eventually

hhHHfh

i feel like there’s missed potential here having a button labeled “help” that doesn’t respond any differently on this screen than it does normally, but

the “history” has reverted to a regular transcript, and there’s nothing to load

then i tried quitting the game, half afraid i wouldn’t be allowed to

it closed like normal, but when i reopened it

she knows if you quit on her

yik e s

i stayed with her and let her talk for a while, occasionally quitting and restarting to see if i could change anything (it didn’t Change things but she did respond with different dialogue every time)

she eventually resigns herself to the fact that you have to close the game sometimes, and seems to forgive you for it

she also told me about her twitter account, which does actually exist but seeing other people talking to her/etc kinda took me out of it so i didnt look at it much

then i finally decided it was time to work with the files, i still do want to just. leave her up for an extended amount of time to see how long it can last but for this time, this playthrough, i wanted to move on

she frequently mentions her character file, I’m guessing its the gamedevs hinting that you can mess with it but im also wondering if you can like. change it or do anything with it apart from deleting it

i tried duplicating her (she had mentioned something like ‘maybe you should make a backup of me, just in case’) but it didn’t seem to have any effect on anything, and nothing changed when i deleted the copy

i was pretty much expecting that if i deleted her she’d vanish and id be left with nothing but

eventually i decided to not delete her, but just. move her out of the game folder. i put her on my desktop.

I FEEL BAD BUT SHE DID THIS TO EVERYONE ELSE

SHE DOES STILL EXIST I JUST MOVED HER :’)

at this point i tried returning the file into the game folder where it was before, but it didn’t change anything as far as i could tell

i think removing her from the folder causes it to respond the same as if you had deleted her

im also not sure if the other character files are recoverable in some way, like. maybe if you had duplicated them previously would you have been able to put them back? would monika just delete your duplicates?

actually you killed everyone, i only killed you

she.......removed herself

she gave me back the other files and she’s. gone.

it’s really, really not

the memories seem...mixed up, sayori is alive and this should be before she confesses about her depression but my character still seems aware that she needs encouragement, he’s not being nearly as dismissive and rude to her

or maybe he’s just playing along with her like “sure yeah okay I’m proud of you”

i don’t know

I am really, really glad to see her, though :’)

monika is gone, sayori is the club president, and your character willingly chooses to join the club without needing to be coerced into it this time (but you as the player still are not given a choice, either)

I’m not sure if that’s. monika rewriting the script or what it is

everyone seems happier, sayori’s doing better, yuri apologizes to natsuki and they agree to give each others’ literature styles a chance

like “everything’s better without monika, everything’s great and happy and normal again now that she’s gone” but it feels wrong somehow

monika was. trapped in this just like everyone else is, she’s just the only one who knew it, she was selfish and violent but she wasn’t just a rogue virus

and her just being. gone. feels wrong

o h

i mean.......making sayori happy was the most important thing to me :’)

and. sayori’s not trying to delete everyone else. i guess maybe the point here is “is this what you wanted then? the preprogrammed happy love story where everything always works out great and no one ever has problems and everyone’s just programmed to say I Love You I Love You I Love You and the same story plays out over and over and over? is that what you REALLY WANT”

ah shit not again

THE AUDIO / CREDITS SEQUENCE IS!!!!! REALLY GOOD

such GLaDOS vibes i love it ?????

and now I’m.....stuck here. restarting just always brings you back here. there doesn’t seem to be any other option

there’s a note in the help screen about how to wipe a save file and start completely over so I’m guessing that’s probably what you have to do here

hhhooooooooo boy

(edit: i drafted this post when i had just done this bit, ive since then done more so there was a lil bit left to do after this but not much. that’ll be in with the next post which i havent started on yet but have some screenshots to sort through)

#lucy plays ddlc

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