#yiik iv spoilers

[toydrill]

you're smart enough, you'll figure it out

[constructreese]

we are yiiking out hardcore

[nightmarinarting]

happy (late) birthday idiot

read more 4 gif (warning; flashing lights and bright colors)

[crystallizedkingdoms]

EATS UR WHOLE HAND INCLUDING DA SUGAR CUBE!! whats michael like now??

michael is my Sweetie pie my shmookums my ugly hater faggot FREAK!!!! more below

I am just. obsessedddd with him. I was always interested how they would write the difference between the “fantasy” Michael and the Michael whos trying to break free, but they took it to a level that was. So insane. I really love that the Red Room is just a little pocket of reality that Michael could escape into after being puppeteered into being the sweet childhood friend, but that even that little bit of reality can’t escape Alex’s grasp and how it slowly bends to his will regardless because of how dependent on Alex Michael has become… how Michael was trying to break out of Alex’s cyclical fantasy, yet also how in his attempt to break free of it, he only reinforces it in his endless hate??

seriously I’m just. UGHHHH I love how intertwined he is with Alex. that bit either in the diaries or the red room where he realizes that so long as he tries to break free, so long as he continues his fruitless search of Allison, he will always have to have Alex/ONISM Man at the centre of everything. that there’s nothing he can do to break free of Alex. I really really love that deep codependency that Michael doesn’t even want. legit everything I wrote about Michael taken to the Best extreme and im so glad it developed this way.

also. his dedication to Allison… haunting. he loves her so much and he wants her so bad but it isnt enough to stop him from loving the cycle more. it isnt enough to stop him from getting off on the chase for her, to the point he would take Allison hating his guts just for the satisfaction of finding her and ending his game. And I find that really fascinating and compelling and I need to beat him over the fucking head I need to GORE HIMMMM

[epiceneandroid]

claudio unkrich: appears well adjusted on the outside, depressed sad nostalgic weirdo on the inside

chondra unkrich: appears well adjusted on the outside, unhinged insane girl on the inside

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

[wuntrum]

How long have you been drawing the saints for girls? what are all the members like personality wise? :0

soooo saints for girls started out as a different little project right at the start of the pandemic (i was missing concerts a whole lot so i made up my own little band to play with like barbie dolls in my head lkjsdf), here's the original art of cass + frankie + ry + jas

buuut this version ^ of jas doesn't exist anymore (also that jas was the bassist lol), and vincent didn't exist yet...i drew them a little bit but never fully did much just because other stuff (college) kinda got in the way? (also their whole story was more concepty, like they were called whytokay like Y2k (because ry sees a vision of a future where music is outlawed and she has to put together this band to save the world, which still happens a little bit but not to this extent lol), and also that game YIIK got released and it made me really sour on that name LOL).

at the end of 2021 i wanted to revisit them and maybe design merch for my thesis in art school but i realized that if my professors tried to tell me what to do with them i would've killed everybody and then myself so <3 we didn't do that

and after the late summer of mcr i went back and really wanted to commit focus to them again :) jas 1.0 never really made much sense to me (honestly none of them are very fem, and just like where i'm at with my own life rn, i wanted them to be explicitly androgynous / genderqueer so.) jas 2.0 came about + i made vincent to kind of fill the pretentious void left by jas 1.0 LOLLL

so yeah ive been drawing them for almost 3 years now :3 but saints for girls as they exist today only came about in like october 2022. and for their personalities, i'm gonna put all the answers for the uquiz below because they're a pretty good starter for their personalities (still working on their Exact dynamics, so i don't wanna commit to anything more yet) (also spoilers for the uquiz lol)

[ceolifestyles]

YIIK IV CHAPTER 3 SPOILERS

random confession i've been strangely obsessed with this guy since my birthday

[vikas-room]

dwam case tierlist (icons taken either from the game files or the games' forum posts (except for downfall and denouement)

one day ill make one of those tumblr slideshows but for aa fangames but for now you can have this

i probably shouldve made an "unfinished" tier (for downfall, denouement, and at dawn's break)

(spoiler free meandering thoughts below cut)

i have a very strange attachment to turnabout curtain. its very pretty and major plot elements are usually executed reeall well (esp the trial i think that shit goes extremely hard) HOWEVER its jokes range from funny to "?", its serious topics werent handled the greatest i think? and. well. if youve played the case you probably know what id type here that was the most jarring (though i actually kind of like it i do feel its less interesting) also the fifth ace thing felt a slight bit contrived but it was kind of cool still.

ive grown to like cascade theater oddly enough??? i think its a long, harrowing, fucked up mess that doesnt have nearly enough content warnings in front of it but its true ending is pretty hopeful in comparison, which is the point of the game iirc. i dunno

the empty turnabout is technically truncated (theres a whole document with its original ending details) but i think i wouldve been meh to it regardless. i have a soft spot for athena though which i think is an opinion that would land me on someone's dni if more than four people remembered this case

turnabouts of the father is literally yiik actually i just realized this and im so mad (im lying, i realized this a week ago)

i tried playing a lot of these (tomorrow, father, assistant's) when i was, fucking nine years old but they were all too hard for me to get past any of their first testimonies oops

that being said i remember watching a playthrough of turnabout tomorrow and it was actually really interesting. it also ties into the dragon's turnabout somewhat which is neat i think

all the top tier cases are interchangeable in my opinion but if i had to pick id say revivals is the best one. its so fucking good.

though i do think too many faces is probably the most well rounded and has probably my favorite dwam character ([redacted] i think youre so good)

i recently tried playing both denouement and downfall but both are severely broken in different ways and also unfinished

tl;dr im a turnabout curtain apologist and play turnabout revivals

[crystallizedkingdoms]

YIIK IV spoilers, specifically takes place when you go outside during the night in the calendar segment of Chapter 5: The Y2K Problem

I AM NOT FUCKING NORMAL

I didn’t think ACKK would have the balls to do this im not gonna lie but ive never been more fucking insane and crazy to be totally wrong because HOLY FUCK!!! DUDE. HOLY SHITTTT

I have barely been able to even think straight because this is actually fucking astounding. Alex KISSED MICHAEL. HE KISSED HIM. STRAIGHT UP. AND ALLISON KNEW ABOUT IT AND DIDNT TALK TO HIM FOR A MONTH. HOLY SHIT. what can I even say about that this is literally driving me insane Alex fucking KISSED MICHAEL!!!!!!

what was the fallout!! what did Michael think!! is this specifically why Michael hates Alex so much, or at least part of it? WHEN did this happen?? Were Michael and Allison already dating? HOW fucking old were they considering Alex is definitely younger than Michael, maybe even by a significant amount for their ages (3+ years? my headcanon was 7 years but now this has me wondering if theyre a little closer in age). dude this is crazy i need to fucking figure out their timeline IMMEDIATELY I need to WRITE THIS IM NOT FUCKING NORMALLLLLLLLL

[crystallizedkingdoms]

walks over while clearly being a horse.. haayyy can u talk about yiik iv

omg hi horsie!!! if you have anything specific you want me to talk about feel free to send me another ask but for now im gonna talk about my feelings of I.V in general and my favourite additions!! spoilers under the cut

let’s start this off by saying i am Not 100% done with I.V. ive gone through the whole main story and NG+, but i have yet to go through NG++ nor have i begun any search for the third ending (but i really wanna!!) so i will be speaking from that perspective.

but here’s what I think in general, and i say this with no exaggeration: I.V has elevated YIIK to one of my favourite games of all time. legitimately top 3. I.V balances between strengthening and improving on plot points in 1.25 that existed in a limited aspect, and adding entirely new things that make it so much fucking bigger than i ever expected it to be. Everything about Benevolent Psychosis had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, being in completely new territory yet understanding how it tied in with the original story made it so incredible to experience.

I am absolutely in love with the Nameless segments. I really looked forward to playing her every time i was nearing a chapter end. learning about Allison and Carrie through this vessel and learning to question her presentation, and those she interacts with (God of Hope im looking at you) is the most fun ive had in a long time, and i love picking through my multiple interpretations of her character and her sections. especially the Hell House segment. the level of dread i felt when i realized what i was playing genuinely made me so happy, and the gameplay of that moment really fucking enhanced it.

also. Michael. what theyve done with Michael is fucking genius and i am in honest shock of how theyve managed to expand on him. he was easily my least favourite character of the main cast in 1.35, not because i disliked him, but because I honestly felt Nothing about him. as much as i did end up enjoying 1.25 after letting go of my irony poisoned interaction with the game, i still hold the belief that Michael simply wasnt written that well. but holy shit does I.V rectify that. All the extra context we have of him now, from his relationship with the Camera and the Red Room, his younger existence in the Nameless sections, his strengthened connection with Chondra, and his diary entries in BP are honestly phenomenal. hes become such a central character in I.V and now easily one of, if not The favourite character of mine in all of YIIK. his relationship with the Egglestons will ruin me for years to come

Another thing that i am such a big fan of is the dive into memetics that I.V takes. I will not act like i am super well versed in philosophy, but seeing the concepts and characters (namely Kisage X) brought from Deviation Perspective to I.V was really really fun, and learning about Memes in the context of Original Sins/Wins was really incredible. I feel like it’s genuinely taught me about some things in life, which imo is what a fucking phenomenal story does.

but. if there was One thing about I.V that i did not like, even if it’s ultimately really minor… it’s the Mind Dungeon. dear god navigating the Mind Dungeon is an absolute total nightmare, despite how cool the area itself is. I’m lucky im not sensitive to eye straining visuals (in fact i personally love it) but Jesus Christ how does this game not have a warning for it. the camera is very wonky in that area and i for the life of me do not understand how or why the dash button is also the “teleport yourself to the main hub section” button. What the fuck. also I don’t think I ever figured out all the skills or even that one floating platform in the distance but that’s entirely user error on my part

so uhhh yeah those are some of my thoughts. again feel free to ask for anything in particular . here’s a sugar cube if you read all of this

[crystallizedkingdoms]

You seem to have a lot of opinions on yiik. Would you happen to have some sort of tier list for which characters in the cast you'd like to have intercourse with? This is a normal thing to ask

weird, I had this VERY SPOILER HEAVY tier list with all the characters I want to fuck (from BEGGING, yes!!!!!!, sure!, maybe, nope, and no (stronger)) prepared just for you!

[epiceneandroid]

OKAY OKAY chondra just surpassed vella alex and claudio as my current yiik faves HER "WE'RE NOT DONE KICKING HIS ASS" after beating the perfume king

SAME HERE CHONDRA I HATED FIGHTING HIM AND HIS STUPID NOSTALGIA PERFUME AND HIS STUPID PERFUME GLOBS AND HIS STUPID COPS!!!!

[toydrill]

cleaned up a yiik animatic i thumbnailed a few months ago to celebrate the upcoming YIIK IV release

[crystallizedkingdoms]

ive been really really good with not live-blogging and spoiling YIIK IV stuff but I just got to something so utterly fucking insane that I literally Have to post and rant and scream about it. im going to tag it as yiik spoilers and yiik iv spoilers, ill specify where this spoiler takes place, and then put it under a readmore. im covering all my fucking bases. just wanted to give a heads up

[constructreese]

YIIK genuinely had me go from “it has good concepts, but weird and poor execution…” with 1.0 to “okay holy crap I get that the avant-garde isn’t for everyone but this is good” with I.V

I love how much they emphasize Alex as just being this unhinged weirdo who’s actively making bad choices, and I liked how the benevolent psychosis ending was like a forgiveness arc rather than redemption arc, it was really sweet and felt fitting

Also!! I can’t get over the junctioned self dialogue that implies when he was a kid, Alex got jealous that Allison was paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him, so the logical conclusion he reached was “I should kiss her boyfriend”

I.v. genuinely is just such a cool like. Movie! It's a good piece of art instead of being a kind of confusing piece of art. I think the emphasis on how stunted and bad of a guy Alex is helps a lot, and the added sections in ng+ (I don't have to be coy, i don't think. In yiik iv 2) really highlight this theme of ignoring your grief and using unhealthy habits to process it. Michael's diary notes and just kind of everything regarding Alex. I'm gonna pop some yiik 2 spoilers under the cut

This strange, infinite grief loop handling Allison's death between Michael and Alex is infinitely fascinating. They both have played some major role in her life, Michael as her boyfriend, and Alex as her brother. Through the new nameless child sections we learn about Alex and Allison's home life and how it was genuinely just horrible, with Alex being pampered to every whim by his mom and Allison being verbally abused on the regular, it really fits with how Alex's method of dealing with things is to deflect, not acknowledge it, and to try and distract rather than confront. He's mentally tied to Allison for a number of reasons, and I've taken to reading sammy/semi/"the missing girl" to be Alex trying desperately to reach through his grief to try and find some semblance of this girl, his sister, who we see cared for and treated him well (gave him panda when his parents were fighting, wouldn't run away with Michael so she could be with Alex). I feel like when she died (I think she committed suicide since it's a common running theme and very fitting given the info), Alex's mom probably didn't confide in Alex at all regarding her. She HATED Allison and loved Alex, but her character suggests that after Allison's death, she's the type to just drop support on Alex, while also not telling him exactly what happened to save his feelings.

Michael, on the other hand, blames Alex entirely for Allison's death. To me I feel like he sees Alex as the main reason for keeping Allison from running away with him, and because he kept her from doing that, she was forced into harder and harder living situations resulting in her end. Michael also (through his notes) is revealed to HATE onism and it's users, even though he was the one who created it in the first place, he still places the blame of Allison getting on onism (escaping from the reality of her situation), which he absolutely hates as well.

Without Michael, there is no ONISM. And without ONISM, there's no 'escape from reality' that either Alex or Allison could fully dedicate their time to, and without alex, there would likely be no conflict with Allison, but there also wouldn't. Be a story! So that death has to happen and that conflict needs to happen. They're both so connected to this grief that it manifests in some special hell for the both of them, but it largely seems like Michael is stuck (probably in part due to not processing his grief and turning to spite) in this fantasy with Alex. For some reason. Idk! When I start thinking about the layers of the game itself it gets a little messy and I need to make a diagram for myself.