>>738554115
What part of that 20 hours is loading a into a fight? 18?

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Vella sex

Isn't this game becoming somewhat of a cult classic?

>>738557147
Vaguely Ethnic

>>738557147
This

>>738554115
How long is the postgame? It looked more interesting than the main game.

>>738554115
Everything has gameplay. Fucking god of my wife's son has gameplay. This isn't a high bar to clear, all you prove by citing it as a positive is that you think the default state of some box YIIK ticks (probably turn based or RPG as a whole) is to not be "real gameplay".

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>>738554115
>had to make the game 4 times before it became good(???)

>>738557236
>>738554115
go fuck yourself same shillfag, no one is going to play or cares about this shitty crap of a game

>>738554115
Lemonade

>>738557301
Vaguely
Ethnic
Lovehandle
Lilith
Appreciator

>>738554115
I'll grant that the man has drive. Not many people do. Not even all devs do. That drive comes from a place of tremendous self-pity, but still.
Shame the game blows. But then, I've never made a game.

>>738554115
BROS IM YIIKING OUT!

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>>738557236
>Becoming
It is a cult classic. The I.V patch really saved it from being a total train wreck, and now its an enjoyable millennial core game
>>738557352
Its not that big. Its like a 4-5hour long DLC
>>738557361
When it competes against VN worthy millennial bait games on the videogame medium, its gameplay does count as a pro. To be fair, the karta system is a pretty cool idea
>>738557376
kys faggot, you cared enough to make that pointless post here
>>738557598
Eh, the game was whacked when it first got released. Original Yiik's gameplay was ass. Yiik's plot is controversial, but I like it because its as ridiculous and confusing as an anime game, and it has the balls to feature a retarded and an unlikable millennial protagonist

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Would you recommend the game?
All I know about it is the video review.

>>738557936
Yes, especially on sale. The only requirement is to have a stomach strong enough to keep up with the batshit insane stuff that happens all the time, some nostalgia about the 90s pop culture, and to enjoy Turn Based games

>>738557936
it doesn't actually offer anything thoughbeit

>>738558076
ok, i guess after I go through my entire backlog I'll play yiik

>>738557924
>When it competes against VN worthy
I'll cut you off here.
I told you all these comments prove is that you think something contemporary to YIIK has no gameplay. You have now done nothing more but tell me what you think that contemporary is. I'll say it again: everything has fucking gameplay, you pretentious fag.

>>738558519
Alright then, with your words: The rest of millennial core games that compete with YiiK IV, have either a bare bones gameplay, or a lesser gameplay compared to it. Are you happy now?

>>738558741
Yes. This is fine. It sufficiently reveals that you're comparing YIIK to games you find shit in every metric just to make it out to be okay.

>>738554115
>The game that inspired Expedition 33
Maybe this Christmas break I'll rewatch the running shine review and then finally play the new update. Never actually played the game yet lol

>>738557924
>retarded and an unlikable millennial protagonist
he carries the game thoughever

>>738554115
The whole game was supposed to be ironically bad. Its still bad

YIIK is one of the very few games that are acceptable to talk about and post memes of without ever having played it. It's not even worth pirating.

>>738557936
MUST BE THE BLACKS

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APOLOGISE

>>738559528
Thats true. His egocentric view of his world is pretty interesting to watch

>>738561380
I kneel....

>>738561380
This statement holds water, because look at how Mixtape is being received.
From what I have seen, it has the most obnoxiously super cool teenagers who always do super cool stuff and always enjoy the moment.
Feature a flawed protagonist from a different mould, and everyone with throw shit at you for even trying to against the current zeitgeist

>>738554115
unc, whats a yiik?

>>738562274
yiik ma diik

>>738557924
>Yiik's plot is controversial, but I like it because its as ridiculous and confusing as an anime game
YIIK is pretentious but it's earnestly pretentious.

>>738562274
>unc, whats a yiik?
Its the year you were born, zoomzoom

>>738554115
Doing something ironically is still doing it you fag.

Yiikman please
Give me a yink

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At this point the game is worth playing if someone has only had the perspective of the game from a select few videos 5+ years ago. 1.5 offers them a new personal experience that they can't get from those videos. Which is something I think should be valued more these days.
I feel like the new combat could be one of the more interesting things about it though with a bit more tuning and bosses being more complex that require strategy. 1 specific boss at the end felt like it gave a glimpse of how it can be better.
Fuck that Persona calendar segment though with 1.5. Although I could be wrong, I remember people being able to level up multiple times in 1 day before 1.5 but now each level = 1 day which meant I got fucked because I didn't use all my xp I had gotten before the calendar started.

Never going to play this garbage but I love me a yiik thread

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>>738554115

I have never seen any of your retards post gameplay footage, or is that "the joke"?

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I have a huge man crush on Running Shine and I didn't even think I was gay....

So now that they've managed to wring success out of this project, what's next for the brothers YIIK?

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Babymaking with Chondra

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IM YIIKING THE FUCK OUT

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>>738563980
Out of all the youtubers and podcasters I have ever watched/listened to he is the only one that seems like I wouldn't mind being friends with. Probably non-coincidently he is also the one that makes content the least often lol. The catch 22 of contentslop creators

>>738563927
it's a 4 niggas in a row game, there isn't much to show for the gameplay

>>738564265
he retired bro
he ain't coming back

>>738564356
He's making a The World Ends With You video and is also planning a video about FM synth. Then he's retiring cuz dude fucking won at life and has a family now.

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>>738564356
>>738564467
No! How selfish. How dare he have a happy irl life rather than make me content!
Good for him desu

>>738564467
he's destined to forever dance for me until becoming unfunny and terminally depressed like sseth and mandalore

>>738564148
Probably a mediocre life with nothing interesting going on. Yiik was probably their peak

I played it for the first time when the I.V update dropped and I really think it's just okay.

Combat went from horrific dogshit to just fine, little bit too easy to break too quickly and it never evolves. Story is still incomprehensible on anything but a thematic level (don't be a loser), voice acting is still a mistake and obviously hindered some things (I don't think they could get the guy who played Alex back?). Level design is still awful and even worse in the new content, its still really buggy too, although that's probably the most fun you can have with the actual 'game' part.

Music and art was always great and remains so with most of the new stuff being really fun and memorable. I was kinda put off by what I assume to be a bunch of backer OCs in the latter half of the game but I guess that was probably a necessary concession to get this update made and sorta fed into the overall weird charm.

Definitely a very cult title now with hyper specific appeal, I struggle to say they really 'fixed' it personally. I think they deserve their flowers for even trying however and it probably deserves a tepid cultural re-examination.

>>738564467
hasn't he been "making" that video for 3 years now

>>738565416
Yes. It's probably coming this year.

>>738559372
You really aren't missing anything by not playing this game. It's still drowning in pretention, thematically and narratively unfocused and the gameplay still isn't that good. It's a worse LISA on pretty much every front. It's not as terrible as it was before but it's not good.

>>738561380
Tales of the Abyss did that and it's considered a great game.

>>738566282
Lisa is overrated as fuck

>>738557236
No

I'm going to play this one day I swear to god. It's such a unique take that fell flat on it's face but on theory should be perfect for so many people. It has good bones.

>>738566490
I agree, but it's still better than YIIK. The combat was at least serviceable and Brad wasn't a complete cunt.

Did they fix the issue of the warioware minigames being the same from start to finish? Even something as simple as Paper Mario or Mother 3's interactive battle mechanics feel way better realized.

>>738568968
They fixed it by changing the entire battle system, you use like cards now as upgrades, armor and attacks on top of the party's abilities. Still not great but better than 3 minigames forever

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>>738554115
>>It has gameplay
amazin

I'm glad nobody has ever played your faggot game OP

>>738554115
MUST BE THE BLACKS

Is Two Brothers required for a proper reading of Yiik?

>>738564563
James Rolfe:

>>738554115
>Cool and original songs
This alone makes Yiik better than Mixtape
The concept of "needle drops" is the most cringe shit to ever exist
>"Whoaaaa, I like, played a song... that already exists... over stuff happening... so people will associate their positive feelings toward the song with my piece of slop media... heh... works every time..."

>remade the meme game until its "good"
>could've just made a brand new game

>>738561380
What's so meaningful, impactful or thought provoking about YIIK? That golden Llama?

>>738557373
Some people just can't let an idea go

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I'M SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO YOU, ONISM MAN
GET THE FUCK OFF /v/ AND GET A JOB

>>738557236
No thats nightdirge

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>>738554115

>>738565398
Alex has a handful of new voiced lines that weren't voiced before and a couple new lines, and the VA does the voice of Alex's dad. He doesn't have many new lines mostly for thematic reasons , Alex is just stuck in a loop repeating the same mistakes so his story doesn't evolve

>>738554115
How does this crappy game still get threads here?
Literally the entire internet has forgotten that this game ever happened, most of them not even knowing it existed in the first place.

Yet /v/ keeps making threads about it.
I'm usually hate it when people call every thread a shill thread, but there's no way this is organic.

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>>738580351
First off, its not a crappy game. At least now its not. I played the IV version and I liked it. Second, its obnoxiously self-indulging millenial nature of Yiik paints a more honest picture of a 30+yo millenial who was raised by pop culture, than anything other millennial bait game out there.
Third, it has really good music, and I like its schizophrenic cinematography.
Finally, that comeback re-release is admirable. Its one thing to go back and fix a good game to make it better, but going back to fix a game that lots of e-celebs have assassinated its already mixed reputation by making 2hour long video essays damning it, its a very rare thing and Im glad that it happened. It really shows determination.

Why cant you sourfags accept that some people like Yiik game?

>>738581497
It's not that some people like the YIIK game. It's more that they get super defensive when they're told the game is still objectively shit (less so now than at release, but that's still the case) and just don't roll with the fact that liking some games that are garbage is perfectly normal and fine.

I love Bullet Witch but I won't pretend it's deep or even that good. It's objectively bad but it's bad in a charming way. Likewise, there's nothing wrong with liking YIIK despite it being shit objectively. It's just the way things go mate. Don't get insulted for the sake of some game, especially one the dev left to die after realizing he was in over his head making it.

On the surface,

>>738581628
The thing that makes Yiik enduring is that the people trying to say it’s “objectively shit” are typically just refusing to apply the level of critical thinking the game expects and the type of person who resonates with a story (partially) about online message boards is not going to have any issue taking the unpopular position and telling you you’re wrong

>>738581628
For me original Yiik was like a 4/10 game, but Yiik IV is an 8/10. They couldnt (and cant) fix everything in this game, but the game really got benefited from that IV polishing and became decent.
I guess some yiik fans get touchy because people keep telling them that Yiik is a dogshit game, which is objectively a lie in 2026.
Its like the same case with shazamdoomers in cyberpunk but in a smaller scale.
Yiik IV might not be everyone's cup of tea, but its a solid videogame and probably the most iconic millenial core game out there

>>738581703
Guys,
I just met a black person.
In fact,
I met TWO.

>>738582069
Oh no here it comes!
WANNA SEE ME JERK OFF ?
WATCH ME. JERK OFF ?
WATCH ME JERK OFF IN FRONT OF YOU-

What's the most Milllennial game out there? No joke answers

so, whats the deal with the suppose ending 3? like was it some made up shit the creators said existed so people would play the game more or is there actually something?

>>738584237
Borderlands (all of them)

>>738585890
It’s in the game and people have found what are presumed to be files related to it but it’s too obtuse for the few people who care about Yiik to figure out

>>738554115
Fun? What about the fun?

>Still pretending after all these years
Mental illness

>>738563897
Is the dev broke now? They haven’t made anything else in over 5 years.

YIIK before the gameplay update was one of the worst games I have ever played. It's a competently developed garbage game. The worst kind. It was so bad there was no debate that it was "so good it's bad" like 90% of Sonic or janky NES games. There's a reason no one talks about it except contrarian faggots like OP.
Even if the update improved everything by 400%, 400% times zero is still zero.

>>738557236
yup, it has become a cult classic

>>738586981
im thinking about replaying the game, you know any leads? im not the type to look for shit but im willing to try since its never been found.

>>738585925
>A tryhard game series that were created by scammy AAA boomers and Gen-Xers to inorganicaly appeal to millenials with le interwebz humor and gay jokes
Nope. Yiik IV is still the best millenial core game out there

>>738588294
Not really I’ll give you the qrd I guess
>actionable
Name yourself Zelda and go to top right of South town, 10% chance to find aviators item which lets you see Dick Masterson in the middle of town, who asks you to meet him after the world ends. On NG+ you can find him again in the factory hotel window room replacing a water fountain, he asks you for a yellow pill and tells you to go fuck yourself

>thematic and what Andrew says
Alchemy is important, particularly the Sun and Moon and possibly planets (Saturn features heavily in Factory Hotel and symbolizes the first step of the Great Work)
Alchemical symbols feature prominently in Essentia’s mind dungeon
The Third Ending is on Onism somehow as a cipher

>>738557236
It's more of a cult classic than 99% of "cult classics"

Is this even a real game or are anons just shitposting about it for over a decade now

>>738565416
Yeah youtube isn't his job.

>>738554115
Reminder that they got bo en and actual musicians to make music for this game. Yet most faggots act like Toby fox made the best song in this game when into the mind fucking sucked.

>>738589591
I think it started with ironic shitposting because the game really was a stinker on release and for a long time after. But it's been getting updates and now it actually seems kinda decent? Even if it has a more niche appeal.

I can say without a shadow of doubt that most people that dislike YIIK probably got their opinion from a YouTuber or just didn't play the game.

>>738590020
post your playtime

>>738561380
TRVTH NVKE

If you like this, you give me the ick.

>>738561380
Has there ever been a more vindicated man in vidya history?

I liked some of the music I find it funny
I don't know that I like I.V it got too... fartsy towards the end

>>738561380
what a whiny faggot lmao

>>738589281
you at least gave me something, so thanks man. I'm not the type to be good at finding cryptic shit but fuck it, I'm jobless at the moment so this will give me something to do for a bit.

>>738574812
Its mostly Alex Yiik realising he is not the center of the universe, even though he kinda is in the game

>>738591958
Alex is the center of that universe because it's a world he created for himself but even then he's slightly aware that he's a shit. Alex essentially created a universe where he is constantly self flagellating and acting like he improved but never does.

Third ending status?

>>738592393
It might be easier to find in the Japanese version?

>>738592393
Doesn't exist

My jam:
https://youtu.be/ddTEOp6KPq4

>>738591568
Sorry I forgot to tell you
>whatever it is you have to do is in chapter 4 around when you go to the mall and needs NG+
>trade sidequest maybe involved

>>738593774
What word?

>>738593774
I still don't get why people were mad about this it's actually kind of funny.

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The world of YIIK is mine to reap.

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I wish Andrew and his brother made more comics like this for YIIK

>>738557301
Then it dawned on me. Mixed-race women, that's what did it for me.

>>738593851
Nigga
Alex has the pass because he's an alternate version of Claudio and Chondra's brother

>>738596653
Doesn't that just mean Alex is doing multi dimensional blackface?

>>738593863
Because to a certain subset of people it seems like "mockery". There's another 2 or 3 conversations after with Chondra/Claudio where they act a bit overdefensive and unhinged about their race and this is interpreted as "mocking black people".
Certain uh, "video game essayist" fairly popular around these parts, pertaining to this group I mentioned, streamed this game recently and every single one of these scenes caused a bit of awkwardness or audible butthurt.
I am intentionally vagueposting btw

>>738596810
Why must you vague poster like a faggot? As a black person I wasn't really offended and the Claudio thing never really bothered me.

>>738596810
The missing white woman syndrome thing is real though. You'll hear about 20 missing white people way before you hear about a missing minority on the news.

>>738597040
Because I don't advertise streamers/ecelebs

>>738597342
Is it Joseph Anderson?

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>>738592657
For me its this
https://youtu.be/q_vA9l4MHkg
But the game has lots of bangers in it

>>738597136
Real or not that's basically the explanation as why some people get offended by it.

>>738561380
that just means his presentation was bad and hes not as self aware as he thinks he is.

>>738597797
Thought experiment
Is it possible for someone to read a story, not get it, and have it be because they’re just stupid?

>>738598028
if only 1 in 100 people get your story, and you want a larger portion to get it, then the solution isn't to bitch and moan about how no one understands you and how you are superior to all the people who don't understand, but to reevaluate how to make them get it.

make the game fun? no. make the game even tolerable to sit through? no. you must play my shitty game because me and my shit takes on life are important.

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>>738580351
It's a fascinating game, even if it's terrible. It's preachy and pretentious, but not in an insincere way. YIIK is earnest, and the story behind its development reinforces that (auteur indie game, sibling passion project, Mother died partway through development). The game flopping after being hailed prior to release as an upcoming indie darling makes its case all the more interesting. I think the fascination with YIIK is akin to the fascination people have with lolcow autists like CWC, who are so uncouth yet earnest that it's hard not to find them strangely endearing. I think the game is mostly bad from what I've seen, but I can't help but appreciate parts of it similar to how one can appreciate outsider art.

>>738596810
chadssayists won
yuck lost

>>738580351
certain shills visit this board every now and then

>>738598667
But there’s rules we use for engaging with stories. If 99 people are refusing to play by those rules those 99 people are at fault, not the author. Otherwise you end up with this ridiculous situation where a high school class can tell their teacher “nah m8 The Odyssey sucks if he wanted me to read it shoulda made it more interesting”, there’s a difference between
>failure to understand because poorly communicated
>I dislike this faggot hipster and will not engage in good faith

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>>738592341
Yiik truly is a huge millennial circlejerk about the cringe side of millenials.
Its a fitting image that depicts lots of soicuck millennials out there who think they are better than everyone else only because they were raised by the best of what pop culture had to offer and because they went to a pseudo intellectual college to get a degree that will never land them a job.
They cant stop regurgitating the same condensating nostalgia tape over and over again to show that they are some highbrow intellectuals whose xitter views are important to this world.
If they stop doing that, people will eventually find out that they are insecure bitches who use pop culture as a mental shield to protect their ego from this world's banality, and to hide the fact that these millennial people are some unpleasant individuals with a bland or zero personality irl

Did you know...
ONISM... is... le reddit?!

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MUST BE THE BLACKS

>>738593863
because the N word is the most important word in the history of the english language

>>738599259
the guy who wrote the odyssey wasn't trying to make zoomers in 2016 play his game

>>738600443
i mean, just think about how pretentious it is anyways. "you should read and study my game like it is ancient greek literature in an academic setting." the reasons to study ancient literature are far different and also the odyssey is vastly more significant than this horse shit game.

>>738592657
shoutouts to fraildog

>>738600561
>um sorry this is a video game story so I’m not obligated to engage with it like a real story

Literally proving his point lel

>>738600108
NIGGER

>>738554115
the third ending will never be found
>>738561380
I actually went back and listened to that interview and the context behind that quote is that he's talking about twitter fags who were saying shit like "Nintendo needs to remove YIIK now because they made fun of Iwata" (2:01:10, takes a few minutes to get to the rant because Dick never shuts the fuck up). He also said that 4chan liked the game at the time of that interview and I have no idea if that's even true or not. He also said they made a profit off of the game in the first week's release, which is surprising. Either they didn't have a big budget to begin with or it sold more on consoles than it did on PC.
>>738563980
Melo is a cool guy, you can watch the old Running Shine streams on the YT channel and sometimes he joins his wife ArcadeNonsense when she streams on Wednesdays. Maybe he'll do a Netlore episode with Cybershell some day

Fun fact Jeremy Blaustein's company translated YIIK to JP

>>738554115
It still feels genuinely shit to play and has a weak story for how much of a focus there is on it. Maybe it'll remain in the gamer sphere as a modern day kusoge but I doubt it.

>>738601710
I enjoyed Melo's earthbound stream with Cybershell because it was so lukewarm, they have very little actual chemistry despite both being upbeat and on the same page and it leads to one of them saying "I really like this little detail" and the other responding with "Yeah it's a really nice detail" for like 12 hours

Alex is a good actually unlikeable protagonist. I could never truly say characters like Travis or Brad Armstrong are actually unlikeable because you probably would enjoy hanging around them. Alex is like an annoying coworker you have to work with and I actually like that about him.

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>>738593774
ALEX NO

>>738588294
>>738589281
>>738591568
>>738593560
Change your game's language to JP, go to ONISM, press Q. There's your cipher, now figure out the rest. I forget if there's a step with the email inbox you need to take before going to ONISM Also, something changes immediately outside of the Factory's lobby throughout the chapters, but I forget what it was. A vacancy sign? Either way Andrew hinted that it may be important for understanding how to get the E3

>>738564215
GUYS, I JUST MET A BLACK PERSON

Why do people think Toby Fox's song is the best in YIIK when it isn't even in the top 5?

>>738600629
you are a clueless pseud

>>738603940
Not an argument but not surprising since you dug all the ground from underneath you by trying to say game stories can’t be analyzed like literature.

>>738605548
yes. for one, there is a whole historical perspective and level of influence that the odyssey has that yiik can not ever have. two, academics studying literature is far different from the average person on steam. if thats how you want your "art" to be perceived then of course its not gonna be a top seller on steam. its should be really obvious that not all art is the same in terms of purpose and audience.

>>738605947
NTA but why shouldn't we expect someone to want to analyze a game when games like who's lila exists or mystery games exist. Hell people love to overanalyze yume Nikki too.

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>>738601710
Based source checker. Thanks for the insight.
>>738602142
I soured on Cybershill after his recent THC gummy sponsorships and his blatant, nonchalant, money-first attitude to content creation. Never liked him much on the RS streams either, since he'd constantly interrupt and go on one-sided tangents like an autist. The Shenmue streams with Melo, Coast, and Post Elvis are insanely comfy, though. Putting the vods on in the background helped me get through a rough patch in my last year of uni back in 2024. Special guests popping up every so often, Melo's NTR rant, and the end-stream gambling sessions made them feel really cozy.

What did you guys think YIIK was about for those that went in blind or tried to analyze the game?

>>738606362
Yiik doesn’t make any sense unless you analyze it, so if you’re invested in the narrative that it doesn’t make sense then asserting games shouldn’t be analyzed becomes necessary, especially if you haven’t played it and can’t be part of that discussion

>>738554115
Very surreal to see zoomers on /v/ hail this piece of shit game as a cult classic solely because some youtubers made videos about it.

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>>738563897
>tfw im probably one of them

>>738584237
Scott Pilgrim beat em up
Especially since it was unplayable unless you had an old copy for a long time so its LE NICHE LOST MEDIA BRO

>>738584237
Earthbound

>>738607051
I call this one the one child policy!

The only thing I know about this game is that the creator samefags his threads

>>738596313
Alex and I have something in common then.

>>738607686
It is a cult game in the same way mediocre or shitty movies can be called cult films. Unironic praise for it is rare, but it is an interesting game to talk about.

>>738608754
I remember the dev saying to Dick Masterson that his primary public target was /v/ so there's a chance for that

>>738566396
actually Tales of thr Abyss was dogged on heavily for the main protagonist being unlikable that the game can be enjoyed in spite of that.
The number of people waking up to how kino it is and how it's by far the best written Tales has crept up over time, but it wasn't always like that

>>738609625
That's what happens to a lot of things like mgs2 for example.

>>738608754
i am 100% convinced the guy who keeps going back and forth with me on whether or not everyone needs to suddenly have a particular interest in wasting their time "analyzing" his dogshit game like it has the same significance as greek classics is the creator. idk who else would care this much and also be this egotistical and narrow minded.

>>738610787
Anon people on /v/ have said dumber shit without being invested in a game let alone actually working on it.

>>738561380
The world ends with you dabs on this loser. Not worthy of the craft.

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>>738610787
>You're egotistical and small minded if you engage with the game beyond the surface

Literary analysis is not something you turn on and off based on context and the point of the Odyssey comparison wasn't about significance of the work. A work doesn't have to cross a certain threshold of importance to be analyzed, you just do it. Asserting you shouldn't analyze a video game is supporting his statement that it's considered bad form to write about deep themes in games. I'm not the dev. Hope that cleared things up.

>>738597136
Yeah and you never hear about missing hookers, regardless of their race, the demographic with the highest missing persons rate pretty much universally. It's not news because it happens all the time.

Why is random shit being labeled as milleanial.

>>738612497
That's not a good thing either anon. Just because a white person is missing doesn't mean they should get news coverage is the main issue that is brought up regarding the missing white woman stuff.

>>738606362
OF course it's nowhere near foundational ancient greek literature, but Yume Nikki has potential for actual academic analysis with how influential it was for indie game down the line.

>>738612572
Because the author and the aesthetics of the work is?

>>738554115
Yiik is unironically better than 90% of the games /v/ likes to suck off.

>>738613634
Explain how and why right now.

>>738611816
yiik is a dogshit worthless game and story

>>738614580
YIIK honestly isn't that bad of a game. I've played worse RPGs that are actually well liked by the general public.

>>738614580
Buy my fucking game

>>738614580
Yeah that's what the youtuber said

>>738614468
It's kino.

I'd rather play YIIK a million times before I ever play knuckle sandwich or Athenian Rhapsody.

>>738615940
Knuckle Sandwich was such a fucking disappointment storywise, at least the music was good and the warioware combat was actually warioware instead of yiik 1.0's dogshit

>>738561380
I think what this guy says is partially true. It's harder to stick to a game when the character you're controlling is an unlikeable asshole with zero redeeming qualities. I know the point is for the character to improve and change by the end but few will stick with that.

>>738616606
The music was fine and I disliked the mini games. It felt way too bloated for my tastes.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

>>738557236
No whats happening is exactly what happened with the mask 2.
People are Stockholm syndroming themselves into liking something that is objectively bad because of memes

>>738617907
Nah, I genuinely enjoy YIIK it's a game that was made for me. I also enjoy kino like anthology of the killer.

>>738580351
>I'm usually hate it when people call every thread a shill thread, but there's no way this is organic.
You might just be retarded. You're right, it's incredibly niche and almost nobody has played it, meaning the only people that have and ever want to talk about it are probably almost entirely on this board.
There's zero point in shilling a game like this and zero audience for it outside of the people who already played it.
That means that it's one of the few threads that will have genuine discussion, no matter how shitty it is.

>>738618212
This.
YIIK is /v/core

>>738618130
Did you really compare the kino that is anthology of the killer to YIIK

>>738618534
They're both kino just in different ways.

>>738601710
The American Wasteland stream is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever watched
The NightSky one is great too, mostly due to how unhinged it gets despite the game being played being the comfiest shit

YIIK really was a post modern RPG