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Anonymous No.714417893 [Report] >>714418465 >>714418571 >>714418723 >>714447665 >>714456367
MOMS GONNA YIIK
Anonymous No.714418334 [Report] >>714418465 >>714418723 >>714421740 >>714424664 >>714430963 >>714452000 >>714454836 >>714456418
Can I enjoy this game ironically?
Anonymous No.714418465 [Report] >>714425046
>>714417893 (OP)
Misunderstood masterpiece.
>>714418334
Yes. It has very positive reviews now on Steam.
Anonymous No.714418571 [Report] >>714425046
>>714417893 (OP)
I fucking love YIIK
Anonymous No.714418723 [Report] >>714418823 >>714421009 >>714425046
>>714417893 (OP)
I want to fuck Alex's mom and every version of Vella that's female
>>714418334
before 1.5: no
now: kiiiiind of?
Anonymous No.714418763 [Report] >>714421337
Yiiking all over Vella's body
Anonymous No.714418823 [Report] >>714419323
>>714418723
Anon don't fuck Alex's mom she's like textbook BPD
Anonymous No.714419323 [Report]
>>714418823
It's okay I'll just dimension hop through the soulspace before she gets back with the pregnancy test
Anonymous No.714420238 [Report]
Is it just me or has YIIK become somewhat of a cult classic?
Anonymous No.714420673 [Report] >>714421812 >>714428862
Time to rewatch running shine review
Anonymous No.714421009 [Report] >>714421452
>>714418723
>before 1.5: no
>now: kiiiiind of?
what changed?
Anonymous No.714421337 [Report]
>>714418763
Stop.
Anonymous No.714421452 [Report] >>714421831 >>714421852
>>714421009
a lot, 1.5 is a major overhaul of the whole damn game but it still has a flawed execution
Anonymous No.714421740 [Report]
>>714418334
Not for long. Your "ironic" enjoyment will morph into genuine love. Happened to me
Anonymous No.714421812 [Report] >>714428183
>>714420673
Anonymous No.714421831 [Report]
>>714421452
It's still a pretty enjoyable experience which is better than being an absolute dog shit experience. Plus the new tracks are actually pretty good.
Anonymous No.714421852 [Report] >>714422217 >>714422653 >>714452480
>>714421452
like is the gameplay just bad or what
i dont trust any analysis or critique of the story from /v/ because i am the exact type of pretentious hipster artfag its probably aiming for
Anonymous No.714422217 [Report] >>714422970 >>714424551
>>714421852
>like is the gameplay just bad or what
NTA but the gameplay still sucks, the new combat system is extremely punishing early on and then becomes easier and easier over time until the end game is just you wiping the floor with everything. There are even small monster dungeons around the game world that you don't get the abilities to progress in until you're far too powerful for them to be a challenge.
Only the BP portion of the game feels balanced.
Anonymous No.714422653 [Report]
>>714421852
well it's better than the original version where Alex's LP toss was so fucking broken you could oneshot everything in the game after a certain point and the awful fucking dodging systems
Anonymous No.714422970 [Report]
>>714422217
You felt punished in the beginning? I thought the new system was pretty easy the only actual challenges I had was the golden alpaca, the obsessed fan and then the new game plus fights that were decently challenging.
Anonymous No.714424551 [Report] >>714424967
>>714422217
>the new combat system is extremely punishing early on and then becomes easier and easier over time until the end game

That’s just RPGs in general to be fair. Personally I started having problems when the sheepmen started showing up but I didn’t want to sell Alex’s heart
Anonymous No.714424664 [Report] >>714425046
>>714418334
Depends. Do you only enjoy things if you can do so ironically? Because if that is the case I have bad news for you, it stopped being ironically a long time ago.
Anonymous No.714424967 [Report]
>>714424551
Honestly I don't think the sheepman are the worst enemy to deal with it's those fucking trash cans or mimics
Anonymous No.714425046 [Report] >>714425496 >>714426084 >>714455009 >>714456784
>>714418465
>>714418571
>>714418723
>>714424664
Okay, fine. I'll bite. Sell me on this game, Anons.
Anonymous No.714425496 [Report] >>714425963
>>714425046
It's an RPG inspired by being a /x/ conspiracist regarding missing people incidents. Alex's monologues are a showcase of him lying a majority of the time or just being a shitty person and having very little or no self awareness of it.
Anonymous No.714425963 [Report] >>714426109 >>714455624 >>714455787 >>714456302
>>714425496
now how much of that is alex being written as a shitty person and how much is the creator of the game actually a shitty person
Anonymous No.714426084 [Report] >>714426439
>>714425046
look up Running Shine's YIIK review if you wanna know how the game existed for like 8 years
Anonymous No.714426109 [Report] >>714426186
>>714425963
55/45 I'd say.
Anonymous No.714426186 [Report] >>714426353
>>714426109
that ratio feels too high to be enjoyable lol
Anonymous No.714426353 [Report]
>>714426186
It unironically is not. The protagonist is like Takumi from Chaos;Head, but like 5-6% less gay.
Anonymous No.714426439 [Report] >>714426669 >>714428203
>>714426084
Running Shine’s video is funny but it’s an exercise in creative writing not a real review
Anonymous No.714426669 [Report] >>714427053
>>714426439
Then it's perfectly fitting, as YIIK is an exercise in creative writing and not a real video game.
Anonymous No.714427053 [Report]
>>714426669
lel
Anonymous No.714427160 [Report] >>714428104 >>714428472
Is the NG+ aka mini sequel worth playing? I would have played it but I made the wrong binary choice when attempting to choose the option i thought the devs wanted me to pick.
Anonymous No.714428010 [Report]
WANNA WATCH ME JERK OFF
Anonymous No.714428104 [Report]
>>714427160
Yeah adds a lot of context to the story and unlocks a handful of new party members if you feel like doing NG++
Anonymous No.714428183 [Report] >>714454557
>>714421812
Didnt this guy turn out to be a pedophile. If so then Alex yiik would be proud
Anonymous No.714428203 [Report] >>714429910
>>714426439
>I don't agree with his criticisms so it's not a valid review
ok retard
Anonymous No.714428472 [Report]
>>714427160
It's very worth it
Anonymous No.714428773 [Report] >>714429145 >>714429270
Which YouTube review of YIIK is the worst and why is it YIIK Pics? It was so shit it actually made me buy the game to see if it was that bad.
Anonymous No.714428862 [Report]
>>714420673
>its been years since the last vid
>the script is now maybe finished
Anonymous No.714429145 [Report] >>714434430
>>714428773
Pretty much every review other than Running Shine is shit because they kind of missed the point where Alex Yiik is supposed to be an annoying person
Anonymous No.714429270 [Report]
>>714428773
Anything Hellkrai puts out because he ignores his blatant biases towards the game like being in bed with the devs and is the most annoying piece of shit.
Anonymous No.714429520 [Report] >>714429817
This game was such a waste of interesting visuals
Anonymous No.714429804 [Report] >>714455386
LEMONADE
Anonymous No.714429817 [Report] >>714430227
>>714429520
It's really nothing special, just more low poly art. The female characters look really cute thoug
Anonymous No.714429910 [Report] >>714430776
>>714428203
Some of the criticism is good but too much of the video is a super poorly abbreviated plot summary and it creates this situation where he’ll be complaining about something in the plot that isn’t true
Anonymous No.714430227 [Report]
>>714429817
Yeah but 99% of indie games are pixelshit
Anonymous No.714430776 [Report] >>714431690
>>714429910
most long form reviews like this use a plot summary as a thread to hold everything together. The things he says that are wrong are ultimately things the game poorly explains or just doesn't communicate the idea of at all (it's not the 90s, the an Alex isn't the one that NTR'd Vella, 2K having absolutely nothing in common with Aigis beyond being a robot), so it's understandable how he and a lot of people just playing the game casually would arrive at these conclusions.

YIIK itself addresses some of these issues in the update where communication of what the plot wants you to say and realize are made far more clear.
Anonymous No.714430963 [Report]
>>714418334
I enjoy watching it, but playing? It's fucking dogshit. Load times between fights and the combat is so slow I can't stand it.
Anonymous No.714431690 [Report] >>714432350
>>714430776
>the an Alex isn't the one that NTR'd Vella, 2K having absolutely nothing in common with Aigis beyond being a robot)

Those are things that are supposed to be confusing so I don’t blame people for missing them. They also don’t really matter that much unless you want to explore the game super in depth. I’m talking about skipping really basic shit, like he frames Sammy as being “the love interest” and says it’s creepy when it’s supposed to be creepy and characters in the game call it creepy. The point being there is stuff you cannot miss being misrepresented
Anonymous No.714432350 [Report] >>714432694 >>714447127
>>714431690
Sammy is a love interest though, because we follow Alex who is the protagonist who wants to jerk off in front of her. With consent. A love interest doesn't mean the feelings are requited. Hell RS plays it up with how he handles Alex's character in the review.

>They also don’t really matter that much unless you want to explore the game super in depth
RunningShine is reviewing the game, of course, not giving an in-depth analysis.

Also a lot of things like the not being the 90s are so poorly communicated in the game RS blatantly calls the setting a lie but because the game (in its original form) doesn't show that this is intentional beyond a blink and you'll miss it reference to 2016 on a missing persons poster, it's easily interpreted as a mistake or carelessness. like RS did.
Anonymous No.714432694 [Report] >>714433358 >>714434685
>>714432350
>Sammy is a love interest though, because we follow Alex who is the protagonist who wants to jerk off in front of her

What he says early in the review is directed at the author, “it’s creepy and weird and you shouldn’t write this”
Your 2nd paragraph is pointless I already told you it being 1999 doesn’t really matter
Anonymous No.714433358 [Report]
>>714432694
I feel like people are too hung up on the Elisa lam shit honestly people have made games based off of much worse IRL crimes or incidents or terrible events and still get less flack.
Anonymous No.714434430 [Report]
>>714429145
Hell, even Running Shine didn't get a lot of things despite giving the game the fairest shot out of all other reviewers.
For post-modern shit to get to you, it needs to be intriguing and make you wanna think. YIIK just kinda expects this of you.
Anonymous No.714434664 [Report] >>714437462
So whats the author doing now
Anonymous No.714434685 [Report] >>714439015
>>714432694
>“it’s creepy and weird and you shouldn’t write this”
He never says this. At most "seems kinda weird to her her [Elisa Laim] in the game, especially as a love interest for this guy that looks like Louie C.K."
Anonymous No.714437462 [Report]
>>714434664
Apparently they're working on a new game
Anonymous No.714439015 [Report] >>714439445
>>714434685
>It's kinda distasteful to put her in the game, since she was a real person
>Seems kinda weird to put her in the game as a love interest
>I feel it'd be more appropriate if he felt some kind of moral responsibility to help
>And I feel like they try to do that but this just muddies things

It's directed at the author
Anonymous No.714439445 [Report] >>714439790
>>714439015
He's talking about the game and things in it the entire video and this clip is no exception. But nowhere does he say "it's weird and creepy don't do that" and all of it centers around Elisa Laim rather than anything to do with Semi Pak or Alex specifically. Just the idea of someone base don Elisa Laim being a love interest.
Anonymous No.714439790 [Report] >>714439897
>>714439445
>he didn’t use the exact phrase creepy and weird ok? He said it slightly differently
It’s the same shit dude, he said it’s distasteful and he also talks about how Alex only knew Sammy for an hour before that I’m just not quoting the entire fucking video.
Anonymous No.714439897 [Report] >>714440305
>>714439790
>I'm wrong but still right!
uh-huh ok you tell yourself that champ.
Anonymous No.714440015 [Report] >>714440219 >>714440305
Is nameless psychosis extra content or just a demo fpr the game and there is no point in playing it, the description is not clear.
Anonymous No.714440060 [Report] >>714440128
Anonymous No.714440128 [Report]
>>714440060
SISTER JOCKEY
Anonymous No.714440219 [Report]
>>714440015
It's just chapter 1 of the game
Anonymous No.714440305 [Report]
>>714439897
?
>>714440015
Demo
Anonymous No.714441390 [Report] >>714444343
Ok I bought it on the sale I hope you are happy
Anonymous No.714444343 [Report]
>>714441390
Have fun
Anonymous No.714447127 [Report] >>714447285
>>714432350
>Also a lot of things like the not being the 90s are so poorly communicated in the game RS blatantly calls the setting a lie but because the game (in its original form) doesn't show that this is intentional beyond a blink and you'll miss it reference to 2016 on a missing persons poster, it's easily interpreted as a mistake or carelessness. like RS did.
I'd argue that an adult character in the 90s talking about his childhood being in the 90s kinda gives it away.
Anonymous No.714447285 [Report] >>714453759
>>714447127
Michael is 17/18, so him saying Secret of Mana, a 1993 game, was his childhood isn't super far off just oddly placed.
Anonymous No.714447665 [Report]
>>714417893 (OP)
God I wanna yiik so fucking bad
Anonymous No.714449638 [Report] >>714458357
So is chondra single?
Anonymous No.714450805 [Report] >>714451876
The discord is full of faggots discussing which characters are homosexual or troons
Anonymous No.714451876 [Report]
>>714450805
Every discord is rampantly gay. It's like a law or something.
Anonymous No.714452000 [Report]
>>714418334
The story has its cringekino moments but the combat is suffering. Cutscenes are actually the best part of the game
Anonymous No.714452480 [Report] >>714452578
>>714421852
battles are much better
the minigames were canned, he also added a card system which adds a little bit of strategy but also introduced some very extreme cheeses
The expanded story is interesting, definitely improved but it's still exposed in a subpar way
In my opinion only people who played the previous version will actually understand everything
Anonymous No.714452578 [Report]
>>714452480
The dark game is so shit.... I wish he evolved the mini game system, it's way too fucking easy and boring now. I was even playing with the handicap of not giving my heart to the bimbo so I had restricted cards and even then it was just so fucking lame and easy
Anonymous No.714453759 [Report] >>714454016
>>714447285
Chrono trigger and Lufia 2 are 1995 though, saying something 3-4 years ago was your childhood is a lot more of a stretch. You can also pick up on how fucked up the timeline is if you pay attention to what Alex says about Michael on New Years Eve though.
>He moved in in 1991 when he was 12
>Alex says he was a few years younger
>Then Alex says Michael moved away when he (Alex) was 12
Yiik has a lot of interesting stuff like this and it's frustrating that the reaction at release was "must be plotholes xD"
Anonymous No.714454016 [Report] >>714454714 >>714454768
>>714453759
Maybe the game should have presented it better in ways beyond things that could be dismissed as plotholes and lack of caring?

Putting Postmodern in your title isn't going to automatically make people look deeper into your work, you still gotta put the legwork in to properly intrigue them, and Alex and that complete dogshit battle system were just not intriguing anybody.
Anonymous No.714454557 [Report]
>>714428183
yes he did
there's a video of him imitating the dance from the movie cuties out there somewhere
Anonymous No.714454714 [Report] >>714455607
>>714454016
there's always someone in these threads really determined to convince 4chan that yiik's story is all a dream, but that's not really what the game tells players. it's more of a cope for the fact that the game has anachronisms.
Anonymous No.714454768 [Report] >>714455464
>>714454016
I can't understand the mindset of somebody who would look at something that obvious and be like "eh must be a plothole" like the writer must have 60 IQ it's so ridiculous, somebody had to sit down and write the story nobody would be including exact dates and shit if they didn't want you to notice.
Anonymous No.714454836 [Report]
>>714418334
No, I forbid you.
Anonymous No.714454871 [Report] >>714455386
LEMONADE
Anonymous No.714455009 [Report]
>>714425046
it's the perfect game for guys who love to LOL and Yiik out
Anonymous No.714455386 [Report]
>>714429804
>>714454871
lemonadebros...
he has forsaken us...
Anonymous No.714455402 [Report] >>714455454
Anonymous No.714455454 [Report]
>>714455402
I'm tired of wondering how to get in here fuck you
Anonymous No.714455464 [Report]
>>714454768
It's only obvious if you already know the conclusion though. Would someone just casually playing through the game really think everything of every date presented if literally nothing comes of it? No, they'd go "huh that's odd" and then keep going about the rest of the game. Because again, nothing comes of it.

Hell even knowing it's actually 2016 changes nothing at all in the grand scheme of the story beyond "oh Alex is a manchild" but that doesn't do anything either because even if it was actually 1999 you'd already know that all the same anyways.
Anonymous No.714455607 [Report] >>714455685
>>714454714
>but that's not really what the game tells players. it's more of a cope for the fact that the game has anachronisms.
The game is exhaustively upfront about reality being warped.
Anonymous No.714455624 [Report]
>>714425963
Like 85% of it is intentional
Anonymous No.714455685 [Report] >>714455905
>>714455607
In some cases this is true but in others the game uses 'oh reality is warped' as a crutch for its faults and shortcomings.
Anonymous No.714455787 [Report]
>>714425963
Both are true, especially when you see how the creator fancies himself, reacts to criticism, and surrounds himself in an echo chamber of YIIKtards.
Anonymous No.714455905 [Report] >>714456121
>>714455685
I don't even know what this is supposed to mean.
>UGH this should be a plothole but the premise can explain it that's not fair
Anonymous No.714456121 [Report] >>714456241
>>714455905
Nigger you can use "reality is bending" to explain away literally anything in the game. You're not seriously saying YIIK's version of "a wizard did it" is competent writing are you?
Anonymous No.714456241 [Report] >>714456454
>>714456121
Anon the game is all about unreliable narration and trying to figure out which thing actually happened in YIIK.
Anonymous No.714456302 [Report]
>>714425963
does it matter?
Anonymous No.714456367 [Report] >>714456871
>>714417893 (OP)
A GOLDEN LLAMA!!! NOOOOOOO!!!! LE ECKZ DEEEE SO RANDUM!!!!!!!!
Anonymous No.714456418 [Report]
>>714418334
>bugsbunnysayingno.webp
Anonymous No.714456454 [Report] >>714456718
>>714456241
If "none of it is real" is a viable answer then your story is shit. YIIK discourse has just become about who isn't real next.
Anonymous No.714456718 [Report] >>714457136
>>714456454
There's explicitly things that are real in YIIK just because you dislike that doesn't mean it's bad you just don't enjoy that writing style which is fine to admit.
Anonymous No.714456784 [Report] >>714456870 >>714457195
>>714425046
EZ. Here is a review of it thats 2 hours long talking about how awful it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1SibNH-lA

You can also do a search on youtube and see the major consensus is that it's garbage.

You post on 4chins, YOU MUST NOW BE A CONTRARIAN RETARD DIPSHIT AND THINK THE OPPOSITE!! NOW LIKE IT! PRAISE IT! MAKE STUPID RETARD TOPICS LIKE "now that the dust has settled" AND "misunderstood masterpiece question mark" HURRY UP, LITTLE SHIT. HURRY UP PREDICTABLE FUCKING RETARD, DO IT. YOU DONT EVEN NEED TO PLAY THIS SHIT GAME JUST ADOPT THIS OPIONION ALREADY.
Anonymous No.714456870 [Report] >>714457060 >>714457523
>>714456784
>pre I.V.
Anonymous No.714456871 [Report]
>>714456367
alpaca, sorry
Anonymous No.714457060 [Report] >>714457136
>>714456870
I.V. ruined the game
Anonymous No.714457136 [Report] >>714457279 >>714457363 >>714457994
>>714456718
There are good postmodern works, and then there's YIIK. It forgets to give the players and actual interesting hook, a desire to look into what's actually going on, and forgetting to make what you get when you look deeper actually have substance. Also because Alex basically controls his world, you don't have anything to ground the work in either besides Alex. Alex is a shitty person but that doesn't make him interesting because he's just verbose because that's what he thinks makes him smart, but how is that entertaining? How does this make us care about Alex? It doesn't. He's just boring. If the work revolves around a boring person, and there's no interesting world around him, then it's a boring work.

Of course this is on top of it being a mediocre game to game to actually play (I.V) or a completely terrible one (OG).

>>714457060
Now this is peak contrarianism.
Anonymous No.714457195 [Report]
>>714456784
Wholeheartedly I think YIIK is a bad game you're better off experiencing for yourself instead of just parroting YouTuber opinions like someone who doesn't play games. However, we are on /v/ where nobody plays the games they complain about.
Anonymous No.714457279 [Report] >>714457574
>>714457136
Okay name 5 good postmodern games then.
Anonymous No.714457363 [Report] >>714457574
>>714457136
>Now this is peak contrarianism
So being a back pedaling cuck is good?
Anonymous No.714457523 [Report]
>>714456870
idk what that means and i never ever will, just like i'll never play cyberpunk, or no mans sky. DONT give these people second chances on the same fucking game. if they fuck up, thats it! do not buy them.
Anonymous No.714457574 [Report]
>>714457279
MGS2
Everything else depends on your definition of post-modernism

>>714457363
How is this backpedaling? The Karta system is bland but objectively better than the minigame bullshit, the cutscenes are improved, and there are more boss fights. The Perfume Man was a highlight in presentation for me personally.
Anonymous No.714457994 [Report] >>714458226
>>714457136
>I didn't like it so it's objectively bad
Alex isn't the only character in the story by the way.
Anonymous No.714458226 [Report]
>>714457994
Alex is the character the story revolves around (literally and narratively) and the one you follow and hear his useless inner thoughts of constantly. You can't tune him out either because he's the whole story.

The closest a character comes to me liking them is Claudio but his interesting parts get held back by his gimmick.
Anonymous No.714458357 [Report]
>>714449638
No she's with me bub