On April 4th 1999, I...

YIIKED OUT

yiiky wikky

>>717344593 (OP)
WANT SOMEONE TO TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

On the sweltering hot Summer of 1992, I...

jerked off standing exactly right where rory's sister died

>>717344987
Do you guys realize how fucked up this is? ALEX YIIK JERKED OFF RIGHT HERE! RIGHT WHERE WE'RE STANDING

I love YIIK
YIIK is fun

>>717344593 (OP)
I can’t believe the update made the game worse but here we are

>>717346745
Haven't you done enough damage to the YIIK brand already, Toby?

>>717344593 (OP)
Reminder is our boy is coming back.

>>717345252
Dude, no one cares about your stupid dead sister

>>717346976
MUST BE THE BLACKS

>>717346976
Future looks bright in 2025, boys :)

>>717344593 (OP)
Became the original hipster.

>>717344593 (OP)
>when you realize the entire game is written without any irony to it
that verbal diarrhea of a script is entirely genuine

I DON'T KNOW YOU
I DON'T CARE
I'M GONNA KICK YOUR
DERRIERE

>>717344593 (OP)
What was he yiiking out about all this time?

>>717351810
That song is so bad. I love it.

>>717348919
i mean it's genuine to the character. alex talks the way guys like him genuinely talk. the devs don't think alex's style is cool but it's accurate. ng+ is a lot less ironic and more true to them tho so if you think that's verbal diarrhea you do have issue with the writing

>>717344593 (OP)
THIS PLACE IS THE BOMB!!!

>>717348919
It really does feel like they read Infinite Jest once and tried to imitate that style without understanding what made that book unique, what made that style work, and why it doesn't translate to video games at all
It's no surprise to me that Infinite Jest is in their list of inspirations

>>717353447
Lemonade~!

>>717344593 (OP)
Any other games where the sidekick turns out to be the main villain?

Lemonade

>>717346976
>the YIIKening was 5 years ago
What the FUCK

What is the opposite of Yiik?

>>717353447
What eceleb gave you that take?

>>717344593 (OP)
The lack of vella or chondra r34 is criminal

>>717360334
It's tough being a yiik friik. The game is basically hot chick heaven, but it's so unpopular that hardly anyone knows.

So what the fuck is this game and why is it posted here so often? Why is YIIK memed so hard?

>>717360565
>So what the fuck is this game
A postmodern RPG
>why is it posted here so often?
Because we like it
>Why is YIIK memed so hard?
Because there's a funny video about it

>>717359024

>>717360692
>Because we like it
doesn't seem like it desu
>Because there's a funny video about it
what video?

>>717360785
>doesn't seem like it desu
Not my problem
>what video?
https://youtu.be/VH7JQtp5Jkc

Just involuntarily YIIKED out a little bit. I think I might have another one coming.

>>717354757
Seems more like the anti-hero when I played 1.5 (didn't do NG+, sadly, idk what happens)

In retrospect, YIIK is really good, and most of it's critics are retards who didn't get it, and SJW crybullies.

>>717363024
Its story is an over-complicated mess, but I can still appreciate what it's attempting to be.

>>717353447
Michael on Onism calls Alex's family "The Incandenzas" in a story he wrote about the family and Alex's Mom is named after the Mom in that book, I dunno if the game is trying to imitate its writing style but it's directly referenced in the same way Murakami is

>>717346579
I love being in YIIK.

>>717353447
>It really does feel like they read Infinite Jest once and tried to imitate that style without understanding what made that book unique, what made that style work, and why it doesn't translate to video games at all
Chondra be cry

>>717365064
I think it's the Essentia introduction scene in Yiik that reminded me of the writing in IJ. There's a great deal of verbal diarrhea dedicated to describing the layout of the room, just like many pages of IJ. But in a visual medium like a video game, you don't need to tell the viewer what the room looks like - they can see it. And that's just one example.
I know Murakami and IJ were eventually added to their works cited, but my mind went to IJ since that is the only "postmodern" book on the list that I have ever read.

>>717362830
He wants to kill Alex to break himself from the endless cycle Alex has put him and his friends in.

>>717364823
People always find flaws with the game that aren't really flaws, and seem genuinely mad that Alex is too much like they are.
The whole "they referenced a real life tragedy!" palaver is such bullshit.

>>717368161
The funny thing is YIIK has way more in common with murakami novels than it does with infinite jest.

Did you just LAUGH?

>>717360930
>review
>it's a 2 hour long plot summary
why are youtubers like this, good fucking lord

>>717369351
I like YIIK but the fact that Alex is chasing after a dead girl based off a real life tragedy is a little awkward, even if it was meant to come off that way.

>>717370151
You didn't watch it

>>717370214
yeah, I'm half an hour in and that's exactly what it is

>>717370303
If you're not enjoying it then stop

>>717370161
Someone made a game based on a father who drugged and raped his own daughter in his basement and that game gets significantly less flack even though the victim of that crime is still very much alive.

>>717370434
yeah I did
but my point is I don't know why does this trend exist
this is not a review
just call it a rant or whatever, at least it's accurate that way, but something that spoils the entire plot has not been made to inform potential buyers, it's not a review, plain and simple

>>717371226
He does more than summarize the plot though. He gives criticism of the story and the gameplay and suggests ways it could be improved. Pretty sure he does that within the first 30 minutes too, so I don't know what your deal is.

>>717344593 (OP)
made Rory watch me jerk off

>>717369698
I assume liking murakami novels will lead me to dislike YIIK even more in this case

>>717371365
His Shop UI analysis is pretty good.

>>717370151
>>717371226
It's a comedy video first and foremost. The criticism is there and it's decent, but that's not the main point. It's closer to like long form avgn more than anything

>>717370583
What game? If I have to take a guess its some RPG maker game. And yeah, people get a pass to games that they like for shit like that.

>>717372383
It's a decently popular game called my eyes deceive

>>717371537
Nah not really murakami is an acquired taste.

>>717368689
Yeah, and the wild part is that breaking the cycle isn’t even guaranteed to work. It's all tied into the meta-narrative stuff-Alex being this unreliable narrator who constantly rewrites reality. So every time they "kill" Alex, they’re really just pushing themselves deeper into his constructed version of reality. It's like trying to tear down a house while stuck inside the blueprint.

>>717344593 (OP)
The stars did align in 1999 when YIIK got ready for the moment to shine

I don't hate yiik but I can't stand kirbopher as a VA. The whispertalking he does towards the end is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

>>717375949
Kirbopher was the perfect person to voice Alex.

>>717375949
Kirbopher's voice is perfect for Alex I couldn't imagine any other voice actor for Alex

>>717363024
Andrew isn't going to marry you, Hellkrai.

>>717347054
I do, she's hot.

Michael being all like "Chrono Trigger is my childhood!" would be like me saying "Final Fantasy 7 Remake is my childhood!"

>>717379202
It's the point, but because the original release never did anything to outright show that this is intentional, it comes off as having no understanding of chronology. RunningShine himself even says "the whole setting is a lie" but because there's no payoff for it you just get bullshit.

Alex's living room is the set of Full House, but 90s kids only know that show through reruns.

>>717379398
This is probably the greatest flaw in YIIK's story. There is enough flaws in the reality of the game world where it's noticeable but doesn't draw enough attention to itself to show the paradox in the world or really make it plot critical. Then because the story itself was hard to follow and the original gameplay was complete garbage people just wrote off the time paradoxes as bullshit as well.

It did not help at all that Andrew threw a fit saying people didn't understand the game (he is technically right) so people just assumed he was being pretentious (which is also technically right)

>>717379828
Yiik is not pretentious at all, Yiik is genuinely addressing serious themes at a deep level to the point a lot of people were reacting to the original with things like
>I refuse to analyze this at the level the game wants because I don't like it

I'm looking for someone who knows about Chinese people

>>717379996
>people aren't engaging with it because it's shit
no shit?
You have to make people want to engage with your work. That's how creating art works, you can't just expect them to immediately lock in just because they're experiencing something, and if what they're experiencing is hot garbage game design and irritating writing, served with some LEMONADE on the side, of course they aren't going to analyze it at the level the game wants to be. Game's gotta earn it retard.

*ahem*

>>717380851
GIVE ME THE RECORD

WHERE IS MY VAGUELY ETHNIC GIRLFRIEND

>>717380892
Okay but let me tell you all about this fascinating tea that saved my life in excruciating detail first

>>717380747
Yeah, you gotta make your gamey aspects actually engaging if the point of it was "games and their worlds actively lie to you and you just accept it on the surface level".

>>717380851
I DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT YOUR AIDS RIDDLED PARTNER IN NEPAL

>>717380851
Tell me more about this tea we're drinking

>>717380747
YIIK mostly didn't find it's target audience for the most part which is also a part of the problem. If shit like heartbound can get universal praise despite being an objectively boring game when it first started out this just proves YIIK just didn't find the right target audience off the bat.

VELLAAAAAAAAA

>>717381029
Because they didn't know who to market to, so they decided to take the MOTHER route since that worked for Undertale.

They could have went the Persona route and gotten the same garbage results because even among postmodern works YIIK, especially the original release, is garbage.

>>717380186
OH NO NOT ME. I'M LOOKING FOR THE LAST SHARD OF THR MASTER EMERALD

Of course /v/ likes this fucking game
Who else but /v/, always finding things to like in things everyone hates

>>717380747
You shouldn't have to "turn on" your engagement/basic critical thinking skills

>>717381029
Heartbound's problem is that the initial concept might seem fine (Not my thing but whatever), but because the developer has taken 8 years to make 1.75 chapters and never expanded on some parts it advertised (The combat system for example) while dragging his heels on certain story elements. I think in that case, more people got fooled by the potential rather than enjoying what already exists.

>>717381161
I'm sorry for liking something

>>717381236
I'll even bring another example for my point knuckle sandwich is liked even though the gameplay fucking sucks and the creator fucking dropped the main plot hook, but I hear nothing about it's glaring problems despite everything you do in that game quite literally amounting to nothing.

>>717379996
>Yiik is genuinely addressing serious themes at a deep level
I am aware but as a pretentious person myself I also recognize it when it appears in media. It's only a issue here because of the poor communication.

>>717381217
With a good story you're correct, because it would turn on naturally. You don't go into everything with an analytical lens, especially not video games unless reviewing them is your full time job (and even they don't)

But with a shit story like YIIK, which gives you net to nothing to work with, yes you would have to go out of your way to connect any dots. Connecting the dots isn't even rewarding, you just get "Alex is a shitty poser manchild" which you already knew, its depth doesn't say anything beyond what's said on the surface level.

>>717381161
>Why do a bunch of outsiders love an outsider game
Real mystery, ain't it?

>>717360930
I wish these guys did more reviews. Love their Zelda review also. Very funny

>>717381540
Semi is cute and I wish there was more of her

Biggest problem of the base game for me is how much meandering happens with no final plotline there is until the Essentia shows up. It had a good hook (Girl gets kidnapped by entities, do what you can to find her) and even a good subversion (Chasing wild conspiracies is going to ruin your life), but it jumps from point to point with no cohesive throughline other than Alex is not a good person.
I.V. addresses a lot of these issues, and doesn't frustrate me with the gameplay in the time where plot doesn't happen. I still don't fully like the game, but I can at least say I enjoyed it more.

>>717381674
YOU THINK YOU KNOW HYRULE?
LINK AGAIN

>>717346976
Can't be disappointed enough about the subject being a shitty game I am not interested in

>>717346976
Can't be excited enough about the subject being a great game I am very interested in!

>>717346976
Can't be neutral enough about the subject being a mid game I am 50% interested in

>>717346976
I can't be in

>>717379828
>There is enough flaws in the reality of the game world where it's noticeable but doesn't draw enough attention to itself to show the paradox in the world or really make it plot critical
Thank you, I've said this for years in these threads now. It is an interesting plot point but not something that's ever pointed out in fiction, and it's definitely one of those kinds of things where you need faith in the storyteller to believe it's intentional, but seeing as almost nobody has any, it's not weird to see why people keep bringing it up as a flaw.

>>717346976
Can bee
>*bzzz*

>>717370161
The people who got mad at that are the same people listening to shitty ass truecrime podcasts about stuff ten times worse.
Personal pet peeve but i dont like it when they do this safe skitzo bs and talk conspiracies but wont dare mentuon mossad in the Epstein vid.

>>717344593 (OP)
sucked a man's dick.

>>717383056
It's because it feels like an excuse in the average player's eyes or is actively malicious in some cases for some people. One of YIIK's most bad faith reviews was from a podcast called YIIK pics and they treated the game like the devs raped their family and mostly had actual bad faith a majority of the time when playing/reviewing the game.

>>717383465
The funny thing is you don't need to act on bad faith cause the game already gives you plenty of material to work with. Well, these days it's better at least, though the main game's story isn't by much.

>>717383416
>The people who got mad at that are the same people listening to shitty ass truecrime podcasts about stuff ten times worse.
I can't even counter that because the only people who would know about that case are truecrime podcast kiddies who love their analog horror overlay on top of a case of how somebody raped 30 people in a clown suit. Only to get offended at other people "sensualizing" a tragedy for social media points.

>>717381510
No it's not something that "turns on" at all. You should just naturally notice themes and connections

>>717383520
They immediately hated the guy because he was on the dick show to talk about his game.

>>717383530
>Twitter screenshot
>ifunny watermark
Delete this image

>>717383620
Again, in a good story that communicates these ideas well, yes.

YIIK is not that story.

>>717383637
To be fair that was a dumb move, though I do get it. The dude lost his mother during the development, the game meant a lot to him and was getting hyped up quite a bit online and even got some physical demos in stores and suddenly he was getting shit on by the entire internet. That's bound to piss every dev off.

Story is one thing, characters are another. I know I.V. cleaned this up with certain characters like Michael, but a lot of them are just... there and don't have anything going for them (And when they do it comes outta nowhere).
I hate the reality warping angle because then you can excuse a lot of their blandness on that.

Gun to your head would you rather play Yiik I.V., Knuckle sandwich or Athenian Rhapsody.

>>717383824
YIIK I.V. mainly because I.V. had a bit less of its' head up its' arse and has some fun stuff (Especially when you get to the stuff that wasn't in the base game).

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

>>717384301
I remember asking that question to them.

>>717384301
No, it has its fans but it's generally despised.

Comparable to Sonic 06 in that regard.

>>717384147
The gangs all here

>>717384441
YIIKfags will never ever be as annoying or retarded as 06 fetuses

>>717346976
>The RS forklifting stream where Melo started going on about japanese ntr hentai culture.
>"Yes it IS in sonic adventure. There is cucking in every piece of japanese media."

Posting the best song in the soundtrack
https://youtu.be/iK-J8biMxk0
I can legit listen to this on loop for hours.

>>717384593
The music ranges from DUDE VIDEO GAME to stop spamming the lietmotif to actually really good

>>717384593
https://youtu.be/CWcumQmu2W0?si=4lAXz3cDyhbxCZna

3 persons one body... i need to finish hat deltarune video

>>717384587
>That other stream were they just decide to do a Lolcow tournament

>>717382482
t. Rory Mancer

>>717385057
I wonder what Rory's life would have turned out like if reality didn't end, assuming he didn't kill himself. He's kinda a mess.

>>717385279
He probably would still kill himself I'll be honest.

>>717384301
The gameplay is still pretty bad, but the revised plot is followable and the new cutscenes are entertaining because of how baffling low budget they are

I'm real fucking tired of you YIIggers

>>717385880
ALEX!

>>717384593
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzxo-pBfgKM

This is still the best song I think, also too many people are spoiled on Yiik nowadays so people don't appreciate how crazy that entire sequence is played blind

>>717346976
his content was never funny and is incel tier

>>717387110

>>717387928
buy an ad if you are going to shill your shitty channel

>>717381161
/v/ is all about hating everything that everybody else loves, and loving everything everybody else hates. It's just knee-jerk contrarianism. Because the userbase consists primarily of manchildren.

>>717383056
>where you need faith in the storyteller to believe it's intentional, but seeing as almost nobody has any, it's not weird to see why people keep bringing it up as a flaw.

It is weird in and of itself to read a story without faith in the author. It's not weird to notice plotholes and stuff but to react to people telling you "no that was explained in X scene" with "it's not fair to expect me to pay attention to the story so that doesn't count" to me is just
>What the fuck is your problem

>>717385279
Incest with his cute sister and slutty mom

>>717389386
It's because it's a bad game even though it's not even the worst of the worst when it comes to indie RPGS.

>>717379996
YIIK's *pretense* is (ironically enough) not about how it handles metaphysics or spirituality poorly btw, but it being a fun game people would be willing to engage with out of visceral enjoyment
does anyone remember that part on 31.12 where alex pretty much admits that the only reason he never paid much mind to all the anachronisms and inconsistencies is because he WAS HAVING A FUN ADVENTURE?

>>717391682
>I don't think the game is fun so the character in the game can't have fun as part of the story
Average Yiik criticism quality

>>717391829
That's not what's being said retard

>>717391884
>The game is pretentious because it's not fun and Alex says he was having a fun adventure
What am I not understanding here? You're twisting the word "pretense" so hard I can barely understand what you're trying to say

>>717392024
>You're twisting the word "pretense"
picrel, and that's not twisting, but wordplay
i thought fans of postmodernism would understand and appreciate the nuances of the written word, but oh well

>What am I not understanding here
the big gotcha near the end of the game hinges on alex yiik, who is (you) as a player surrogate don't even start with I.V shit, never really thinking about rpg combat and weird surreal shit, because it's simply "supposed to be like that"
it's like one of them undertales, with XP and LV gotcha near the end, which works decently well if you weren't spoiled on the premise of "a game where nobody has to die", unlike in YIIK
i don't think you even need to get into the technicalities of the story, when THE BIG MOMENT falls fucking flat, the devs have clearly failed
that's the "pretense", the failure to be one of those "quirky eartbound-inspired rpg about depression" because nobody actually wanted to go on an adventure with alex

>>717392840
Understanding the nuance of the written word is exactly why I understand you're twisting the definition you retard. By your usage you could call fucking basketball pretentious because "it sets out to be a fun game and fails because I don't like it".
>Alex is an audience surrogate
Oh you're just retarded lol

>>717393354
if i call the game bad rather than pretentious, will you just go full relativist then?
if you have nothing to posit yourself, feel free to go YOU DON'T GET IT already, you should know that nitpicking is a much more effective tactic against YIIK if only due to its sheer wordcount
>uhm ayckshually the player character is not an audience surrogate because he is a defined character
alex is no different from any other player character with his own dialogue, and once the game blows its load at 31st, the whole thing is revealed to be a story-within-a-story, that alex conveys to (you), his alternate in another world
same as alex in some ways, but still different, ya know, kinda like the relationship between a videogame player and a player character
looking forward to "unreliable narrator" cope even after this el-em-ay-o

So is all the JRPG combat sections and weird world a result of reality breaking or Alex being a terrible story teller?

>>717395024
Either is a convenient answer now isn't it? It's part of why YIIK isn't a good postmodern work.

>>717395024
Before the update?
apparently neither, it was just them taking turns to hit each other irl
After the update?
Jocasta is a denizen of the mind dungeon so it's probably reality breaking

>>717375949
Kirbopher is my gay lover

>>717346976
This chud was never funny

>>717346976
This chad was always funny

>>717346976
I am beyond ready.

>>717381883
Kek.
>I cant wait to see yoshi
>ehh ooo ye... yes there he is!
>THERE HE IS! YES! YES! THERE HE IS!
gets me every time

Lemonade

>>717404676
sonic game from pakistan for me

>>717384301
if you consider Troll 2 and The Room to be as such, yes. just with more people ridiculing it

>>717346976
So that's why these YIIK threads were made, huh
as a music game player nut myself, I'm quoting "the first part is like COMING, and the second part is like COMING BACK TO LIFE" to describe select songs one time too many

>>717344593 (OP)

>>717395024
Obviously the former, the whole reason you can’t beat the meteor or final boss in RPG combat is because RPG combat is part of the problem

>>717369351
>People always find flaws with the game that aren't really flaws
Nigger the generic battles taking minutes at a time and full of stupid minigames while dogshit music played wasn't something people had to dig up to find
The 100% guarantee that you never played YIIK yourself or I guess even watched a full lets play of it is that you assume Alex was the only one with the pretentious and wordvomit dialogue. Jesus christ the sections where Vella cites off what are essentially paragraphs from wikipedia explaining the meaning of a scientific term then doing that over and over and THAT'S the fucking dialogue for the scene has nothing to do with Alex in the slightest.

If the dev had centred all the retardation around Alex specifically, I think a lot more people would assume that it's supposed to be his character trait. But it plagues everyone in the main cast and it becomes obvious it's a flaw in his writing style rather than any actual attempt at some subtle characertisation (though Alex' narration being wordvomit instead of just his dialogue would be completely unnecessary as well in that case)
Maybe the re-release or whatever came out recently is better, I don't think I want to touch it for a few more years.

>>717409259
Vella explaining basic philosophical concepts and Claudio explaining the locks he can pick is just the writer jerking himself off.

>>717344593 (OP)

>>717344593 (OP)
he

>>717344593 (OP)

>>717389669
I could see it. There's already incest subtext in YIIK with Alex and his mom.

>>717410048
>>717411064
>>717411914
Is this thing a new spam bot? I'm seeing it in a bunch of threads.

>>717412036
I’m guessing he just wants to Yiik and won’t let go

>>717375949
didnt this retard lose his role as byleth because he couldnt keep his mouth shut