Thread 718439790

What do you guys think about this game? It's definitely a mind fuck

It's garbage that tries to unironically be a "earthbound-inspired quirky RPG about depression" except the dev forgot to have fun gameplay so all you have is a shitty story about an autistic manchild being an autistic manchild, and the dev similarly being an autistic manchild when people criticize his shit game, hiding behind the "IT IS LE ART" excuse

also he patched LEMONADE out of the game so he's eternally a double nigger

>>718439790 (OP)
Its pretty good. I hope to see more from ACKK Studios

I thought it was really cool. They completely overhauled the game, so I wasn't able to play the meme version that everyone hated. It's kind of like if donnie darko was a video game

it's shit
it made my friend go literally schizo though
he joined their discord and never was the same

>>718439790 (OP)
This stupid fucking game lives rent free in my head since it came out, it's the only game I can play and notice new shit about the story every time. I wish somebody would find the secret ending so I can stop caring so much about it, I'm not motivated enough to do some cryptic bullshit but I still wanna know

>>718439790 (OP)
You were supposed to say
>WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK OF THIS GAME?!?!

>>718439790 (OP)
It deeply annoys me how YIIK is supposed to be a period piece set in 1999, yet Alex Yiik and his friends are all dressed like 2010's hipsters. One character literally calls himself a scene kid, when those literally did not exist in 1999.

>>718443026
It's a framing device not a period piece, Alex is quite literally living in the past

>>718439790 (OP)
It’s a shame the iv update made what was once a passable game worse

>>718439889
LEMONADE is still in the game

>>718443026
The game isn't set in 1999 retard.

>>718444621
That's what the game and Wikipedia says. Unless there is evidence otherwise?

>>718445267
The funny thing is that the game states 1999, but it's because the world is broken, so it's not exactly 1999. Because nobody plays the game, people go on about scene kids in 1999.
In truth, it's just a poorly implemented plot point that the game doesn't really ay around with enough.

>>718445267
It's kind of hard to explain why the game is set in 1999 without spoiling the plot to a degree

>>718445552
anachronisms are so few, so minor, so irrelevant that everybody treats them as mistakes, and not as a fancypants literary technique
but what else to expect when it's just out of time fashion and media references

>>718444274
because they added it back
originally it got entirely removed and replaced with some shitty anime parody

>>718445552
>because nobody plays the game
I thought you were insulting the guy for not playing games, but you meant in the very real, literal sense that nobody plays this game. holy shit.

Why are so many threads started about this carcass? Is it the dev just trying to shill where he can, trying to generate interest for the game?

>>718446506
Allegedly devs made a bunch of money off japs on the switch, so it isn't completely desperate shilling. But it is fun to mock because it's weird and bad, but in a timeless (and not fotm) sort of way.

The game constantly lies to you and the anachronisms are intentional

>>718446506
It's just a fascinating train wreck. Some like it for its quirks, while others enjoy shitposting about it
Genuine fans are few and far between

>>718446780
Yeah, but the problem is that it becomes a convenient excuse for every problem a player might have with the game and its' narrative, which then spins around to "Why should I engage with the game if it is going to lie to me?". If you bring up a literary work that does that, I will point out that those have layers to them, where the surface layer can still be enjoyable.

>>718446780
Sure, but does it really improve the narrative? The game basically gives up and just spells it out for you without letting that thought simmer in interesting ways

>>718446506
>Why are so many threads started about this carcass? Is it the dev just trying to shill where he can, trying to generate interest for the game?
I'm pretty sure that's what it was back in 2022-23, since they were working on the 1.5 update and wanted to sell that "YIIK is gonna be good now guys"
That ended up not being the case and now threads are less common than ever

>>718446938
Alex is don quixote and he's not really on a quest to find the missing girl or save the world. He's making all of it up

>>718447116
You're not getting my point: If the narrative doesn't matter and actively lies to me, why should I engage with it at all? Scratch that, if the narrative doesn't matter, actively lies to me AND is a badly told story either through the surface level interpretation or deeper meaning, why should I engage with it?

>>718447116
So anything interesting about the plot is all a dream or hallucination, huh?
Very good, very good

>>718439790 (OP)
On the surface, YIIK seems like the kind of game that was made directly for me

>>718447540
The most underrated part of the entire video is him going on about how he wants a real black guy in video games who walks down the street with a shitty speaker playing music and gambles at the back of the 7/11.

>>718439889
>except the dev forgot to have fun
Ftfy. YIIK is beyond miserable as a story, and the quirky scenes really feel like a pure obligation. It should have been a more serious, text-based adventure or a straight up VN. The RPG elements and the quirky Earthbound aspects are so forced and muddy the actual vision of the game.

>>718439790 (OP)
this game is better than Omori

>>718447671
Imagining YIIK as a point and click adventure game is pretty neato. Would allow more time to be spent on the puzzle sections of the game which are unironically one of the best parts of it.

>>718446780
What makes you think it's a lie?

>>718447725
Not an argument as most things are.

>>718447287
The main character is a demon that lives in the game who wants to trick you with his made up jrpg story so that he can possess you. You're supposed to notice endless shit like "it can't be 1999" and then deconstruct his story to figure out what's happening

>>718447778
The last thing YIIK needs is puzzle game logic in it.

>>718447989
Not only are there constant references to things that occur after 1999, there's a calendar that displays the date as 2016 towards the end

>>718448085
On one hand yeah, on the other hand the dungeons are (mostly) laid out in a fine enough way that Ackk has shown they can do puzzles.

>>718448079
One last time dipshit:
It doesn't matter what the sub-text actually is if the text or sub-text isn't engaging to begin with. I have read books where the unreliable narrator and meta-narrative trope is used well and guess what: They only work because the text AND sub-text is engaging to begin with.

Alex Yiik's only goal in life is to have sex, which would be fine if the character was 13 years old but he's a grown adult, so it makes him completely unrelatable and unlikable. He feels like he should genuinely be on the sex offenders registry and probably be chemically castrated.

I have no idea why someone would make this guy the main character of this game. He could have literally taken any other character, made them the main character and it would have been much better.

It's also very weird narratively because Alex is supposed to more or less be god. He's shown to have the power to destroy entire realities. And yet he cant get a girlfriend. That's a weird god.

>>718448305
It's perfectly fair that you don't find it engaging

>>718445267
>dude it's literally impossible to tell that the anachronisms are intentional

>>718446506
>Why are so many threads started about this carcass? Is it the dev just trying to shill where he can, trying to generate interest for the game?
Yiik is interesting to watch because it is genuinely one of the worst creative works ever created. So bad to such a degree it makes the viewer wonder about the mental state of the creator. That doesn't make it a fun game to play.

>>718448404
meant for >>718445552 >>718446035

>>718439790 (OP)
It's fascinating. I really enjoyed my time with it.

>>718446938
>>718447313
>>718447287
>the setting is intentionally unreliable so this means the characters' journey isn't worth following despite the characters being the focus and not the setting
What causes this level of media illiteracy?

>>718448446
>Yiik is interesting to watch because it is genuinely one of the worst creative works ever created.
This. It's an amazing trainwreck that fumbles the bag so hard that it has to be seen to be believed, but I can only recommend that others watch a let's play because the game itself is a frustrating mess to actually play.

>>718448404
So this one line justifies all of them, this one line that gets paid off later about how his reality didn't have monsters and other RPG shit in it?

I get that the author clearly wanted the world to be fucked up and not make sense because reality was breaking. The issue with this is that it doesn't follow any logic. The fucked up parts are completely random things that have nothing to do with each other. There's no pattern or design to follow. It would have been interesting if, as the game went on, more and more elements of the world and characters would change. Instead, there's just random shit fucked up here and there until it all fucks up at the end. It doesn't feel like reality is breaking, it just feels like the setting is inconsistent.

>>718448689
There are multiple long conversations in December about the various characters' other realities.

>>718448839
That's a higurashi easter egg though. Not plot relevant.

What makes Yiik so interesting is the main character. Seeing a typical anime harem wish fulfillment plot told from the perspective of some ugly ass bastard with aspergers is quite a unique concept. Sexually harasses and fumbles with a bunch of different women who all fall for him, treating his male friends like shit but they still look up to him, this hipster tard having the power to destroy or create universes, that's fucking hilarious. If he had been a generic Japanese 16 year old it would have been dime a dozen shit but Alex really stands out in all the wrong ways.

>>718448404
if you wanna frame the exposition dumps with vella and essentia as "setup" for the reveal of all the inconsistencies, then be my fucking guest
but considering they are all in service of ALEX WAS TOO STUPID TO REALIZE VIDEOGAMES AREN'T REAL twist, i am not convinced that is as clever as it wants to be
the fact that there is also "legit" metaphysical magical nonsense permeating every reality doesn't help

I find it funny how everybody that was so vocal about mocking and criticizing the game has since been exposed as a complete hack. The yiik curse is real folks...

>>718449727
Tehsnakerer and Running Shine haven't been exposed as hacks though? Lazy with their output, maybe, but not hacks.

>>718449847
I've never even heard of them anon. Don't you think that speaks volumes in and of itself?...

>>718449928
>It's funny that everyone who was vocal in their critiques of YIIK are hacks
>The creators of the two most popular videos on YIIK? Never heard of them
Bait-kun...

>>718448148
But that doesn't mean it's a -lie-

>>718449358
>but considering they are all in service of ALEX WAS TOO STUPID TO REALIZE VIDEOGAMES AREN'T REAL twist, i am not convinced that is as clever as it wants to be
You lost me. The game starts with Alex encountering supernatural shit for the first time and being increasingly freaked out by things.

Can we at least agree that the game's art direction and cutscene direction are great?

>>718450506
In I.V? Sure. In vanilla... no.

>>718439995
No way the studio is actually called "ACKK" lmao

>>718448404
So we can just handwave every single criticism as "it's intentionally bad", then? Because that's infinitely worse than the devs just being terrible at what they set out to do.

>>718450724
Did this game fuck your mom or something

>>718450724
>the devs are bad at what they tried to do because I'm a retard who couldn't pay enough attention to the game outright telling me the anachronisms were intentional

>>718439790 (OP)
It's kino

>>718439790 (OP)
The main character design removes any possibilty to give a chance.

Has anyone else actually read the emails Alex gets from Simon/Simone? I have a theory regarding those emails.

>>718451120
What is your teory?

>>718448446
One of the worst is actual hyperbole actually terrible games are forgotten immediately shit like the gollum game and other garbage. YIIK was bad at first however it does have its merits and charms.

>>718451120
I read all of the emails.

>>718451120
I read them. Don't understand what it means

>>718451214
Essentially I think Simon/Simone is connected to the girl Alex knew after Michael and his family left to Canada after Alex ruined Michael's chances with Allison.
It sounds stupid but hear me out, since it seems Michael was gone before they left for Canada it's possible they ended up coming back to their old home later and living there again.
There's also the fact Simone seems to be a female especially with them mentioning how they had a dream where they were making out with Alex's dad meaning, they're a part of the essentia which is just all the kinds of women Alex is into.

I'll elaborate further in another post I'm currently rereading Simone's logs again.

Where the fuck do I find the baby doll to give to Jocasta?

>>718452262
It's on mom's bed

>>718450169
indeed, that's the twist
alex and by extension the player is under the assumption that supernatural has intruded upon his regular life, with androids and monsters and RPG battles, and he just sorta accepts it as a videogame adventure just like the player, because that's what games generally are
the scene during the morning 31st of december is the big reveal, alex realizing just how broken the reality is (which essentia explicitly confirms), after thinking about how he drifted apart from michael and his parents' jobs and the general wackyness of the story so far
of course, that doesn't technically oppose the literal supernatural stuff with soulspace and alternate dimensions, which is just another sign of how confusing the game is

>>718439790 (OP)
GIVE US THE YIIK FINALE CHRIS
TELL DD TO GET HIS SHIT TOGETHER AND RELEASE THAT FINALE
YOU PLAY GAMES FOR A LIVING YOU HAVE ALL THE TIME FRIENDO
I WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE GET THAT FINALE YOU SWINE

>>718452358
Thanks anon

>>718451751
simon k is michael's brother
his emails are there to add some details to the new allison/michael stuff, because it's hard to crowbar in extra story
the funniest thing about that is how he mocks alex and pretentious movies in like 3 sentence long emails, only to end up with a massive WORDSWORDSWORDS message about family and meditation because the writers just couldn't help themselves

>>718453241
I figured it was Michael's brother at first but looking at it but I'm starting to think otherwise especially with the whole scene where reality is breaking and Alex's dad talks about the little girl next door looking for him. The fact that one of Simone's emails talks about how trauma leads to misremembering or masking events leads me to think Simone could be a girl, especially how Alex in the story seems to substitute other people for someone even if they're completely different.

>>718440770
Based and ONISMpilled

>>718446506
>Why are so many threads started about this carcass?
Started with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH7JQtp5Jkc

Anons made these threads to quote the video and talk about how funny the train wreck was.

Now of course since its 4chan, unironic retards who ACTUALLY like the game and hyper-contrarians who get hard by telling everyone how a game with 282 all time player peak is actually the greatest, deepest, most complex game of all time have infiltrated these threads, believing that they're in similar company.

>>718439889
It's not really about depression. More about delusion.

>>718439790 (OP)
Looks lik REDDIT THE GAME and you all faggots need to go back.

>>718439790 (OP)
I don't

>>718446506
It's the video game equivalent of a bad or quirky cult movie where it's fun to make fun of but also interesting enough in what it presents and tries (and fails) to do to not be boring. It's not like The Room or some shit where it's just incompetent and shit top to bottom and is funny for that reason but the type of thing where it's shittiness is entertaining but there's enough genuinely interesting ideas to keep you hooked. I think the Running Shine review's overall tone of "it's shit but it's interesting shit with need ideas and some cool stuff and hopefully the creators are able to learn from this" is where the appeal is.

>>718452408
>The player is tricked into thinking that reality has become warped and the twist is that reality has become warped

>>718454295
You neglect to mention that the game got a major overhaul update that targeted the most criticised elements of it so of course people are more partial to it now that the rough edges have been sanded.

The game is about Alex being the worst person imaginable, right?

I WANT, DESIRE, AND NEED TO FUCK VELLA

>>718454893
That was one year ago and the aforementioned infiltration happened before that. But nobody talks about the rework anyway, its just stupid fags rambling about their headcanon like this guy >>718452408

Same as it ever was

>>718455131
Well I wanna fuck Alex's BPDemon of a mom

>>718452451
I really wanted to see what DD would have to say about the devs sucking themselves off with the Two Brothers cameo.

>>718454295
I played it a couple of weeks ago without knowing anything about it and enjoyed it. I think it's cool that people talk about it like a novel. I mean it's not the best game I ever played but it was a really unique rpg. There was really nothing funny bad about it in the version I played

>>718439790 (OP)
it looks like the monthly troonshine that gets big and ropes after a week

>>718458437
Hey I don't remember posting this

>>718458437
Not long enough, grok, make it more verbose.

>>718446035
The game has a shitload of anachronisms but they tend to fly over peoples’ heads because they will just give you a date or scenario that doesn’t make sense and want you to notice. Like if you pay attention to the Alex-Michael age gap you realize Alex is claiming that at 17 his best friend was a 12 year old

The developers genuinely went insane while remaking it

>>718439790 (OP)
I can't play a game where the protagonist looks like that sorry.

>>718446780
it doesn't matter if they're intentional if the game doesn't convey that very well and if the writing is so shit that it's easier to just assume the writer is a hack.

>>718457330
Then it's for you.

>>718454893
The combat is still comical, but in a simple, and not annoying way. The new story bits are tacked gracelessly on top. Not gonna pretend that original story was full of untapped potential, but AYCKSHUALLY ALEX IS A TORTURED DEMIURGE AND THE WHOLE BASE GAME IS ACTUALLY A MIND-PRISON feels bad as well.

>>718463684
>Alex is a tortured demiurge
No, Alex is shackled by his unrealistic expectations of reality placed on him by TV and video games and suffers because he wants life to be something it isn’t

>>718439790 (OP)
Underrated masterpiece

>>718439790 (OP)
Cool since the reboot update, some of the coolest "quirky rpg maker game about depression" i've played, soundtrack being a complete banger definitely helps. Alex is overhated tho, he's more tolerable than your average russian coworker

>>718446506
Unironically everyone that likes rpgs should play YIIK for media literacy purposes

>>718447287
because the narrative is interesting and you wanna trudge through the lies to find the truth yourself. and cause it's presented like suda51/monogatari episode

>>718439790 (OP)
This game is objectively more daring and original than some other indies like that one with a depressed boy being depressed but in a dream world or the other one with anime high school furry teenagers going on le quirky bullet hell rpg adventures.

Something that kills me
In the base game cops ignore everyone in the party to exclusively attack Chondra and Claudio, but the devs were never canceled because nobody actually played the game and the entire discussion around it is people arguing over hearsay

>>718443578
did he fuck the kid?

>>718455754
DD would’ve dropped a 30-minute video essay dissecting it while staring directly into the void. “You see, the Two Brothers cameo is less a celebration and more a recursive ouroboros of self-congratulation. It’s a meta-narrative kiss on the lips from the devs to themselves-masturbatory, yes, but intentionally so.” Then he’d spend twelve minutes analyzing the lighting in that one cutscene where everything turns sepia for no reason.

>>718465805
I won't disagree entirely but why not just play Lisa then which feels more of an original experience and daring than the games you mentioned indirectly and is also better than Yiik?

>>718466951
Yiik is deeper than Lisa, Lisa is the better game though

>>718467252
Holy shit lmao

YIIIIIIK

Yiik taught me that you really need to spoonfeed people and not drop context clues like missing posters for the Unrich brother being dated 2016 or Panda straight up saying that Alex isn't in a normal reality because his mom's job is wrong, Michael moved away when he was 12, Michael's home address is wrong, Rory is a scene kid in 1999, Chondra implies she's only 4 years old at one point.
You really have to put a red circle around things and have the entire cast point at them or else the video essayist who decides everyone's opinion isn't gona pick up on it.

>>718465814
Everything that was actually in the game was ignored in favor of people parroting the Running Shine review when the Rory suicide note where he talks about being a gay porn star is funnier than anything that guy could've come up with.

>>718469493
I think you can get away with shit like that when the rest of the game is really fun to play

fuckk i love yiik and yiik threads

>>718469632
The game is fun now, try it.

>>718469754
BLEED FOR ME is not fun. It might be less shit than it was before but the gameplay is only tolerable at best.

>>718469837
Did you level up your karta anon?

>>718469837
>BLEED FOR ME is not fun
Cringe and Blue Pilled

Alex Yiik makes me Shriik

For a place that is supposed to be filled with contrarians, liking YIIK was the only contrarian thing /v ever did

>>718439790 (OP)
LEMONADE

>>718470274
you have to look at the bigger picture. /v/ was one of the first places on the internet to like FNAF and understale. it became popular internet wide shortly after and then every single faggot on this site pretended they and the entire site always hated them. yiik is interesting because it's not even popular anywhere. i think it's more ironic than contrarian, because you can't like something that people don't even care about to be contrarian.

>>718439790 (OP)
it's not even close to a mindfuck, it's the most straightforward ass on the nose predictable pretentious wannabe mindfuck garbage ever written

>>718471195
Fnaf maybe, but undertale definitely not, you are just wrong. It's like you forgot fucking tumblr exists.

>>718471065
he doesn't say lemonade, he says eliminate

>>718439790 (OP)
Are you going to tell us which game it is, OP?

>>718471195
/V liking yiik is contrarian exactly because everyone else hated it. The only true contrarians opinions this place had was with yiik and that furry visual novel that still get some threads once in a while, can't think of anything else. Do you want to know a game that was actually popular here before anywhere else? That infamous incest game.

>>718471876
the way he pops out of the portal in a completely static pose and is just a dopey yellow meme llama made it really hard to hear him say anything else.

>>718439790 (OP)
game? you absolute faggot

>>718471876
My life has been a lie

>>718469493
yiik has taught me that if you're gonna do a story that depends on closer analysis to fully understand what's going on, you need to earn the trust of the audience and prove that you aren't a hack. and if your work is full of uninteresting characters and you bury your hints in walls of boring, irrelevant text and redundant narration, then most people will not feel the need to analyze anything because they'll simply assume you're an idiot. and that doesn't mean they got filtered, you're just a hack and should stop writing.

most of the plot points yiik does have already been done in kafka on the shore and people actually like and analyze that book and its meanings and symbolism, which pretty much proves what i said. if you like yiik's ideas, just read some Murakami novels

>>718472551
Nta but if you were an English teacher would you use this logic on high schoolers reading an assigned book? Like if they all wrote in their essays on Kafka on the Shore “yeah it was gay and boring so I don’t care about the themes and structure more like ‘Kafka on the Snore lmao’” this would be a totally valid interpretation A+? There’s a difference between something being poorly written and disliking it

>>718472852
its funny you say that because i studied to be an english teacher in my youth but i dropped out cause i hated the bureaucracy.

as for your question it heavily depends on all kinds of factors, like is this an essay about what the student thought about the book? if they can prove they at least read the shitting thing then yes, they wouldnt fail. if its about themes, then if they can prove they understand what its going for even if they didnt like it, yes, they wouldnt fair.

and thats what yiik is for me. i understand what its doing, i understand its themes and i actually have defended it in these threads sometimes, but it is poorly written.

>>718473187
This logic doesn’t really make sense to me, you’re saying it’s poorly written because people don’t want to understand it, and you cite Kafka as an example of something people want to understand (and therefore it’s better written). You’re arguing a logical structure where writing quality is just a matter of group consensus rather than actually based on anything.

>>718474002
Let me explain it for you so any dunce can understand it: Yiik has interesting ideas and themes but it's poorly written. Redundant narration, dull and uninteresting characters, terrible pacing and walls of unnecessary text galore. That means people are less likely to want to analyze and engage with the work and attribute flaws to it that the work itself actually addresses, like the constant complaints about Yiik's anachronisms. These are definitely intentional and serve as a clue as to the game's themes, but people aren't gonna analyze them further when the game's writing is stuffed to the brim with egregious flaws. Part of that is on the audience, but Yiik definitely did a poor job getting its audience to engage with it in the first place.

Most of the vanilla game's plot points are ripped straight out of Kafka on the Shore anyway, a book people actually like, so that proves that yes, Yiik's ideas could have been handled in a way that engages people and make them want to analyze the work. Call it a homage, plagiarism, I don't care. The ideas are still novel for a game, it just didn't stick the landing. I think IV proves they're capable of doing much better, because the NG+ is pretty good.

>>718448687
Yes I was watching an OneyPlays let's play. It's like they WANTED to like it because of it's style/music/etc., but the writing was so bad and gameplay frustrating.

It's strangely one of the few games they actually finished since they rarely do that for games. No episode but they still beat it, which shows they found something compelling enough that they wanted to make it through to the ending.

>>718474650
there is enough compelling about yiik that has kept discussion going on /v/ for all these years at least

>>718474565
Your writing criticisms boil down to “it’s too long”, Yiik does not really have redundant scenes. Disliking the characters is again just a complaint not really a critique, a character can be both likable and poorly written and vice versa. I have complaints about Yiik’s themes so I’m not trying to be overly defensive, like there’s a part where Chondra complains about “nihilism” and it’s actually hedonism and Andrew puts a NPC crying because he knows they’re different but still wants to bitch about his own definition, but on the whole I think people are nitpicking and making up their own criteria instead of judging it on what it actually is

>>718475436
>Your writing criticisms boil down to “it’s too long”
Yes, that is its biggest flaw.

>Disliking the characters is again just a complaint not really a critique
How pedantic.

>>718439790 (OP)
You guys bring this game up a lot. Is it any good? can I get a qrd? can I get a redpill?

>>718447614
I think about this all the time desu, when people actually make hood niggas it comes out pretty decent like san andreas or a more gang oriented movie like boyz n the hood but its so rare.
It really is whitey devs having to make donald glover the character over and over out of fear and it becomes really obvious.
Obviously not every black dude is from the hood, but i would say theirs probably more than stand up super white suburb black guy.
The new koth season added a random black guy and is entire job is to just stand there. He literally does nothing but just be reasonable sometimes to fill out a quota and its boring

>>718474650
>It's like they WANTED to like it because of it's style/music/etc.
That sums up my feelings when playing YIIK, both the original and 1.5. The artstyle is unique, the OST is genuinely good, and the themes might be ripped from Murakami but they're still pretty unique to vidya. It's just so frustrating when the game mechanics and surface-level plot suck so hard that they distract from everything else.
Whenever my friends ask me about it, I tell them that I like the idea of YIIK more than YIIK itself. Such missed potential.

>>718476212
Is the joke that a cute girl would never listen to some fuckin youtube review of some rpg?

>>718475721
Really bad game that came out in 2019 at the height of the "Earthbound-inspired quirky RPG" wave. Unfun clusterfuck with a garbage battle system and overly verbose and complex writing. Often cited as one of the few examples of being a "so bad it's good" game or "The Room of video games".

>>718475821
I like bills social worker, he's not their friend

>>718476309
I don't think I've ever seen an iteration of that image where she's listening to something that you'd expect a cute girl would listen to.

>>718476619
Do cute girls even listen to shit? The dorkier ones read books and the normalfag women just scroll on their phone like eveyrone else.

>>718476368
It got a big update this year that made it way more fun and enjoyable to play
It was garbage in 2019, and is now kino in 2025.

>>718477291
What did it change?

>>718477126
20 years ago they listened to My Chemical Romance, I have no idea what they listen to now. Kpop? Love and Deepspace audio dramas?

>>718477719
nigga touch grass. the majority of women aren't out there listening to kpop

>>718477579
New battle system, more music
Additional cutscenes that add a bit more context for you to attempt to wrap your head around
A whole ass new game in the game after you beat the game
It's still "so bad it's good" but in a way that is genuinely enjoyable instead of outright painful like it used to be

>>718477291
Nah, hard disagree.
The new battle system is different but I wouldn't call it good. It's very reminiscent of FF8's system where you break it over your knee or it breaks you, and it still has a lot of minor problems that cause battles to drag on for longer than they should.

Alex Yiik? More like Alex Makes Me Siick!

>>718475716
I don’t think it’s pedantic to say there’s a difference between liking a character and them being well written, same with story…

I feek bad for the YIIK bros. They had "a postmodern rpg" right there in the title to tip you off that those genre tropes and conventions are in play, except postmodernism isn't enough of a household name for people to pick up on it. If it'd been "YIIK: A Shakesperean RPG" people would get it off rip. I'm happy for them and the update, though. A friend who hated vanilla yiik thought I.V redeemed it.

>>718478271
Bro it's all subjective so it's a pedantic difference. I don't think it's well written. I don't like the characters and the story. I don't feel like having that discussion for the 100 millionth time on vee about objective and subjective quality.

>>718478823
>bro it’s like, all subjective maaaan nothing can be analyzed because nothing has objective meaning
Get meteored get meteored get meteored get meteored

>>718478076
>It breaks you
This doesn't happen. Only the sewers had any sembelance of difficulty, game is easy to break over your knee and fuck without resistance.

>make a bad game
>proceed to try and redeem it by pouring more years into fixing it making it even more kooky
>still bad
Whats really is funny is that if you go on the official yikkdiscord they clearly seen the running shine review and tried to pivot the new version with that in mind but pretend they didn’t
Actually if you search years back most people thought it was a funny review with good points and is honestly pretty positive for what its worth
But when the big update news came in everyone suddenly turned on it, and it was suddenly cringe and not funny anymore and actually mello comes off as a right wing extremist cunt with zero good points.
Its some bizzare level of cope

>>718480025
I really love how obvious it is in NG+ that the update was made as a direct reaction to all the criticism YIIK after release.

>>718475721
Just watch the runningshine video

>>718480324
What this section is talking about is Alex’s desire for real life to be like his bideo games it’s not a retaliation against criticism of the game.

>>718480719
Ehh its both really, you don't just directly insert ideas from multiple reviews verbatim into your game's plot without being a little touchy

Check it, yeah
Check it, yeah
Check it, yeah
Check it, yeah

I want to become both romantically and artistically involved with an art hoe like Vella

>>718482889
Vaguely ethnic shawty

>>718439790 (OP)
I like the art direction.

>>718476368
Comparing it to The Room is retarded because The Room has nothing actually redeemable about it. YIIK has genuinely neat ideas and other things going for it (puzzles, visuals, and such) that make it interesting in spite of how otherwise bad and incompetent it is. I don't know what the movie comparison would be since I'm not a movie guy but it's definitely not The Room.

Post Vella

>>718484024
>>718484132

>>718439790 (OP)
Shit gameplay and the actual plot good, but good luck sitting through the wretched overly verbose dialogue.

>>718439790 (OP)
I got up past the arcade and I don't think I understand the Karta system very well. I've won every battle but I don't really get if I'm doing something wrong or not when I start bleeding and then have to focus turns on not bleeding, but then get bleeded again because I have no cards blocking attacks.

>>718439790 (OP)
pure unfiltered kino

>>718484230
noice

>>718467252
he's about to get ackkstudio'd

>>718483506
>The Room has nothing actually redeemable about it
Disagree, The Room can be hatewatched and you can get miles of enjoyment from how bad Wiseau's writing and acting are. Even if that's not what his intention was, The Room manages to be in a space of "freaky bad" which I'd argue is the same space that YIIK occupies. It's bad but in such a way that it manages to catch and hold your attention.

>>718439790 (OP)
Its peak. However /V/ is too contrarian to enjoy it so its shit instead

>>718487349
Yiik isn’t freaky bad it’s a genuinely profound game with a lot to say but with mediocre gameplay

>>718487349
But that's what I mean. The Room is bad but is entertaining because of how bad and poorly acted and nonsensical it is. The ideas aren't good, they're shit. There's not anything in the movie that makes you think "well, they had something here but they just couldn't pull it off." YIIK is nothing like the Room in that regard.

>>718445552
The plot in general is just a fucking mess and it doesn't help that it's buried beneath unnecessarily bloated dialogue and pointless shit that you're forced to listen to that has absolutely no bearing on anything like that one faggot's lengthy story about how he came across some tea leaves.
That and I imagine a lot of people dropped it early on because of just how terrible the gameplay is. Dungeon designs are generally pretty awful, enemy variety is garbage (there's only a handful of different enemy types and the dev was too lazy to even create unique monsters for most dungeons so even in dungeons you're just encountering the same damn enemies you encounter in the overworld), and progression is just fucking shit (when you're literally telling the player to go grind until you hit a certain level, you've completely failed as a dev. You put in side quests and shit to help the player level up SPECIFICALLY so they don't just have to wander around trying to hit random encounters to grind for XP).
I still think the dev is a retard for clutching this dumpster fire like it's his precious baby instead of just starting fresh with a new game. Just like nobody cares about Rory's stupid dead sister, nobody cares about the dev's stupid dead game.

>>718489395
>when you're literally telling the player to go grind until you hit a certain level
This happens one time at the beginning of the game as a tutorial for the mind dungeon and doubles as a joke about Alex needing to level up to talk to girls

>>718439790 (OP)
he wanted to be toby fox so bad.....

>>718489395
>literally telling the player to go grind until you hit a certain level
What's funny about this is that YIIK doesn't have respawning enemies. Enemies only show up in dungeons and there's always a finite amount of them. Why even tell players about grinding if there's only so much EXP to be earned?

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???

>>718484879
Its a stupid system, they should have just taken out the stupid paper mario minigames and either just have time hits or steal ideas from smt weakness heavy gameplay
Instead if this bizzade confusing schizo mess thats not really that fun to mess around with
Or just make a straight up standard atbbsystem, who cares

>>718477996
yeah they like t series

>>718489395
Why is it so hard to get that most games have a pretty simple plot and it's their lore or symbolism that gives you the illusion that you are seeing something complex.

How much of the YIIK "fandom" is just ironic?

>>718489395
You know, I would have actually finished the damn game in my playthrough if there wasn't a bug that made it literally unplayable.

>>718490889
There's no such thing as ironically liking something. There's only genuine enjoyment that you're too embarrassed to admit.

>>718489395
>I still think the dev is a retard for clutching this dumpster fire like it's his precious baby instead of just starting fresh with a new game

If this is a passion project, I can understand him being desperate to see it succeed. It must feel pretty painful to see your passion project get this kind of reception.

>>718484879
Dumbass, bandages help with not bleeding plus by the time you make it to the arcade you should have a few karta to fuck around with there's a few babies you can get in the mind dungeon and give to Jocasta for keys. Don't forget to use blood packs to increase the karta HP as well.

>>718489395
You cared enough to talk about it on a Columbian donkey breeding forum.

>>718448349
>Alex Yiik's only goal in life is to have sex, which would be fine if the character was 13 years old but he's a grown adult, so it makes him completely unrelatable and unlikable.
it worked in chainsawman

DID THEY FIND THE THIRD ENDING YET
THE "REAL" THIRD ENDING
NOT THE FAKE THIRD ENDING
OR THE OTHER FAKE THIRD ENDING

>>718439790 (OP)
MUST BE THE BLACKS

>>718478823
>thinks being well written is subjective
I don't think you not becoming an English teacher was a choice.

>>718489395
>(there's only a handful of different enemy types and the dev was too lazy to even create unique monsters for most dungeons so even in dungeons you're just encountering the same damn enemies you encounter in the overworld
There are no enemy encounters in the overworld.

dp2 opened my eyes

>>718497024
yep just press q bro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlQAsMhCXhs

>>718497024
Knowers aren’t allowed to say

>>718501693
sounds like what someone who doesn't know would say

>>718503685
I know only that I know nothing

>>718504113
so, you're in the same boat as everyone else grasping for straws

>>718504948
i know about the tower. everyone knows about the tower. i know you can glitch outside of the boundaries to get to it. i know it says "???" and you can't open it. i know that it leads to either the old essentia tutorial or the old frankton area depending on which "key" you have in your game's save data.

>>718491263
>Chondra, when I went and lived all of my parallel lives I was born into different worlds and circumstances. Yet in all of them, black people accounted for 52% of all murder statistics, despite making up 13% of the population. You're all intentionally not seeing it! It's like Per Capita is an alien concept, and only I'M actually noticing!

>>718439790 (OP)
Instead of a mind-fuck it's more of a taste-rape.

>>718439790 (OP)
THIS GAME IS THE BOMB

>>718505764
is his chest hair in the shape of a bird

>>718505764
Michael meditated so hard his feet left reality

Simone is Michael's little sister and the proof is when Michael's house changes positions

>>718507181
THERE'S A BOMB

>person who does not understand art or video games tries to create an artsy video game
Many such cases!

it's like if you tried to make ubik into a video game but completely fumbled every plot point and inserted stupid shit to fuck up all the good character moments

At least he gave it a try, I respect that.

What's the correct move here

>>718521432
This was by far the hardest part of YIIK for me

>>718446506
While I did play the game myself, I think the popularity of these threads, besides just the memes is that it's an actual thread about a video game on /v/ with people discussing the fucking game

>>718448689
We explicitly see older Alex and learn that he lives in 2016 and is just a manchild creating a fictional reality where he lives in 1999. It's a central part of the game.

>>718483506
I agree but only because YIIK is worse and you actually have to play through it which is far, far more tedious and drawn out. A bad movie is far easier to stomach than a bad game.

>>718521432
Wrong thread, anon

>>718524317
Kiss Astolfo

Would you let Alex kiss you if it meant you got to fuck either Rory or Chondra

Vella got NTRed so hard she left reality

>>718521432
>WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??????

>>718521432
Is that Rori's dead sister

>>718439790 (OP)
What's he yiiking about?

>>718526416

In YIIK multiple realities exist. Parallel universes, and that kind of shit.