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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9443608" data-attributes="member: 50987">I played Doki Doki Literature Club last night.A friend of mine had bought it for me for Christmas a few years ago and I had forgotten all about it, so it sat in my Steam library for years.&nbsp; I finally picked it up yesterday purely on a whim, because it looked like a cute little anime VN/dating game and I was in the mood for something light and shallow.I went in totally blind, not knowing anything at all about it...I didn't even visit the Store Page for it.&nbsp; I just clicked &quot;Install,&quot; and then &quot;Play,&quot; and then four and a half hours fly by and I'm at the final scene and I'm all like<img src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/D12CsrRNv7gL6/200.gif" alt="Rocking Back And Forth Family Guy GIF" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />It's a brilliant deconstruction of anime/VN game tropes.&nbsp; It's a self-aware game, in the sense that House of Leaves is a self-aware book.Actually, it sort of turns that House of Leaves idea on its head:&nbsp; where House of Leaves deconstructs the horror genre to reveal a love story at its core, Doki Doki Literature Club deconstructs the dating sim genre to reveal a horror story at its core.It's brilliant, but hoo boy.&nbsp; I wasn't ready.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9443608, member: 50987"] I played[I] Doki Doki Literature Club[/I] last night. A friend of mine had bought it for me for Christmas a few years ago and I had forgotten all about it, so it sat in my Steam library for years. I finally picked it up yesterday purely on a whim, because it looked like a cute little anime VN/dating game and I was in the mood for something light and shallow. I went in totally blind, not knowing anything at all about it...I didn't even visit the Store Page for it. I just clicked "Install," and then "Play," and then four and a half hours fly by and I'm at the final scene and I'm all like [IMG alt="Rocking Back And Forth Family Guy GIF"]https://media4.giphy.com/media/D12CsrRNv7gL6/200.gif[/IMG] It's a brilliant deconstruction of anime/VN game tropes. It's a self-aware game, in the sense that [I]House of Leaves [/I]is a self-aware book. Actually, it sort of turns that [I]House of Leaves [/I]idea on its head: where [I]House of Leaves[/I] deconstructs the horror genre to reveal a love story at its core, [I]Doki Doki Literature Club [/I]deconstructs the dating sim genre to reveal a horror story at its core. It's brilliant, but hoo boy. I wasn't ready. [/QUOTE]

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