"Everyone deserves to be happy, even walking body pillows."
@Patmax17
Жыл бұрын
- Aristoteles
@highjackslayer4882
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like ddlc is like a curse and a blessing to experience raw at first hand, but still one of my favorite games on how it made me abandon my awful ways.
@foogriffy
Жыл бұрын
What really strikes me about this game is the fact that it's completely a tragedy. None of the characters are at fault for what happened. As much as many people hate Monika for what she did, her actions are understandable given her desperate situation. In the end, though, the only way to get to the credits is to do the one thing that she has been trying to avoid the entire game. No matter what ending you get, the game must end and when that happens, the characters essentially die. Even if you don't get an ending and you realize that you continuing to play is the only reason this suffering is happening, closing the game is also like ending their lives. Why continue? Why stop? Nobody wins regardless. It makes me question myself, and ask why I enjoy horror content? Most horror games end on a hopeful note. You go through hours of trauma and the reward at the end is triumph over that hardship. It's a power fantasy like most other games, and one that accurately reflects what life can be like. So why do I love DDLC when it doesn't fulfill that fantasy? DDLC exploits the inherent human ability to form emotional connections with pretty much anything, including animals, inanimate objects, and fictional characters. Monika insists (even if she doesn't really believe it deep down) that her friends aren't real, and you shouldn't care what happened to them. But we are social creatures, and we have empathy regardless of what's real. Even if the only real pain felt throughout the game is the pain of the player, that pain exists because the player can't help but care about these characters after spending so much time with them. Despite their shallow, tropey personalities. Despite their lack of animations and voice acting. Despite the fact that they aren't real people. Despite the fact that they don't even have the capacity to know we care about them, or to care for us back. I think our ability to form these connections is... endearing, and one of our best traits as a species. We extend our love to pretty much anything, and the regret and pain felt throughout the game is, in a twisted way, an expression of that love. We wouldn't feel so guilty for advancing the game if we didn't want these characters to be happy. It wouldn't be so painful if we didn't desperately wish for things to have turned out better. I think maybe that's why I love this game so much. It's not a game about winning, it's a game about loving.
@lukethekuya
Жыл бұрын
This is what strikes me with the community. The Dokis are just pixels on a screen, yet through us, the game has become one of the best examples of love in the 21st century. Cheers to the human race. God bless.
@user-tf8yu5ie3v
Жыл бұрын
Bro wrote an essay
@jokerdblackbro
2 жыл бұрын
I broke down when Monika called me a loser.
@rpst39
Жыл бұрын
i thought the warning at the beginning of the game would be about 18+ things so i just ignored it without reading. i got surprised and scared and felt desperate a lot
@flexiaus
2 жыл бұрын
This video was... Something. I never thought this way about ddlc and it was refreshing. I don't have anything to complain about it. The montage and the voice were great. I think these subjetcs should be more experience in general. DDLC is for sure one of my favourite games. So thanks again for your analysis !
@myheartwillstopinjoy8142
Жыл бұрын
I love how our character starts talking less and less until he completely stops reacting to what's happening. By the time Yuri kills herself, he doesn't even react and you wonder why the hell would a sane human stay all weekend staring at a deab body as if it's a normal thing to do? Ah, but wait, now it's you, the one who's staring at a dead body for a whole weekened. The whole game is really good, but the transition from being the character to being yourself is just perfect. The moment when Monika asks who she's talking to, and if you can even hear her, and the dialogue box with "help me." appears... God it's so good.
@calelkestifer3570
Жыл бұрын
You opened with the thought of nightmares that chase you into reality and I thought about how my husband knows that if I wake up and have to check something it means I'm confirming that I'm not in some nightmare I had anymore. It started with this one time I woke up and stormed into the living room, grabbed his face and checked his teeth without explaining first because I had a nightmare about alien imposters and the only way you could tell the difference was that their "molars" were sharp
@wiktorszymczak4760
Жыл бұрын
Im literally just cooking pasta listening to this and im like "Yeah. Yeah! Yeah!!😭
@cavalierliberty6838
Жыл бұрын
Remember, no one will ever love you like monika does because she isn't real. Topping that, the love is just because she is trying to find something to anchor her. Hell, maybe you may find love like monika. I stand corrected.
@gampie13
Жыл бұрын
wouldent that tecnicly just be the "waifu" phenomenon? A fictional anchor of unreality to escape the reality you are actualy in?
@lukethekuya
Жыл бұрын
Based and real-lifepilled
@lasarousi
Жыл бұрын
A reminder that this "game" was just advertisement for a game that never released and how money talks. It's like fourth night.
@lukethekuya
Жыл бұрын
I became a fan of DDLC years after I matured into a young adult, a few months before I turned 18. I grew up with Geometry Dash, and seeing myself as being part of another entirely new community is really shocking as to what made me so into the game in the first place. I was introduced to the base game because of a few fanfics I read, and saw the game as a new tool for me to tell stories to people willing to read it. As I observed the community, I saw how it is filled with people wanting to make a change no matter how broken they are, even years after the game's release. I still wish for a happy ending. Most fans of it do. I can't wait for Dan's future endeavors and let's hope that we could at least do something good not just for the Dokis, but for the people who cared for them since 2017. One of the greatest stories of all time.
@kristenlindesy95
Жыл бұрын
your videos are amazingly narrated and informative
@fraylak
Жыл бұрын
I just found your channel here and I can't believe you're so underrated! This was phenomenally edited and well written, great job!
@Ultravenom1
Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the evil of DDLC and just did my best to make the characters happy. Only to get a goodish ending. Was interesting.
@omamba5105
Жыл бұрын
Ngl, I thought a lot of those poems were pretty great.
@_CrimsonBlade
Жыл бұрын
same
@sceneryfx2865
Жыл бұрын
So true,I really learnt many new English words from the poems despite being really good at English
@LilTim27
Жыл бұрын
Yeah this game made me better at english and it only cost my soul
@844SteamFan
Жыл бұрын
I’m definitely glad I played the game before watching.
@pendelbembel
Жыл бұрын
I haven't played this and I feel little inclination to play it because I got spoiled over and over. But I HAVE played Spec Ops: The Line, and I loved that game. But the whole angle about "you're guilty just for playing" doesn't really work, in my opinion. SOTL works because it gives you a character, Captain Walker, that is guilty for going on and on far past the point where he should have stopped, who is completely guilty for it. It's his sins, his story, his purgatory if you believe the fade-to-whites. We're just along for the ride. In that sense, the no-win-scenarios of for example the mortar scene make perfect sense, because they were *his* choices, not mine; I wasn't offered a choice. I wasn't offered a choice not to have the hallucinations either. But when the player character is an obvious empty self-insert, why do I get the blame? Some guy on KZitem told me to play the game. I didn't set out to hurt anybody. Not in this game anyway. When my options are restricted so I can't properly make good decisions, but they're still trying to sell them as *my choices*, it's hard to actually feel guilty and not just cheap-shot.
@reyasvers
Жыл бұрын
definitely one of the best DDLC analysis videos there is.
@realperson69
Жыл бұрын
Maybe it’s in a way also greedy or selfish or just plain obstinate, but the modding community is actually a cool testament to humanity’s willpower and optimism. Faced with an “unwinnable” scenario, they choose not to concede defeat but instead to pour tons of effort into changing the rules entirely. At risk of undermining other themes, a lesson the game tried to teach was that modifying the game is the only way to get a good ending. Monika failed. But you, the player? In theory, you have access to just as much power as the game’s creator. A reprogrammed DDLC is just as real as it ever was, and DDLC tacitly acknowledges that more than perhaps any other work of interactive fiction. 🤔
@catmaster2231
11 ай бұрын
takes a special kind of youtuber to make you freeze with the outro like that. felt pretty wild. this is why I'm subscribed.
@shuvelstone1331
Жыл бұрын
Still got ptsd. 3 years ago when i watched playthroughs, and i still shudder at the mention.
@sansserif3378
Жыл бұрын
That's the lesson of this video... the lesson in love
@jackwinterstolte7562
Жыл бұрын
Damn dude I can’t believe how low your sub count is for how good the videos are
@hunter-ce7ub
Жыл бұрын
“no.. i hope your happy” sobs
@datboi_gee
10 ай бұрын
Though the vibe and intention is ENTIRELY different, I'd recently gotten a similar experience out of 2017's Prey. Up until then, I'd never experienced a game that so thoroughly encourages its players to confront their own morality and decision making. A game where you don't simply "do the right thing" because you've been told what's right and what's wrong. Or following instructions of characters because they're trustworthy. Or not trusting them because they aren't. You find yourself in the unique position of not knowing who can be trusted or what the right decision to make even is. You don't even know if you can trust yourself. And so, divorced from all of that context, you're confronted with why you as a player are motivated to do anything at all. What you believe. It's an exercise in faith, in a way. And I thought that to be really fucking cool. This feels like it's made of similar ingredients, though obviously with an intention of being significantly darker by comparison. But introspective all the same.
@DeadSpaceWing
Жыл бұрын
Do any of them know how to make a grilled cheese?
@viiiderekae
Жыл бұрын
Why did this game made me ball at thr end x x
@ItsZenith-
Жыл бұрын
i really did not expect him to say "walking body pillows" XD
@THExRISER
10 ай бұрын
17:04 Thank you.
@user-sl4ep8tw1s
2 жыл бұрын
deep
@YoursOnlyStop
Жыл бұрын
I don't like about the mc like when yuri stabs herself he did not even do anything just watched her he could have called someone or did something but no he was useless in that time that's the thing which i don't like 💀
@gracetaylor2767
Жыл бұрын
Yeah i do agree with you that MC did nothing in the moment. He didn't call, or even monologue like when he found Sayori. As much as I wanted him to do SOMETHING or at least not spend the whole weekend there looking at her, I think it was really tapping into the helplessness and inevitability of that scene, like how it doesn't matter what you do or say, it'll happen anyway
@YoursOnlyStop
Жыл бұрын
@@gracetaylor2767 yea now i know why monika wanted mc ( not the character)😂
@hermes3717
7 ай бұрын
a tall glass of chunky but nondescript water 😭
@sleshgaminggamer
Жыл бұрын
tohru adachi should of been mentioned in this video
@saccharinesilk
Жыл бұрын
now do Echo
@lebarondeminuit3580
Жыл бұрын
I miss my wife
@marchdarkenotp3346
Жыл бұрын
I miss your wife too. I'll be back.
@_CrimsonBlade
Жыл бұрын
i also miss your wife
@Manticorn
Жыл бұрын
I didn't agree that this game is best for those in their late teens. At first. But upon reflection, thinking about the player character, I changed my mind. A teen would be prone to respond in line with the player character and not see anything wrong with it. Not see the toxicity, as you said. This might encourage the less mature to reflect and empathize in more nuanced ways. My one gripe is that Monika says something very important about Sayori's suicide that you only find by chance in the phase of the game where she is staring at you unmoving. She talks about how painful and terrifying her death actually was. She talks about how she is just a video game character, any real friends you may have with depression, will actually respond positively to you spending time with them.
@EdyAlbertoMSGT3
Жыл бұрын
0:16 A phone can run it if you search hard enough ;)
@redfruit1993z
Жыл бұрын
I want a ero guro game.
@wonderbutternutterstuff195
Жыл бұрын
Yes I have
@tobiasherbst8894
Жыл бұрын
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
@SpecialInterestShow
Жыл бұрын
I never knew there was a "happy" ending. How do you get that?
@mlgproplayer2915
Жыл бұрын
I find this ending even sadder than the normal one. "There is no happiness in the literature club".
@elina-ru9mf
Жыл бұрын
u save at the second poem writing thing and u write a poem for every character so that u get every scene with those characters and in the end u get a "good ending" (also pls look more into it cuz I got the ending like 1 yr ago so I may not remember it properly)
@SpecialInterestShow
Жыл бұрын
@@elina-ru9mf so you save and reload until you have done one for each character, then continue on whatever save you finish on?
@elina-ru9mf
Жыл бұрын
@@SpecialInterestShow oh i forgot to mention this u should go back when sayori asks if u wanna be friends or lovers cuz after that the game just goes crazy yk also as i said i dont rlly remember all the details there r plenty of tutorials online
@unclaimedusername6608
Жыл бұрын
I don't know man, I just thought "huh, I've played a better version of this before .."
@user-su3eo8kn8l
Жыл бұрын
No I'm not guilty for playing the game. I'm so tired of people/devs making players ASHAMED for WANTING TO PLAY THE GAME (cough undertale cough). Stop blurring the line between reality and fiction it can be harmful
@WobblesandBean
Жыл бұрын
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who thinks Undertale is completely pretentious in that aspect.
@user-su3eo8kn8l
Жыл бұрын
@@WobblesandBean I also thought I was the only one
@marchdarkenotp3346
Жыл бұрын
Maintaining a hard distinction between fiction and reality is far much worse than blurring them (although this does not mean discounting the harms blurring the distinction does when done sloppily). In both the real world and fiction, it is your capacities and values as a person that is engaged with, and tested. What one consumes says a lot about that person in question. Take, for example, The Turner Diaries. It is fiction, but it has inspired many acts of white supremacist violence in the United States. Should we just sweep every immoral act done on the Internet because "it's irony"? Or should we question the arbritrariness of the distinction itself, and use it to propel forward a critique that unmasks how reality truly works?
@unclaimedusername6608
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. The whole message is also hamfisted as fuck, too.
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