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[Jimmy]

What the fuck did I just play

Weaboo: The Depressioning - The Game.

[Derpy Dev]

What the fuck did I just play

Weaboo: The Depressioning - The Game.

It's a fan favorite for those that like suffering.

[Tawa]

I loved it, frankly. I usually hate horror media and am totally uninterested in dating sims, but this was amazing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The suicide moment was incredibly well done. It's the first time in ages a game's gotten such a visceral reaction out of me, and IMO the best part is the game informing you that your saves have been 'corrupted' if you try to savescum this moment. I had to put the game down for a few minutes after that. I knew what they were doing and it still creeped me out.

The fact that finishing the game requires you to break the fourth wall was really clever; it's the first time I've seen a video game really use the medium to quite that extent.

My only regret is that I gave my character my own name, meaning that the shock value of Monika addressing you by your user profile's name was lost on me.

yuri best girl

[heydude6]

I feel using your real name helps you relate with the characters more. It helps you get more immersed and makes the girls seem more real.

[Egan_BW]

it's the first time I've seen a video game really use the medium to quite that extent.

If you want to see way more of that kind of trickery, play Oneshot.

[MCreeper]

What people find oh so sad and scary in this game? For me "horror part" was 90% !!FUNNY!! and 10% a bit sad. Something to do with me spoipering everything to myself before playing? Beginning consisted of "clicking madly to get to interesting part faster" and "reading great poetry". 

it's the first time I've seen a video game really use the medium to quite that extent.

If you want to see way more of that kind of trickery, play Oneshot.

10/10? There are NO reviews on this game in Steam. Very strange.

[Egan_BW]

Protip: If you want the intended experience, don't look at spoilers. -_-
This is why I like game recommendations that read like "play this thing but don't read anything else about it before you do." That's my ideal game; one where I have no idea what's going on, and can figure that out for myself.

[JimboM12]

like undertale, this really was a game you were better suited to play blindly.

but because the game has spoiler twists, it's more ruined than undertale cuz undertale is still a good story experience no matter what, where ddlc is something that should shock u at first and then once you calm down, you begin to wonder. not to mention it's got meta spoilers that make the game a bit unique. im thinking of the bad spoiler. you thought you got wise? fuck no.

i did enjoy it and i am srsly bad with horror, something to do with me as a kid watching my older brother play resident evil 2
but i continue to come back to them cuz it's like some sort of sore tooth, i can't stop picking at it and causing myself anguish
i do better with horror games i have agency in, like a silent hill or resident evil (before 4, cuz after that they really turn into action games) but i think what really made this stand out is that it is a vn, so you have no agency to do anything but click. it's like if you were strapped down to a chair and your eyes held open so you were forced to watch your parents fuck. srsly disturbing.

[Egan_BW]

Somehow not having any power but to watch isn't as distressing to me as HAVING to find a solution to the problem myself, or die. Like when I was playing SOMA and had to sneak past horrifying monsters and I'm like "SERIOUSLY!? AAAAA".
This, on the other hand... It's pretty much just watching bad things happen to *someone else*. I don't even exist in the game world enough for bad things to ever happen to *me*. AYLMAO doesn't have a character sprite, he can't be harmed. And even if he were, it wouldn't hurt *me* because he's an idiot who did multiple things I wouldn't have.

[Derpy Dev]

So last time, I got asked a yes or no question by Yuri. I chose yes.

And you know what happens after that, don't you?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yuri's corpse.
I think the darkest twist here is that the game actually made me watch her body start to decompose over the weekend. Which is ****ed up.

And then Monika...


Yeah. RIP everyone.

With a curious mind, I tried to save.


Nope.

I spent a bit there listening to her until I realized what the game was making me do.


I'm not.

Played a day without Monika there, and I never thought I'd miss her xD And then Sayori dropped the brain bomb.


Yeah... funny story there.


...I didn't. I just moved her file out of the game. I wonder if the game knows that too... oh well. Fact of the matter is, she chased off Sayori when she entered scary mode. So I'll thank her again for saving me from an awkward situation.



This game... was... AWESOME. And it got me thinking, like all the best games do. Is it wrong to try to play again? Like, on a moral level? Cause it will just cause something weird to happen... maybe I shouldn't screw around with this? I dunno.

Either way, I loved this game. Never did get confirmation about my Natsuki theory... I guess I'll have to find out if that's true somehow. There's a way to play past the festival, right?

Oh well. For now, I'll leave you. Ba-bye!

[Jimmy]

Regarding Natsuki:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monika reveals that her father doesn't feed her, and the reason she's so small is because of malnutrition. You get this info from Monika after the first reset if you focus on writing your first poem for Natsuki, then pay attention to what Monika says when you show her your poem. There's also a brutal burn Yuri gives Natsuki during one of their argument sessions, where she tells her to go hunt for change under a vending machine. Obviously a reference to Natsuki's malnutrition issues.

[Leafsnail]

I don't really see much reason to watch this game. It's free to download and some aspects of it work better if you're actually playing for yourself.

Makes me wanna see a game that's so meta it breaks the fifth wall by assuming the observer is actually watching the game being played as a livestream.

Undertale actually does something like this.

[Pancakes]

Bit of a necro, but what the hell, ah?


I just played through it after seeing the Zero Punctuation on it. Since Yahtzee was putting up a spoiler warning (and since the game is free, hehe), I figured I would give it a shot. I was spoiled on one scene in a facebook comment, but I didn't actually realize I was spoiled, as the image was posted without context and I didn't know what it was from.

Man, this game/vn was really good. Like some others, this isn't my type of game, but after hearing all the talk about it, I relented, and am glad I did so. Would recommend.

I wish that more games did surreal horror well; while DDLC does do surreal horror, I can see spots where it could have been improved. Oh, and the thing about

Spoiler: Livestreaming/Recording (click to show/hide)

Monika does know if you are, but only reveals it towards the end, when she has a discussion with you, if you opt not to mess with the game files. There's also a lot of dialogue she has if you don't mess with the files, some of it pretty disturbing (what she says about Sayori) and some of it pretty... good advice? (what she says about depression)

Just my two cents

[Egan_BW]

I saw a streamer who was determined to get to the end of her dialogue. This resulted in like two hours of the same screen and he didn't even see the end of it. I stayed there the whole time because I needed to see him finish it, of course.

[heydude6]

Bit of a necro, but what the hell, ah?


I just played through it after seeing the Zero Punctuation on it. Since Yahtzee was putting up a spoiler warning (and since the game is free, hehe), I figured I would give it a shot. I was spoiled on one scene in a facebook comment, but I didn't actually realize I was spoiled, as the image was posted without context and I didn't know what it was from.

Man, this game/vn was really good. Like some others, this isn't my type of game, but after hearing all the talk about it, I relented, and am glad I did so. Would recommend.

I wish that more games did surreal horror well; while DDLC does do surreal horror, I can see spots where it could have been improved. Oh, and the thing about

Spoiler: Livestreaming/Recording (click to show/hide)

Monika does know if you are, but only reveals it towards the end, when she has a discussion with you, if you opt not to mess with the game files. There's also a lot of dialogue she has if you don't mess with the files, some of it pretty disturbing (what she says about Sayori) and some of it pretty... good advice? (what she says about depression)

Just my two cents

Glad to hear that you liked it. Some of the members of the community have been a bit "evangelical" about the game and it's resulted in a lot of people who really shouldn't be playing the game, trying it out and getting disappointed due to the hype. Despite how much I personally loved it, DDLC is ultimately still a niche product and it isn't meant for everyone.