Game Information
Overall Rank: 865
Average Rating: 4/5
# of Ratings: 2
US Release Date: 09/22/2017
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Adventure (Visual Novel)
Multiplayer: No
Developer: Team Salvato
Publisher: Team Salvato
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Rating of
3.5/5
Doki-Doki Deconstructionism
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/21/2017
The Visual Novel is, as a type of novel, the latest evolution of a form of storytelling that has existed since at least the first century of the Common Era. While the Ancient Greeks are far better known for their poetic, multi-act plays and the invention of poetic meters such as ever-popular iambic pentameter, they also managed, despite the decadence of the Mediterranean world during the decline of the Old Roman Empire and the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, to create the template for the prose romantic novel, which helped to influence medieval writers – including Shakespeare – with a storytelling template that still finds regular use 2000 years later. These simple ‘boy meets girl’ tales, filled with trials and tribulations (and often pirate kidnappings) are incredibly trite, …
Rating of
4.5/5
Are You Playing the Game or is It Playing You?
Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/08/2017
When entering games from Steam, you come upon a mountain of garbage - asset flips, mobile ports, God-awful achievement hunting crap, badly-translated Russian and Chinese junk... but because I enter every game, I can also stumble upon the odd gem. Doki Doki Literature Club! is a free game, it's a visual novel but the Overwhelming Positive reviews for a such a new game got me interested - even moreso as I read the reviews saying to go in to this game with zero spoilers that the game would mess with your head and that the story and characters were mind-blowing. I know a lot of joke reviews get written for bad games, but, as short as they were, these seemed like genuine reactions. As I make no qualms that I enjoy visual novels, I had to test it out and I am here to say the experience was …
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