Well, almost… First small things, then the impression that something is off will get stronger, then you’ll be almost sure of it… Until one day Sayori commits suicide and the game crashes. Amidst all this idyll, nothing will seem to bother you. You will be getting to know the heroines better, choosing whom you like most, writing poems dedicated to them and getting ready for a school festival. In a company like that, you are about to run a usual life of a teenage school boy. And finally, there is Monika, the president of the club who will be some sort of your guide through all the strange stuff that will be happening here. The youngest member of the club is Natsuki. She also has a rather strange hobby of collecting knives. Then there is Yuri, a mysterious and self-focused introvert who prefers books to people. She likes to stay at home and spend time in her room. She is kind and sweet, but also shy and clumsy. What else could you dream about? Everyone’s attention is now focused on you, and each of the heroines in your surroundings is charming in her own way.įirst of all, there is Sayori, a friend of your childhood. You are a Japanese schoolboy, you’re in your teens and you’re lucky to get invited to a literature club that consists solely of girls. But then you get oddities like Monika finally managing to pull the player aside for a heart-to-heart conversation, only for the game to suddenly start fading to black and cutting her off, that feel like the game itself is actively screwing her over beyond what it should be programmed to do.What seemed like a usual literature club…Įverything starts in a rather common way. Why? Well, because she's self-aware, and when she starts messing with the game code, the game itself starts trying to put her in her place, making characters plant the seeds of suspicion about her and stymying any attempts by Monika to get the player alone with her. This adds another layer to Yuri's and Natsuki's protests against Monika trying to list herself as an option for the player to choose to help, both times.It isn't until she finally just erases everything except herself and part of the club room that the game can no longer fight back. It also kind of explains why the romance segments are so rushed.It could've been the game using Yuri and Natsuki as mouth-pieces to voice its complaints to Monika about her abusing her power and considering how it shocked even Monika to hear, possibly using Yuri to tell Monika to kill (ie delete) herself the way the game already knew she'd killed and deleted a character intended to be much more important to it than Monika herself (Sayori), and saying it'd be "beneficial to your mental health" (because then she wouldn't be suffering from the realities of being a fictional character who exists only to serve the romances of other characters, and possibly again as a veiled reference to Sayori's depression and her getting talked into killing herself by Monika). Judging by how many poems you write, there are exactly seven days in the game's events. You write and share three poems and there's a two-day weekend, then the festival is on Monday. You start the game on Tuesday and write a poem that night. Poems are shared on Wednesday and another one is written that night. Thursday you share your next poem and write the third. Friday you share the poem and choose a club member to help out over the weekend. Saturday is skipped entirely in Act 1 and in Act 2 you watch it pass while paralysed from watching Yuri kill herself. Sunday either Yuri or Natsuki comes over in Act 1 or you're still paralysed from Yuri's suicide on the classroom floor. On Monday it's the festival and is the day the other girls get deleted.
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