The game handles this with a clever poem-making minigame, which has you choosing words from a list that you think your heroine of choice will like. Sayori, as mentioned, fills the role of childhood friend, but also club vice president next is the timid, but intellectually and emotionally intense Yuri then there’s Natsuki, the petite tsundere freshman and finally there’s Monika, your classmate from the previous year who’s way beyond your league-but apparently remembers you well enough.ĭespite having no interest in literature, the protagonist pulls a, well, dick move and agrees to join the Literature Club with the ulterior motive of getting close to one of the girls.
But when he gets to the club, the protagonist is pleasantly surprised to find it filled with cute girls.Įach of them incarnates a typical VN trope. An expository monologue reminds you that this version of you is content to glide through live with average grades and no involvement in any clubs-at least until your childhood friend, Sayori, convinces you to give her literature club a chance. You control a self-insert protagonist who attends high school in a vaguely Japanese setting. While it may appear, at a glance, to be your typical bishoujo visual novel, this facade is just a part of a masterful manipulation of tropes that push the genre’s limits. Thus, in the span of a minute and without any gameplay, Doki Doki Literature Club establishes the unsettling mix of moe and morbid that seeps into every moment of the game, right up to the ending credits.
And as the equally bubbly theme music comes on, disturbing isn’t quite the word that comes to mind. Which happens to be imposed on a bubblegum pink textbox laid over a drawing of four cute high-school heroines. It opens with a warning: “This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.” Granted, if you wanted to get into it without expectations, you really wouldn’t be reading a review, right? But I’m just going with the spirit of things. Spoiler Notes: This contains minor spoilers for Doki Doki Literature Club.
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