It’s not just how the game works, though. Only the player experiences the jump scares, bloated black text, and snaps in character. There’s no commentary on the creepy glitches or interactions. He becomes a non-character - or just a vessel that the player uses to experience the game. The protagonist, who at least had a trace of a personality in the first act, has seemingly disappeared.
It really makes you think, “Wow, they had me in the first half.” It becomes more and more obvious that the game isn’t going to work the way you thought it did. Once you attempt a new game, you find a rewritten premise without the dead character. All the save files are gone, so redos are out of the question. After the first character dies, they appear as a glitchy mess on the title screen. The ending of the first act establishes a new norm: Choices no longer matter. However, that all goes out the window after the game takes a bloody turn. You can also choose who to work with on festival preparations, how to disrupt a club argument, and so on. If you choose cutesy words to cater to Natsuki, then you learn more about her during the next cutscene.
Players witness different cutscenes related to these characters depending on which girls like their poems. More romantic words like “daydream” better suit Sayori. Some words like “starscape” match Yuri, the introverted bookworm who prefers imagery in her poems. Players write poems using seemingly random words that appeal to specific characters.
Understandably, he takes it as an opportunity to learn about more than just literature. His childhood friend drags him into joining the Literature Club, which just happens to be full of cute girls. You play as the bland male protagonist who could use some excitement in his life. It’s something familiar to anime trope lovers across the internet. High school horrorĪs advertised, Doki Doki Literature Club! starts as your typical high school romance. It scares players with the stark contrast between its first two arcs and warns them to watch their step as they click through the dialogue. Creator Dan Salvato told Kotaku that he took inspiration from “things that are scary because they make you uncomfortable, not because they shove scary-looking things in your face.” Doki Doki Literature Club! faithfully follows his description as it establishes a norm that it pulls out from under your feet. However, I didn’t know how it was a horror game until I experienced it for myself. I played Doki Doki Literature Club to celebrate Halloween because I knew it was a horror game.
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