Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Music:
"persona" meme rap x persona type beat (prod.imprint)https://youtu.be/ruj5JO5JDi8

⏱Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:28 - The Literature Club's Truth
06:08 - The Tragic Wholesomeness
12:41 - Comparisons
14:51 - My Honest Opinions
24:58 - Housekeeping

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Script:
In celebration of the release of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus's release, I wanted to dedicate a video to this game. Doki Doki Literature Club changed my life forever. No, not Dragon Ball which my name is based after. Not Future Diary which my name is also based after. This game about four cute girls in a literature club is the one. I even have it set as my favorite game on steam, have bought the recently released Doki Doki Literature Club Plus expansion twice, Digitally and physically, and have gotten the trophies on every PlayStation version of the game. But how is that possible? Well... if you care to know, then join me on this long expedition of memories and feelings I did not know were possible for video games to invoke.



Let's start slow for the uninitiated. Some games come and go, and some stick in the mind longer than others. Resident Evil Village is an amazing horror game with incredible replayabilty. Saints Row The Third is a balls to the wall action thriller focused on insane gameplay. Doki Doki on the other hand... is something completely different... It's a visual novel. Doki Doki Literature Club is a game where you join a literature club (shocker) and write poems to try to write the way into the heart of your favorite girl. How could something so unbelievably basic be so impactful? Well that is where you cannot judge a book by its cover. This game is absolutely horrifying to some people, including me. When you think of a visual novel, you're thinking of a rigid structured game where you're in full control. You decide what happens with your choices, and you decide who you get with, who lives, etc. What does Doki Doki think about that?



You progress through the first act as if everything is normal. You're bonding with your club, you're writing poems, and you're learning about the characters. Even this section is hard to handle though, with the truth about your childhood friend, Sayori, having severe depression and showing suicidal tendencies being revealed, and later confirmed in the side stories released in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus. As if this wasn't enough, the very next scene takes everything you thought you knew about this game and drops it on its head. With the simple text "I gently open the door..." you know something horrific is in store.



You see Sayori. Your best friend, who wanted nothing but to be happy, to love you, and to make the literature club happy, dangling from the roof with a rope around her neck as the game begins to corrupt itself. "Maybe you just got a bad ending" you think to yourself? "This could not possibly be what was meant to be happen... right?" You start a new game, and now your best friend has ceased to exist, and now everyone thinks its completely normal. "What the hell is going on?" you probably ponder to yourself. Well, this is just the beginning. Act 2 has you progress through the same story, minus Sayori, but everything is broken. The game is glitching, the notes in the music are... off... and there's this intense atmosphere that makes the room feel heavy... and then you notice that the club members aren't acting usual either. Yuri is more anxious, panicy, and obsessive. Natsuki is more or less the same. Acting as a tsundere. Monika seems the exact same too at first... but something is off. As you progress and more glitches happen, it becomes apparent that Monika is hiding something. She's aware of the glitches while the others are not. How is that possible? Is she not just a programmed AI meant to go along with what the game says? You feel uneasy. You are alone in the clubroom with Yuri now, and she's acting... strange... She eventually confesses her love to you in a very unsettling way. "Yes or no?" You ponder... Well...



As if it could not get any worse. Yuri, the timid bookworm who seemed gentle as a fly, pulls out a knife and starts stabbi