I don't think it's the editing though. It sounds like there's something up with your source. The sound is muffled, but there's pop. Is it a mic direction/obstruction?
That's part of it, too. I don't know how to properly use my mixer yet. And my pop guard doesn't really seem to be working. I'll experiment with it and figure it out.
@@GamingwolfZJ I can count on one hand with 2 fingers chopped of willingly how many things that actually happened with Natsuki and Sayouri only has actuall impact when she dies.
No one seems to care how all the club members ignore the fact that she writes and shows them a poem with the title "Save me" but they lose their minds once Monika starts deleting waifus. If Monika is a monster then so is anyone who has used a hex editor or deleted a game from their hard drive.
@@feanorchronos7706 turns out the media was right all along. games make people violent. gamers are all evil murderers for running ppl over in GTA or letting their sims drown. gasp
Even *if* Monika doesn't truly have free will, personally I'd still think that she will fall in love with the player anyway. Because Monika knew her "friends" were programmed characters. They're not real. So that means *YOU,* the player, is her only *real* love. Wow this sounds so sad cuz I had to delete her :/
Believe me, NO ONE thought that you got someone pregnant. You being pregnant, on the otherhand, was heavily wished for by certain members of the fanfiction community.
High quality shit right here. A doki doki video not about good horror game design or the psychological issues with the three main girls, but an attempt to deconstruct and analyze a core philosophy behind monika and her place in the game. A+ shit right here, good to have you back.
My waifu came into existence to comfort me and then when she realized she wasn't real, she dumped me so I'd be free to get a real girlfriend. Still hasn't worked.
The real bad guy is the Literature Club. At the end Monika blames the game, not the dev team. I think this implies that Monika's epiphany was an anomaly rather than something intentionally coded in. Or at least, from a lore perspective.
She was never a sentient AI in the first place. All these things are programmed. But Doki Doki is only a teaser for a much sinister game. Project Libitina. Who wil release in 2018 :)
Gabe St. Onge On the lets play Bryant and Evan combined their names into Everyant so they could both be the protagonist. Because it obviously spells Every Ant they made a joke that their character was actually an amalgam of ants speaking simultaneously (for real they read every protag line at the same time) and some nice person made fan art of their version of the protag being a school boy with two ant heads and that's what you're seeing.
" The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life, that makes you who you are." She needs a poster with this on it. A cool poster.
AsukkaTV pointed me here like 2 years ago in his video about the game and I finally got around to watching it. I am not disappointed. A very constructive view with different poem interpretation and more semiotics than average. Very happy with it. Thabk you for making it
*YEEEEES!* The DDLC Explanation Point video is here! It was never a question of "if". Only "when". Not gonna lie, I had to go and check to make sure you didn't suddenly binge record and bulk-release your playthrough before opening this video.
Ikcatcher of got want to go there, it's more flowey. sans is like a semi aware version of Sakuri, knows enough to guess correctly but can't fully confirm and can't control it. Monica, like flowey, has control but faces the limits of that control. both have abilities they didn't choose to have that cause them to question their reality but they have no ability to free themselves from it. so they go nuts until a person with more control overpowers them. to use the monk analogy imagine if the boy at the temple suddenly learns of the world outside, doesn't want to be a monk, but can't leave. suddenly they become like Monica and flowey. another thing, it's Monica's awareness that leads to get crisis. if she didn't know she would be content as a tutorial\guide to help the player find his waifu. also you can argue that Monica isn't ignoring the last crisis but has come to terms with it. she knows that are can change fate but doing so ruins everything she ever loves, including the player. it's also not love to do so. it's not that she can't change her place, but that the horrible things she had to do to do it are too much and not worth it. remember that the only reason why the game comes back is through Monica deciding that she doesn't know how to love you, so she'll let you be. so the closure of the horror of doki doki is once to you find your limitations to accept them and be content with what you can achieve. to realize that you are that child and that you became a monk because you lived there and not elsewhere, and to be happy with the choices you did make nonetheless
Although it's a bit similar undertale is only aware of the save/load function and is not aware that their world is only a simulated world made of binary. In Doki-Doki, Monika shattered the 4th wall. Monika is not only aware of the "truth" but she can also change everything within their world as she sees fit provided she knows enough programming in Python.
Nope the only ability they have is they can destroy the game but they can't "edit" it. Monika can rewrite code itself and even has the ability to stop/rewind time at will while Flowey is still a slave to the code Monika isn't. Anyway Flowey knows about the "player" what he doesn't know is that they are in a simulated universe/game and they are slaves to the whims those who knows how to code.
Well, regarding the 15:30 ish argumentation ... what most people forget when thinking about determinism is: if you're determined to take 9 weeks for the next video, others might be determined to cry and I would be determined to write this comment and tell those people to be aware that it is great that others create content for them as a hobby and they should learn some humility .. which they are determined to either care about or not ... determinism takes the whole fun out of everything ...
There are two ways of looking at it. The scientifically accurate way saying lol fuck you Heisenberg uncertanty principle, or the philosophically accurate way of Yeah, right, and what does that change exactly? Its a pointless concept mostly tauted by hack philosophers that contributes nothing to society on any appreciable level.
Oh, I think one can 'fight' determinism in even more ways. Two that I would like to mention: 1) Pragmatism: either things are dertermined or not. In case they are determined, my choice is set from the beginning. In case they aren't, chosing to believe in determinism is only detrimental. Therefore, I chose to belive in free will. It's only pragmatic. 2) A changed perception of self: yeah, my decisions stem from a really, really complex system of chemical euilibria (or whatever the plural is ...) and eletric signals. But I AM those chemical and electrical things, the whole, everchaning state of the physical system that is me experiencing itself. So while the state of the universe might describe what I chose, the desicions are still very much my own.
"I just wanted to say hi." "I'm hugging you now, I'm scared." Poor Holden (not sure if that's how you spell it) I just wanna hug him and tell him the bad man can't hurt him anymore!
Fucking, FINALLY! I was worried this guy had tripped and died after all the silence on this channel - and this is the one I look forward to. Man's got a gift.
I love both Doki Doki and the Backrooms. One reason is that both horror stories have psychological horror in them: horror that makes me think about the real world 🌍. Both Backrooms wanderers and Monika share two things in common: 1 they feel like they are trapped in a tragic world that determines their fate, 2 they often feel as if they're alone. Monika is alone with her fake NPC game friends (Yuri, etc), and Backrooms travelers are often wandering around in vast lonely liminal spaces.
This is really the best DDLC analysis I've seen. Especially when you consider (and I am sure this was already implied) that the players since of free will is played with as well. You think your playing a nonlinear dating sim, but it's a kinetic visual novel, and the game slowly takes away the poem minigame (your means of choosing a girl) in act two, forcing you to spend time with Yuri. So yeah, this game is all about the illusion of choice!
Disturbing. Though it's kinda funny for me personally. I don't watch/play/whatever these romantic fantasy visual novel type things, so I've been pretty sheltered from the DDLC craze of late, but I guess it was hiding some very powerful psychological themes. So I guess I was the target audience after all? Weird. Good video.
I know this comment is 4 years old, but the game has the unfortunate circumstance of appearing very UNappealing to the exact people most likely to enjoy it. I can absolutely say that I would've never played it if I _didn't_ get spoiled.
Hey man love your content! I've always enjoyed psychological breakdowns of anime rather then just the basic reviews and reactions! Definitely one of the smartest anime channels on youtube!
I wonder how many people are gonna be confused by your references like Bag Sayori? Also, casting more shade that a shounen mentor with "that other girl" among other things and they all made me laugh.
Good thing the Doki Doki let's play was pre-recorded (I hope). With Evan dead, Everyant would...actually what would happen to Everyant? Half of his consciousness would be gone, so...would he just become Bryant or...?
WOAH! I really liked this video! It made me think in a whole different way! I thought Monika wanted to be with us just like Asriel did, because we're the only one with free will in their universe and we're the only real thing they can interact with! This new perspective about Monika makes a lot of sense and is super interesting!
Tyler Johnson Well kinda, they aren’t exactly the same. But hey at least Re Creators is still quite unique for an anime cause their isn’t any other anime with that concept.
I think Natsuki might actually be his favorite, or at least the route he went down in his let's play. Which is fortunate. I'd hate to have to unsubscribe if he turned out to have no taste.
I would have to say that the path with Sayori ending in her hanging with your character asking "what could I have done to prevent this?" is pretty damn scary. You as the player know that no matter what you do there's only one predetermined outcome. It even refers to this in the protagonist's breakdown at the end of act one. Seeing that predetermined reality is pretty troubling if it includes horrible things like suicide or mental illness.
Man i loved that ad at the end! That is how you do ads! Super Entertaining, just try to brighten up the room with some extra light next time, okay? Okay!
You’re really good at this. You follow the patterns on RUclips that fit your niche really well, you put a lot of intelligent thought and detail into these videos, it’s honestly no wonder your sub count keeps climbing. I hope I get to see videos from you for quite a while.
I just had to pause this video to compliment you on the clarity of your speech, even the auto-captions are picking up everything you're saying. When they don't, it's something like "Post-pubescents are" --> "Post-pubescent SAR", so that's on them. In short your speech is fantastic and a big part of why I enjoy your videos.
I got Doki Doki Literature Club SPOILED to me by a friend, but I have successfully avoided The Last Jedi spoilers.....which do you think I care more about?
My brother jokingly said "can't believe he worked only 9 weeks. Smh we didn't even watch it till 2 years later. What did it matter if he took longer?" as a fan for a while this made me snicker lol
The horror of determinism is touched on a lot in Nier Automata, and I find myself drawing a lot of parallels between that and DDLC. But the true horror is realizing that God cannot be simultaneously omnipotent and benevolent, since he didn't let us know about Displates earlier.
I would argue that he also cannot be both omnipotent and omniscient, because anything that could possibly know what we were going to do to ourselves and everything around us, assuming there aren't too many worse things we can do under our current limitations that we haven't figured out yet, would take one look at our future and give us the old black widow two-step.
@@tripleoo0 Your reasoning is flawed. You only assume one potential outcome given the information you have. You assume, because omniscience would be too painful to bear for yourself, that another person, in fact every other person or form of consciousness, MUST feel the same way as you did. However, what if the pain of omniscience was, like black coffee, a taste they actually desired? The omnipotence wouldn't come from the lack of omniscience but it's painful presence and said ability to endure it. What you avoid, they embrace....what you find revolting, they find enlightening. You still wouldn't be able to grasp such a being (they are fundamentally embracing things you personally find revolting, so it's still an apple person trying to explain their love to an orange person) but it would square the circle your own pardox can't seem to solve.
In my defense, this is not necessarily the view I hold today, two years and change later, but you are correct; there's no guarantee that any species we know of is modeled after said deity. I do still think that's too fatalistic a worldview for me to carry. I guess I just hope that the uncaring void does actually care at least a little bit.
Wow, that was actually a really good ad. I normally tune out during sponsorships, but you had me engaged the whole time. I knew I was being marketed at, but I didn't care!
Omg, you finally made another video man! Not that I'm complaining, you make really fantastic content so it's well worth the wait. Keep up the great work!
Colstratos depends do u like unlikable characters, boring plots with only a few brief points of interest and avatar villain Mary Sue with so much edge he’s a 90 degrees angle if so go ahead and watch it I won’t stop u
10:49 I was thinking that you're going to mention de Saussure's semiology and concept of the [SIGN] when you said that there's "this idea in linguistics," but instead you mentioned the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I respect a man who knows what he's doing. Salute!
Taco_G_ they likely just recently finished playing and he wanted to get his thoughts out as soon as possible. I'm sure the next parts of the lp will be up soon. They'll just need some time in the editing room
Yeah, Monika is one of the greatest video game characters of all time IMO, one of the tragic heroes, and objectively best girl. I do think your third crisis is something you, the player, got from it though, and was not intended. I think the love Monika has the player (though predetermined) is supposed to be as natural as our own. And yes, I know, that's the point, ours is predetermined as well, but I think that's just something you can get from the game, not something the designers intended. I think that the design of the designers ended with the horror of Monikas fate in and of itself, that it also applies to the player in a meta sense is a happy coincidence. I think Monika loves the player because you are literally the only other sentient being she knows, not because she is destined to fall in love with the player by the game, this is evidenced by the fact that Monika does NOT fall in love with you as a character, like the other girls, but with YOU the player. It's sad to me that so many people look at Monika like she's some sort of psychotic villain when really, she's a nice girl who literally did nothing wrong, and is only ever a victim by the game, the creators, and you. Monika is the archetypical tragic heroine.
this whole thing really reminds me of a book I read, it's called turtles all the way down by john green, it's really good and I think you might enjoy it
This channel is highly underrated. Love the content. Im a person who loves to deeply think about even the littlest things and this channel is exactly what i need
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT INKHEART! I love your videos, and I'm very happy to have been reminded on one of my favorite series after all these years. I wonder if I'd still like it today.
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whats up with the audio?
Still new to audio editing. Getting used to it.
ah, i should've been more understanding of it. I apologize.
I don't think it's the editing though. It sounds like there's something up with your source. The sound is muffled, but there's pop. Is it a mic direction/obstruction?
It sounds like the bass has been boosted too high.
That's part of it, too. I don't know how to properly use my mixer yet. And my pop guard doesn't really seem to be working. I'll experiment with it and figure it out.
"The other one"
You finally pulled it off. You got silent outrage out of me.
The other one (Natsuki) is my favorite character
We shall start a cult that simps over Natsuki and other Tsunderes. Our Enemy? The Yandere Simpers. Anyone else agree?
Honestly Natsuki and sort of Sayouri are very forgetable.
@@northpenguins excuse me. WHAT?!
@@GamingwolfZJ I can count on one hand with 2 fingers chopped of willingly how many things that actually happened with Natsuki and Sayouri only has actuall impact when she dies.
You know what always frightened me? The fear of never being able to affect the world in a meaningful way.
I just want to affect the world of a single person. That's my only wish.
@@monkey_blu kill someone. that'll certainly change their world.
I feel like this is quote from monika either from the game, or the after story mod
@@sofiaporras3624
Could also be a reference to OneShot or Undertale
Finally someone explaining why Monika isn't an actual monster, I knew I could count on you Exclamation point
No one seems to care how all the club members ignore the fact that she writes and shows them a poem with the title "Save me" but they lose their minds once Monika starts deleting waifus. If Monika is a monster then so is anyone who has used a hex editor or deleted a game from their hard drive.
@@feanorchronos7706 turns out the media was right all along. games make people violent. gamers are all evil murderers for running ppl over in GTA or letting their sims drown. gasp
Game theory did 😔✌🏾
She isn't a monster, she is an agent with a purpose, only ever not pursuing it for diplomacy.
Quin Nunez I mean she is but yeah
Even *if* Monika doesn't truly have free will, personally I'd still think that she will fall in love with the player anyway. Because Monika knew her "friends" were programmed characters. They're not real.
So that means *YOU,* the player, is her only *real* love.
Wow this sounds so sad cuz I had to delete her :/
So, that’s the same thing? Right?
you dont have to delete her, you can keep her around forever
So she doesn't have free will. She was programmed to do a thing and thus will fulfill that task because it's the only thing she knows.
it's fine, she was a twat anyway
One the other hand, does anyone tired to duplicated her file instead of removing it? Now that would be fucking cruel, isnt it?
Believe me, NO ONE thought that you got someone pregnant.
You being pregnant, on the otherhand, was heavily wished for by certain members of the fanfiction community.
I know this comment is old. But what the actual freaking hell!?
@@MrTigracho just as confused as your are bud
12:34 Hilariously, my only connection to Colorado is my Buddhist grandma and her shambala-based community.
Whereas I am from Colorado, and have no connection to Buddhism.
I do some weed, does that count?
Years later, and I’m guessing a place called Crestone.
I read this before I got to that point and it makes no sense
You would have a couple doki-doki's left.
Is it still Doki-Doki if my heart was torn out?
The wonders of necromancy
Digi I mean if it's still beating then sure
Digi This is not oki doki
This man has 4 videos and he's already got a sponsorship deal
"those quadriplegic robots that only knew how to scream and do interpretive dance"
God I love this channel
6:44 should've been "Hole in Wall" and "Hole in Wall Part 2: Poetic Boogaloo"
Goose McBruce should've been "battle tendency"
1 milion d'abonnés sans vidéo, c'est possible? IS THAT A FUCKMOTHERING JOJOS REFERENCE?!??!???!
1 milion d'abonnés sans vidéo, c'est possible?
Na-*NANI???!*
The fact that you called ALL of the girls cock sleeves gave me one hell of a laugh.
High quality shit right here. A doki doki video not about good horror game design or the psychological issues with the three main girls, but an attempt to deconstruct and analyze a core philosophy behind monika and her place in the game. A+ shit right here, good to have you back.
Sayori will always be my favorite wai-
*Christmas ornament*
Monika does know her Christmas decorations
*Ornament
Jolly good bulli
aaaw thank you
Yo, Just Some Guy without a Mustache, I’ve seen you before... but then again, who hasn’t? :D
My waifu came into existence to comfort me
and then when she realized she wasn't real, she dumped me so I'd be free to get a real girlfriend. Still hasn't worked.
You gave me a writing prompt. Thank you.
@Nayaka Syahidah can you share the result of that plot?
So... You seen the glitch war in random dreams and daydream.s
One thousand lies?
In another words, the true monster is Team Salvato, the sadistic gods who created Monika and placed her in the game.
The real bad guy is the Literature Club. At the end Monika blames the game, not the dev team. I think this implies that Monika's epiphany was an anomaly rather than something intentionally coded in. Or at least, from a lore perspective.
When you go meta you throw out the its fiction card. And when that happens Monica is no longer a sentient AI, just a texparser.
She was never a sentient AI in the first place. All these things are programmed. But Doki Doki is only a teaser for a much sinister game. Project Libitina. Who wil release in 2018 :)
Not really it has been confirmed. You can even go to the website projectlibitina.com/
not a whole lot there.... can you link to something where Salvato said something about this?
in a sense DDLC is sorta lovecraftian, where you are the ancient unknowable horror beyond puny mortal comprehension
unk THE unk Monika also tried to raise from being a puny mortal to Lovecraftian horror with ancient language of Py'thon.
"Nope. No picture for this one." Why not have a picture of a rooster wearing a sweater?
Now he has to edit and reupload the entire video
radonstone Good idea, that means we'll get a new song
Sayori or yuri or the other one...
Ha ha poor natsuki
A lot of people must be confused about the amount of references that are in this video, like Bag sayori or the ants.
Please explain.... please.
+Gabe St. Onge +Maria Nelson They're references to his playthrough on Questing mark!
I sure am not
Gabe St. Onge On the lets play Bryant and Evan combined their names into Everyant so they could both be the protagonist. Because it obviously spells Every Ant they made a joke that their character was actually an amalgam of ants speaking simultaneously (for real they read every protag line at the same time) and some nice person made fan art of their version of the protag being a school boy with two ant heads and that's what you're seeing.
Romulus Numa I'm more wondering what's up with that "the other girl" thing he's doing.
It might be part of the future parts?
Hole in wall 3: Tokyo drift
Hole in Wall: Revenge of the This Time It's Personal Strikes Back!
Hole in Wall 6: Return of the MC
Hole In Wall: 7 Grand Dad
Hole in wall 8: the glitchy poems part 2
Hole in Wall: Glory Days, the preq'cum'el
In before the comments get spammed with "Just Monika."
Just Monika
"fUcKinG mOnIkAmMmMmM"
Must Jonika, wait.
Just Expoint
JUST..
Stop
" The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life, that makes you who you are."
She needs a poster with this on it.
A cool poster.
Bruh not only did my biological father upload but he uploaded about a game I've been thinking about a lot lately. Dad really does care.
Falcondorf You have his eyes
Ascended from Daddy to B I O L O G I C A L F A T H E R
"Edgey edgey knife knife and The Other One" I'm dead
#SaveHolden
None of Your Business #virtualcocksleeve
@@__sno__3820 #8monthstoolate
Ethan Givens #fuckididntrealise
@@__sno__3820 #wellyoudonowlol
Ethan Givens #butstillthovirtualcocksleeve
This just makes me feel bad for Monika...
I felt bad for Monika Because of An Easter Egg.... Goddamn this Game Is Incredible
The whole _game_ makes me feel bad for Monika
Have you had a nice holiday time?
Goranim is that a yes?
AsukkaTV pointed me here like 2 years ago in his video about the game and I finally got around to watching it. I am not disappointed. A very constructive view with different poem interpretation and more semiotics than average. Very happy with it. Thabk you for making it
**stares blankly into space**
*NO YOUR HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS*
**continues to stare into space**
*puts gun to head*
Nobody's pregnant? Hmm... does that means u already had the baby!?
I JUST REALIZED THAT THE PUN OF HIS CHANNELS NAME IS THAT IT'S AN EXCLAMATION POINT GODDAMMIT ME WAKE UP
Talks about meta in a video game follows up with hyper meta advert , man i know meta is in atm but that was a lot.
9 meta 3 me
5:41
Whoa, whoa, WHOA.
Dude. EP. You can't hit me with god-tier editing like that. I'm just not fucking prepared for that.
tomoko got third place!! _wewt_
"The other one" ......that is cruel :'v
*YEEEEES!*
The DDLC Explanation Point video is here!
It was never a question of "if". Only "when".
Not gonna lie, I had to go and check to make sure you didn't suddenly binge record and bulk-release your playthrough before opening this video.
So what you’re telling me is.......
Monika is Sans confirmed
Ikcatcher of got want to go there, it's more flowey. sans is like a semi aware version of Sakuri, knows enough to guess correctly but can't fully confirm and can't control it.
Monica, like flowey, has control but faces the limits of that control. both have abilities they didn't choose to have that cause them to question their reality but they have no ability to free themselves from it. so they go nuts until a person with more control overpowers them.
to use the monk analogy imagine if the boy at the temple suddenly learns of the world outside, doesn't want to be a monk, but can't leave. suddenly they become like Monica and flowey.
another thing, it's Monica's awareness that leads to get crisis. if she didn't know she would be content as a tutorial\guide to help the player find his waifu.
also you can argue that Monica isn't ignoring the last crisis but has come to terms with it. she knows that are can change fate but doing so ruins everything she ever loves, including the player. it's also not love to do so.
it's not that she can't change her place, but that the horrible things she had to do to do it are too much and not worth it. remember that the only reason why the game comes back is through Monica deciding that she doesn't know how to love you, so she'll let you be.
so the closure of the horror of doki doki is once to you find your limitations to accept them and be content with what you can achieve. to realize that you are that child and that you became a monk because you lived there and not elsewhere, and to be happy with the choices you did make nonetheless
Although it's a bit similar undertale is only aware of the save/load function and is not aware that their world is only a simulated world made of binary. In Doki-Doki, Monika shattered the 4th wall. Monika is not only aware of the "truth" but she can also change everything within their world as she sees fit provided she knows enough programming in Python.
NO.
hue hue flowey also has that ability, it was shown in the neutral and pacifist ending, also with chara when you try to open your game
Nope the only ability they have is they can destroy the game but they can't "edit" it. Monika can rewrite code itself and even has the ability to stop/rewind time at will while Flowey is still a slave to the code Monika isn't.
Anyway Flowey knows about the "player" what he doesn't know is that they are in a simulated universe/game and they are slaves to the whims those who knows how to code.
Well, regarding the 15:30 ish argumentation ... what most people forget when thinking about determinism is: if you're determined to take 9 weeks for the next video, others might be determined to cry and I would be determined to write this comment and tell those people to be aware that it is great that others create content for them as a hobby and they should learn some humility .. which they are determined to either care about or not ... determinism takes the whole fun out of everything ...
There are two ways of looking at it. The scientifically accurate way saying lol fuck you Heisenberg uncertanty principle, or the philosophically accurate way of Yeah, right, and what does that change exactly?
Its a pointless concept mostly tauted by hack philosophers that contributes nothing to society on any appreciable level.
Oh, I think one can 'fight' determinism in even more ways.
Two that I would like to mention:
1) Pragmatism: either things are dertermined or not. In case they are determined, my choice is set from the beginning. In case they aren't, chosing to believe in determinism is only detrimental. Therefore, I chose to belive in free will. It's only pragmatic.
2) A changed perception of self: yeah, my decisions stem from a really, really complex system of chemical euilibria (or whatever the plural is ...) and eletric signals. But I AM those chemical and electrical things, the whole, everchaning state of the physical system that is me experiencing itself. So while the state of the universe might describe what I chose, the desicions are still very much my own.
"I just wanted to say hi." "I'm hugging you now, I'm scared." Poor Holden (not sure if that's how you spell it) I just wanna hug him and tell him the bad man can't hurt him anymore!
Did you just use "ostensibly" in a sentence and NOT fuck it up? Have a Like.
Fucking, FINALLY! I was worried this guy had tripped and died after all the silence on this channel - and this is the one I look forward to. Man's got a gift.
A video? I haven't seen one of those since the great war.
.... which one? I suppose it would be The Great War......of 12 AD....
I love both Doki Doki and the Backrooms. One reason is that both horror stories have psychological horror in them: horror that makes me think about the real world 🌍.
Both Backrooms wanderers and Monika share two things in common: 1 they feel like they are trapped in a tragic world that determines their fate, 2 they often feel as if they're alone. Monika is alone with her fake NPC game friends (Yuri, etc), and Backrooms travelers are often wandering around in vast lonely liminal spaces.
I CAME AS SOON AS I HEARD EXPLANATION SENPAI
All the way from London? Damn.
This is really the best DDLC analysis I've seen. Especially when you consider (and I am sure this was already implied) that the players since of free will is played with as well. You think your playing a nonlinear dating sim, but it's a kinetic visual novel, and the game slowly takes away the poem minigame (your means of choosing a girl) in act two, forcing you to spend time with Yuri. So yeah, this game is all about the illusion of choice!
Disturbing. Though it's kinda funny for me personally. I don't watch/play/whatever these romantic fantasy visual novel type things, so I've been pretty sheltered from the DDLC craze of late, but I guess it was hiding some very powerful psychological themes. So I guess I was the target audience after all? Weird.
Good video.
gumgrapes darn, got spoiled huh, it's very awesome so give it a shot
I know this comment is 4 years old, but the game has the unfortunate circumstance of appearing very UNappealing to the exact people most likely to enjoy it. I can absolutely say that I would've never played it if I _didn't_ get spoiled.
Just discovered your channel, and your references to MTG cards are ON POINT
Great job on the sponsership. Really well done and entertaining.
I guess you could say the game is...... Oki Doki
(Plays Seinfeld music)
Hey man love your content! I've always enjoyed psychological breakdowns of anime rather then just the basic reviews and reactions! Definitely one of the smartest anime channels on youtube!
I wonder how many people are gonna be confused by your references like Bag Sayori?
Also, casting more shade that a shounen mentor with "that other girl" among other things and they all made me laugh.
Good thing the Doki Doki let's play was pre-recorded (I hope). With Evan dead, Everyant would...actually what would happen to Everyant? Half of his consciousness would be gone, so...would he just become Bryant or...?
Mathwiz97 just Ant. Just Ant. Just Ant. Just Ant...
oh hey other great anime youtuber, you having an existential crisis here too?
Guys... I’m not dead! It was a banana... Bryant is just melodramatic >.>
I mean to be fair, he just got shot, he may still survive! Lol
"I'm not dead!" Said the *undead* grad student. :P
STOP CALLING THE WAIFU YOU CHOSE "THE OTHER ONE"
I'm not a big fan of Philo-
The Suicidal Muffin dang, Monika must have seen this Waifu as another threat
Found this today, watched all your stuff today, subscribed today. Love your stuff.
And I love you, random citizen!
@@ExplanationPointAnimeI'm 5 years late but i love you too metroman!
Lots of magic references in this one. I like your style Mr.!
WOAH! I really liked this video! It made me think in a whole different way! I thought Monika wanted to be with us just like Asriel did, because we're the only one with free will in their universe and we're the only real thing they can interact with! This new perspective about Monika makes a lot of sense and is super interesting!
Inkheart is the original Re:Creators. Loved those books.
Tyler Johnson Well kinda, they aren’t exactly the same. But hey at least Re Creators is still quite unique for an anime cause their isn’t any other anime with that concept.
Are they actually good? All i know of inkheart is a terrible movie starring Brendan fraser.
It’s been years since I’ve read those books but I remember them quite fondly. It made me happy to see Inkheart pop up in this video.
Just remember Gravity Falls predicted both DDLC and FNAF in the same episode.
The new video is here Bryant!
Good, good. Let the references flow through you.
(awesome vid, honestly)
Stop scaring Holden. He's a good boy... probably. He sounds like a good boy.
Am i like, the only person in the world who likes natsuki?
You are not. Natsuki is precious child, and must be protected.
Natsuki is sane man's best girl.
Yuri is edgy man's best girl.
Sayory is no man's best girl.
Monika is thinking man's best girl.
I think Natsuki might actually be his favorite, or at least the route he went down in his let's play. Which is fortunate.
I'd hate to have to unsubscribe if he turned out to have no taste.
Yes
Look on the bright side: sans deletion, she made it out alive. She was seen (incorrectly) as unlikeable so not too much was tweaked.....
I would have to say that the path with Sayori ending in her hanging with your character asking "what could I have done to prevent this?" is pretty damn scary. You as the player know that no matter what you do there's only one predetermined outcome. It even refers to this in the protagonist's breakdown at the end of act one.
Seeing that predetermined reality is pretty troubling if it includes horrible things like suicide or mental illness.
"For example"
*Puts the word example four times on the screen*
God I love this channel
Man i loved that ad at the end! That is how you do ads! Super Entertaining, just try to brighten up the room with some extra light next time, okay? Okay!
You’re really good at this. You follow the patterns on RUclips that fit your niche really well, you put a lot of intelligent thought and detail into these videos, it’s honestly no wonder your sub count keeps climbing. I hope I get to see videos from you for quite a while.
Wow "Sisyphian"! Those big ol words! Mister big shot smart guy! I bet you call you car hold a "garage".
And I call my detergent "laundry sauce!"
I just had to pause this video to compliment you on the clarity of your speech, even the auto-captions are picking up everything you're saying. When they don't, it's something like "Post-pubescents are" --> "Post-pubescent SAR", so that's on them.
In short your speech is fantastic and a big part of why I enjoy your videos.
I want to watch this now but I haven't finished the game DAMN IT
Blizzic jake Paul comes out at the end
they didn't either
I got Doki Doki Literature Club SPOILED to me by a friend, but I have successfully avoided The Last Jedi spoilers.....which do you think I care more about?
Poofbomb - Minecraft & More! The fact that Zero Two might be dead
Blizzic it took me 6 hours.
My brother jokingly said "can't believe he worked only 9 weeks. Smh we didn't even watch it till 2 years later. What did it matter if he took longer?" as a fan for a while this made me snicker lol
Sayori Squad, what's hanging?
Just Monika.
The Sarcastic Lime fuck you XD
Man, that Displate ad was R E A L L Y well done, props to you man, keep up the good work.
The horror of determinism is touched on a lot in Nier Automata, and I find myself drawing a lot of parallels between that and DDLC.
But the true horror is realizing that God cannot be simultaneously omnipotent and benevolent, since he didn't let us know about Displates earlier.
I would argue that he also cannot be both omnipotent and omniscient, because anything that could possibly know what we were going to do to ourselves and everything around us, assuming there aren't too many worse things we can do under our current limitations that we haven't figured out yet, would take one look at our future and give us the old black widow two-step.
@@tripleoo0 Your reasoning is flawed. You only assume one potential outcome given the information you have. You assume, because omniscience would be too painful to bear for yourself, that another person, in fact every other person or form of consciousness, MUST feel the same way as you did. However, what if the pain of omniscience was, like black coffee, a taste they actually desired? The omnipotence wouldn't come from the lack of omniscience but it's painful presence and said ability to endure it. What you avoid, they embrace....what you find revolting, they find enlightening.
You still wouldn't be able to grasp such a being (they are fundamentally embracing things you personally find revolting, so it's still an apple person trying to explain their love to an orange person) but it would square the circle your own pardox can't seem to solve.
In my defense, this is not necessarily the view I hold today, two years and change later, but you are correct; there's no guarantee that any species we know of is modeled after said deity. I do still think that's too fatalistic a worldview for me to carry. I guess I just hope that the uncaring void does actually care at least a little bit.
I apperciate your high quality commercial for displates cx keep making great content and keep getting thos sponsors
You and your roommates are hilarious. XD
Wow, that was actually a really good ad. I normally tune out during sponsorships, but you had me engaged the whole time. I knew I was being marketed at, but I didn't care!
I missed this editing.
Omg, you finally made another video man! Not that I'm complaining, you make really fantastic content so it's well worth the wait. Keep up the great work!
The legend of Korra destroyed most people’s hopes and dreams so Monica we feel your pain
Michael Long Wow, was is that bad? I haven't finished it...
Colstratos depends do u like unlikable characters, boring plots with only a few brief points of interest and avatar villain Mary Sue with so much edge he’s a 90 degrees angle if so go ahead and watch it I won’t stop u
Glad I'm not the only one
10:49 I was thinking that you're going to mention de Saussure's semiology and concept of the [SIGN] when you said that there's "this idea in linguistics," but instead you mentioned the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I respect a man who knows what he's doing. Salute!
"The other one" HOW DARE YOU
Damn, son. 10/10, best Doki Doki analysis video I've seen!
So, the Stanley Parable of anime?
That posters thing was the best ad since the Game Grump's Crunchyroll ad. Nicely done!
Neat, now FINISH THE DAMN GAME
Taco_G_ they likely just recently finished playing and he wanted to get his thoughts out as soon as possible. I'm sure the next parts of the lp will be up soon. They'll just need some time in the editing room
I was going to be mad at you for not uploading, but you got Ark and I completely understand that.
Love the ending skit, need more of it! (And this rhymes, f*ck yeah!!)
Gosh I love your work so much and your voice I could literally listen to you talk about cottage cheese for an hour
He officially has more subs then anime everyday! I mean it's like 15 more, but it's more!
Update: now it's a few hundred!
I almost peed myself at your ad at the end, keep up the amazing work :D
Yeah, Monika is one of the greatest video game characters of all time IMO, one of the tragic heroes, and objectively best girl. I do think your third crisis is something you, the player, got from it though, and was not intended. I think the love Monika has the player (though predetermined) is supposed to be as natural as our own. And yes, I know, that's the point, ours is predetermined as well, but I think that's just something you can get from the game, not something the designers intended.
I think that the design of the designers ended with the horror of Monikas fate in and of itself, that it also applies to the player in a meta sense is a happy coincidence.
I think Monika loves the player because you are literally the only other sentient being she knows, not because she is destined to fall in love with the player by the game, this is evidenced by the fact that Monika does NOT fall in love with you as a character, like the other girls, but with YOU the player.
It's sad to me that so many people look at Monika like she's some sort of psychotic villain when really, she's a nice girl who literally did nothing wrong, and is only ever a victim by the game, the creators, and you. Monika is the archetypical tragic heroine.
Good job on another great video Bryant.
Your late to upload Bryant
Edit: ok you got ark I don’t blame you anymore!
YOU'RE late to upload!
Explanation Point Congratulations I played myself!
You had my attention, not you have my thumbs up after that hilarious endorsement segment. Well done.
this whole thing really reminds me of a book I read, it's called turtles all the way down by john green, it's really good and I think you might enjoy it
This channel is highly underrated. Love the content. Im a person who loves to deeply think about even the littlest things and this channel is exactly what i need
Some quality shitposting as advertising?
All advertising is, by nature of definition, shitposting.
Ah, have you not seen the Game Grumps's ads, they are a masterpiece in terms of shitposting
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT INKHEART! I love your videos, and I'm very happy to have been reminded on one of my favorite series after all these years. I wonder if I'd still like it today.