Top 10 Doki Doki Literature Club Darkest Moments Doki Doki Literature Club is a visual novel
game that was released this past year that follows you, a high school student, who joins
the school’s literature club.
There’s four girls in the club – Sayori, Yuri, Natsuki and Monika - who you begin to
interact with while writing your own poetry, and while it initially seems like a light
hearted dating sim, it soon becomes apparent that it’s a little darker than that.
And by darker, I mean, it’s a psychological horror game.
Which ALSO breaks the fourth wall, venturing into some intense creepy territory.
So today, we’re diving in head first into the plot points that make the game that way,
with our top 10 Doki Doki Literature Club Darkest Moments.
Also, warning – we’ll be talking a lot about depression and suicide, so if you’re
sensitive to that subject matter, heads up.
And of course, there’s a ton of spoilers concerning the game’s ending, too.
10 The poetry you craft Let’s start off this list with something
on the lighter side of things, Aside from being a visual novel, the game also incorporates
a poetry writing mechanic in the form of a mini game.
You’re given a list of words you can choose from in order to write your own poem.
The use of certain words will catch the attention of one of the girls – they each have their
own word preferences, to the point where additional scenes can be unlocked if you write poems
tailored to a specific girl.
The scenes that you have viewed with determine what outcome your story has.
But some of these words aren’t the kinds that may immediately spring to mind when thinking
of a school writing exercise.
Murder, death, depression, grief and misery, for example, are words that your childhood
best friend, Saryori, is attracted to.
This is where the game subverts your expectations – she isn’t the happy bubbly person she
portrays on the outside.
9 The poems you hear The poems of the girls’ that you read throughout
the game are windows to what’s going on in their lives.
At first, they don’t seem all that terrifying or enlightening.
But as you progress, their work gets more and more troubling.
By the time Arc 2 comes around, writing gets more intense, and there’s even blood on
pages.
Players have speculated that Yuri’s poem The Racoon is an allegory for her self-harm,
and that Natsuki’s Things I Like About Papa details her destructive relationship with
her father.
8 Natsuki’s father Things only get worse from here on out, friends.
One of the four girls in the club that you interact with is Natsuki, and it’s implied
that she has an abusive father.
She prefers to stay at the Literature Club than go home, she constantly articulates her
fear of the reaction her father may have to certain things she does, and in Act 2, based
on your choices, she makes a comment – “My Dad would beat the shit out of me if he saw
this” – and it’s heavily implied that her father doesn’t feed her, resulting in
her malnutrition.
Even her poem ‘Things I Like About Papa’ seems to imply that his behaviour at home
is incredibly negative, to say the least.
7 Molestation Taking our last point a bit further, there’s
been a lot of discussion about whether Natsuki’s father took the abuse further than the malnutrition
and potential beatings.
Some players have interpreted some of the lines in ‘Things I Like About Papa’ to
mean that Natsuki is sexually abused.
In particular, the line “I like when Papa is too tired for anything” and its repetition
implies that he doesn’t sexually abuse her when he is too tired after a day of work.
It’s incredibly vague, and entirely down to how you interpret the poem, but based on
how dark the rest of the game is, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if that was the case.
6 Yuri’s Cutting Yuri is the most mature of the group.
She’s polite, passionate, very intelligent and carries herself with a certain eloquence.
She generally secludes herself, and early on in the game, it hints that she cuts herself.
We later on find out that her love of collecting unusual knives is due to her desire to cut
herself – not out of self-punishment but rather pleasure; it makes her feel excited.
When her personality is altered in Arc 2, she begins to develop an abnormal obsession
with you, the protagonist, and her cutting becomes more severe, to the point where Monika
suggests she cuts herself because of a fetish.
5 Sayori’s suicide (say-or-e) Sayori, your childhood best friend, occupies
the first arc of the game.
As we mentioned before, she seems quite bubbly and happy, but you eventually learn that she’s
been dealing with depression.
And that you mean a lot to her.
But this is just the start of her downward spiral in her battle with her depression.
You enter her house after she starts to become unresponsive, and enter her room to find her
hanging from a rope, with her fingers bloodied.
Monika later notes that her fingers were that way from clawing at the rope, either due to
a survival instinct or because she changed her mind last minute.
4 Yuri’s suicide Jumping back to Yuri and her cutting again,
when Yuri eventually admits that she’s in love with you, you’re given the option to
either reject or embrace her feelings.
Regardless of your answer, Yuri will proceed to stab herself out of either overexcitement
or dejection, committing suicide.
Colours flash across the screen, indicating a time lapse of Yuri’s dead body being in
the classroom for a couple of days.
3 End Credits The end credits of the game feature a song
written and performed by Monika, all about how much she loves you.
Considering that she is sentient and is pretty much responsible for the extreme behaviour
and the suicides of the other girls, well, that’s pretty damn creepy.
Speaking of which,
2 Sentient Monika Turns out that Monika is a sentient being
inside of the game.
She’s the one who has been triggering all of the events in the game, and alters the
other girls’ behaviour during the second act of the game.
She’s also the one who deleted Sayori from the game after she commits suicide.
Monika creates various game-breaking glitches in order to pursue you; she comes off as being
quite lonely, being aware of the fact that she lives inside of a simulation where she
can’t truly achieve happiness.
You are the only real part of her world, and it’s implied that whenever the game is turned
off, she’s trapped in a hellish void of noise, lights colours and screams.
She’s aware of when you turn off the game, if you’re recording the game, can edit the
other character’s files, and she still exists even when you delete her character file.
At the end of Act 3, if you delete her character file, she will realize what she has done is
wrong, and will create a new version of the game where she no longer exists.
1 There is no winning There’s no way to achieve a happy ending
in the game.
After Monika restarts the game with herself excluded, Sayori is programmed as the president
of the club, but this time is psychotic, and begins to act in a similar fashion as Monika
did.
Monika has prevented her from going off the deep end though – she has realized that
there is no way the club will ever have a happy ending, so instead, deletes the entire
game.
Players who found that unsatisfying tried to delete Monika’s character file before
the first run of the game, which led to Sayori realizing that she was trapped within a game.
She forces the game to close and deletes all the character files.
Upon re-opening the game, a black and white screen with Sayori hanging appears.
If you leave that for 10 minutes, the words “Now everyone can be happy” appear on
your screen.
And, if you try to add Monika’s character file back (if you backed it up on an external
drive) a text box will pop up and say that you are being cruel, and that she doesn’t
want to exist anymore.
She’ll then delete her file.
Well, that was heavy, wasn’t it?
The game has acquired quite the cult following since it’s release, with critics calling
it “a truly special game” and “one of the scariest games I have ever played.”
As creator Dan Salvato has stated, the game was inspired by, I quote, “things that are
scary because they make you uncomfortable, not because they shove scary-looking things
in your face.”
It’s been downloaded over one million times as of December 2017.
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