YIIK: A Postmodern RPG Reviews

wow

i am attracted to Vella Wilde

I hate this game it still smells of a mean musk

the greatest game of all time...

beat this on switch. lifechanging experience

Just don't. Just watch the OneyPlays and then look up the ending.

goated update no joke you just have to trust and play the entire thing yiik IV saved yiik

Warning spoilers ahead!!! So, I bought this game back on switch way before I.V came out and remember being a little disappointed with the broken battle system and the seemingly un-tested un-polished nature of everything past a certain point in the game. I was also disappointed with the sort of party swap out at the end, especially to go along with the seemingly notoriously most hated main character. I was hoping, like in the case of a story like Tales of Abyss, with a similarly pampered asshole redhead main character, that Alex would learn to grow and really show his maturity in the finale, but instead we get... whatever that ending was. I kinda let this slide though, as an indie project and all. Then, I heard about I.V and I got really excited because it was going to be free and the developer was going to take into account all the criticism! However... even that has its issues. They REALLY leaned a lot more into the psychedelic post-modernism and instead of making the protagonist grow, they just made the central plot ultimately revolve almost entirely around hating him. Plus, I'm not really a fan of the karta battle system. I know it was supposed to be a major upgrade, but it comes with issues of its own and while I got the hang of it and overall the experience was improved and I'd still recommend for each person's individual experience of the game, I'm not sure I understand the deeper meaning that the authors clearly want to hint at in any other way than just telling us what they're saying. I still don't get the purpose of some of the characters or how they relate to the story at all. Either way, a good experience and I did go back and play it a second time just to see what the changes were. I don't regret that and did enjoy it overall, so I'd recommend that on that note alone.

hating this game because Alex is annoying is like hating Evangelion because Shinji is annoying, that's the entire point. He's a whiny know-it-all liberal arts major by design

On release, everyone rightfully lambasted this game for being a clunky earthbound wannabe about the most reddit man alive. After the release of I.V, it's a lot more mechanically playable and honestly fairly easy to get the hang of, but with enough nuance to it that there are a couple battles that you actually have to think about your Karta choice and placement. As for the narrative, it's still about the most reddit man alive, but it serves much more of a purpose. I really can't say much more than that, because the impact of the later moments of the game depend so heavily on not knowing what's coming, to the point that it's a great game to go back and watch someone else play after you finished it to see all the details that seemed random at the time. Kill the ONISM MAN within you.