Be me

>be me
>senior year high school
>have super close best friend who is also a girl
>I don't really do much at school besides my regular classes
>friend asks me to join her club
>reluctantly say yes
>whatever, it makes her happy
>few days go by
>getting ready for this festival
>Best friend left school early yesterday, check to see if everything's alright
>she tells me she has depression
>had no idea
>want to help all I can
>give her some space and help one of the friends I made in the club
>we get our work done, almost kiss her on the way out
>best friend is here
>she saw the tension
>she confesses her love to me
>I tell her I love her too
>we hug
>go home
>next day
>get to school
>best friend isn't here
>worried
>go to her house
>she hung herself
>play dating sims and other games to try and forget about it all
>see Doki Doki Literature Club on steam

It looks pretty good. Don't know too much about it though. Would recommend?

Is this a western game?

weak

High recommend it really helps you get away from it all. Super relaxing

Seriously what the fuck.
I know the story involves suicide, but is it really so dangerous to play? I've seen several discussions on the Internet where people asked this question and pretty much everyone agreed you shouldn't play this game if you're depressed etc. It's just a game, not a cursed videotape, is it really THAT bad?

Just play it, it's free and 2-3 hours, depending on reading speed and how much time you spend on the third act

hilarious.

You know yourself, so you can tell if it will affect you or not. I'm kinda suicidal, but I'm not gonna let a videogame depress me. It's just fiction.

no you faggot just play it before you get spoiled

nigga you forgot the part where you kiss another girl in front of her

Is this like western made-by-a-weeaboo higurashi or something?
If so, it's strange that it's blowing up in popularity like this, it's really not that strange of a concept is it?

There was a moment in Sayori's pre-suicide dialogue where I realized she was saying some of the exact same things I was saying a couple years ago. I've never had a depiction of depression hit that close to home before, so I was a little shocked. I imagine it would have an even greater effect on anyone still in that kind of near-self-harm mindset.

I picked Natsuki, don't know if it's different with Yuri, but she arrives just before a kiss

Its absokuyely not at all fucked up or scary or going to make u consider suicide or more ancious or sny of that gay fucking shit I ACTUSLLY DO WANT TO PUT A GUN IN MY MOUTH THE FACT THAT I HAVE TO SAY THIS SHIT
its A TRIGGER WARNING the creator is either an SJW

OR

hes using that disclaimed it get more people to play his game l. It attracts ppl. His next game he will sell. And it will sell alot and he will probably revolutionize western visual novel industry

Just being commercially succesful would revolutionize EVNs

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It pulls off something similar to Undertale, where the villain is aware that it's a game. She literally messes with your files and shit like that and talks directly to the player. It even asks you if you're streaming/recording and says hi to the chat.

Hello fellow redditors

Natsuki's problems with her father actually bothered me more than Sayori's death

This one is fucking brutal, probably my favorite line

HAHAHAHA THE GAME'S EVENTS HAPPENED TO ME IRL! LMAO ONLY US DOKIS UNDERSTAND THIS XD!!!!

> before you get spoiled
He got spoiled by the trigger warning on the site and would be by the one in the game

>but is it really so dangerous to play?
If you're a legit pussy.

It's all made up by Monika. How could Natsuki's father starve her when she brings a plate of decorated cupcakes? Natsuki's also a good cook, no way she barely gets any food.
Also, she's a high school senior, she's supposed to be 18. Most Americans kick their kids out of home at that point, no one considers it abuse.

Only retards think triggers will just spontaneously make people want to do things they would not otherwise do.

People who are depressed/self-harming/suicidal are literally incapable of thinking rationally in the same way that a circuit with crossed wires is incapable of completing a connection. Mentally balanced people can engage with that kind of content and separate fiction from reality, but people with mental disorders take stimuli differently. Whereas a mentally balanced person would be horrified, someone engaging in suicidal ideation may feel encouraged, anxious, guilty, etc, which can then increase their fixation on their negative ideation.

If you had a friend who was a former alcoholic, would you think it weird to warn them that there'd be an open bar at your wedding? The idea here is similar.

That's some Freddy Kruger shit right there.