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Same with the average “subversive free game” player those twitch streamers induced to play it, or the fan artists feeding off that mass appeal energy - these fans have evaporated as the “hot new thing” status cooled away. The shock-jockey twitch streamer segment has an incredibly short one - they play it, love it, then move on to the next big thing. Fandoms for games go through life cycles, and different segments have different lifespans. These.are not the same character at all! Monika is completely changed by and defined by that meta-revelation, and all of her actions reflect that - the DDLC Plus tales really don’t offer much insight into her character once that revelation is scrapped.īut before you think this is a roast essay, expecting anything different would have been foolish - this is the product the market was more-or-less demanding. In the main game, to recall, she is self-aware code trapped in a lifeless dating sim box, views her “friends” as non-sentient scraps of dialogue trees, and script-kiddie’s her way into inducing their suicides and burning down the entire world in the process just to float in glitch-space monopolizing the romantic attention of the actual player, the only ‘real’ human accessible from her virtual prison. This collapse is most apparent with Monika, who in DDLC Plus is a earnest-but-overbearing perfectionist trying to balance helping her friends with her tendency to meddle. For me, while each of these individual stories work well, some extremely well (I liked the traditional aspects of the original game quite a lot, after all), the whole is a good deal less than the sum of its parts as that previously mentioned tension explodes into contradiction when the full picture is considered. As an expansion it radically flips that appeal binary - the content of the expansion is almost entirely character-on-character friendship & drama interactions in an alternate utopian timeline, going hard into that second appeal strategy with almost no meta-awareness present. DDLC Plus was just released this week, almost 4 years after the original.