By Stacey Henley
Halloween: Doki Doki Literature Club hides genuine horror behind its anime outside
Doki Doki Literature Club will not appear to be a horror game, but those people who have played it know just too well that appearances may be deceiving. It’s an overtly sweet, cutesy anime design, and masquerades as being a dating sim for which you, since the protagonist, join a literature club with four girls – a club which appears to include almost no literary works and lots of flirting because of the prospective waifus. It will start with a content caution, and without spoiling such a thing, it can take a difficult change with a shocking scene around one hour in. We assumed, seeing this scene the very first time, that this content warning was indeed satisfied, as well as the game would now carry on onwards, albeit with a somewhat more sombre and tone that is melancholy.
Nonetheless, exactly just just what comes next could be the unsettling mixture of intercourse, horror, gore, and existential doom which can just only be located within the publications Stephen King scribed through the belated ’70s and to the ’80s. It really is unsettlingly visual and purposefully uncomfortable. Doki Doki Literature Club is a emotional horror which stalks you quietly, waiting much longer than horror games that are most to hit. With regards to does leap through the shadows, it comes down at you with teeth and claws and horns, willing to eviscerate its naive victim.
It offers an excellent mixture of ‘corner of your attention’ scares, jump scares, and abject horror, and it has some decent gimmicks, however for numerous it is simply another horror game.
