YIIK: A Postmodern RPG

1. Calibur-X

   Jan 22, 2019

   10

   This game is amazing, not perfect but so far from the bad critics based on political views

   • 1 of 7 users found this helpful
2. StarlightLune

   Aug 30, 2020

   10

   YIIK: A Postmodern RPG is important to me. It's a game that I learned a lot more from than I was willing to give it credit for at first, andYIIK: A Postmodern RPG is important to me. It's a game that I learned a lot more from than I was willing to give it credit for at first, and it makes me really, really sad to see the reception that it has. There is a lot to be said about YIIK, so much so that I want to do a long, long video essay about it someday, but I will conclude for now by saying that if you've only heard about this game from the rumors about the dev or the out of context screenshots, please, PLEASE give the game the honest chance it deserves. You might not get another chance to experience something quite like this in your life.… Expand

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4. MrButtButt

   Jan 23, 2019

   9

   This game is awesome! YIIK, in it's current state, is a little buggy at times, and there are a few things that could be fixed. However, thisThis game is awesome! YIIK, in it's current state, is a little buggy at times, and there are a few things that could be fixed. However, this game absolutely does not deserve the sheer amount of hate it's receiving. The main character, Alex, is a self-centered egotist, and you aren't supposed to agree with that. His friends call him out on it, and even he calls himself out on it later in the story. YIIK is a story about growing as a person and while not erasing past wrong doings altogether, but ultimately doing your best to make up for them. Do not turn into a sheep and blindly jump onto the bandwagon that this game should be passed on, because you're only doing a disservice to yourself. The soundtrack is really good, and while at some points feels a little out of place, in others it perfectly captures the mood I was looking for in the scene.
   
   There are a couple things that I would've liked to see though. A little bit faster battles, which I believe IS being implemented in an update. A small amount of the set pieces seem out of place, such as some of the pictures you find around the world looking like stock photos. Also more enemy variety would've been nice too, after seeing some of the same enemies throughout the game.
   
   I wholeheartedly do not regret my time spent with YIIK, and I plan to play through it many more times. it doesn't deserve the reputation it's currently going down as having, and I really hope more players come out to show how much they enjoyed it.… Expand

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5. The3AcademySins

   Mar 31, 2020

   1

   This is painfully bad. It's got a quirky art style that is completely undercut by an offensively bad story, time wasting game play that dragsThis is painfully bad. It's got a quirky art style that is completely undercut by an offensively bad story, time wasting game play that drags on, and poorly designed puzzles. The writing is easily the worst thing about this game. It's trying way to hard to be David Foster Wallace, Haruki Murakami, and Chuck Palahnuik but fails incredibly hard. It's needlessly vindictive and serious, but somehow handles the themes of death and suicide really poorly. This is post-modernism done badly.… Expand

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6. Ndi

   Jan 20, 2019

   1

   Bad controls, zero innovation, bull story, bad voice acting and a combat system from 1947.
   
   It brings nothing to the world and it's SOBad controls, zero innovation, bull story, bad voice acting and a combat system from 1947.
   
   It brings nothing to the world and it's SO pleased with itself, harping on about meta this and souls that, but the characters are not defined, have silly cookie cutter motivation, people have breakdowns missing people they met for 10 minutes, etc. Whoever wrote this can't write.
   
   Voice acting is awful, from audio quality to people having breakdowns because the death of a family member but can't even change the tone, like someone is reading a paper on their characters.
   
   It is "inspired" from many games, straight up taking mechanics and ideas and adding nothing, like the babble the story is should carry it.
   
   As for the animation and art, 3-frame animations, only a few poses, making the character grab and pull his hair 230 times in all kinds of situations. Less work than a visual novel shoveled from Steam.
   
   I don't know what was supposed to carry this game, none of the components are good.… Expand

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7. NEPGYA

   May 29, 2019

   1

   When a game describes itself as "post modern" and has a name that requires a graphic on its store page telling you how to pronounce it, youWhen a game describes itself as "post modern" and has a name that requires a graphic on its store page telling you how to pronounce it, you know you're in for something special. The game is pretentious, poorly written, and has a lot of dialogue but ultimately says nothing. If the developers sought to write a realistically obnoxious hipster for the main protagonist, then they ironically/unironically succeeded. It's like they wanted to make a Persona/Earthbound-esque game without understanding what makes either franchise great, and the combat is a tried-and-failed ripoff of the combat system from Shadow Hearts. The 20 dollar asking price is a near criminal rip off for what you get, and I could only recommend it to anyone who wants to spend roughly 20 hours hating it and hating themselves for wasting the money to purchase it.
   The art style has a kind of charm to it though, I'll give it a point for that.… Expand

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8. BulgarianCritic

   Feb 12, 2020

   0

   This game is one of the best examples on how to not make a video game.Everything from the start to the finish is just garbage.The gameplay isThis game is one of the best examples on how to not make a video game.Everything from the start to the finish is just garbage.The gameplay is boring, repetitive and unbalanced. The main protagonist is one of the worse characters ever created and the plot of the story is one of the most boring things i have ever heard and read in my entire life.I would suggest staying away from this game unless you want to be bored and lectured from a pretentious developer with a huge ego that has no idea on how to make a good game or story for that matter and literally stole lines from Murakami's book to put on his crappy game . AVOID THIS GAME LIKE THE PLAGUE… Expand

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