/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20508652]

This game unironically made me start reading again

[Anonymous No.20508939]

>>20508652
Can some poetry elitist explain whether the poems in the game were actually good?
I would love to hear a sophisticated take on this.

Sayori best girl.

[Anonymous No.20509122]

>>20508939
I ain't playing that. Quote some.

[Anonymous No.20509128]

>>20509122
A rotating wheel. Turning an axle. Grinding. Bolthead. Linear gearbox. Falling sky. Seven holy stakes. A docked ship. A portal to another world. A thin rope tied to a thick rope. A torn harness. Parabolic gearbox. Expanding universe. Time controlled by slipping cogwheels. Existence of God. Swimming with open water in all directions. Drowning. A prayer written in blood. A prayer written in time-devouring snakes with human eyes. A thread connecting all living human eyes. A kaleidoscope of holy stakes. Exponential gearbox. A sky of exploding stars. God disproving the existence of God. A wheel rotating in six dimensions. Forty gears and a ticking clock. A clock that ticks one second for every rotation of the planet. A clock that ticks forty times every time it ticks every second time. A bolthead of holy stakes tied to the existence of a docked ship to another world. A kaleidoscope of blood written in clocks. A time-devouring prayer connecting a sky of forty gears and open human eyes in all directions. Breathing gearbox. Breathing bolthead. Breathing ship. Breathing portal. Breathing snakes. Breathing God. Breathing blood. Breathing holy stakes. Breathing human eyes. Breathing time. Breathing prayer. Breathing sky. Breathing wheel.

[Anonymous No.20509148]

>>20509122
>>20509128
Yuri's schizo writing isn't a good example desu, you should have posted Ghost under the light.

The tendrils of my hair illuminate beneath the amber glow.
Bathing.
It must be this one.
The last remaining streetlight to have withstood the test of time.
the last yet to be replaced by the sickening blue-green hue of the future.
I bathe. Calm; breathing air of the present but living in the past.
The light flickers.
I flicker back.

[Anonymous No.20509267]

>>20509128
Woman of fish.

[Anonymous No.20509311]

You ever think about the fact that all the dialogues are written by Dan Salvato? All the dokis are actually Dan Salvato if you think about it

[Anonymous No.20509412]

it always seemed to me that the only people who like dokidoki were the same underage fans of fnaf and some gore mlp edits

[Anonymous No.20509418]

anybody got the reading chart of each girl?

[Anonymous No.20509424]

>>20509418
bump, and if someone has a chart with the waifu and all their poems, mostly the sayori's and yuri's one ^_^

[Anonymous No.20509443]

>>20509128
As the other anon says that's just schizo ramblings, and it isn't really a poem either. In the modern day it would be considered an esoteric masterpiece though.
>>20509148
If it it's translated from another language then I won't complain about its meter and construction.
The prose is good and the content is vivid. I'm at work so I can't go into much detail, but I would assume the poem is about someone who's life(literally or not) flickers as the light of their past and present flickers fades away. She may actually be dying in a bathtub if the first verse isn't a mostly meaningless verse used to set the tone of the poem.
Overall it isn't bad, but as with any poem that is more or less an expression of the author's feelings, its quality can only really be felt if one knows the circumstances and feelings of the author.

[Anonymous No.20509455]

Deep lore

[Anonymous No.20509456]

>>20508652
It was a kino game. I will admit part of the appeal was basking in all the attention from the 4 cuties, but still it was kino. Yuri was the best girl.

[Anonymous No.20509594]

>>20509418
>>20509424
>chart with the waifu and all their poems
Would like this too.

[Anonymous No.20509597]

>>20509594

[Anonymous No.20509600]

>>20509597
Is there one for Natsuki as well?
I don't have it.

[Anonymous No.20509727]

>not posting The Expression Express
Absolutely NGMI.
Amy Likes Spiders is also good in an unironic American Psycho way.

[Anonymous No.20509795]

>>20509727
That one is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.20509810]

>>20509727
I do think Natsuki is best. Sayori's are all just a metaphor for depression, Monika's are only about the plot of the game and Yuri just writes pretentious shit about herself. Natsuki at least has a few where some of them can be presented outside the context of the game.

[Anonymous No.20509815]

>>20509443
>If it it's translated from another language then I won't complain about its meter and construction.
It isn't trranslated

[Anonymous No.20509819]

>>20509443
I think it's not translated, it was written in English and it's supposed to be this clunky

[Anonymous No.20509822]

>>20509810
>Sayori's are all just a metaphor for depression

Dear Sunshine
The way you glow through my blinds in the morning
It makes me feel like you missed me.
Kissing my forehead to help me out of bed.
Making me rub the sleepy from my eyes.

Are you asking me to come out and play?
Are you trusting me to wish away a rainy day?
I look above. The sky is blue.
It's a secret, but I trust you too.

If it wasn't for you, I could sleep forever.
But I'm not mad.

I want breakfast.

[Anonymous No.20509833]

>>20509822
Idk if you're agreeing of disagreeing with me, but I thought
>If it wasn't for you, I could sleep forever.
Was pretty clear.

[Anonymous No.20509842]

>>20509833
Comparison to the innocent sleeping of a child.
She was emphasizing carelessness and love young people can experience.
Not a suicide reference.

[Anonymous No.20509877]

>>20509842
Nah I disagree. It's potentially one of the first poems the player sees so any allusions to darker themes are going to be extremely subtle. Once you finish the game and come back to it, especially comparing to her other poems, I think it's clear it's supposed to be a little "seed", if you will.

[Anonymous No.20509931]

>>20509877
Also I forgot, she explicitly says later on that the depression makes it hard for her to get out of bed. Maybe the sunshine is supposed to be MC since they always meet in the morning; If it wasn't for him she'd stay in bed.

[Anonymous No.20510008]

>>20508652
As did others.

[Anonymous No.20510054]

>>20509148
That's quite good

[Anonymous No.20510152]

>>20509128
Ripped off frome Tsukihime?

[Anonymous No.20510180]

>>20509128
A kaleidoscope of blood written in clocks goes fucking hard desu

[Anonymous No.20510486]

bump

[Anonymous No.20510696]

>>20508652
Retroactively mogged by IMSCARED

[Anonymous No.20510873]

>all the meta shit

This VN reads like an F Gardner novel

[Anonymous No.20512035]

>>20509727
Cute

[Anonymous No.20512056]

Are the /lit/ themes strong enough to justify installing the game? I don't want muh sad animus for three hours.
I'm not expecting a masterpiece, just some interesting commentary and perhaps more than superficial in-game discussion and references to literature.

[Anonymous No.20512217]

>>20512056
No

[Anonymous No.20512221]

>>20512056
Although it is a very good visual novel, it has nothing to do with actual "literature". Still recommend it though, the first release is still free to download.

[Anonymous No.20512644]

>>20512056
Why don't you try for yourself?
It probably takes the same amount of time as 1/4th or a half of one book

[Anonymous No.20512697]

>>20512056
The game is like 4 hours long, just play it you shmuck

[Anonymous No.20512723]

>>20512056
>sad animus
why is your animus sad, anon?

[Anonymous No.20512787]

>>20512056
>>20512221
It is not a good visual novel lmao, not even remotely close

[Anonymous No.20512938]

>>20508652
No it didn’t.

[Anonymous No.20513221]

>>20512787
Eh, It accomplished its goal of getting the unaffiliated skeptics to try a VN and maybe even see them in a new light, even if it did so by being overwhelmingly blatant youtube-bait. It's hard for me to consider it bad in that regard.

[Anonymous No.20513235]

>>20512787
The Japanese love it and they're the creators of the VN format.

[Anonymous No.20513264]

>>20510873
Call of the Crocodile does have a ridiculously similar plot. Except minus all the kawaii cutesy waifus.

[Anonymous No.20514051]

I want to put my penis inside Sayori.

[Anonymous No.20514140]

This game unironically made me bop it.

[Anonymous No.20514164]

>>20509128
This sounds like lyrics to an Arthur Brown song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy815P73sg