I came with an open mind and left without one.
This game is interesting, a lot of it in bad ways but I give it credit for taking up space and going over it in my head. Unfortunately, all those thoughts lead to a conclusion of either apathy or frustration. Lots of words have been spilled but what the game wants to be is not presented. There's tons of dialogue describing who these characters are but barely any showing it. Like, Alex is a gamer, right? He talks about it maybe 2 times and never mentions it again. Almost every element is like this, it is gestures to ideas but never meets them. Because this game is a master of communication a lot of discussion on the meaning of the story goes around, my take is that it's a cautionary tale of what not to do. Alex in a roundabout way is a representation of the player and he ends the game telling us not to make the same mistakes as he did and we get absorbed into him. That presumably being a metaphor for finishing the game. Is it good?
The gameplay is monotonous, in a regular menu rpg selecting actions is such a quick and easy process that for me, it is hard to get tired of. However, with yiik almost everything is a mini-game, I did in fact get tired of it. Other than selecting the most optimal attacks there isn't much strategy so all I'm left with is doing the same mini-game from the start of the game to the end of the game.
The game does look nice and the tunes are good sometimes. I appreciate the hustle, the self aggrandizing gets a bit much. That's the name of the game with yiik, isnt it?
This game is interesting, a lot of it in bad ways but I give it credit for taking up space and going over it in my head. Unfortunately, all those thoughts lead to a conclusion of either apathy or frustration. Lots of words have been spilled but what the game wants to be is not presented. There's tons of dialogue describing who these characters are but barely any showing it. Like, Alex is a gamer, right? He talks about it maybe 2 times and never mentions it again. Almost every element is like this, it is gestures to ideas but never meets them. Because this game is a master of communication a lot of discussion on the meaning of the story goes around, my take is that it's a cautionary tale of what not to do. Alex in a roundabout way is a representation of the player and he ends the game telling us not to make the same mistakes as he did and we get absorbed into him. That presumably being a metaphor for finishing the game. Is it good?
The gameplay is monotonous, in a regular menu rpg selecting actions is such a quick and easy process that for me, it is hard to get tired of. However, with yiik almost everything is a mini-game, I did in fact get tired of it. Other than selecting the most optimal attacks there isn't much strategy so all I'm left with is doing the same mini-game from the start of the game to the end of the game.
The game does look nice and the tunes are good sometimes. I appreciate the hustle, the self aggrandizing gets a bit much. That's the name of the game with yiik, isnt it?
alex is literally me
The writing is all over the place, but it's charming in a "all of these people are awful in their own way" way. The gameplay itself is the issue, where the game has fifty good ideas and then tries to do all of them at once, and also has a party member who renders some of those very ideas redundant anyway, leading to the game switching frequently between states of "you are effectively invincible" and "any mistake will kill you".
you can try to kiss a guy in this game
Just buy a gun you goofy fuck
YIIK is so good I never played it
Jesus wept.
Textbook definition of a mixed bag, still love it to pieces though
this is one of my favorite indie games and I don't think I'll ever be able to explain why. I don't even think it's good. tho it's not as bad as people make it out to be. it's as mid as it gets and I'm rooting for the devs.
still a better mystery than persona 4
really funny the most high poly model in this game is Vella's thighs
haven’t even played it yet and it’s the best game ever made
The game's neat, lowpoly Earthbound-inspired art style and potential for a compelling story are sadly rendered moot by bad writing, lame, one-note characters, mediocre pacing and structure, and a befuddling battle system that's overly-complicated and easily-exploitable at the same time.
if I was the creator of this game, I would just say I made it shit on purpose. that way it would instantly spawn thousands of video essays saying it's a "misunderstood masterpiece" and a "deconstruction of the genre".
YIIK :(
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it."
One day i'll play this if i start doing streams of shit games
You know what you did.
This is truly the morbius of video games
masterpiece
I was going to give this game a 1 star, but then I remembered the scene where the golden alpaca appears and yells "LEMONADE!!!". That scene alone elevated the game to a 5 star masterpiece.
alex yiik makes me wiip
what if i said i kind of enjoyed yiik
This is the game equivalent of a kid mixing everything on their school lunch tray into a viscous, unappetizing slop. But like, man, that kid made something. Something that's never existed before. Isn't that kinda amazing? It sucks, but isn't that kinda amazing? Look at you. You invented a biohazard.
Morbius
i tried to get into it for the meme but it was so slow paced i couldn’t take it
this is genuinely the worst game ever made its not even funny to say that this game is bad its so awful in every sense i cant even say u love this game in an ironic way its just that bad
I 100%d this game.
its bad. it fails spectacularly at having good gameplay, good writing, and conveying its story competently.
the story gets so lost within itself, that it really only has one scene to drive home what it's about: the effects that middle class mediocrity.
That one scene, the monologue when he enters the soul space, was genuinely very well done.
"I didn't realize how much I had and how little I had done to earn it. But now that there's nothing here, I realize-- I realize what a little shit i was."
"You're now face to face with God. You can ask him any question and all you ask is what's for dinner."
"There's no use beating myself up. Is there? I don't even know any more. 'Don't be so hard on yourself.' This is what my mother said to me whenever I made a mistake. But was this the mantra I really should have adopted? Maybe I should be hard on myself. Maybe I'm a failure. Maybe acknowledging your mistakes makes you not a little shit."
i genuinely believe that this game deserves the second chance that i.v will give it. i also genuinely believe that 1.0 is worth preserving. 1.25 is whatever tier, the new alpaca is too out of place, and the balance changes only make the game easier than it already was (minus the lp toss glitch)
its bad. it fails spectacularly at having good gameplay, good writing, and conveying its story competently.
the story gets so lost within itself, that it really only has one scene to drive home what it's about: the effects that middle class mediocrity.
That one scene, the monologue when he enters the soul space, was genuinely very well done.
"I didn't realize how much I had and how little I had done to earn it. But now that there's nothing here, I realize-- I realize what a little shit i was."
"You're now face to face with God. You can ask him any question and all you ask is what's for dinner."
"There's no use beating myself up. Is there? I don't even know any more. 'Don't be so hard on yourself.' This is what my mother said to me whenever I made a mistake. But was this the mantra I really should have adopted? Maybe I should be hard on myself. Maybe I'm a failure. Maybe acknowledging your mistakes makes you not a little shit."
i genuinely believe that this game deserves the second chance that i.v will give it. i also genuinely believe that 1.0 is worth preserving. 1.25 is whatever tier, the new alpaca is too out of place, and the balance changes only make the game easier than it already was (minus the lp toss glitch)
Talalieo
I love being in YIIK!
I love being in YIIK!
I played a few hours of it and watched the rest of the story online. The gameplay is ridiculously tedious and grind heavy. The story, somehow, is between pretentious and unaware? Animation and model work is fun and wacky in a good way. Some music is good, some mid or even bad.