YIIK is impressively bad. I wanted to play it not only for the meme but also to understand why it’s so hated, and after 2 and half chapters I found my answer. It’s just not fun and bad.

This lack of enjoyment is entirely in the gameplay, the battles are dull and repetitive and take soooo long. I would have stuck it out if they were at least short, but every one felt like a waste of time. That’s not all though, the story is also way too messy. There are some neat ideas I guess? But it was also agonizingly slow and bogged down by uninteresting or frustrating characters.

If the I.V update actually fixes some of the main issues I might go back to it, but as of now I’d rather play anything else than spending more time on this.