I've played I.V but this is a review for the 1.25 version, which is well worth experiencing. I recommend playing it to further appreciate the enhancements of the I.V version.

YIIK is a pretty humorously written game that's easy to laugh along to. It has really insane and confusing lore but if you're a Homestuck fan like me that's all the more reason to love it. There's a lot of content to sink your teeth into like ONISM but its optional so if you're not interested don't have to read it but I do recommend it. Its easy to follow along the story with its superb voice acting, all the voices fit the characters really well and it feels a bit more real and less anime to me which is nice.

Gameplay wise it's not great. There's a few mid dungeons and the battles take a while even if you know what they're doing, so I recommend skipping a few battles here and there which is easy to do. There's some fun minigames to do in battles but they can get repetive since some of the moves theyre assigned to dont do a lot for you, so you do a lot of the same attacks which means the same minigames. But since its consistent you can get really good at them and clear house. I had a good time with it but its easy to see the flaws and jank in it.

Overall it's a pretty great game and one of my favorites of all time but I don't want to oversell it to you. Give it a chance and if you just want to laugh at the absurdity of the game and don't care about the gameplay, go behind the tree in front of Alex's home and press "Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, Cross, Circle, Square" a sound que will play and you are able to skip any battles you want if you hold the speed up button. Fun little cheat code.