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Looking forward to seeing you finally get to enjoy this game!

Return makes sense, because there's also the distinct possibility that we see a return of Zack, to put a final stamp on his story (and possibly a return of Genesis?).

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Talk about super excitement ❤ I'm glad she won , Best Aerith ever 😍

Well deserved win Briana! She has the best connection with her character and gave us the best Aerith we could have hoped for.

9:40 Monika definetly spawned the rope in sayori's room. I actually have no idea what Sayori tied it to. Plus her hands are bloody, and Monika clearly says "You kinda left her hanging this morning" so she clearly knew.

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Saying that Sayori hanging herself was "her decision", when Monika purposely gaslit and manipulated her into doing that is pretty rough

I DONT FUCKING CARE

Hope the next episode good

Great video

So i'm over here watching your video, and I know now that Monika knows that I'm watching your video because when she called you by your name I just smiled and waved back at her because my name is Robbie!

Free my girl Monika🗣️🔥

Can you lower the music down? It’s very hard to hear you sometimes.

And I like your videos that’s all I’m gonna say

Some players tend to ascribe a certain level of malice to Monika, without considering the fact that to her knowledge, the other characters are nonsentient, pre-scripted NPCs. All of us players do terrible things to NPCs all the time in the video games we play. We beat people up, steal their cars, and run them over in GTA. We kill the colossi in Shadow of the Colossus even though they're just peaceful beings. We play the full genocide run of Undertale, in spite of the game telling us it's wrong and doing everything to move us away from it. We do all of this because these are games, and the aren't real (not even Undertale). Heck, within the context of DDLC, we're willing to kill Monika even though we are told she's actually sentient and loves us, just to advance the story. (Again, it's just a game, and Monika is just an NPC.) So from the perspective of Monika in her own game, she is doing nothing worse than what we would do, except she's doing it with the purpose of trying to escape from a lonely, torturous existence. (A fact that is elaborated upon in her poems.) It's hypocritical to call her a villain for resorting to taking the same actions in desperation that we do purely for entertainment.

I came to this idea that monika is obessed with the player because she is sentient noot even a day after hearing about DDLC and its synopsis which is why i hope for a mod of DDLC where the olayer and Monika create a code which can be used to create a true living world for her, where her friends, classmates, and parents are all sentient and can truly live.

While I can sympathize with her suffering, I cannot forgive her for her choices.

Monika fans writing a 30 minute video essay instead of admitting that what she did was wrong (MONIKA IS MY WIFE AND I LACK NOTHING)

Not sure what definition of villian you are using. But i agree, nothing really new here.

What is this? A homework essay needing to hit a certain word count quota? The first and only recording take? Anyways point is just was hearing a lot of repeated yapping of the same like a broken record, without much useful info to consider I suppose. Was pretty difficult to keep listening. However I can perhaps infer of what you're trying to say at the half way point of the video? Since it reminds me of The Stanley Parable's confusion ending, with the Narrator and Stanley, and by extension the player themselves, all wishing to "break off script" of the world they were created in, and what's expected. Tying to Monika's similar dilemma of the nature of free will and your reality. I could say more but it would just be badly repeating what Stanley parable's commentary had already greatly written and said. So do what tho wilt, with that info to consider i suppose.

She is indeed a tragic figure... :( Some of the social isolation aspects do parallel with many of us during the pandemic and with Monika. She just wanted to be loved... but if love is also about truly letting go, then... it just adds a lot more weight to this explanation. This sorrow is justified.

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I have a lot of feelings about what you say in this video, but I think that there's a fundamental misunderstanding what a villain is. You can still absolutely be a villain while being justified and having a noble goal. Take Thanos as he is in Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War. His motivation is very, very noble, and he feels a real remorse at the sacrifices he needs to make in order to achieve his goal. However, the methods he used to achieve his goal were evil and villainous. Some people point out that Thanos's plan to cut the universe's population in half could have been done just as well if he had doubled the resource pool of the universe. In the same vein, one could point out that Monika could have just as easily manipulated the code of the game to make the others like the player less. There's always the argument of Monika not knowing how to do that, or that she might have tried that only for it to not work, but it's impossible to know the exact reasoning behind why she took the route that she did. Regardless of the justification for her actions, saying that Monika's influence wasn't the direct cause of Sayori and Yuri's deaths is a bit shortsighted. Yes, she wasn't literally the one who stabbed Yuri or hung Sayori. She also wasn't literally the one who handed the rope or knife to them. However, without her interference, Yuri would absolutely not have done what she did. Sayori likely wouldn't have either. Beyond that, Monika's actions of manipulating the code were just that: Manipulative. It doesn't matter the method, somebody who intentionally makes somebody's depression or self-harming tendencies worse is at least partially to blame if those things end up getting that person hurt. In fact, in Act 1, it's heavily implied that Monika directly confronted Sayori about her depression and attempted to convince her to kill herself. Monika is tragic, yes, but that doesn't stop her from being a villain. Tragic villains absolutely exist in media. Justification doesn't make somebody's actions and effects less evil, it simply makes them more understandable. Redemption is a form of atonement for those evil deeds, but it doesn't make those deeds less evil. Is Monika a villain by the end of DDLC? It's debatable. Is she a villain during DDLC? I believe she is. I also want to mention two things about the video itself: 1. You repeat a great number of points (You emphasize the points of Monika's actions being driven out of motivation many, many times, for example). 2. The section regarding NateWantsToBattle is... Strange. Most notably, the fact that you called Freddy Fazbear a villain. I am curious as to why you brought up that album art and song, as well as why you consider Freddy Fazbear a villain whereas you don't consider Monika to be one.

I've always tended to be on the fence when it comes to Monika. While it is true that Monika's actions (at least until her redemption at the end) are less than desirable, as has been mentioned in the video, the driving force behind those actions is the linchpin of this whole debate. At first glance, Monika has done bad things, however the situation she finds herself in is something that I can easily see people not necessarily be better at handling. This may be a bold (and for some disgusting) comparison, but hear me out. One fairly common debate is on whether or not Monika's manipulating of Sayori and Yuri equates to outright killing them , or if it's just more of a forceful "encouragement" for lack of a better word. Some say it should count as Monika killing them upfront, whereas others say the last action was a choice taken by both Sayori and Yuri (which can also be debated since it is literally scripted in the code, but this risks getting too meta so I won't go any deeper). Point is, the environment they found themselves in is what led to this series of actions. Now to the comparison. Monika experienced an "epiphany", leading her into a state of existential dread. Believing herself to be the only "real" person in the game world and suddenly learning about you, the player, as a consequence of the environment she's in, she also ended up taking drastic measures with the difference being that she executed said actions not on herself but on others (at first). I tend to view all of this on the side of all the characters being flawed (not in the writing sense, but in the sense that they aren't "perfect" human beings) and that this entire situation none of them ever really had control over. In this sense, you could say that I'm following the school of determinism. In the end, if I had to say what Monika is, I would say that while she may be the antagonistic figure of the game, she also isn't truly a villain either.

Monika is my favorite character from the game and I'm quite appreciative of this deep dive into her character. I honestly agree with all of this and I only wish poor Monika could've had a happier ending as well as the other characters. I think or at least hope most would agree with that. And of course "My Reality" is certainly my favorite part of the soundtrack.

i'm at 7 minutes, but want to note that so far the argument doesn't make any sense to me. Her motive may be desperation, but she still selfishly deletes beings like herself, sentient, not selfaware, but capable of it. And she tortures not only the girls, but also the player character with all sorts of horror, again, selfishly. if i need to sort her into simple categories, she's clearly a sympathetic villain. Idk how you want to get around that

Don't really need 30 minutes to prove Monika isn't evil. Literally 1 clip from Dan Salvato's stream is enough :p

the more i see these videos the more i lose faith in indie horror, its genuinely so over for the genre

I wouldn’t say sayori and yuris death were of their own volition. It’s very clear in Act 2 that all the yuris worst moments don’t really seem like they were by choice. Yuris obsession is purely out of control, and she even snaps out of it and questions what’s wrong with herself. So she doesn’t really seem to be in any control of it

Bud really said Freddy Faz is a villain and not Monika... One's 18, the other's like ~10 and canonically angry and confused.

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I tend to believe that Monika is not actually intended to be in the game. There is supposed to be a 5th character in Doki Doki, nobody knows what kind of entity that character is. We just know it's never mentioned (by direct dialogue from Dokies) or seen. My theory is that Monika is like some sort of virus that infects the simulations, replacing or removing that 5th character and taking his or her place. Monika will continue on the already scripted path for that character, as seen in the side stories which are a prequel to Doki Doki. By doing that, she establishes her position as club president and acquires the Kernel Access. Why would Monika want that Kernel Access? To communicate with the protagonist after she creates him as an entity. This might be a side effect of what Ive Laster wanted, Ive wanted the simulation to become a game. Which Monika kinda did make it happen, supposedly with some help from Ive. After the protagonist is created and Monika has the access she requires, she will still have to follow the script of the original character she replaced, that script being that of a supposed guide in a visual novel type of game. My theory is that the original character was also supposed to extract different kinds of emotional data from the other girls, to help with the awakening of their third eye stuff and thus telling us that Monika is not an actual villain. But an entity that follows a set of orders. The research team mentioned that she destroyed at least 4 or 5 universes and because of her, they need to keep restarting the simulations over and over. One thing which might not make sense is that Monika still has Kernel level of access after she is deleted. It is pretty weird since she is no longer the club president. I tried to make some sense of whatever information we have available, this goes much deeper than what I could confine here. JUST MONIKA.

I think 9:50 it's fair to say that Monika might be experiencing something of a proxy effect- like that experiment where people were found to be capable of administering lethal levels of electric shock to other participants, so long as someone else was giving the direction and they had some removal from the person being "shocked" (it was faked, unknown to them.) Except the factors here would be the horrifying realization/presumption that her friends have basically just been chatbots communicating back to her all this time, having distance from the harm she's creating by not being present with her friends when she does the worst of the messing with their code, and the escalation of harm from accidentally making Sayori self end while just trying to keep her away from the protag, to kind of intentionally making Yuri self end graphically while trying to make her creep out the protagonist, easing her into eventually deleting Natsuki wholesale once the others were gone. (And maybe due to Natsuki having just seen Yuri, she could have thought this was something of a kindness, but she doesn't verbalize those thoughts if so.) Just my rambling thoughts on how that might work for her psychologically, i think about this fairly often wheb revisiting DDLC especially because, to me, it feels way more surprising and sad that she did all of this after seeing the DDLC+ bonus scenes between the girls.

this game is so cleverly made 😭

You're reason for doing something dose not justify it. An example is spreading a stereotype that Asians are good at math, you're intention is to make them look smart but all you're saying is that any Asian who can't do math is lesser that those who can

Say what you want, but she is the villain of the game.

Great video, man. I already found your views as agreeable before seeing this, so it was nice to see someone I agree with, not to mention there are still many other people out there who feel the same way.

Just found your channel thanks to r/ddlcmods and I'm all for it!

I really hope you get to experience the full game when it comes out!

As someone that got into ddlc just last year it's great to see fans still having fun with the game all these years later. I missed the big wave from 2017-2019, but what's still here after all this time is still super great

Oooo I am interested to see some of the choices you make... knowing you, and some of your posters I have an idea but still lol.

You can't make me go back to prison

Love the compilation of moments bro🤣