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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Switch NSP Free Download For most of the gaming world, the secret is out about Doki Doki Literature Club. Between countless theories and reaction vids on YouTube and the viral world of mouth spread when the game originally came out in late 2017, there are probably not that many people that haven’t either A: experienced DDLC, or B: at least know what the deal is after someone telling them about. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, then, would have to come in pretty strong to justify a re-release of a game that is currently free-to-play on Steam. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

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Fortunately, Team Salvato and Serenity Forge have come in quite strong indeed. Not only is the game now available on consoles, including the portable Switch, a significant feature in itself, but the team has added some significant and surprising new content to more than justify its price tag whether you’re a new or returning player.

Spoiler warning: This article will allude to major plot details of the original Doki Doki Literature Club game. It’s recommended that if you have not played the original game, that you proceed through this review with caution or play through it once before reading this review. It’s still free on Steam.

Just in case you missed the train the first time around let’s quickly go over the premise of Doki Doki Literature Club main campaign.

You play as an unnamed main character (MC) that effectively is a stand-in for you, and will narrate much of the game. You live in a town nearby your childhood friend name Sayori, a cute girl who is a member of the Literature Club in school. She ultimately convinces you to join the club which is home to three other girls: Natsuki, Yuri, and club president Monika. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling Switch

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Although at first reluctant, the MC gives in and joins the club, seeing it as an opportunity to get close to one of the girls by impressing them with your poetry writing skills. In-between long dialog stints (this is a visual novel through and through), you’ll play a short mini-game every once in a while where you “write” a poem by selecting words that you think one of the three romance options (Sayori, Natsuki, Yuri) will like.

You can figure out what they like by paying close attention to their personalities which are very distinct from one another. For example, Yuri is quiet, shy, and mature and is a fan of long and complex novels; so she prefers words that are complex, as opposed to Natsuki which enjoys “cute” things, and Sayori who is emotional and prefers words that are tied to emotions, be it happy or sad. Cadence of Hyrule Switch NSP 

Still a masterpiece

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! at first seemed like an odd pick to port to consoles, considering the original launched as a free-to-play PC game in 2017 and made heavy use of mechanics you can only find on PC. Thankfully, this updated version was developed with a lot of care and still remains a masterpiece to this day. For this review, I’ll do my best to avoid spoilers of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! and focus on how the new content and jump to consoles affects the game. However, this is very much a game that you should go into with as little story knowledge as possible, and this review will have to discuss some details surrounding key moments of the story and overall experience. Consider yourself warned. Capcom Arcade Stadium Switch 

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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! follows your character, an average high school boy, as you navigate the pressures of joining a school club and preparing for the upcoming festival. Coerced into joining a club by your neighbor and childhood friend Sayori, you humor her by attending a meeting of the school’s Literature Club, of which she serves as vice president. In doing so, you come to meet Natsuki, Yuri, and the club’s president Monika, who are collectively the only other members of the club. While you have no real interest in literature, you can’t pass up the chance to hang out with this cast of cute girls, and thus you join the club hoping to eventually romance one of them.

Not your average romance story

Things take a darker twist later in the game, however. Anyone who plays Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! should take its content warnings at the beginning of the game seriously. New to this version of the game is the option to get a detailed breakdown of the content the game contains (although it necessarily contains spoilers). It also adds the option to turn on content warnings in the middle of the game, indicating sensitive topics as they’re about to come up. This only applies to the major events in the game, so it’s not a perfect system, but it’s as close as you can get given that everyone has different sensitivities to different things. I found it to be largely noninvasive, although it does naturally spoil things that are about to happen. It’s a nice touch for those who need it, but if you don’t, do yourself a favor and ignore it. Chess Knights: Viking Lands Switch NSP

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During the course of both the main story and side content, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! plays out like a standard visual novel with some extra features included. Outside of following the story, you’ll occasionally be asked to write a poem to share with the girls at the next day’s club meeting. This process consists of selecting a word from a list of 10 randomly generated words. Each word assigns a hidden point value to the girls, which acts as an affection meter of sorts. Do this 20 times, and you’ll wind up with your poem. While you don’t get to see the end result of your efforts in poem form (probably a good thing), this is how you determine which of the girls you’ll spend time with during the next club session, and thus which of their events you get to see. This does play out a bit in the story as well, as favoring one girl over the others can cause your relationships to deteriorate. Cyber Shadow Switch NSP

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