By Stacey Henley
Halloween: Doki Doki Literature Club hides horror that is real its anime outside
Doki Doki Literature Club will not appear to be a horror game, but all those who have played it understand just too well that appearances could be deceiving. It offers an overtly sweet, cutesy anime design, and masquerades as being a dating sim for which you, once the protagonist, join a literature club with four girls – a club which generally seems to include hardly any literary works and plenty of flirting with all the prospective waifus. It can start out with a warning that is content and without spoiling any such thing, it can take a difficult change having a shocking scene around one hour in. We assumed, seeing this scene the 1st time, that this content caution was in fact satisfied, and also the 
game would now carry on onwards, albeit with a somewhat more sombre and tone that is melancholy.
But, just exactly exactly what comes next could be the unsettling mixture of intercourse, horror, gore, and existential doom which can only just be located within the publications Stephen King scribed through the belated ’70s and in to the ’80s. Continue reading “Deadnamed by Doki Doki Literature Club: what sort of horror comedy made me face my biggest fear”