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YIIK A Postmodern RPG Switch NSP Free Download Unfitgirl People have been waiting years for YIIK: A Postmodern RPG’s release. The game’s been in development since 2014, and you can go read interviews floating around from 2015 onward for more background on its journey. Finally, the big day is here… but can it live up to nearly a half-decade of anticipation? Before we begin, rest assured, this will be a minimal-spoiler review. YIIK (that’s pronounced “why two kay,” as in Y2K), at its base, is a 3D indie RPG. There are turn-based battles, an overworld with random encounters, dungeons with puzzles to solve, and plenty of memorable NPCs. Beneath these simple genre trappings, however, is a game that defies summary. Meet Alex, the primary player-protagonist, who comes home to the town of Frankton from an unnamed American college one summer day. Alex is the beating heart of the narrative drive. He also wears a red plaid shirt, big dark-framed glasses, a fuzzy beard and a full salvo of orange hair. Yes, Alex is a hipster. He listens to vinyl records by obscure artists and speaks fondly of classic video games. He has also grown accustomed to a somewhat upper-class lifestyle. Alex’s status as a privileged (but otherwise unexceptional) white boy forms the plot’s subtext; or, at least, receives some story treatment. The point is, this “Postmodern RPG” is nothing if not self-aware. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

YIIK is wagering on something here: there’s probably a ton of people out there who can relate to Alex in varying degrees. He is intelligent but lacks ambition. After earning a degree, he’s struggling to achieve the measure of success his parents have attained. He enjoys hanging out with friends but falls short when it comes to forming meaningful relationships. He is lonely. He would rather stay in bed today. The plot takes place in the year 1999, and at times Alex can be found browsing a weird internet forum. How many of us were doing the same at one time, discovering the World Wide Web and poking around in its strange corners? YIIK places a bet on this nostalgia, and at times it really lands well. For those who ever felt ‘adrift’ at this point in their life, and perhaps found a little solace in odd BBS forums, the whole journey will land even more poignantly. And, oh boy, what a journey it is. Once Alex is back in town, he renews contact with Michael, an old neighbourhood friend who had moved away years prior. Then, you eventually see a loose cat, and pursue it into the woods, and then to an old factory. There, Alex meets a young woman named Sammy, who is suddenly torn out of reality by interdimensional beings of unknown origin. Alex is powerless to prevent this, and his anguish over the event begins turning the wheels of the entire storyline.

Brave dungeons littered with puzzles

It’s a lot to take in, and only the beginning of a breathtaking spiral of strangeness. This is a game where Weird Stuff Happens, and much of its appeal is going to hinge on whether you have an appetite for a continual serving of more Weird Stuff at every turn. YIIK is absolutely gunning for the Weird Stuff throne, full tilt, and truly swings for the fences in that regard. You want surreal visuals and utterly unconventional quest chapters? Search no more, for you have found your huckleberry. Oh, right: beneath its splashes of stylish colouring and deep dives into the bizarre, there’s a video game! Alex really wants to save this girl, even if figuring out how to do so will get pretty tricky. He, along with a growing and rotating cast of support characters, will embark all over the landscape to visit different towns and caves and dungeons to find his way. Combat is a highlight. Enemies present a healthy challenge, along with designs ranging from insipid (a piece of poo) to inspired (Sheep Man is a woolly wonder, he’s the best). Your characters can use healing items, attempt to run and so on, but the attacks are the real hook here, of course. Each character has their own standard attack that relies on button-press timing. You may be holding down your analog stick and trying to release it at a certain time, or pressing different face buttons to match the swings of a hula hoop. Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy Of The Duelist Link Evolution

Records will spin and obey your commands to drop the needle, swords might lash out at all enemies rather than just one – it’s a turn-based party, and you’re invited. Each character also has their own skills. These vary wildly, with each character serving a very distinctive niche, from healing to adopting “stances” to change their fighting style to the one-of-a-kind ability to “banish” certain enemy types. Like fellow indie RPG darling Undertale, YIIK dares to ask, “How does a pacifist character work in battle?” Some of the skill attacks are performed by mastering 16-bit pixel microgames, which are just adorable. Much like the regular attacks, these will be a test of reaction timing and focus. But nimble fingers won’t win the day by themselves. The dungeons in this game pose some real lateral-thinking challenges. As Alex and friends embark to locales spanning from a mountainside cave to… like, spaces within the mind-consciousness or whatever, players will quickly realize that conventional tactics may not suffice. There is definitely in-game logic going on, as it’s all never truly random or unfair, but this is the kind of game where, once or twice, you may turn your Switch off in frustration and have to sleep on it before you realise what you need to do in order to progress. At least, that was our experience.

Stay on your toes

You probably won’t mind too much, though, because the ride is a thrill. The increasing surreality of the story, along with the steady level-up progression, on top of the eye-kissing artwork, all blend together in a pleasant dish for gamers and compel you to keep moving forward. You can have a lot of fun just spotting different gaming references and detecting classic influences. Beyond that, without saying too much, just trust us when we say that this game really takes some imaginative leaps. The music is a ride all of its own, sporting different collaborations on the soundtrack that lend to an eclectic flavour. Peppy horns will give way to eerie keyboards, only to be supplanted by an orchestral arrangement, only to be overtaken by a wave of sudden vocals and electric guitar. It’s all a little odd but the quality itself is never in question. If you were looking for a concern, let’s have a word about pacing. How do you feel about dialogue? YIIK has loads of it. Trainloads and boatloads and bathtubs full of the stuff. If you’re into that sort of thing, it’s great; which is the kind of statement that sounds obvious but still bears mentioning. The characters that form your adventuring party are going to have lots of conversations, some of them lengthy and many of them without any bearing on the plot. They are going to tackle topics ranging from the existence of God to the death of a family member, but also favourite anime and SNES RPGs. Zero Caliber VR 

At its core, YIIK operates on the same frequency as a cross-country road trip with a few close friends. If that sort of tone resonates with you, you’re in for a treat of characterisations. Otherwise, you may feel stuck waiting for something to happen as the cast launches into another pseudo-philosophical conversation on the nature of the soul. The level-up system, however, might be the low point. Levelling in YIIK does not happen naturally as characters gain EXP. In order to advance their stats, you have to enter Alex’s Mind Dungeon (ahem). There, Alex will walk into various doorways and stairwells in order to make his manual selections as to which of his stats to increase. It’s as tedious as it sounds, and although there is some more Weird Stuff that pops up in these sections, it’s ultimately not worth the added tedium, especially since some other game elements like certain attacks have already taken a slower approach. It’s hard to imagine why simply selecting stat increases from a menu would not have been an improvement. Other than these hiccups, the game flows like a dream – quite literally, in some moments. YIIK captures a certain slice of Americana, when end-of-the-world hysteria was peaking but before everyone had a Twitter account.

(Relax, weapons don’t break.)

Not every beat works perfectly (the NPC kid who says they hope their mother marries her new boyfriend because he “doesn’t hit me as hard” as their dad is rather uncomfortable, to say the least), but if you’re willing to “buy in” on the experience a bit and let yourself be swept into the motif of late-night internet sleuths ignoring real-world woes by diving headlong into the paranormal, you might be in for something special. Let’s get this out of the way first: Postmodernism is a daunting subject for a video game review, despite having a great deal to do with the medium. The most appealing aspect of video games, at least, in my opinion, is the idea that each individual playthrough leaves a different impression upon the player, whether they have already experienced a similar title, or if they are picking up a controller for the first time. There is no objective way to label player experience, although we can usually agree on the vocabulary we use to describe games and their mechanics. However, a game like YIIK doesn’t really deserve these empirical labels and categorizations, if only because what the game strives to embrace – the Postmodern philosophy. Stick with me, here, because this is going to be a crazy ride. For those who would like a very, very, very, very, very condensed definition, Postmodernism was a counter-movement and response to the Age of Enlightenment. Zombieland VR Headshot Fever

Those who embraced Postmodernism rejected the idea of objective truth and logic, seeing the vocabulary of logic and reason as a man-made and inherently flawed way of perceiving the universe. For example, when I say that the sky is blue, does that mean that you see the same hue as me? When we discuss the sky, we use common phrases and terms in order to do so, but perception is subjective, not concrete. Postmodernists found that subverting the conventions and traditions of Western thought and striving for personal, spiritual introspection yielded a clearer understanding of the world around us. More often than not, this resulted in discussions and media with a great deal of irreverence and surrealism. When discussing surrealism in video games, or even more specifically, Role-playing games, there is no better example than Shigesato Itoi’s Mother. This JRPG trilogy is best known in the West for its second installment, localized as EarthBound, as well as the mysterious lack of localization for its third installment. Mother is Itoi’s comical reinterpretation of both its genre and Western Culture, replacing weapons with yo-yos and baseball bats, healing items with hamburgers, and a plot rife with psychic abilities and science fiction. Many feel that Mother gave birth to its own subgenre of surrealist RPGs, though the heart of Itoi’s trilogy is his unique perspective of the genre.

Many others have taken his approach to RPG conventions and given them their own personal twist, resulting in titles that, while unique, are clumsily lumped in with Mother because of their unique interpretations. Some examples include Lisa and Undertale, and now, it can be assumed that YIIK will join them as a “Motherlike.” While some might appreciate the history lesson, I am certain that a large number of readers are much more curious about a review of YIIK, and whether or not it answers the question: “do we need a postmodern RPG?” Although on the surface, YIIK appears to be a Motherlike game made by Western developers, this comparison is disingenuous and woefully misinterprets what has been accomplished with this title. YIIK is very much a postmodern RPG, from the way it reinterprets RPG conventions to the discussions of reality and subjectivity it presents. Now is probably the time where I would finish my introduction and start talking about gameplay mechanics. YIIK is an action command, turn-based, low-polyognal role-playing game where the player takes direct control over the actions and life of recent graduate Alex. Combat utilizes a variety of action commands, from timed hits to mini-game sequences, in order to input basic and advanced attacks. Some of these are straightforward, such as musician Vella’s hold and release input, while others require fast reflexes and adaptation in order to complete.

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