History VideoGame / YIIKAPostModernRPG

A free update for the game titled ''YIIK I.V'' is in the works, an ambitious update promising all-new story and gameplay content, characters, music, redone cutscenes, and an overhauled combat system.

''YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG'' is a role-playing video game released on January 17, 2019 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and PC.

''YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG'' is a role-playing video game released on January 17, 2019 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: The gang uses hula-hoops, phonograph records, picket signs, and cameras to harm enemies.

* DeliberateFlawRetcon: The "Super Secret" third ending has several of the alleged steps needed to access it present in the game, albeit very glitchy and unfinished. This suggests that the developers ''tried'' to add a third ending, gave up, then attempted to cover it with a "So secret you can't even get it by data-mining" excuse.

** Ending 3 is as of November 2020 only viewable online and not in the game itself. [[spoiler:Completing some unimplemented puzzles allow the party to explore the large lighthouse out in the overworld's water, which eventually sends all of them to the room the final boss would be in way ahead of time, without the group being Banished and reality being destroyed. With Proto-Alex (named "Wilfrid" for some reason) and Essentia being much weaker, they are defeated and reality is saved. Since the room "exists outside of time," the party returns to just before the events of the game and Alex sets out to improve himself, starting with getting the groceries he was told to get at the beginning of the game. Alex is also aware of the events of the first ending and how it was impossible to stop Proto-Alex/Wilfrid before his reality's destruction.]]

* HopelessBossFight: There are actually more boss fights you ''can't'' win that ones you can.

* HopelessBossFight:

* PaddedSumoGameplay: Combat uses double digit numbers at most and even after a dozen hours most of your attacks struggle to break past ''20'', and the enemies hit you for just as much or less. The small numbers is compounded by the fact that every single attack (even the basic ones) [[ActionCommand is paired with a minigame]], with some going as long as ''half a minute'', and every enemy attack has an ActionCommand to reduce damage as well. Each of those elements combined creates an incredibly slow turn-based combat system where a regular enemy encounter takes ''several minutes'' to complete.

* ThemeAndVariationsSoundtrack: One of Vellas songs is riffed repeatedly throughout the game particularly in the Title and Mind Dungeon themes. This music itself also takes several riffs from Where "Do I Begin?" The main theme of the movie LoveStory.

* MultipleEndings: At least three different endings, all of which are canon, have been confirmed to exist by the development team. The third ending has yet to be implemented in the game proper, with the creator saying data mining won't find it or put it in.

Despite or in lieu of the game's generally negative reception, a free update for the game titled ''YIIK I.V'' is in the works, an ambitious update promising all-new story and gameplay content, characters, music, redone cutscenes, and an overhauled combat system.

** NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler:On the way to Ending 1, Alex eventually journeys to a planet in the Soul Space where all the alternate Alexes are gathered. On the dark side of the planet he encounters a group of four Dark Alexes that encourage him to join them. Agreeing here causes Alex to merge with them to form the reality-destroying comet. The credits roll at a quickened pace, capped off with "Thanks For Playing...?"]]

** The Soul Survivors look ''a lot'' like the Starmen from ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Alex's remark to Rory about nobody caring about his [[spoiler: dead]] sister is rather callous, keep in mind that Rory had effectively caused him and the other party members to go on a wild goose chase and nearly got them killed because he had [[spoiler: lied to them about his sister and trying to make her suicide about himself.]]

''YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG'' is a role-playing video game released on January 17, 2019 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Alex's remark to Rory about nobody caring about his [spoiler: dead]] sister is rather callous, keep in mind that Rory had effectively caused him and the other party members to go on a wild goose chase and nearly got them killed because he had [[spoiler: lied to them about his sister and trying to make her suicide about himself.]]

Set in the 1990s, the story follows Alex Eggleston and seven strangers who came to know each other on the web and became the closest of friends, living their lives carefree.

Until the fateful day of April 4th, 1999, when a woman named Sammy Pak suddenly went missing.

That night following her disappearance, a video of her last known moments was uploaded online. All of the friends excitedly watched as she is pulled from an elevator by something otherworldly, and decide to investigate the truth for themselves. As he gathers companions seeking to resolve the truth behind her disappearance, Alex's search for the woman spirals into an epic quest with stakes higher than he could have ever imagined.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Despite Alex's and everyone's best efforts, Proto-Alex succeeds in destroying their reality and Alex is left as the only survivor. Though Alex manages to obtain new help from another version of himself and his friends from another reality to finally destroy Proto-Alex, with the alternate Alex returning home and the original Alex deciding to stay in the Soul Space.]]

* PurpleProse: The dialogue, starting with Alex's inner monologue, can get needlessly verbose.

** There's a bar that has a bartender named Jill that's clearly an expy of the main character of the same name in ''VisualNovel/VA11HALLA''... except she doesn't act like ''VA-11'''s Jill in the slightest, making it come off as baffling. Turing from ''VideoGame/ReadOnlyMemories'' (as in the actual Turing themselves rather than an expy, despite canonically not being built yet) can also be seen standing on the counter, oddly enough offering Hassy despite their issues with it in their home game.

** The Proto-Comet is Wrath, being a voiceless EldritchAbomination with no will of it's own that exists only as a tool for destroying universes.

** Pride is [[spoiler: Alex of Pretense]], who dresses fancy and hides behind a forcefield that keeps falling apart, admitting he's a fraud who fakes smartness and takes others ideas to look good.
** Finally, [[spoiler: Wilfrid and Essentia 995 are Greed and Envy, the former "has it all" and is unwilling to give any of it up as the most powerful AlternateSelf of Alex who "drew the long straw", whilst the latter set the whole plot in motion because she couldn't handle being the ''second'' most powerful]].

* ShesGotLegs: The scene introducing Rory's mother has her leg take up the foreground. Alex even comments on her legs. [[spoiler:The scene ends by showing Rory's mother is ''just'' a leg.]]

* ShowDontTell: The game engages in so much verbose monologue that it's infamous for averting this.
** There's a scene - the ''only'' scene narrated by anyone other than Alex - where a female narrator describes the surroundings and appearance of [[spoiler:Essentia]]. All of this is described ''as the game shows it to the player'', making it an odd case of Show ''and'' Tell.
** Several of Alex's verbose internal monologues go through his emotions or reiterate the immediate surroundings, when that much can be easily conveyed with a lot less as a visual medium.

* ShowDontTell: There's a scene - the ''only'' scene narrated by anyone other than Alex - where a female narrator describes the surroundings and appearance of [[spoiler:Essentia]]. All of this is described ''as the game shows it to the player'', making it an odd case of Show ''and'' Tell.

Despite or of in lieu of the game's generally negative reception, a free update for the game titled ''YIIK I.V'' is in the works, an ambitious update promising all-new story and gameplay content, characters, music, redone cutscenes, and an overhauled combat system.

** The moral of the story is supposed to be to not treat the universe like it revolves around you. This moral is pretty undercut by the fact that [[spoiler:Alex really does end up being the centre of the universe, though. The original Alex is plugged into a computer mainframe that resets all universes when turned off, implying universes live or die by their Alexes.]] It also takes [[spoiler:two different versions of Alex to take the main Alex down,]] and the player themselves [[spoiler:ends up being another Alex!]]

* FailedASpotCheck: The Ultima Mystical LP record had Vella's name and year release right on front of it, something that had to be pointed out to Alex. The revelation happens after several trips across three towns.

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aeris]] can be seen mourning at Semi's grave in Alex's hometown during the Ultima Mythical LP Legend section of the game.

* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Chondra complains that if Aaron (a missing person-of-color) was a white woman, people would be more concerned about his disappearance.

** There's a bar that has a bartender named Jill that's clearly an expy of the main character of the same name in ''VisualNovel/VA11HALLA''...except she doesn't act like ''VA-11'''s Jill in the slightest, making it come off as baffling. Turing from ''VideoGame/ReadOnlyMemories'' (as in the actual Turing themselves rather than an expy, despite canonically not being built yet) can also be seen standing on the counter, oddly enough offering Hassy despite their issues with it in their home game.

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aeris]] can be seen mourning at a grave in Alex's hometown during the Ultima Mythical LP Legend section of the game.