YMMV / Doki Doki Blue Skies

• Awesome Music: This mod is extensive enough to have its own soundtrack, which can be listened to in the menu. It can also be listened to on the mod's website.
  • For starters, the main menu screen music changes depending on whose route you're following, and the girls each have their own Leitmotif. Yuri's themes have a mellow flute, Natsuki's themes have a cheery bell, and Sayori's themes have an upbeat guitar and flute.
  • "Festival!" is an exciting, victorious tune that plays during the festival, but as the festival starts to go awry, that track is replaced by "Festival?", a distorted, off-key reprise.
  • "Rose Tinted Glasses" is a cheery, nostalgic melody that accompanies flashbacks to MC and Sayori's childhood.
  • "Sparks Ignite" is a soft piano theme that highlights romantic moments between MC and his love interest.
  • "Out of Reach" is a melancholic theme during sad moments that involve Sayori. It even has the sound of rain in it.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Natsuki lacking an H-scene is not only due to her being a bit younger than the other girls, but due to her abuse by her father making her averse to physical intimacy.
  • While Natsuki's worst ending is more sudden than any other ending in the game, due to how dangerous abusive homes can be, they can ruin any life or relationship, no matter how well they are going.
  • Some may find it strange that there isn't a substantial rising and falling Third-Act Misunderstanding near the good ending of Sayori's route. Sayori's arc isn't dependent on one. Her depression isn't something anyone can try to overcome in one fell swoop... as MC in Sayori's bad ending can attest to.
• Funny Moments: Sayori's route provides a lot of these. Her methods of flirting and surprising guile make moments with her all the more enjoyable.
• Moe: Sayori herself is already this, but her child self seen in flashbacks during her route takes it to a whole new level. You won't be able to stop going all "awwwwwww" whenever child Sayori is onscreen.
• Nightmare Fuel: At Halloween, Monika's shock is easy to share upon her finding out that MC and Sayori were almost baited by a recording of a baby's cry in an alley at night. She isn't impressed by how casually they talk about it.
• Paranoia Fuel: The segment related to the "spirit" at Halloween night. What's going on? Did something enter the school? Is everyone else alright? (Thank goodness they actually were...)
• Player Punch: It's revealed near the end of Yuri's route that her decision to have sex with MC — something quite some fans enjoy at first — was because she once thought it was her only use to him as a girlfriend.
• Realism-Induced Horror: Not many people are trained on how to handle mental health issues. The effects people have on their friends through what they do and say is reflected in a setting more mundane than the true nature of Doki Doki Literature Club! canon. In essence, since Monika isn't tampering with the other club members, their issues are more disturbing due to the circumstances behind them being feasible in reality.
• The Woobie:
  • All of the Dokis are implied or outright stated to envy the levity and qualities that at least one of the others appears to take for granted.
  • Sayori has lived with clinical depression for most of her life, unable to find genuine happiness herself no matter what she does to make others happy, and her past therapy and antidepressants didn't help her. She's also hurt by MC drifting apart from her once more in Yuri's route.
  • Natsuki's poverty and relationship with her father worsened after her mother's death, and she resorted to shoplifting for a long time just to feed herself.
  • Yuri has been bullied for her interests, lost her parents in a car crash, and ended up cutting herself as her only way of coping. In fact, this concept is deconstructed in her bad ending - if you don't help her become a more independent and sociable person, she'll despise herself for feeling like a pitiable "freak"... and it gets worse. Much worse.
  • Monika isn't exempt from this, either. Her extracurriculars and cram school were forced on her by her parents, who called her human garbage when she refused to take over the family business. And if the literature club, her only escape from such a heavy schedule, falls apart...