Pacing is fantastic, and you wonвЂ™t be able to dwell on minutiae for long. Characters sometimes break the fourth wall, and sometimes speak in what seem like nonsequitursвЂ“but not so much that the game becomes absurd or over the top. People say things that seem a little weird, something in the background is odd, or thereвЂ™s a quick flash of something just at the edges. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is fantastically, deliciously, insidiously subtle. This is the beginning of the genius, I think, of the game. Each little element is there for a reason. Another thing that Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is so good at is nuance. Surprisingly, though your character says and does some questionable things, thereвЂ™s a lot of surprisingly good insights they make, and just in general, at least at first, it seems that thereвЂ™s a lot more to everyone than meets the eye, and that though these four are different people, they really aim to understand and accept each other.ДЄt first. I knew I was supposed to be flirting and trying to attract someone but it didnвЂ™t feel good or right. Honestly, the sort of romantic visual novel thing never really appealed to me, oftentimes because it made me uncomfortable.

When youвЂ™re flirtingвЂ¦well, itвЂ™s gonna get steamy, potentially. When you say something a little awkward or weird, youвЂ™ll get actual raised eyebrows. Though much of what happens happens in text, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! does a great job with visual and auditory cues and compliments. Most of the action takes place inside the school where youвЂ™re attending literature club, with a few other outside scenes, and most of the action takes place in conversations, in a cheery background with upbeat music accompanying it. ThereвЂ™s Yuri, a shy, secretive type whoвЂ™s eloquent and intellectual, Natsuki, the sort of super cute but tough type, Sayori, your best friend as long as you can remember who dragged you into this ordeal, and Monika, the extremely popular, athletic, beautifulвЂ“well, you can probably fill in the rest. The вЂњpoemвЂќ you write is actually a mini game in which you select different words to try to appeal to the different personalities of the girls youвЂ™re interested in. YouвЂ™re there to spend time with a bunch of beautiful girls after all, and youвЂ™re going to have to decide who to flirt with. The poems are very important to the gameplay, and where some strategy comes in. It is a literature club after all, andвЂ¦is that what literature clubs do? I donвЂ™t know, but for the purposes of this review, letвЂ™s say it is. Not particularly weird, right? Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! starts off in true visual novel fashion, with gameplay consisting of advancing walls of text, making some dialog decisions and writing poems. YouвЂ™re shoehorned into the world, a slightly curmudgeonly but goodnatured guy who, like many teen boys, is a little bit girl crazy. You sort of enter the story with a predetermined background and personalityвЂ“which is something I donвЂ™t typically like. In Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, youвЂ™ll play as yourselfвЂ“or a version of yourself.

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