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this game fucking sucks kys

this is actually a work of art.

for starters, the idea of making DJT into like a physical place with its residents physically living in there distributed through different areas is genius.
the plot is also the most djt thing there could be. making the protagonist not just any random green going through the japanese journey, but YOTSUBA of all people is the most core DJT (and 4chan) thing ever. couldnt make a more perfect protagonist for this story.

im floored at the sheer amount of content in this shit, all the characters and dialogue, all the levels, and all the crazy gimmicks like the battle system and the different events in the overworld, it shows none of you slept well at all during the week of the jam. its all so imaginative and creative too coming from people ive seen do nothing but shitposting so im amazed.

i think the main highlight for everyone involved are the members made into npcs. that shit is extremely funny, and most of them are surgically precise in the accuracy and conciseness of their jokes. it is indeed kinda sad reading the post development stuff about how there were going to be more characters but they didnt make it, but still if you dont know anything about that then the game still has a shocking amount of content. hopefully theres a more complete version some day (never ever)

this game is really representative of how we have formed a very specific and niche culture with very particular customs which would be completely uncomprehensible to "foreigners", guess its actually kind of like japan in that way. not only do you need to participate in the community to understand all of this but you also need to know the japanese language to a somewhat competent level (and not just that, but djt-made japanese which is full of stupid jokes born out of the mixture with our own cultures like 此実, making it impossible to understand to normal people who know japanese too) which makes it so that if you gave this game to someone outside of djt they wouldnt understand shit, but to us its the funniest shit ever made. in retrospective djt must be the only community ive seen like that, even other niche places like some general threads or incel forums are quick to get up to speed on if you already have a base knowledge of internet culture and the psychology of the modern 90s single white male, but djt is far beyond that. ive reevaluated how unique this place is.

i love how everything and everyone is characterized so succinctly but without subjectivity or bias (except ine i guess hes lookin like the real villain here and im convinced its true. ...also matt), its kind of like that video kanjieater made explaining DJT which was a very interesting sociological analysis. i like this kind of 俯瞰 objective but humorous representation of djt.

its really powerful to see djt packaged and concentrated into a <1hr videogame. its not the same talking about comey being funny than seeing him as a literal character in a videogame. it makes me think again about how much more powerful conveying something through an artistic narrative is compared to just saying it in words in real life, you manage to gain a whole new appreciation of the subject matter that you wouldnt have gotten by otherwise just talking on discord, no matter how long the walls of text exchanged would be.

i also unironically like the plot and "message" of the game, no doubt inspired by DJ's real experiences, that once you get through all the layers of hard japanese, meme japanese, quizzes, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, redditphobia, and other bad words, at the end of the day we're all just nice internet friends having fun (and we're all ACTUALLY cute anime girls) (and matt is a lizardman).

and this is why i give yotuba vs japan a 10/10. mindblowing work

extremely funny, i am glad im a narahara and a burnmydread fan so i was able to enjoy this masterpiece.

the elevation of burn and his worldview into an entire fucking narrative is actually a very cool concept, especially with the thoughtful philosophical commentary and insight into not just the strengths but also the weaknesses of this ideology and the potential actions and outcomes that would be able to transform it.

really good 演出 and usage of gimmicks like the phone. maybe my favorite part was when 何も起こらなかった世界 plays, it reminded me of just how good that track is in the original context where it plays and it works very well here (tho i dont get or remember the 元ネタ of what the discord guy says if there is any). also really amazingly varied production of assets like modified tinder and a scanned piece of paper.

the concept of mc speaking/thinking in japanese when his inner power 漲るs is not only funny but actually kind of badass. one of the few if not the only good example of a bilingual story ive seen and it feels weird when i realize i switched from reading one language to the other without even thinking, makes me 実感 just how powerful i am by being able to read japanese. tho i wish the japanese was more polished but i guess theres no ginger, very few based japs around to edit it too. also i know making it forced chuuni actually makes it funny but theres some parts where i wish it was more legit serious chuuni, like not forcing hard words but instead just using language that sounds かっこいい in and of itself in a more natural manner.

im a bit worried about the kind of events burn is projecting into the fictional equivalent of his beloved mother, i guess it's like the old saying goes, "壊すしかないではないか！この手で壊すしかないではないか！獣の餌になる前に！せめて――美しいうちに！", いわゆる「schizomaxxing」の一種か。

at any rate, im looking forwards to the continuation of this epic, cliffhanger actually left me hangin, want to know what lays behind incels.br too. hopefully theres kuruminha porn next time

my head fuckin hurts, i dont have the hand-eye-thought coordination to efficiently combine random keys to chinese elements to a rock-paper-scissors system. it wouldve helped if the keys were more intuitive, if you could click the elements instead of having to use the keyboard, and if THE WHEEL SHOWING THE WEAKNESSES WAS IN JAPANESE INSTEAD OF ENGLISH COS THINKING IN 2 LANGUAGES AT THE SAME TIME IS TOO HARD