YIIK: A Post Modern RPG / Ackk Studios / Andrew Allanson - "I wanted to make a game with a protagonist who was very unlikeable" - From Someone who is equally unlikeable. Currently developing Version I.V (1.5)

Mobster Monitor said:

"Experience a sneak peek of YIIK I.V, a bold reimagining and expansion of YIIK: A Postmodern RPG! Step beyond Alex Eggleston's story and become the Nameless Child, a young girl pushed from a mysterious tower. Guide her through a surreal dimension where she must find a way to save both the Good Brother and the Bad Brother.

YIIK I.V will be released as a free update and made available to all owners of YIIK: A Postmodern RPG later this year."

April 4th is the release of this preview demo. Yiik bros... We are going home.
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Okay, but…how many people actually bought it?
 
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Hopefully YIIK I.V will give us another Running Shine video.
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Okay, so this actually gives me a reason to mention this!

So I was actually just watching this video, when I saw this:
I thought it was some sort of joke, but I come to find out this is actually the end in a series of videos essays where he talks about YiiK and how smart and clever it it’s, and how people “just didn’t get it”.


I was still convinced it was a bit, but checking the comments on the videos, it actually seems like he’s being 100% sincere. He even made a commentary video for all the videos he made.


Really confused now, I googled the guy’s YouTube name to try and find if anyone’s mentioned him, but all I could really find was a Reddit that’s age restricted(I don’t have an account so I can’t view it) and links to a suspended Twitter account.

Searching his name on Twitter only gave me some brief idea on what was up with him, as from what I can tell he took YIIK super seriously, ran a fan website or something approved by the game creators, and got into som weird beef with another YouTuber named MangaKamen because said YouTuber booted him out of his Discord for being a spaz and the guy dragged the spazzing onto Twitter.


…I think I I may have discovered the one guy YIIK was actually made for, because he comes across as just as pretentious as the namesake himself. And I’m honestly afraid of the level of hipster autism I’m toning to encounter if I actually watch the video series he made.

EDIT: Double-checking his YouTube page, I found he made a rpg himself on Steam, which lead me to his new Twitter.


And he’s apparently close friends with the guy who made YIIK, so….theres that.
 
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Apparently they have a discord now.
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Searching his name on Twitter only gave me some brief idea on what was up with him, as from what I can tell he took YIIK super seriously, ran a fan website or something approved by the game creators, and got into som weird beef with another YouTuber named MangaKamen because said YouTuber booted him out of his Discord for being a spaz and the guy dragged the spazzing onto Twitter.
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Hellkrai was mentioned on this thread over a year ago and he agressively attacks anyone who dislikes yiik, bordering on lolcow.


He's probably the most notable yiik defender and diehard insists it's "Too postmodern for you" and if you call it pretentious he'll unironically you're the pretentious one for assuming things.

Like, he legit did a stream on EVERY yiik criticism video and it's a Mauler-tier stream where he and his friends stop every 5s to nitpick what was said for +6 hours. I tried to watch his running shine stream and it's unsufferable, being so contrarian he'll start calling Persona 4 garbage to defend yiik, i couldnt watch the whole thing.

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Outside of yiik, he has a hateboner for MatPat and insists he knows FNAF and Bendy lore better than anyone. There is no bit...
 
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LucasSomething said:
Hellkrai was mentioned on this thread over a year ago and he agressively attacks anyone who dislikes yiik, bordering on lolcow.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/yiik-a...-studios-andrew-allanson.105092/post-14738352
He's probably the most notable yiik defender and diehard insists it's "Too postmodern for you" and if you call it pretentious he'll unironically you're the pretentious one for assuming things.
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He actually got into a slapfight with another tranny YIIK defender and it got so bad that the tranny seems to have left the community because of him. He also mentions us in one of his several hour long streams. TBH Hellkrai deserves his own thread here.
 
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LucasSomething said:
Hellkrai was mentioned on this thread over a year ago and he agressively attacks anyone who dislikes yiik, bordering on lolcow.


He's probably the most notable yiik defender and diehard insists it's "Too postmodern for you" and if you call it pretentious he'll unironically you're the pretentious one for assuming things.

Like, he legit did a stream on EVERY yiik criticism video and it's a Mauler-tier stream where he and his friends stop every 5s to nitpick what was said for +6 hours. I tried to watch his running shine stream and it's unsufferable, being so contrarian he'll start calling Persona 4 garbage to defend yiik, i couldnt watch the whole thing.

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Outside of yiik, he has a hateboner for MatPat and insists he knows FNAF and Bendy lore better than anyone. There is no bit...
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Well there goes that last little bit of hope…

The fact that he decided to EFAP Running Shine’s and Tehsnaker’s videos just to shit on them both is rather telling, since they were trying to be fair and not just attack the game/the creators blindly.

Thought its rather impressive he manages to meet the level of pretentiousness YIIK has.
 
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Honestly? What a king! Er.. well knight I guess, but his armor is shiny! His loyalty unquestionable! I bet you wish you had someone like that, but you're not Alex YiiK, you're just some stinky peasants
 
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I like YIIK for reasons I find hard to explain. It makes people waste their time. It has something to piss off just about anyone. It annoys Earthbound fags, Undertale fags, left fags, right fags, story fags, gameplay fags. All kindsa fags. Even the notable events around the development contain shit that makes people hate the game for opposing reasons. The game dev has a meltdown saying gamers are retards (right disliked that) but he does it in a retarded "rightoid" podcast (left disliked that). Game is pretentious garbage but also mocks people who like pretentious garbage.

It's like a big wonderful ball pit that makes people of all stripes, colors, and creeds who take shit too seriously angry. I salute Alex YIIK :semperfidelis:
 
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The alpaca did nothing wrong. Is there a way to mod the original encounter back in? Edgy alpaca is just not the same.
 
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It's like a big wonderful ball pit that makes people of all stripes, colors, and creeds who take shit too
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Only based and enlightened centrists will truly understand the genius that is YIIK.

Honestly, I do kind of find myself weirdly attracted to the game, despite it being pretty objectively shit. You can tell it was made very earnestly, with a lot of passion and certainly not absent effort. It was just also made by people who weren't very smart, or especially good game designers.

Maybe now, with a bit more self awareness and two games under their belts, they'll make something that is genuinely good.
 
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I skimmed one of that Hellkrai’s videos and was at the part of the game where Alex YIIK talks to the main character or the first game they made and laughed my ass off when his defense for the whole bit was “heh, Alex here has obviously NOT finished Two Brothers. I’ve finished Two Brothers multiple times, and it’s obvious Alex never played it all the way through.”

i cannot believe anyone can take him seriously.
 
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So I was actually just watching this video, when I saw this:




Direct link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fwBjfQQnZdQ
I thought it was some sort of joke, but I come to find out this is actually the end in a series of videos essays where he talks about YiiK and how smart and clever it it’s, and how people “just didn’t get it”.
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I can't get over the thumbnail and "whe're"
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I skimmed one of that Hellkrai’s videos and was at the part of the game where Alex YIIK talks to the main character or the first game they made and laughed my ass off when his defense for the whole bit was “heh, Alex here has obviously NOT finished Two Brothers. I’ve finished Two Brothers multiple times, and it’s obvious Alex never played it all the way through.”

i cannot believe anyone can take him seriously.
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He has a lot of weird takes with extreme confidence. One is that he insists "yiik has NO unused endings, it's just that nobody has found how to trigger them" (lol).

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Another, that i actually watched on his clickbait 50 minute long video a while ago, is that YIIK isnt actually in the 90s but in modern day and the entire game isa pseudo-dream/timeloop where Alex is an unreliable narrator straight up "reality warping" new excuses to not get a job.

The frankton logo is just like Seinfield. His house is the set of Full House. The golden alpaca is a "random distraction" he made up on the spot. Him going down in the mind dungeon in a literal downwards spiral staircase and meeting literal strawmen of people he knows. Essentia is Alex telling himself that he's the most important person in the world. The turn of the millenium represents a new year promise for improvement that he failed. Etc.

I've seen other people subscribe to this theory because it explains the nonsensical time discrepancy. If it's 1999, why Alex dressed like a millenial hipster? It isnt, Alex lying to you. Alex isnt a "hero", he's a "protagonist". POST MODERN (TM). The problem is that, if intentional

1-The execution is shit. If Yiik is Alex escapist fantasy, it's really fucking boring and convoluted for no reason.

2-The entire story and characters didnt matter. This is much worse than everyone thinking yiik is just dumb.

I don't fully agree with this logic because Andrew himself said yiik is a story about "An asshole protagonist who by the end has to transform" which i feel was the intention. I can see Alex as an unreliable narrator but there was a real attempt to "redeem" him by the ending, they just failed hard at it.

And i'll actually be positive and say Yiik had potential before chapter 3, but it doesnt take Alex anywhere new. We already knew he was a jerk making excuses to not find a job by then the game does that again in higher scale.

At least something like Omori, a game about escapism with most of it's runtime being dreamworld "filler", has human characters worth caring and tangential consequences.
 
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It’s really funny to hear all these complicated and out there theories about why things are happening when the simple and obvious “the game’s story is shit” is just sitting right there.

It was a story written over years and years that had a major rewrite happen near the end because of a family tragedy. That’s why the story is a mess, not some seven layers deep secret commentary of a commentary of a stereotype of a ”expectations subverted” or whatever.

Like @LucasSomething said, there’s some stuff in there that had some legitimate promise, but it was mangled horribly. The gameplay is boring, overly simple and repetitive, but the storytelling and conversations are just as big an issue.

Hell, I had my own autistic theory about Rory originally meant to be the villain of the game and essentially wrote a fanfiction outine for it on the OneyPlays thread, but that’s just me desperately trying to make some sort of sense of a trashfire.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
It’s really funny to hear all these complicated and out there theories about why things are happening when the simple and obvious “the game’s story is shit” is just sitting right there.

It was a story written over years and years that had a major rewrite happen near the end because of a family tragedy. That’s why the story is a mess, not some seven layers deep secret commentary of a commentary of a stereotype of a ”expectations subverted” or whatever.

Like @LucasSomething said, there’s some stuff in there that had some legitimate promise, but it was mangled horribly. The gameplay is boring, overly simple and repetitive, but the storytelling and conversations are just as big an issue.

Hell, I had my own autistic theory about Rory originally meant to be the villain of the game and essentially wrote a fanfiction outine for it on the OneyPlays thread, but that’s just me desperately trying to make some sort of sense of a trashfire.
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Is Rory not already kind of an antagonist to Alex?
 
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X Prime said:
Did anyone finish Two Brothers?

I was under the impression it is so broken it is very easy to softlock.
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Oh it was a broken mess for sure, but I do know of at least one person who did beat the thing.


They’re the same person who did the screenshot LP of YIIK the Tehsnaker referenced for his video.

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The fact that the game actively wastes your time is another big problem. Like really think about it:

  • The two final bosses of the game(The Comet and “True Alex”) are literally unbeatable with no way to actually defeat them in battle.
  • Because both final bosses are automatic losses, the month and a half the game tells you to spend grinding is also completely pointless. And this is worse because the game literally tells you to go grind in a game where the battle system and loading is the worst part of the game, bar none.
  • The entire Essitia 2000 dungeon is also a massive pointless waste of time, because literally nothing said there is the truth. Non of the backstory and plot elements introduced there are important, because it’s just a big lie. And again, you can’t even enjoy battles because that’s just crap. Also a random Japanese man/giant robot boss battle that you can one-hit K.O.
  • The long ass “Hunt for the record” bit is probably the biggest pointless time sink, as it ends with “lol Alex can’t read”. Like I get that it was meant to get two characters on your team, but those were even spread out. They just give you both characters early one before throwing you at another dungeon that has no actual payoff.
Like Rory’s dungeon ended up being a fakeout too, but at least that had real plot elements and advanced the story.

You could have seriously cut out half the content and “plot” in this game and it would have significantly improved it overall.
 
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