4.5/5 ★ – TheDrako's review of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!.

Forgot to review this because of college lmao. Platinum PS5 This game is inevitably a modern classic, it was very popular in the 2010s due to the twist from being a romcom game to a horror game. At the time I loved the concept and the characters but I never finished it with the true ending so now I decided to change that with the Plus version. Let's start with the base content, I liked that they kept for consoles the idea of deleting game files or that "that" character knows your username. The main story is good, I like what it proposes and how now that I played it knowing the twist, it's alluded to quite a few times, it's never something the author pulled out of his sleeve. It's a short game to say, you can finish it in one day, but it's pretty good because it's not an idea that you can take further. I like the soundtrack because it works for both themes, joy and horror when you need it, also very recognizable. And both endings are pretty good, one being VERY pessimistic about the future of the characters and the other very nice if you want to see all the characters' stories. The randomness of some of the poems during act II is pretty cool because it gives a little re-playable value to the experience of watching some characters deteriorate mentally. The base content is fine, I thought that was a 7.5-8/10 game, now let's go with the Plus. What it adds is good, like the gallery type extras, the e-mails that pretend to be setup of a new Salvato game, new easter eggs, art as a reward for advancing in the game, etc. What I really want to focus on are the side-stories, which is what shines the most and attracts the attention of this Plus version. They are a great addition, all of them are stories previous to the base game but nevertheless they add a lot of background and dimensionality to the characters, confirming or denying conceptions that we had about some of them. While I find the structure of these side stories very repetitive (say X and Y character have a disagreement, they try to reconcile, they fail, they try again, it works and repeats), it is compensated by the message behind it and the fact that it is more game content made with love, has cute dialogues and the execution is good, genuinely made me cry or moved me in most of them. Art is very good also, there are new CG's made entirely for these side stories, also new music or soundtrack so it's definitely worth it, I think that playing these is a good value if you love the characters. To conclude, DDLC either its base version or Plus are a great work that will inevitably endure in history for the cultural change that was for some teenagers at the time (like me haha), personally I recommend it but more in its Plus version because it is the true full experience as the side stories give us a greater and warm closeness to the protagonists that we love so much. Even Monika's <3. Maybe a little biased but I think the game deserves 9/10 haha.