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YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG is as the name implies, an RPG that takes place in the 90s. YIIK is notable for being extremely poorly written and pretentious. The main character is an extremely unlikable ginger hipster (a very 1990s stereotype) named Alex who often goes into long, pseudointellectual monologues about shit no one cares about. YIIK was inspired greatly by the Earthbound series. It took the format Shigesato Itoi perfected for the SNES but replicated it terribly.

Characters

• Alex Yiik - The most obnoxious protagonist in any vidya ever. The quintessential liberal arts university grad, Alex can't get a job because his degree is useless. He spends his days simping over an Azn on a paranormal forum. The writers made sure to use a thesaurus for all of his dialog to make him sound
• Michael Kucinski - Alex Yiik's hilarious and memorable photographer friend who the writers forget about until the end of the game. You will wish the writers didn't remember him when he takes his shirt off.
• Vella Wilde - The cute goth girl who often calls Alex Yiik out for being a narcissistic retard. She is involved in a convoluted dimensional merge plotline that makes no sense, even to people who actually play the game.
• Rory Mancer - A kid whose personality revolves around his dead sister, who became an hero due to be literally being half-leg (please see the Funniest Joke of All Time section for more information). Rory himself can also lose his ipod and downs a bottle of bleach depending on the choices you make. Rory is completely useless in combat. You can't deal damage with him because he's a "pacifist". His gimmick of protecting his teammates is negated by the existence of the panda shield. Feel free to make him slit his wrists for the lulz.
• Claudio Unkrich - Black weeb who abandons his vinyl store (because vinyls were a huge thing in 1999 right?) to study the blade. He is canonically a lolicon.
• Chondra Unkrich - Claudio's stong, independent sister who hates white people. Her twin brother is dead too I guess.
• The Essentia 5000 - A sex doll that exists to dump exposition at the player.
• Sammy Park - AKA Semi Pak in Gookspeak. She is an Eliza Lam expy that Alex Yiik desperately wants to bang.

Games Aren't Art

The most consistent and reoccurring criticism of YIIK on release was quite simple; Alex is a fucking asshole. The director of YIIK, Andrew Allanson, went on a podcast to defend the game, and quickly turned the show into the ramblings of a mad man in which he went on to praise 4chan for "understanding his vision.", whilst insulting "gamers" for not liking a character he claims is intentionally obnoxious. Allanson is convinced his game about a self-insert, inconsistent, angry hipster going through Scott Pilgrim fan-fiction is high art with lots to say.

	“	My mistake was thinking that video games are art. I wanted to make a game about a guy who’s a piece of shit unlikable character, who by the end of the game has to transform. But too many gamers, when they look at this, when they play a game, they’re so used to having to identify with the character, that if they play a game where the main character is unlikable or has to do some bad stuff, they immediately get triggered by it. So, the thing is, games aren’t art. They’re toys for children and it’s considered in bad form to talk about anything meaningful, or impactful or thought provoking.	„

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