Encyclopedia Dramatica:Article of the Now/December 5, 2022

YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG

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.

The story is Scott Pilgrim but without any self-awareness. Alex chases after an asian chick he barely knows, and despite having a black hole where his charisma should be, is able to meet a diverse group of friends, as they discover that Alex is an inter-dimensional dictator in every single universe, and that robot women and Asians are a constant in his life, usually treated like trash by Alex until the player, (who is also an alternate-Alex?), is asked to defeat the army of Alex, with the help of YIIK Alex. This inconsistent mess of a story was meant to be high art, meant to make YIIK yet another indie darling that would be praised for years to come.

Instead, YIIK was and still is ridiculed for it's terrible writing, cheap and lazy voice acting, aspergic director, repetitive and boring gameplay, tiring soundtrack, and general heir of undeserved superiority. While the visuals were praised for, at times, creating a genuinely mysterious other world, it wasn't enough to save this quirky rpg, especially when so many better indie games in the same genre had already released, and were being released, around the same time as YIIK.

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