DDLC Theories

Some Things You Might Have Missed Part 1

So again this is not a theory but instead I'll be talking about the things you might have missed in DDLC.

Did you know that there was a Yuri sticker in the game with a bloody mouth and scary human eyes?

Well there was.

I don't know if you already know this but at the same time some of you still don't know this.

This would be easier if you still don't know yet.

It is verified that there's less than a 1% chance that you will see this. In the second act of the game using one of Yuri's preferred words will distort Yuri's sticker at the bottom left.

Sometimes a duplicate Yuri will appear below the book and sometimes you'll get that horifying sticker.

So enough of that. Let's get deeper into the game!

There's already been more than enough coverage about the secret ending commonly referred to as the game's only positive ending and pretty much everyone with the Youtube channel in the past months has covered the insane master level decrypting skills of Redditors MIT host and Warchamp7.

The two people responsible for decoding the character files into various images, messages and of other projects.

There are actually tons of little scares and nuances in this game. Most of which you are guaranteed not to see during your first playthrough because the truth is of these scares have statistically less than a 10% chance of even so much as appearing on screen.

For instance, did you know that a post made by Monika's official Twitter account lilmonix3 references a poem by Shel Silverstein. The same poet she seems so highly of in the game

OR

How about the 33% chance of triggering this scare if you write a poem favor towards Yuri and when you decide to show it to Natsuki.

She hates your poem so much that her eyes just decide to explode right out of her head. Yeah nasty.

(This gave me shivers btw)

But that wasn't in your first playthrough.

These small distinctions, these randomly triggered disturbances in the game's graphics give each playthrough it's own sense of ghoulishness.

All the way from Natsuki suddenly drawing a human mouth and shouting nonsensical words at you.

Multiple corrupted image files of Sayori's head invading your screen for a few seconds.

Additionally there is a rather suggestive scene that replaces one of the posters in the far wall of the classroom during the second act.

But not every random occurence in this game is that cryptic. In fact, most of them are extremely obvious.

After closing one of the poems in the second act, the screen has a small chance of going completely red with blood vessels hugging the outer edges of the screen.

You hear a really ambient sound almost like a swashy liquid and the music gets noticeable quiter after a few dialogue lines in. The screen will go completely black.

Simply click and the game will intantly return to normal, closing out the same poem can also convert your cursor to a glitched out fragment of Sayori's face which will also continue for a few dialogue lines.

And even Yuri has a few pretty intense hidden scares of her own. If you advance to the scene where Yuri suddenly runs out of the room in Act 2, you can skip the dialogue right before where she's supposed to reveal the scars on her arm.

If you try skipping this section before it happens, the game will spiral out of control and goes black for a split second.

Before revealing Yuri's face distubingly close to the screen with whited out eyes. Doing this also triggers exclusive dialogue with Yuri where she talks about Monika getting increasingly weird.

Stay here for a minute or so and Monika will begin to slowly fade into frame.

Yuri's dialogue is cut off as though it were being hacked and the game spazzes out once again.

At the beginning of Act 2, when Monika first introduces you to the Literature Club, but there's also a small chance that her character image will start to glitch out and contort violently as she enters from the left side of the screen.

Not even the starting selection screen is a safe haven. Players have managed to dig up small probabilities that the screen itself will change and deliver messages to you.

It can do anything from flashing up a pastel filtered image of Monika accompanied with blood streaks to taking away the intro music entirely and just giving you a creepy monochromatic image of each character with blotted out eyes.

*sighs* That gave shivers up my spine.

The warning label introducing the game can also change into something else, the word disturbed can change into dismembered and sometimes a question mark can appear at the end of the warning.

But sometimes the warning can just change altogether and give you completely different sentence like:

"It was only partially your fault"

or

"It's just a game... mostly"

There are certainly more of these but I think that's about all of the important ones plus a lot of the fright comes from finding these during your own playthrough so I'll spare you the rest of this section in the next part!

In the meantime...

I'll see you.....

In the flipside!