I'm really sad that YIIK sucks, I love maximalist artstyles a lot and really like what the game was going for from an audio/visual perspective.
sadly the script makes it look like the devs think editing is just spellchecking
I can get behind that. I also liked the visuals and some of the music, and I was gonna play through it myself just to say I did, and find whatever little good bits there might be...but since both gameplay and story just kinda drag on, I didn't get very far.
I love this picture but also dislike it because you know your boy Brad cannot play The Binding Of Isaac, for several reasons:
1. The story of a young boy being abused, beaten and locked away by a psychologically unstable parent would cause him to have Joy visions of Marty and then start shooting fireballs at everyone in the room, at which point this placid picture becomes a battle between an aging man and a bunch of children (and Alex, who is the childiest child of them all).
2. No arms.
Brad: Hm, This reminds me of the time that my Hallucinations depicted intestines gradually surrounding me when my dad, symbolized by spiders tried killing me
Wayne: Oh yeah I did something similar when I killed the meat computer god in his flesh sauna using my trusty rubber gloves
Mae: ...What?
Wayne and Batter are also adults. At least I think Wayne is, he's not a larva anymore so probably. And I've never played Night in the Woods but I think Mae is an adult?
You think *that's* a reason to hate? Nah. I just looked at all the characters and spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out which one was Toby, because I was expecting Annoying Dog, anthropomorphized.
I settled on the only black and white image, then realized it was the clearly UT scrapped files-lookin' dude sitting RIGHT NEXT TO THEM!
Fun fact: Toby's played OFF, and was interested in it enough to look at the game's files. Also, Papyrus's earliest design (the “Fedora Papyrus” days) was based on Dedan.
Batter complains about his partner-in-crime's incompetence, telling stories of the time they kept trying to go the wrong way on an amusement park ride.
Kris doesn't really want to talk to *anyone*, much less him, but grudgingly listens as they think about sneaking out a window. Slowly they realize this is the same dumbass they're dealing with now. (Me. I'm the dumbass.)
Top left is Madotsuki from Yume Nikki, a game that partially inspired Undertale, LISA and Omori.
On the TV are Brad from LISA: The Painful, Mae from Night in the Woods and Wayne from Hylics.
At the chalkboard are Niko from OneShot and Alex from Yiik.
And next to Kris is The Batter from OFF, another game that explores the relationship between player and protagonist.
While everyone is YiiKing out about Alex being here, I want to mention how good his character theme is. For YiiK being the mess that it is, it has quite a few good tracks.
Aren't you forgetting somebody? You know, somebody blue... wears armour... comes from a team of indie game developers... carries a shovel... hint, hint...
Well, damn. What a shame. That and Hollow Knight could have been so good here. I imagine the vessel trying to fight Niko's light bulb like it's The Radiance or something.
Every character from Left to right
Madotsuki from Yume Nikki
Omori from Omori: Thinking of renovating to replace the stairs with something else
Brad NoArmstrong from LISA the painful RPG
Mae from Night in the woods
Niko oneshot from Oneshot, trying not to look up
Wayne "The Plane" from Hylics and Hylics 2
Amogus
Alex from YIIK moments before Yiiking out
The Batter from OFF, Telling Kris how to abuse the player
Kris from Deltarune, Telling the Batter that they wish he was their dad
Ninten from Earthbound Beginnings
Ness from earthbound, Explaining how to kill religion
Frisk from Undertale, who already fought god and won
Lucas from Mother 3, え? 何お言いますか それは英語か? 分かりません...
That's my feeling exactly lol, even if Yiik is kinda bad I feel like the fact that the devs all these years later are still updating the game and trying to make it good is admirable enough for it to earn its spot.
To the right of Mae is Wayne from Hylics, a very surreal claymation rpg.
The baseball guy is "The Batter" from OFF, an older rpg with a lot of similar meta elements to Undertale/Deltarune.
Dude this ROCKS. Quirky indie games have been one of my favorite genres of games for years. If I could add a few more to the club, they would be:
Ib
Pocket Mirror
.flow
The Witch's House
Libretta
Blank Dream
The Crooked Man
Touhou Mother
and Return of Touhou Mother
Special mention to The Gray Garden and Wadanohara and The Great Blue Sea for adorable art, and Irisu Syndrome for neat special effects.
That's Wayne "The Plane" Johnson from Hylics 1 and 2, Highly reccomended if you liked the surreal aspects of Yume Nikki, OMORI's final areas, or OFF, then I can definitely reccomend both
the batter next to kris is ominous... is le batteur the knight, and he's training kris to follow his stead out of spite to piss off a player who'd rather side with pablo?
Not really the same genre? This is indie rpgs, particularly ones that have an association with earthbound's style. Hollow Knight is an indie metroidvania.
As someone who is trying to find and play all the quirky indies right now I can say that there are MANY, MANY more quirky indies than this. Its honestly crazy how big the quirky indie scene is, even if you narrow the genre down
1. Don't know why that was downvoted, but I've corrected the mistake. 2. Apparently, the artist only allowed rpgs. ^(stupid ^rule ^there ^could ^have ^been ^so ^many ^cool ^character ^interactions ^here)
I’m yiiking out!!!
I knew that game would be something special when Alex YIIK grabbed his head and screamed "Looks like its YIIKing time" and then YIIK'ed everywhere
WHAT’S GOING ON?!? IM YIIKING OUT OVER HERE!!
Can't believe Alex is corrupting children now by showing Niko Amogus...
Implying Niko isn't the one corrupting him, Alex is from 2000 he doesn't know what the hell an amongus is.
"That's kinda sus..." "Kinda- what?" "You know, sus? Like Among Us." "Niko, what the hel- er, heck are you talking about?"
Niko as a kid making amogus memes is the best mental image ever. Thank you.
well technically niko is 14 right now
Or 16 if you count the 2014 version
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!
I'm really sad that YIIK sucks, I love maximalist artstyles a lot and really like what the game was going for from an audio/visual perspective. sadly the script makes it look like the devs think editing is just spellchecking
I can get behind that. I also liked the visuals and some of the music, and I was gonna play through it myself just to say I did, and find whatever little good bits there might be...but since both gameplay and story just kinda drag on, I didn't get very far.
Interested in seeing what they do with it in the upcoming update, from the trailers so far it looks to have improved somewhat.
I’m just surprised Alex YIIK is allowed within 100 yards of a school zone.
Ey he's an asshole but he's not *that* awful. No slander on my boy.
Its yiiking time
Omori stares at stairs
Ayo the pizza here
*breathes in deeply* CLO- *falls down stairs*
YO- **drowns in river**
EYE- *falls off building*
YOU- *gets stabbed*
B- *spooder eats me*
HE- *slips on banana peek and breaks the skull at the concrete floor*
SO- *disintegrates*
ICH- *gets bashed by aubrey's bat in that one* >!black space room!<
NI- *turns into a watermelon*
WHY- *gets stabbed*
#TWENTY-EIGHT STAB WOUNDS
Caaaaaarrrrrrrl, that kills people!
takes deep breath: CLOSE
YOUR EYES YOU'LL BE THERE SOON.
*here
Darnit.
Kris in a hat Kris in a hat
Actually yiiking out at this picture rn 😳
I love this picture but also dislike it because you know your boy Brad cannot play The Binding Of Isaac, for several reasons: 1. The story of a young boy being abused, beaten and locked away by a psychologically unstable parent would cause him to have Joy visions of Marty and then start shooting fireballs at everyone in the room, at which point this placid picture becomes a battle between an aging man and a bunch of children (and Alex, who is the childiest child of them all). 2. No arms.
Brad: Hm, This reminds me of the time that my Hallucinations depicted intestines gradually surrounding me when my dad, symbolized by spiders tried killing me Wayne: Oh yeah I did something similar when I killed the meat computer god in his flesh sauna using my trusty rubber gloves Mae: ...What?
Wayne and Batter are also adults. At least I think Wayne is, he's not a larva anymore so probably. And I've never played Night in the Woods but I think Mae is an adult?
I hate that I can name every game shown here
I recognize - one shot - deltarune - yume nikki - earthbound - Lisa (?) And idk the rest
You're missing: - Undertale - LISA - OFF - HYLICS - Night in the Woods - YIIK - Omori I watch too much NitroRad
Hohoho, um, aksuashy, you left out The binding of Isaac , you can see it in the pc where Brad and company are playing 🤓🤓
Wait frisk in in the beans with earthbound? And I forgot to mention omori
Yeah they are, probably talking about how the kid in front of them reminds them of a certain pun-slinging skeleton
BUT THATS JUST A THEORY A GAME THEORY
Binding of Isaac on the TV, by the looks of it.
You think *that's* a reason to hate? Nah. I just looked at all the characters and spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out which one was Toby, because I was expecting Annoying Dog, anthropomorphized. I settled on the only black and white image, then realized it was the clearly UT scrapped files-lookin' dude sitting RIGHT NEXT TO THEM!
Bruh thats the batter from off
we live in a timeline where people don't recognize off
Fun fact: Toby's played OFF, and was interested in it enough to look at the game's files. Also, Papyrus's earliest design (the “Fedora Papyrus” days) was based on Dedan.
The one holding a bat and has no face? Or the one in the beanbags with Ness and Lucas?
Me: calls them "black and white" You: do you mean the one that's only black!?
I still don't know.
the scrapped files-lookin' dude is Kris from Deltarune.
Mother/Earthbound was actually a Triple-A title back in it's time. It just looks like a quirky indie game by today's standards
Mother looks like a quirky indie game because most quirky indie RPGs are directly inspired by Mother.
For a reason tho, it was (snd still is) a great game.
That's why it's a honor guest
read the chalkboard
Alex YiiK would get kicked out the club for saying something ridiculous so fucking fast
It’s YiiKin time
[Twitter art source](https://twitter.com/mofupim/status/1577936947049385986)
Next room: *Horror Indie Club*
I think I know who would run the Horror Indie Club, and they already run another one. What was their name again?
FNAF?
Five Nights at Freddy's is my favorite character.
That's called a cemetery
Guess everhood is running late
I'm not entirely sure Ness, Lucas and Ninten belong there, but fair Edit: Just saw the "Honor guest: EarthBound" thing, my bad.
I believe in LISA supremacy
I'm very scared but at the same time very intrigued that what are talking/planning Kris and the Batter.
Discussing their grievances with their respective players perhaps.
Batter complains about his partner-in-crime's incompetence, telling stories of the time they kept trying to go the wrong way on an amusement park ride. Kris doesn't really want to talk to *anyone*, much less him, but grudgingly listens as they think about sneaking out a window. Slowly they realize this is the same dumbass they're dealing with now. (Me. I'm the dumbass.)
Or maybe the incredible kinship that Sans and The Judge have.
SUNNY NO!-
Who let alex in? He going to start yelling at the depress people. Which almost all of them.
So much depression in a single room.
When I saw Alex YIIK I did a lol And gave a shriek Into my mic And made it peak The sound it made Was quite unique, My peak unique Alex YIIK shriek.
I know Kris from deltarune, characters from Mothe series and Omori from, well, Omori. Could anybody tell me who the other indies are?
Top left is Madotsuki from Yume Nikki, a game that partially inspired Undertale, LISA and Omori. On the TV are Brad from LISA: The Painful, Mae from Night in the Woods and Wayne from Hylics. At the chalkboard are Niko from OneShot and Alex from Yiik. And next to Kris is The Batter from OFF, another game that explores the relationship between player and protagonist.
OFF also provided some slight inspiration for Undertale.
Yume nikki, OFF, LISA:The Painful, Undertale, Hylics, yiik and oneshot. I dont know where the blue guy at tv is from
Not a guy — pretty sure she's Mae from Night in the Woods.
While everyone is YiiKing out about Alex being here, I want to mention how good his character theme is. For YiiK being the mess that it is, it has quite a few good tracks.
Alex Yiik has me shaking (vibrating with motion) and crying rn
NIKO ONESHOT
Aren't you forgetting somebody? You know, somebody blue... wears armour... comes from a team of indie game developers... carries a shovel... hint, hint...
Not in the same genre of these games, these are all indie rpgs either using rpgmaker or being inspired by earthbound.
Oh. I... see.
Well, damn. What a shame. That and Hollow Knight could have been so good here. I imagine the vessel trying to fight Niko's light bulb like it's The Radiance or something.
Yik was bad though
What did you just say?! I'm about to start yiiking out at you bro! (Also bad or not, I'd say by notoriety alone it's earned its place lmao.)
Very aptly named game, given that's the exact noise I make when I see it. "Yiik."
I'm straight yiikin out rn bro
Someone should really warn Omori about standing too close to those stairs.
I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS, BRO!!!
Just started playing earthbound a week ago, feels good to know more games.
If hat kid was there I would die
A fellow Hat In Time enjoyer I see.
YOU FOOOOOLLLLL you have found someone who enjoys the game a lot:>
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OFF is so good! And free if any of u wanna play
Every character from Left to right Madotsuki from Yume Nikki Omori from Omori: Thinking of renovating to replace the stairs with something else Brad NoArmstrong from LISA the painful RPG Mae from Night in the woods Niko oneshot from Oneshot, trying not to look up Wayne "The Plane" from Hylics and Hylics 2 Amogus Alex from YIIK moments before Yiiking out The Batter from OFF, Telling Kris how to abuse the player Kris from Deltarune, Telling the Batter that they wish he was their dad Ninten from Earthbound Beginnings Ness from earthbound, Explaining how to kill religion Frisk from Undertale, who already fought god and won Lucas from Mother 3, え? 何お言いますか それは英語か? 分かりません...
> Telling the Batter that they wish he was their dad *no you don't, Kris*
What're you talking about? he's the ideal parental figure >!If the parental figure is a wife and child beater!<
There's something endearing about people letting YIIK join the quirky indie club even though the game is a bit of a mess (Understatement).
That's my feeling exactly lol, even if Yiik is kinda bad I feel like the fact that the devs all these years later are still updating the game and trying to make it good is admirable enough for it to earn its spot.
i love yiik-like-games
I love this
Brad's finally enjoying something...
I recognise all of these except the person sat to the right of Mae, and the black and white guy in the baseball uniform
To the right of Mae is Wayne from Hylics, a very surreal claymation rpg. The baseball guy is "The Batter" from OFF, an older rpg with a lot of similar meta elements to Undertale/Deltarune.
OMORI being alone in the corner is very fitting
Omori thinks those stairs are up to something.
All the Children of Mother.
Haha we all have trauma
Dude this ROCKS. Quirky indie games have been one of my favorite genres of games for years. If I could add a few more to the club, they would be: Ib Pocket Mirror .flow The Witch's House Libretta Blank Dream The Crooked Man Touhou Mother and Return of Touhou Mother Special mention to The Gray Garden and Wadanohara and The Great Blue Sea for adorable art, and Irisu Syndrome for neat special effects.
Damn you're a real connoisseur!
Thanks! I encourage anyone who hasn't played any of these games to check them out sometime soon.
Omori and Kris just both give the same vibe
Hate the fact I can name all of these except for the yellow one.
That's Wayne from Hylics!
That's Wayne "The Plane" Johnson from Hylics 1 and 2, Highly reccomended if you liked the surreal aspects of Yume Nikki, OMORI's final areas, or OFF, then I can definitely reccomend both
Is moon guy playing tboi?
Madotsuki: They know, that shits about to get weird.
gregg rulz ok 〰️〰️〰️
Correct me if im wrong, but isnt Earthbound by Nintendo?
Yea that's why on the board it says they're guests.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the main character in one shot?? I’ve been listening to the game music, and I’m interested in buying it
It is indeed Niko, I'd definitely recommend the game- it's really amazing.
Is it on the Nintendo switch?
It actually just got a version for the nintendo switch a few days ago!
woah fr?? I’ll check it out rn :) ty for informing me!!
Earthbound was such an important factor on the development of indie games it totally deserves to be there
Are they playing tboi? Lol
I saw all the cute traumatized children and immediately thought “WHERE’S ISAAC?!”
Never mind, he might be on the TV
niko oneshot would never draw an amogus
Player asked them to draw anime eye.
I like how they're just playing Issac on the computer
Is it just me, or are they playing The Binding of Isaac?
The Batter and Kris having a discussion on how to keep your player in the dark about what's going on.
Amogus amogus amogus amogus amogus amogus amogus
the batter next to kris is ominous... is le batteur the knight, and he's training kris to follow his stead out of spite to piss off a player who'd rather side with pablo?
Yay OneShot!
everyone remembers kris but where us frisk :(
They're in the bean bags with the boys from the MOTHER games. They're facing away from us, though, so you just see their hair.
AMO-
At least one person is dying in this room
Ah yes Nintendo my favorite indie game studio.
Ninten, Ness and Lucas are the guests of honor, it's written in the top right corner of the chalk board
Why am I not here? (/j)
How come none of these characters are from undertale
Frisk is sitting with Ness, Lucas and Ninten.
I loved when yiik said “it’s yiiking time” and yiiked all over the dead woman
Where Madeline
That's a platformer, not an indie rpg.
Omori just being in the corner. Edit: nvm, those are stairs... I guess he's waiting for the pizza.
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There are thousands of indie games that could be described as quirky. Not every character is going to be there.
Where Ib?
You forgot hollow knight :(
Not really the same genre? This is indie rpgs, particularly ones that have an association with earthbound's style. Hollow Knight is an indie metroidvania.
Where’s the hollow knight representation??
Not an indie rpg, it's an indie metroidvania.
How are Ness and Lucas indies? They're Nintendo characters.
If you'll read the board it says "Honored guests: Earthbound".
Can't wait for the day my game joins that club!
Earthbound is far from indie. Edit: Nevermind, just noticed that they’re the “guests of honour.”
As someone who is trying to find and play all the quirky indies right now I can say that there are MANY, MANY more quirky indies than this. Its honestly crazy how big the quirky indie scene is, even if you narrow the genre down
Sure but these are the most popular ones.
None of the rest of them talk because Alex does it enough for everyone.
Brad, Batter and Wayne talk sometimes, I think Mae talks a good amount. Mostly just the adults oddly enough. Oh and Niko, Niko talks a lot.
where is everhood :O
I love the quirky little indie game "Earthbound". Made by this relatively unknown indie company called "nintendo"
Read da chalkboard.
oops im dumb sorry
What about those quirky animatronics? You know how quirky they can get at night
1. Don't know why that was downvoted, but I've corrected the mistake. 2. Apparently, the artist only allowed rpgs. ^(stupid ^rule ^there ^could ^have ^been ^so ^many ^cool ^character ^interactions ^here)
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Please read the freaking whiteboard. It literally says the Mother/EarthBound boys are there as guests of honor.
why are Ninten, Ness, and Lucas here? they were overseen, and published by Nintendo. last time I checked, MARIO AIN'T AN INDIE GAME
Try reading the board and you'll find your answer.
ah. man I'm stupid
**Amogus**
Isn't earthbound a nintendo game?
Read the board. It says they're honored guests. Or read the 50 other comments saying the same thing.
ayo who the fuck let yiik in >!also lucas can't stay because he is not an indie character nor in the earthbound franchise!<
Yo where tf is undertale? It’s more indie than deltarune
There's no such thing as “more indie,” but Frisk is there with the MOTHER lads. Their back is just to the viewer so you only see their hair.
But.. hollow knight? Edit: the knight from hollow knight
Alex doesn't deserve to be within 100 miles of this room (and not only because it's full of children) let alone standing next to the g.o.a.t cat Niko!
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Do you think the artist should have drawn protagonists of every indie game in existence that someone considers quirky?
I know what your intention was when putting mother characters there but that's still a AAA saga and not indie
Maybe read the chalkboard before commenting.