wow man what a video! made a break to have my dinner and watched it in the meanwhile. Thanks!

The one thing I miss in the 2nd one since I've got almost 50 hours now is the sword, I'd say the fists but the daggers are very similar

I'm so glad they are still working on more games, all this time I hoped they did not abandon Project Libitina, and seeing how it was also in DDLC and DDLC+, it could look like it might be in their vision still. Great documentary.

Dani will always be the Yoshi melon % speedrunner in my heart.

The question in the title is unanswered though, except for an indication that Dan and his team is still overwhelmed by DDLC success and they are afraid to make a newer game due to high expectations. It is understandable, though, that his concept of the game itself is not really about the story, but about how tinkering with the technology and the trend of otaku at the time. A visual novel that seems like a malware with its own "AI" is ahead of its time. However, the tech behind visual novel making, which drives so many indie VN maker to make VNs, is no longer a hype. Nowadays, 3D games (e.g. Genshin) and many others (including 2D strategy mobage e.g. Arknights and Path To Nowhere) had incorporated VN elements but successful due to the gameplay other than the VN style. However, the horror element of a living AI inside the game is not so much replicated by many games, as far as I know.

yuri almost sparked my inner mental illness

10:38 Well, actually megalovania isnt the real sans' song couse in the game files you can find a track named: "That Might Play When You Fight Sans".

Never knew people thought Dan Salvato hated VNs. I never got that impression playing DDLC; I just thought he wanted to do something unique and interesting with the medium. Also, Just Monika is Best Girl.

This was amazing to watch! My friend mentioned how complex the systems are by bringing up the drunk cats. Hearing that it was a bugged feature once it was found is mindblowing

I really wish I got to experience DDLC without knowing anything about it 😭

Did he say Tits Up county? Heh!~

I had no idea people thought he didnt like visual novels. Thats akin to saying everyone who worked on Madoka Magica hates magical girls.

Where did you get the transparent PNG of Monika for the thumbnail?

anyone remember the project libitina stuff?

Anybody here after Hades 2?

I'm still convinced that Dan just ripped off "Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi", and just hoped nobody would notice since it didn't have an English release yet.

I hope his team isn't too discouraged, with great success always comes great haters of course, and the english speaking visual novel community can be harsh, especially towards original English language visual novels produced by individuals or very small teams on tight budgets. A lot of japanese visual novels get the benefit of having established studios and industry professionals who've sold games for years, so it's common to hear a lot of scrutiny towards smaller teams that it's "cheap" or not as good. I think it would be funny if Dan Salvato read the english translation of YOU and ME and HER/Totono sometime, I think he might enjoy it lol since it gets compared to DDLC so often. But I hope the harsh criticisms of the visual novel community don't deter him--I mean I've been in it myself, folks can be downright mean about petty things in any large enough community.

8:52 animal meats are still in the games code. I forget which item codes exactly, but you can use that item spawning glitch with item codes to spawn in raw animal meat

Cool topic

The character creator usage is such a mood that takes me back, so based for that tbh

he was game-sterilized by monika

damn this editing style is really good nice job dude

he made the binding of Isaac... AND super meat boy?

title was definitely clickbait but i like that dan is living his life like normal, didnt knew he was behind franks, as a dev or what?

what the hell is this clickbait title? The video doesn't have anything about the creator not being able to make games anymore.

wholesome dude all around. period.

3:37 *JUDGEMENT*

"I don't understand why people would think that 'parody' means a spiteful rendition of the medium" Why am I seeing this sentiment in the comments so much? It should be obvious why, especially at the time, a "parody" of a genre, was going to be seen as a spiteful, hate driven, project. 2018, we had several "parody" VNs that ranged from things that either completely misunderstood the genre, to mocking the people who enjoyed the genre. This is far more apparent when you see western cartoons jazzing on anime using tropes for cheap laughs. Or just completely misunderstanding why people like anime in the first place (hint: it's not just an art style difference). DDLC, without knowing the background or the creator and seeing it strictly blind outside of marketing materials, just reeks of "westerner doesn't understand genre, makes parody horror". I don't blame him for this, and I don't blame the people who look at it with that lens. I do blame the devs of said "parody" VNs that decided to defecate in the pool though.

Kind of insane how far its come, from the original builds known as Minos all the way to Supergiant's first ever sequel. Crazy.

I can't play Doki doki anymore. I am too emotionally attached to the events and characters. It affects my life outside of the game. I still have all 4 character files from 2017. I have not deleted them.

I WANT STRAY 2!!!!!

11:57 huh i thought it might also be "senpai"

Definitely did not expect to see "Executive Producers: LSplash" in the credits

Thank you for this informative and entertaining video. i did not know 75% of the things you talked about, and i thought i knew all there was to know about DDLC / Dan. Thank you!

Great video. I do feel like the title was a bit clickbait though since there's nothing in the video stating that Dan doesn't want to make games anymore.

Strange, I didnt hear anything about Hades 1 being "woke" by the time it was released, and yet it fits the criteria these people oh so complain about.

who else came back to this video after Hades 2 got released into early access?

Great video. Very informative and thoroughly enjoyable. Made me recall the olden days when I consumed fanmade DDLC content on a daily basis.

ROGUE LEGACY MENTIONED 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Please be more careful eho you are getting sponsors from. Seeing the sponsor, it immediately dropped my trust for them, as they used ai generated crap as their background images. How am I going to trust a company selfish enough to not even pay a couple of bucks for an artist, and that uses stolen content? I wont.

yeah its not "Mr. Nekobolo" and "Mr. Neru", that's not how you call voca-p's 😭 also fun fact, nekobolo is sasanomaly

Don't tell me Rebirth came out in 2014.. that is a decade ago now.

This video made me hate Rain World less now. Not to a degree but like to a 75%-80%.

Theseus: NO FAIR THE GAME WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT ME AND ASTERIUS!! Zagreus: Should've had a richer story for gameplay. Theseus: *Mounts Macedonian Tau Lambda and puts on mask*

It has been debunked that mario fx was not real. It was the name of the fx chip. If i remember correctly.

Not even once I thought about the ethnicities of the gods, but thankfully you brought that point up, so we can finally stop focusing on race and eradicate racism. If you see sarcasm, you already exceeded my expectations.

This is the only visual novel i ever played and probably will (if VA-11 Hall-A does not count) and i loved it. If Salvato makes another visual novel i will seriously consider playing it.

Fascinating stuff. I almost watched the whole thing, but I had to stop at 16:54 when you wrote "then" instead of "than." There's no excuse for this mistake. Literally unwatchable.

Very good video about the history of my favorite horror game!

.....Just hanging around.....