Nightmare Fuel / Doki Doki Takeover!

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Just like with the original version of the game it crosses over with, the Doki Doki Takeover! mod(s) for Friday Night Funkin' does not shy away from being nightmarish one bit, given this is Doki Doki Literature Club! we're talking about. While the vanilla release of DDTO doesn't come as close as being unrepentant and cruel as the horrors shown in DDLC, the Bad Ending version of the mod delivers that cruel justice tenfold.

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Doki Doki Takeover

• Poor Girlfriend gets glitched out severely before she gets deleted, complete with a Nightmare Face. And it happens to her again during and after "Obsession".
• "Your Demise" features Monika regularly glitching out with tons of Nightmare Faces, most from her game of origin, but one taken straight from the base game itself!
• Natsuki briefly glitching out like crazy after "Deep Breaths", as if she's about to repeat the Jump Scare from her original game.
• Fortunately, Yuri freaking out isn't quite as nasty as what she did originally (well, at least in the good ending timeline of DDTO), but she gets rather uncomfortably close to Boyfriend during "Obsession" while looking utterly crazed out, as if he is suddenly the target of her desires.
• The cutscene after "Obsession" is when things go completely south as the girls go completely nuts. Oh, and Girlfriend is still glitched out and Natsuki has lost her face entirely. And Sayori, despite looking cheerful, is asking Boyfriend and Girlfriend to stay forever. Thank goodness for Monika fixing everything...at least in this version of the mod.
• "Epiphany" is basically a repeat of the climax of the original DDLC. Fortunately, however, this isn't as creepy as that scene, and Monika even expresses a bit of sympathy for a moment when you get a game over. But then at the end of the song, the game itself proceeds to delete Monika, and her look of horror when she realizes it's about to happen is pretty damn terrifying.
  • If you happen to lose during "Epiphany", there's a small chance that Monika will Jump Scare you, in a similar fashion to the infamous Jump Scare face she pulls off in Act 3 of the original game. To add insult to injury, this causes the game to crash as well.
• In the Plus update, the fact that Senpai went mad from the revelation that his world wasn't real. And he was risking repeating what Monika did, albeit to his world. He tries to make Monika join him in his endeavours, but thankfully, she refuses, cutting the connection between them, likely for good.
• The final song of the Plus update itself, "Libitina", has a sole focus on Libitina from DDLC+'s Metaverse Enterprise Solutions and the rumoured sequel to DDLC, seemingly related to the currently unseen VM 2. The song itself cycles through varying forms of horror, all coming to a head on the last note when it's revealed SHE is the one holding the Third Eye.

Bad Ending

• The entire premise of this separate mod is basically this. To put it straight, it's pretty much a what-if scenario in regards to Monika failing to restore the code of her visual novel world, which permanently makes the world of DDLC itself fucked beyond repair, but it also makes it so that everyone trapped in the game itself, is Killed Off for Real. And Monika is forced to watch as her friends (as well as Boyfriend and Girlfriend) perish in the same ways they did in DDLC, only this time- Monika is forever trapped in the code, hopeless...and alone.
  • Oh, and given how it's implied via Word of God from Dan Salvato (the creator of DDLC) that there are basically an infinite amount of possible timelines within the DDLC world itself, the Bad Ending mod is technically canon within the DDLC multiverse. Yikes.
• The main menu of the Bad Ending mod straight up references the hidden "Ghost Menu" Easter Egg from DDLC, only without Monika this time. And booting up the mod may also greet you with a zoomed-in Sayori in your face, before crashing. How fun(!) The menu music, "py.notfound", doesn't give any relief from the haunting tone of the setting.
• "Stagnant", the first Bad Ending song dedicated to Sayori, begins in a carefree manner, before slowly easing you into a sense of dread- before it cuts to the real scene playing out; Sayori in the same attire she wore when she killed herself in DDLC, while she sadly sings with Boyfriend in the space classroom...before suddenly switching back to the "fake" scene for a bit, then switching back to the real scene playing out before you...and then you're suddenly plunged into her happy thoughts. That's right, the background and sprites have now become that of the "hxppythxughts.png" file from DDLC. Oh, and Sayori dies at the end of the song too, in case it weren't so obvious.
• This leads into "Markov", Yuri's song for the Bad End mod. It begins with a sinister silhouette of her singing in front of Boyfriend (or is she singing in front of you?) in a dark, artificial tone of voice. The only other thing you see of her, is her left eye. And after almost a minute of singing...she lunges right at you, segueing into the song's chorus. Since the game's code is perma-screwed, she's stuck with her insane personality the entire time, and throughout the song, she makes sure she's really close to you. While the song itself is amazingly composed and awesome in it's own right, Interface Screw in the form of eyeballs in small desktop windows will surely make you uneasy. And of course, at the very end of the song, Yuri ends up killing herself. Adding to the fact that her death animation takes place in nothing but a white void, indicating her file has been destroyed as a result of her death.
  • Adding to the horrors found in Markov, is the fact that when Yuri is up close to the player/Boyfriend, rather than using the standard FNF artstyle, Yuri is portrayed in a very detailed artstyle (not unlike the artstyle used by DusterBuster, who was the artist for the mod). While it doesn't fall into the Uncanny Valley for some viewers (despite having a set of very sharp fangs), it does however, feel very uncanny for Boyfriend, if one were to assume his world is seen in the usual FNF artstyle.
  • On top of that, Yuri's expressions up-close range from delightful, insane glee, to sinister malicious glaring, and even to being rightfully pissed. Given how her insanity peaks to beyond her limit here due to the corrupted code, she's pulling these rapid-fire expressional changes in mere milliseconds by the climax of the song. By the end of the song, the code has corrupted enough to make her start stabbing herself until she dies a blissful, and very painful death.
• Finally, Natsuki's song for the mod, and to an extent, the grand finale song for the mod- "Home". It starts off somber and cutesy with Natsuki's voice singing along with Boyfriend, but the cuteness delves into pure madness when the cute doodles in the foreground literally melt away, leading into the rest of the song. And if that wasn't enough, Natsuki's body starts to contort and break apart, first becoming The Faceless and then her eyes popping off like in DDLC, though in this case, she tears them out herself. And as the song draws to its inevitable bad end, Girlfriend is killed off mid-song which causes Boyfriend to go completely off the deep end. The song ends with the souls of Sayori, Yuri, Natsuki, Boyfriend and Girlfriend in the classroom, with the first four singing together...one last time as it cuts to a shot of all 5 characters' corpses around Girlfriend's iconic speakers.
  • The way that Girlfriend dies is also creepy. When Boyfriend and/or Girlfriend die in other mods, it's usually in a comical or at the very least flashy manner. Here, she simply slumps over in complete silence.
• The ending to the entire mod, as stated before, shows that Monika is unable to restore the game in time, and we see her breaking into tears, as the files for Sayori, Yuri, Natsuki and even Boyfriend and Girlfriend- are all broken. With their souls implied to have withered away into the code, Monika can only watch as the game itself is terminated from existence, leaving Monika stuck in code for the rest of time (at least in this timeline). Compared to her fate in the original DDLC timeline(s), this is by far one of the cruelest fates given to Monika within the DDLC universe.

Datastream

While this sub-mod is more of a Tear Jerker than anything, it does bring about its own fair share of nightmare fuel.

• Monika's sprites are VERY badly glitched out as a result of her predicament, and while it doesn't LOOK that way, the ever-changing window text makes it clear that she's outright desperate to get back into DDLC before things go downhill. And considering what happens to her in the Bad Ending...
• Kicking off the mod is when the wallpaper of your PC changes, not only mixed with "Just Monika" on an endless loop, but some other message as well that keen eyes need to look out for.
• During the song, several things can pop into view as time goes on, such as a GIF resembling a glitchy graphic to a text document with some of the original game's poems inside. And this is all while the song's still going, so it can really mess you up.
• The window text itself is rather painful to look at, showcasing Monika's pain as she tries and fails to fix things one final time. Aside from one message, which is a funny moment in itself, the rest are shocking to observe. As follows, these are;
  • "HELPMEHELPMEHELPMEHELPMEHELPME"
  • "..."
  • "01101001 01110100 00100000 01101000 01110101 01110010 01110100 01110011"^note translates to "it hurts"
  • "IM TRAPPED IN BETWEEN"
  • "I NEED TO GET BACK TO THE LITERATURE CLUB"
  • "save me from this hell"
  • "HOW ARE YOU HERE?"
  • "DATA TRANSFER... FAILED."
  • "Friday Night FuGETMEOUTOFHERE"
  • "StuckTrappedHelplessStuckTrappedHelplessStuckTra"
  • "regretregretregretregret"
  • "STOP SINGING AND HELP ME"
  • "I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME"
  • ""
• Want to chance retrying the mod after Monika is done with it? All you'll get when the game reloads are a pair of detailed eyes staring at you before the game closes again.
• Also, the end of the song itself is painful in terms of horror and sadness, as the world of DDTO (at least within this particular timeline of events) literally crumbles as Monika's last note is a painful, agonizing, distorted moan as her humanity and mentality is implied to have been permanently scrambled upon the game's self-destructive "completion" (judging from what happens when you boot up the game after beating it). In addition, Boyfriend's last, depressive notes that follow Monika's final note basically implies that the Boyfriend's own spirit has made peace with his death in the Bad Ending timeline.