History VideoGame / YIIKAPostModernRPG

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasy7 Aeris]] can be seen mourning at a grave in Alex's hometown during the Ultima Mythical LP Legend section of the game.

* FullyAbsorbedFinale: [[spoiler:Roy from ''VideoGame/TwoBrothers'' has a plot-relevant appearance here]].

** The game came under fire for [[https://www.dualshockers.com/yiik-plagiarism/ straight up lifting text]] from ''Literature/AfterDark''

* MoodWhiplash: A very serious cutscene revolving around [[spoiler:Rory revealing that his sister committed suicide and his resulting trauma from the event]] is interrupted by a Golden Alpaca attacking the party and yelling "Lemonade!" over and over.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Alex slowly starts to enter despair as soon he learns about the world's inevitable destruction. As soon everyone and the world is destroyed, he starts to lose all sense of hope as his only companion Panda abandons him, only drifting through the Soul Space endlessly to the point he starts to forget himself. He only recovers after finding a world Proto-Alex hasn't destroyed yet and uses the opportunity to finish the job.]]

* MultipleEndings: At least three different endings, all of which are canon, have been confirmed to exist by the development team. The third ending has yet to be implimented in the game proper, with the creator saying data mining won't find it or put it in.

** Ending 3 is as of November 2020 only viewable online and not in the game itself. [[spoiler:Completing some unimplimented puzzles allow the party to explore the large lighthouse out in the overworld's water, which eventually sends all of them to the room the final boss would be in way ahead of time, without the group being Banished and reality being destroyed. With Proto-Alex (named "Wilfrid" for some reason) and Essentia being much weaker, they are defeated and reality is saved. Since the room "exists outside of time," the party returns to just before the events of the game and Alex sets out to improve himself, starting with getting the groceries he was told to get at the beginning of the game. Alex is also aware of the events of the first ending and how it was impossible to stop Proto-Alex/Wilfrid before his reality's destruction.]]

* PaddedSumoGameplay: Combat uses double digit numbers at most and even after a dozen hours most of your attacks struggle to break past ''20'', and the enemies hit you for just as much or less. The small numbers is compounded by the fact that every single attack is an Action Command, with some going as long as ''half a minute'', and after every enemy attack is an Action Command to reduce damage as well. Each of those elements combined creates an incredibly slow turn-based combat system where a regular enemy encounter takes ''several minutes'' to complete.

* MultipleEndings: At least three different endings, all of which are canon, have been confirmed to exist by the development team. The third ending's existence is doubted by fans, however, in part due to the creator saying data mining won't help.

** [[spoiler:After losing the unwinnable FinalBoss battle against Proto-Alex, Alex gets a fourth wall-bending pep talk from the main character of the failed ''VideoGame/TwoBrothers'', who essentially laments the failure of his game, remarks that "some people have worked really hard to prevent me from finishing my quest", but concludes that "I'm happy with what I accomplished." All this paints the picture of the developers being satisfied with ''Two Brothers'' despite the haters. The problem is, the biggest issue most people who played ''Two Brothers'' had was that the game was unplayably buggy, something the developers could've fixed to salvage the game, but instead abandoned the game entirely, making this scene come across as the developers living in denial about ''why'' people didn't like ''Two Brothers'' and refusing to truly accept their failure.]]

* MindScrew: The game remains tame in this department for most part, even with the supernatural elements or surreal enemies you fight. Once Alex meets Essentia and she explains her existence, things start to get weirder.

** The game has Alex mention a number of popular games that were his childhood... that also came out only a few years before the year the game canonically takes place.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Examining the graves in the graveyard in Windtown will reveal that one of the graves is for [[spoiler:Carrie Mancer, which gives away that Rory hasn't been completely honest with you and that his sister is dead and not missing]].

* MoodWhiplash: A very serious cutscene revolving around [[spoiler: Rory revealing that his sister committed suicide and his resulting trauma from the event]] is interrupted by a Golden Alpaca attacking the party and yelling "Lemonade!" over and over.

* ActionCommands: When a character performs an attack, an object related to their move will appear and the player has to time button inputs to boost their attack power.

** NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler:On the way to Ending 1, Alex eventually journeys to a planet in the Soul Space where all the alternate Alexes are gathered. On the dark side of the planet he encounters a group of four Dark Alexes that encourage him to join them. Agreeing here causes Alex to merge with them to form the reality-destroying meteorite. The credits roll at a quickened pace, capped off with "Thanks For Playing...?"]]

** Ending 2: [[spoiler:Unlocked by first finding "Sammy" in Alex's front lawn on New Year's Eve. With that, a special email "Unseen32 and Better Endings" is received. After reading it, the back door unlocks, allowing for Alex to traverse the overworld himself to the KNN building. After completing all the tasks for the journalists, Alex is finally reunited with Sammy, and the game ends with their embrace.]]

* VariableMix: In Vella's Mind Room, you go about rallying up stage performers. As you progress this objective, the background music gets more instrumentation added.

* TitleDrop: The big

** Ending 2: [[spoiler:Unlocked by first finding "Sammy" in Alex's front lawn on New Year's Eve. With that, a special email is received, and the back door unlocks, allowing for Alex to traverse the overworld to the KNN building. After completing all the tasks for the journalists, Alex is finally reunited with Sammy, and the game ends with their embrace.]]