That conversation, to me, was a clincher of perspective of the meta-narrative: Taking things at face-value, Monika is a tier above the 'NPCs'. As a longtime gamer, I've killed many, MANY NPCs in my career. How many NPCs have you killed in games?'.Īnd it is true. The second thing that won me over was a sarcastic comment in Act 3: She talks about how there's a yandere character in the game. Natsuki is the only other Doki who comes close to trusting you with anywhere near that level. That is to say, she cares and trusts you far more than the other Dokis. Two things won me over for Monika: One was data-mined, which is a hidden conversation that will never play in Act 3, where she comments that if you can see these entries, you have access to her source code and could change her very existence, but she trusts you not to, happy you want to know more about her and trusting you will be gentle and kind while inside her (inside her code, that is). And of the four, the solipsist is the easiest to get along with. Everyone is entitled to their own stance and opinion.ĮDIT: I actually am curious on who genuinely likes Monika and not just because of the 'Just Monika' meme going around.ĭDLC is a game where each girl exemplifies an emotional error: Depressive, Yandere-level masochistic, trauma/victimhood, and Solipsist. She isn't completely innocent in all of this and given what she's done, I can fully understand why people would dislike her. I'm not sure if this was a good answer to your question, but this is just my stance on her. And that last scene was a mini redemption arc for her.Īnd this last point may just be a bias on myself, but I don't believe the fault lies entirely with her, but just a curse of being the literature club president as Sayori would succumb to the same curse as Monika. 'If I can't learn to love you, I'll leave you be.' All this makes her more of a tragic villain rather than an obsessive psychopath in my eyes. And then choosing to restore the world to bring happiness to everyone else even if it meant she couldn't be a part of it.Īnd I think the final hook for me was her song. Even when she admits that she wanted the player all for herself, she couldn't bring herself to fully delete the other girls and said that she still loved them.

That moment when you deleted her and she reflects on everything that she did and realizes how horrible she actually was. But the thing that sold me on her was her very end. Would not want to be alone with her here). And I actually didn't like her for a majority of the game when I learned of her ulterior motives (and especially the isolated room scene. I will admit that she has done a lot of terrible things. She's my personal favorite out of the girls.

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