Yeah I am aware that the LcdDem ending is on youtube already, but there wasn't a slower version (the one used in the actual ending) The ending to this game is definitely mindscrew, haha.
This honestly feels really bittersweet. Like the ending. Unlike most Yume Nikki protags, she doesn't end her own life, but is forced to live with a harsh reality for the rest of it.
This is the most realistic thing a kid would do. You see something so horrific that you just cant believe it's real, so you go to your room and act like nothing is wrong. Everything will be ok. Mom will be ok. She'll come to my room and let me know dinner is ready. You never leave your room. Your room is safe. But eventually you have to leave and when you do, you must face the reality that no nothing is ok. This is your life now. As cruel as it is.
To me, it seemed like something bad had happened and she didn't want to face it. She didn't want to leave her room for fear of what she'd see, and so the doorway appears impassible. In order to escape, she sleeps. But in her dreams are reminders and clues of what happened. At the end, she finally has no choice but to leave her room. When she sees the horrific scene of her mother's body, she attempts to wake up. But this time, she cannot. She is in reality.
@@emoticondegato A child is definitely not sleep killing their parents, let alone a little girl. The mom hid her daughter away to protect her from an unknown person. The daughter waits in her room for her mother to come out. Eventually she falls asleep. Upon waking up, she heads out only to realize her mother failed to save herself.
In truth, this is somewhat sadder than Yume Nikki. In Yume Nikki, we were able to escape the nightmare in our head at the cost of our life. In LCDDEM, we weren’t able to escape a cold reality despite our efforts and now we must live with it.
No, this is a far better outcome than Yume Nikki's, Chie is still alive and willingly accepts and moves on with what happened on that day. Matsudoki ended her life due to her worser escapism, she thought that she had no other choice but to jump, she was cornered more than Chie was, and that shows how much more devastating Yume Nikki is and how broken Matsudoki really was.
hmm my views on the ending are quite different than yours i believe that madotsuki was in a dream the entire game and was maybe suffering from a coma as you see the jellyfish angels at the bottom of the ending but i agree LCDDEMs ending was heartwrenching
with the disappearance of koronba (the game's creator) as well as the many explanations and ideas that people came up with regarding his whereabouts, this song feels different
@@someoneiguess1478 what people say most likely happened to him, is that his mental health declined to the point where he erased his presence on the internet and never came back
it really does feel different huh.. i hope he's okay wherever he is. all the music and art he left behind has had such a lasting impact, its a shame that he took it so negatively
@@golgiapparatus8776I remember a theory about the end of the game being something that actually happened to koronba, and that's why he deleted his existence from the internet (as I said, it's just a theory)
It's been speculated that the game reminded the creator of things that they would rather forget. They gave a bizzare last post before removing the download links, I think I replied to you and posted the full story.
Spoilers ahead, so be careful // God, LCDDEM's ending has to be the most soul crushing. It's hard for me to describe, but Imagine, trying to avoid the horrific reality of what happened beyond your room to your mother by escaping to your dreams, and even then you still can't forget. Because you're constantly reminded wherever you go. The only choice you have is to face it.
This doesn’t sound sad in the way you normally think of sadness. This feels like loss, emptiness, absence. Like the world has stopped moving. Like you’re sitting in the waiting room. Your mother died an hour ago. You can’t work up the will to do anything. You can’t go home, because your mother won’t be there. You can never go to a place we’re your mother is, because she is nowhere. That’s how this song makes me feel.
i know we’ll never get closure on what happened with the creator of this, but i can’t help myself from thinking about it every now and then. i think this game is amazing and it’s really heartbreaking to see his final message about it before he left
There's a feeling this song emits that I've never seen another song achieve. It's nothing but guilt, there's a feeling of remorse that won't ever be rectified.
SPOILERS of course. In my theory I think that dead corpse could be her mother that hid Chie in her room and block a large furniture so some crook or robber doesn't know Chie's room. And Chie can only just dream while all that is happening. Hardly doubt that Chie can somehow sleep kill her.
I believe that this theory is right in my opinion. Now since Chie couldn't get out of her room since there is a 'closet' there, do you think Chie's mom locked Chie in her room from the outside?
+Heian Sylph (Sylpphire) My theory is that the closet in her room never existed. It was a door all the time, but Chie wasn't prepared to face the truth that her mother was dead, so she imagined it was a closet and tried to escape through her dreams. At the end, she finally got the courage to open the door. Too sad ;__;
i know a lot of people don’t care for these types of games, let alone understand why they carry emotional weight. but if you just take a step back and see it less as a game, and more as an expression of the creator’s experiences or brain, it can really hit you. spoiler for this game: the end sequence is so emotional for me. it’s not even about the blood, or Chie breaking down and staying alive (as opposed to many other games like this), but for me it’s about the way your effects circle around. there HAS to be significance to that. seeing them all appear as their real world counterparts, simple objects such as an eraser or colored pencils… it feels so important and personal to the creator, and like something I’ll never be able to truly fathom. was it the last thing she has from the person (people) she lost? do they signify some sort of spectrum of experiences with them? it’s just so sad, with this empty song that never seems to find a resolution.
This was one of my favorite fangames. I don't understand why the producer removed the download link to this and LcdDem2 and even aquor... The game was practically complete anyways, ending and all.
The ending of LcddDem has to be the most gut-wrenching scene I've ever seen. It's so sad, shocking and overwhelming I couldn't say a word after watching it. It's like an emotional gravity pushing you hard.
this track is very emotional to some points i can cry sometimes, i don't know how to explain it but lcddem is just a great fangame... i'm always sad to see it go and the creator himself
I can relate to Chie. When I was younger one night my mom was laying on the floor with every furniture covered in her blood. Fortunately my mom survived the ordeal.
the ending of lcddem made me cry a lot, more than any other ynfgs ive played, and i think thats because its such a real and raw event that can happen to anyone really. the denial especially-- going through such a harrowing loss that all you can do is hide away and pretend it didn't even happen. But the reality eventually sets in that a huge part of your life is gone: that nothing will ever really be the same. that's what this song embodies to me. That you can't hide from the grief forever. this game is really something special. and REALLY sad. lol.
The final scene surprised me and yet made me realize what Chie was really hiding behind that facade of color and tranquility. I think it's her dead mother.
This keeps coming back to my home page. Whenever I hear this track I imagine a group of people all sitting together, watching the world fall apart. Funny enough, the only words I can use to describe it are phantasmagoric and hypnagogic, both of which refer to a dreamlike state. Considering Yume Nikki is based on a dream Diary, and LCD_DEM is a YNFG, those words are quite fitting
I've never played this game, but every time i listen to this I immediately burst into tears. I've seen clips of the game's ending but i'm pretty sure it's not because of it. They aren't even tears of sadness, it just feels weirdly nostalgic, it brings up some memories and makes me cry (lucklily, the memories aren't related to the game's ending ahaha, they're mostly happy memories)
This sounds otherworldly, conveying feelings that don't exist.. A mix between sadness, relief and nostalgia. It's unnervingly calm, as if you were alone in this world when listening to this. This fangame really is incredible.
I've never played LcdDem, but I've seen footage of it here on RU-vid. Having seen the ending, with this music playing.... it was impactful. Very impactful.
2011 ' Man after playing yume nikki, I don't think i'm going to see a sadder ending from a sequel or a fangame ' 2 years later 'FUUUUCK-- NOOOO! This game was happy for the most part, why?!' *starts crying when Chie starts crying and the music plays* Today Yes, literally the game's ending broke me *not a good way / the funny broken* for those 2 years and even know the music breaks me even if it does sound somewhat nice.
It's finally happening, it was so sudden. Too sudden, you feel an empty sadness in your heart, an emotion so deep and so strong your mind can not fathom. You rest in denial clinging onto the past, but you know that eventually reality will hit you hard but for now you are just falling, you know you will hit the ground but you still remain in the air. You stare with a vacant look at the body that was once warm and full of life, is now just an empty shell of a person once living. You feel that the feeling joy has been pulled from your soul, and crammed in a small box locked away, and replaced with despair and longing You long to bring him back so you sweetly plant a kiss on your fathers forehead, just like you used to before you went to sleep and you leave the room that your cold lifeless father lay in. He's gone
another commenter mentioned that this doesnt feel like regular sadness, but just more like sheer emptiness and nothingness, and I have to agree. It reminds me of liminal spaces. Places that are just empty, and give you a terrible feeling inside
This is just depressing (yet nostalgic...and loss-ful) as heck,even tho i haven't seen a gameplay of it,but after reading the comments about the game's ending,I Feel so damn bad for Chie,can't even imagine meeting a person who also goes through the same experiences as her.(Ok so,i watched the game's ending...and GOD IT HURTS.) This is one of the best Yume nikki fangames ever(PS: I am also aware about the Game creator's discontinuation of the game,,) its 1 year of this comment as of today,as of someone who played the game and got the ending,yeah,this ending is so lossful and memorable.
I'm gonna turn 13 next month and I'm quite nervous and I know I'll still be a kid but It feels as If I'm walking away from m child years maybe forgetting more, but I also feel like I'll have more expectations ahead of me. I'm known to overthink most things and get stressed out easily when I think too much and probably end up crying. uhhh yup! I hope someone understands me or at least read this In the upcoming month, I'm sure excited for my new age though, aside from the overwhelming questions and yet again expectations... I just wish I'll have a good year and face my things. also I haven't really felt like I'm that young like I'm missing out, mostly because most people say I look like a young adult or 14-16 so that's FUN... also might delete this comment a while later for personal reasons Hey I'm back and I'm gonna turn 14 in a week:0000 uh
hey happy late birthday man! life may get overwhelming but you've still got so much excitement and joy ahead of you. the start of your teenage years can be scary but im sure you'll get through it just fine . :) best wishes
I have a theory for what happened at the end. As you collect orbs Chie is doing stuff like, sleep walking in the real world, and the second to last orb you get I believe is an action in the real world where you grab a knife. Then in the nexus the last orb runs AWAY from you. I think that the last orb represents the dead person at the end. Chie might have been sleep killing.
I don't think so. One, it's a dream. Two, she's unable to do so, since she can't get through the door. And three, the art supplies surrounding her are what the effects are in the real world.
신이시여, 게임을 비록 일반적이지 않더라도 예컨대 '배드 엔딩'으로 최후(긍정적이지도 부정적이지도 않은)를 맞이한다는 것을 매우 쉽사리 판단하고야 말았습니다. 백야의 눈으로부터 환심을 사고야 만 것이 발단이올시다, 라고는 통칭하면서도 마음 한 켠이 공연히 누그러드는 듯한 느낌이었습니다. 단순히 인의 윤회로부터 자유를 갖춘 타의 존재에서 발화점이 타올랐다곤 조금도 믿어 개의치 않습니다. 생각건대, 이는 자초한 일이자 사용자 스스로가 일회적이고 단순명료한 길, 즉 파멸의 이치에 발을 담그다 그만 권태의 늪으로 빠져 마치 바다 한가운데서 플라스틱 병을 머리에 뒤집어쓰고 엉깃엉깃하는 비둘기같은 꼴으로 자신을 안내한 것입니다. 그것이 근본적으로 본인의 잘못인가 하고 묻자하니 특별한 이점을 찾을 수 없었습니다. 양자택일의 요소라기보단 아마도 절대 단선적이지 않은 어떤 것이 사용자를 반겨주었습니다. 양자택일로부터 플레이어가 영겁의 길로 자신을 이끌어내는 것은 어렵지도 않은 일입니다. 필경 사용자가 다른 직업을 선택하고 다른 루틴으로, 다른 환경에서 애욕을 채우고 싶다라는, 환생의 전제가 깔려있는 상황에야 사용자는 기꺼이 부정을 택할 것입니다. 그 어떤 바보라도 스스로 파멸의 길에 빠지기가 쉽지 않다는 말입니다. 제아무리 강력한 백야일지라도 사용자를 파멸에 빠뜨리는 것은, 아무래도 쉬운 일이 아닙니다.
@Espeo9023 and one of the additional events that you have to get for the ending is falling asleep in the dream world and killing a copy of yourself so...yeah :O
Wait, no, you're confused. Two are those different incidents. Around two years, Koronba went and deleted several links to their works, but at that moment they didn't say anything about not returning or wanting the game to be forgotten. What you're talking about happened 6/7 months ago.
"Chie looks down at the corpse of her mother, sobbing. She says "This is all my fault..." between sobs. She decides to stay there, kneeling. She stays there for so long. She begins to think of the worst: killing herself. She decides to slit her wrists. She goes to the kitchen, gets a knife, and does the deed. She falls to the ground, crying silently. She takes her last breaths, and says "i... love... you...". Those were her last words."
@@false_idol__ Look, I don't know what you're getting at, but I wasn't trying to make fun of anyone's pain. I just saw the quotation marks from the beginning to the end
She didn't. One, she couldn't get through the door. Two, she was dreaming. And three, the art supplies surrounding her are what the effects are in the real world. They are not weapons. I got the part about art supplies from the LCD DEM wiki
Man, I didn’t realised until today that the wiki’s download page is gone, I was just playing it the other day. Hearing about the author’s news made me have goosebumps all of the sudden. I hope he’s fine, it really makes one wonder…
I don't think she killed anyone. One, she was dreaming. Two, she couldn't get past the door. And three, the art supplies surrounding her are what the effects are in the real world. The art supplies part is according to the LCD DEM wiki
The context is really.. Sad? Ok... The context is when Chie wakes up, and walk on some room and there has a blood and corpse on the ground. And then, Chie found the corpse of her mom on the ground, and she tries to think that It is a dreams, but no! And she Just sit and cries. Sorry If my English is bad, because im from Brazil :/
@@Antonon07 Yeah they shouldn't compare the games together but you don't need to be dramatic about it your acting as if it's the end of the world if they compare the games and that they made the worst comment ever 💀
