What I expected when I bought this game was a more streamlined experience rather than a simulator esq game. The comparison to Doki Doki when reading the reviews was not lost on me but I think Needy Streamer was trying to sell itself on the shock value rather than the actual game experience

Doki doki slowly subverted expectations throughout the game rather than throwing it in your face all at once (barring being spoiled on the twist of DDLC)

NSO gets right to the get-go and shows that our main character is already cracked out and we just are fuel to the flame. The issue imo with both games is that there's no happy medium.

DDLC at some points is too streamlined with little room for player choice, while on the flipside NSO is too focused on player choice and number crunching to see what stats you raising and lowering

I saw maybe a quarter of the endings and while they're interesting at some points the gameplay to get those endings is not.

With the true ending being locked until you see all other endings, one must be highly dedicated to the needy streamer to get through the slog of the gameplay loop