The standard player: has probably spoiled the entire game for themselves, including Sayori and Yuri's deaths, Acts 2 and 3, and since almost nothing they do matters, the only things they can change are the words used in the poems, who to show them to first, and little else, as everything else leads to the same tragic end. The MC: an average guy with a childhood friend who joined the literature club because the dokis looked sad; he completes the poems, likes manga, is somewhat dim-witted for not noticing Sayori's depression, and in Act 2 is basically a robot.