Dogi✩Maji✩Memorium
Overview[edit]
Dogi☆Maji☆Memorium (often shortened to "Dogi Maji") is a series of dating sim games with a modern school setting. They are played on the Gehenna Station, a game console that is likely a parody of the PlayStation. The games themselves are also likely a parody of the Tokimeki Memorial dating sim series.
In a :D Jobs cutscene at Hocus Pocus, Leviathan told Mammon that Version 2.10 of the game has a bug that crashes the whole game, so the batch was recalled. As a result, this version of the game is exceedingly rare.
Gameplay[edit]
Mammon said in Lesson 10-1 (OM) that "anyone who registers to play [Dogi Maji] is actually pulled into the game world for real." This means that "if you die in the game, you die for real." Players also have to successfully win the game, because if they don't, "[they'll] never be able to leave the game world!"
As the games are dating sims, one of the players are "designated as the heroine," as Leviathan explained in Lesson 10-4 (OM). The "heroine" title is unrelated to the chosen player's actual gender, and can be selected by players before the game begins. Other players must attempt to increase their "favorability score" with the heroine, and at the game's end, confess their love to the heroine on the "Roof of Legend." This is because of a rumor that "if you admit you love someone [on the Roof of Legend] on graduation day and become an official couple, then you'll live happily ever after together."
The games appear to take place in a Human World school, although one of the characters still referred to Mammon as a demon in Lesson 10-10 (OM). Gameplay involves attending classes and interacting with both other players and NPC classmates and teachers. After various interactions between the heroine and another player, the heroine can decide if the events of said interaction have raised or lowered the other player's intimacy score.
Story[edit]
Dogi☆Maji☆1[edit]
In Lesson 10-1 (OM), after MC had asked Mammon to help Lucifer and Satan make up after their fight, Mammon showed MC the Dogi Maji game that Leviathan had just bought. He told them how players are pulled into the game world and unable to leave it until they win, and said he wanted to register Lucifer and Satan as players, which would force them to work together. Leviathan was doubtful of that plan, but registered the two anyway. He also registered himself, MC, and Mammon as "Stupidmammon," despite Mammon's complaints.
After the five of them enter the game world, Leviathan revealed that he gave MC the "heroine" role. This meant he and his brothers had to each work to increase their favorability score with MC to beat the game. So, during a time when MC was busy, the four brothers had a strategy meeting to discuss ways of making MC happy enough to accept one of their love confessions at the game's ending. Mammon suggested using "super over-the-top romantic lines," while Satan suggested "[showing] an unexpected side of yourself." Lucifer stated his idea of doing a kabedon, and then Leviathan shared his plan, though his actual dialogue was censored with kiss mark and heart emojis.
Later, MC interacted with each of the four brothers one by one, and after each scene, chose to either raise or lower their intimacy scores. Mammon was first, who had fallen asleep in class, but when caught by the teacher, MC helped him by whispering the answer to the question he was asked. Next was Satan, who met MC in the hallway and offered to help carry half of the teaching materials they were bringing to the next class.
At lunch, MC encountered Leviathan, who gave them a homemade Ruri-chan themed bento with three layers. And finally, MC found Lucifer skipping class and taking a nap on the school's roof, which he commented he could do because there was no Diavolo in this world, so he could do what he wanted "without worrying about being a disgrace to him in any way."
Game Ending[edit]
Graduation day eventually arrived, and this was when the characters were meant to profess their love to the heroine. Instead, the game took a twist and became a survival horror game, and monsters suddenly showed up and devoured the NPC classmates.
One of their classmates, whose name was John, told MC and the other players that there would be a final battle coming. He then sacrificed himself to save MC the others, and MC, Mammon, Leviathan, Lucifer, and Satan ended up on the Roof of Legend. The game's final boss appeared, who turned out to be Cerberus.
Initially, Cerberus wouldn't listen to Lucifer's order to sit, because Lucifer didn't have his normal powers within the Dogi Maji game. However, when Cerberus started to charge at Satan, Lucifer's angry threats brought Cerberus to heel, which saved Satan and completed the game. Everyone then returned to the real world, where Leviathan said they "broke the RTA speedrun record." He happily gave the game a 5-star review, and specifically praised the ending.
Dogi☆Maji☆2[edit]
Dogi☆Maji 2 is the sequel game, and its plot was told through a series of chats. In the Dogi✩Maji 2: The Reckoning 1-2 chats, Leviathan purchased Dogi☆Maji☆2 and made Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Belphegor play it with him. He also requested MC play the "heroine" role again.
Once this group completed the game, Leviathan excitedly announced that they had a new speedrun record, and noted that the final boss was still Cerberus, the same as the first game. He also praised the developers for upping the difficulty and for the amount of content they added. Asmodeus also seemed to have enjoyed the game, though Beelzebub and Belphegor did not. Belphegor complained that the game required an intimacy level of over 99 to avoid the "bad ending." This is a different mechanic than in the first game, where intimacy scores didn't change the ending.
When the residents of Purgatory Hall played the game in the Purgatory Hall Dogi✩Maji 2 chat, Luke was the heroine, and the boss in their playthrough was Henry 1.0. In the chat A Regular Thing?, Raphael played Dogi☆Maji 2 with Leviathan, Thirteen, Mephistopheles, and MC. In their playthrough, Mephistopheles was the heroine, and it was mentioned that the story only continued when the heroine's intimacy level reached a certain level. The final boss for their playthrough was also Henry 1.0.
Dogi☆Maji☆3[edit]
Dogi☆Maji 3 was played in Leviathan's 2021 birthday event. In this event, it was said that the game's tagline is "Relive the nervous excitement of falling in love for the first time!"
The brothers knew that Leviathan wanted to play Dogi☆Maji☆3, so they did their best to find a copy for him before his birthday, even though the game's official release was scheduled shortly after his birthday. Satan managed to obtain the beta version, but because this version of the game was unfinished, it contained many bugs. These bugs took the form of Little D. No. 3, and caused issues for the group while playing.
One such issue was Leviathan and MC essentially ended up switching bodies because their data got corrupted. However, they discovered that while inside the game, they could enter battles with the Little D. No. 3's. Defeating the Little D's would act as the debugging process, which meant the errors in the code would be corrected.
At the end of the event, Leviathan told MC that the official release of Dogi☆Maji☆3 had been delayed. The announcement did not say why, but Leviathan guessed it was due to the amount of bugs, particularly because the corruption of the heroine's code seemed to be a fundamental system error.