It appears superficially that at SOME POINT in it's development YiiK was going to be an at least passable indie game....as many successful indie devs such as Toby Fox(who is now an employee of Gamefreak and still making games both big name and indie) had spoken it's praises
but the game's release was then delayed for 4 years, and the content from the draft they praised was haphazardly turned into an obnoxious hidden ending that the devs claimed was a "joke"