To this day Undertale still moves me with how tragically sweet the characters are, even more so when I see streamers (Like Criken surprisingly enough) get emotionally attached to them. The game has moments where it tugs at the emotions in your heart can be felt universally, and it brings a bit of tears to my eyes knowing people share those same feelings. I will never reset the game, much like almost everyone else who had completed the Pacifist route the first time and felt an emotional attachment towards these wonderfully written characters. I don't want to rob them of their happiness, and belittle the importance of being a genuinely good person the game tells you to be in a reality as ugly as this.
I await in both anticipation and dread for what Toby has next for us in the alternate timeline of Deltarune, as it may have those moments of tragic sweetness and hopeless dread Undertale has immortalized in my heart. He's already shown us great promise with chapter one, the next ones is a roller coaster of adventures that have yet to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMjloro8gL4
Undertale is probably the only game thats ever tugged at anything emotional inside me. I'm usually stone cold or just laughing it up when it comes to stories, but I think Undertale got its hooks into me just with its great humor, odd setting and interesting characters, and when it brought out the big guns with the real-shit moments or the dark elements and took it away from me, it hit me so god damn hard. Things like that Music Box Statue thingy and its peaceful yet sombering tune to bring you back down and remind you "Everyones doing their best to be great but shit still sucks down here yo" and its like mannn that hits me right in the heart. I was thinking like nobody builds a fuckin statue like this without some real shit going down dude
I guess really I've seen the whole "do your best even though sometimes shit sucks" too much irl to me and others and it hits close to home. Those little moments were still beautiful to me though, and really made me love and feel for the characters so much more. I remember in some dumb fan-comic I made years ago, despite it just being comedy 90% of the time I had to pay my respects to the statue music box bit cause I feel it was just too good of a moment in the game to ignore.
I'm really excited for the rest of Delta Rune because it made me feel similar to what I felt in Undertale and Im curious what fucked shit Toby's got today. Toby please keep making a story that will make me feel emotion again. Every other game story I experience I feel more like a Terminator. I can't be reasoned with, I can't be bargained with, I don't feel pity or remorse, and I will not stop laughing at the plight of the characters until its over. Also Toby provide me with more Fish Waifu winking, I took like 400 screenshots of that shit and backed it up in 900 top secret facilities dotted around Eastern Europe and Pluto, and Sri Lanka.
@CirclesofJerk hey now that you've made that PAC when can we expect this to be sneaked into it
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/227912785290330113/520868643920150529/image-3.gif
I completed Undertale only recently, and even with several spoilers, it's so hard to talk about the game without my heart being torn up from the inside.
https://youtu.be/_N0z332EidI
Objective:
Survive.
I know exactly how you feel, and honestly
Despite the world being not very happy and perhaps quite dark, it isn't just Frisk (at least pacifist run Frisk) who evokes such feelings of good, monster-kind itself seems almost defiantly happy and full of hope in the face of the darkness of the world and the horrible hand their kind had been dealt.
It's also why I am so worried about where Deltarune seems to be going; Monster-kind was never subjected to a terrible war, genocide, nor being locked in a dark cave for hundreds of years, and yet the monster race we encounter here seems far more hostile, unfriendly, and just.... mundane. They even use stoves and grills whereas in the underground it was specifically stated that they rarely used them.
Part of me wonders if this is almost some kind of message, where only through experiencing unimaginable suffering could they truly understand the value of hope and peace. That's just me overthinking again though, in the end I just want the next chapter!
Part of what makes undertales feels pretty good is how it transitions between moods. Characters do not just wear one "hat" the whole time and when they change its usually a bit of a punch to the gut.
Alphys is a good example of this, our first mention of Dr.Alphys is the "brilliant scientist who built the puzzle machine" and we get a mention or two of them from there onwards till we MEET Alphys and they are a dorky anime fan which might resonate with several players. We get the whole Mettaton exchange and its all delightfully light hearted, THEN we get the revelation that actually they are lonely as heck and they set up this
whole puzzle segment just so they could have a friend to do something with, they were so desperate that they tried to make themselves a hero in your story. THEN during the true pacifist run we get the revelation that they did have friends, a decent-ish life and the research position they have is basically their dream job but we find them tellins us about how they contemplated suicide on more than one occasion, this is then offset by getting them together with Undyne which sets the tone back up nicely. After that we get the true labs and find out why they feel like such a failure despite having a rather ideal life... Alphys goes from renowned
scientist, to dork, to loner to creepy manipulator then back to decent scientist with a developing social life and then to someone with a secret shame that they which they didn't have to hide and have no idea how to tell anyone about.
This roller-coaster of emotions and character traits really helps sell the characters as deep an nuanced while at the same time, the fact that the game can go from all smiles and sunshine to punch to the fucking guts makes these transitions a little more impactful and memorable.
I like how they reveal Alphys's past, they always say "she never talks to anyone anymore" and it just leads you to believe she's just your average dork. Nope. She did extremely fucked up experiments which turned to deadmonsters into disgusting, abominable Frankensteined creatures, and can't bear to live with the fact.
I don't know if it's late or not but this is really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVZDQYlhNM
Also, what's y'all's favorite music moment from DT? I think mine is a tossup between walking into Toriel's house and hearing the Home music and the surprise of suddenly hearing vocals in Don't Forget.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/224422/734b7f95-a0e9-4a56-9007-b7001e027018/closet.png
Can't find the source unfortunately.
With the power of Google Images I found this Tumblr! what a weird closet
Tsuko G. didn't stop at just one new kazoo video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9KIhTdNcg
Still waiting on a ska cover of The World Revolving.
Fanart by a friend:
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/8bb77f04-9115-4884-9de0-3148808b3c8f/dcu0b0y-2b2af675-c636-44c4-9267-8e4231dc2713.png/v1/fill/w_774,h_1032,q_70,strp/deltarune_by_pandidoesart_dcu0b0y-pre.jpg
Her page: https://www.deviantart.com/pandidoesart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ZWxmZvC4w
The legs gang is here.
Went through some UT tumblr stuff regarding the six human SOULs, and found this neat post.
We're all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong. — I made this..
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