Undertale

[rs929]

Anyone here played Undertale?

I won't spoil the game, but the characters remind me a lot of us, here, on this site.

 

[Nexey]

the characters remind me a lot of us, here, on this site.

How?

 

[rs929]

How?

The normal people see us as freaks or monsters, but we need love

 

[Imaginos]

Nope, but I'm aware of it. I doubt I'll ever play it because it's so overhyped, but it seems fine. For what it's worth, I've played and enjoyed plenty of other types of games like OneShot and LISA: The Painful.

Spoiler: Major TMI

Truth be told, my only real exposure to that game has come through R34. For instance, I've been jerking off to plenty of lewd Undyne material for years now and have an entire folder devoted to her in my porn vault. Same with that pink dinosaur girl. Disgusting I suppose, but there it is. In a similar way, I've never watched the Legend of Korra, but that hasn't stopped me from seeing her plastered all over a site like R34 and, as it stands, she's to me one of the most attractive fictional characters out there.

 

[CatabolicSeed]

Yes, it's one of my favorite video games ever!!! It's so good!

 

[Nexey]

I doubt I'll ever play it because it's so overhyped, but it seems fine.

It is overhyped. You quite literally have to play the game twice if you want the "pacifist" or good ending. It's not a bad game by any means but a lot of the characters are very one-note and the game-play is usually repetitive and boring. DeltaRune is arguably better but it's a part of an incomplete series of games, apparently.

TMI

Undyne is alright. She suffers from the same issue of seeming one-dimensional, imo. The most interesting thing about her character is one that we didn't even get to see in anything but text form (i.e. that one neutral ending where she overthrew the queen). The worst thing about her is her taste in women.

Alphys (Undyne's girlfriend) is essentially a less likeable and more unhinged version of Otacon from Metal Gear Solid. Instead of her crimes against the living beings around her being a consequence of an invention (in comparison to Otacon), she directly experimented on others and permanently mutilated and even fused individuals together. Instead of owning up to her crimes immediately, she instead locked her victims up in her lab and hid them from fear of having to, y'know... face the repercussions. When she did let them roam free (which she had to be convinced to do by a small child), she faced zero punishment for it. None. Nada. Apparently, just letting them out (something she should've done in the first place) was seen as being a good enough redemption. And she got her dream girl to boot. Awful.

 

[Fragile]

It was good, not a top 10 of mine, but it definitely surprised me in a good way.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I liked it, especially for the music. I was familiar with Toby Fox's work because I had already been a Homestuck fan since 2011. Megalovania even appeared there prior to Undertale and now it's even got aremix in Smash!



I was lucky enough to receive the only spoiler you need for playing the game which is to try not to kill anyone, thus my first playthrough was already the pacifist route which I quite enjoyed and I saw no reason to do the other routes.

That said, I actually don't quite see exactly how the monsters in Undertale are quite like us. Even though their lives generally kinda suck they all still have way too much optimism/hope for the future and most of them aren't even remotely suicidal.

Nope, but I'm aware of it. I doubt I'll ever play it because it's so overhyped, but it seems fine. For what it's worth, I've played and enjoyed plenty of other types of games like OneShot and LISA: The Painful.

Spoiler: Major TMI

Truth be told, my only real exposure to that game has come through R34. For instance, I've been jerking off to plenty of lewd Undyne material for years now and have an entire folder devoted to her in my porn vault. Same with that pink dinosaur girl. Disgusting I suppose, but there it is. In a similar way, I've never watched the Legend of Korra, but that hasn't stopped me from seeing her plastered all over a site like R34 and, as it stands, she's to me one of the most attractive functional characters out there.

Based as fuck. I'll join you and admit I've fapped to Toriel.

 

[Imaginos]

It is overhyped. You quite literally have to play the game twice if you want the "pacifist" or good ending. It's not a bad game by any means but a lot of the characters are very one-note and the game-play is usually repetitive and boring. DeltaRune is arguably better but it's a part of an incomplete series of games, apparently.

Nice summary. It's precisely the problems you made mention of just now which have, more or less, permanently put it off my radar. I don't want to say it looks terrible, but just nothing about it really seems worth playing to me. The art style is pretty bad and nothing about the gameplay seems enjoyable. By what you describe, the fact that the characters are so one-dimensional certainly doesn't gain it many points either. I mean, lots of people seem to enjoy it and that's fine, but my tastes rest elsewhere. Games like OFF or Lisa: The Painful are much more my speed in terms of quirky indie RPGs.

Also, thanks for the character breakdowns. That's fucked up that the game would just glaze over such utterly reprehensible actions of the kind you pointed out having to do with Alphys. Personally speaking, that would bother the crap out of me. I hate it when games, movies, or whatever, have these sorts of annoyingly skewed blind spots and, in the case of video games, prevent the player from being able to confront this kind of shit.

Spoiler: Additional TMI

Yeah, I just have a thing for pretty monster girls. I know nothing about her character, but, even so, there's been a lot of great material drawn of her by lewd artists of various types.

 

[Futile]

I like it a lot. Hopefully deltarune will be as good

 

[moths]

i love undertale i think ive played it 5 times all the way through haha

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

I like undertale. Toby Fox has always made good stuff, the Halloween hack he did for Earthbound is pretty nice.