I mean, what can I really say that everyone hasn't already? Undertale Yellow is frankly just a really damn good fangame - one that honestly, if I didn't know any better, I would think was created by Toby Fox himself.
The core gameplay here is pretty much the same as Undertale itself, but there's a decent amount of extra creativity with the new enemies and bosses (including one that turns out to be a dance off against a miniboss which is amazing), and the morality system with the Pacifist and Genocide runs remain here too, although for the time being I decided to just complete the Pacifist playthrough. I will say that in some aspects I don't feel like the gameplay is quite as fleshed out as it could be - especially in the first 'act'(?) of the game through Snowdin, it does feel like it's on autopilot somewhat compared to Undertale itself, with even the bosses feeling a bit on the easy side, but the game still manages to ramp up the challenge after those first parts, particularly with the fight against Star and especially the final boss - arguably being more challenging than even the official game's Pacifist run.
Without spoiling anything the story itself is just really good too. The major characters were generally enjoyable and well fleshed out (Martlet is adorable :)) and the way the story unfolded was something I... really wasn't expecting, with a particular plot twist that those who have played the game know about. Although this isn't technically official, the writers definitely made this really feel like a prequel to Undertale that hits upon it's own lore beats with ties to what we know of Undertale's backstory from the game.
I guess my only criticism with the story is that I did find Dalv's character to be kind of... out of place with everything else. His character itself is once again enjoyable, but (at least in the Pacifist route, no comment on the Geno route) as a 'main' he feels like he doesn't have that much bearing on the plot - basically disappearing entirely until making a minor reappearance in the post-credits scene, and I can't help but wonder if the writers were originally intending to go a certain direction with the story but that changed by the time the game was finished. Otherwise, the story and characters were really good, and I definitely enjoyed seeing how the story played out and even tied into the official Undertale lore.
Presentation-wise it's also really good. It does keep mostly to the Undertale art style but the character animations are surprisingly well-done (I especially liked in the Feisty Five mini-boss how each character has it's own entrance animation, including Mooch just kinda... running in and falling over), and the soundtrack is also pretty catchy as well.
If you enjoyed Undertale to any extent, I would definitely recommend playing this.
The core gameplay here is pretty much the same as Undertale itself, but there's a decent amount of extra creativity with the new enemies and bosses (including one that turns out to be a dance off against a miniboss which is amazing), and the morality system with the Pacifist and Genocide runs remain here too, although for the time being I decided to just complete the Pacifist playthrough. I will say that in some aspects I don't feel like the gameplay is quite as fleshed out as it could be - especially in the first 'act'(?) of the game through Snowdin, it does feel like it's on autopilot somewhat compared to Undertale itself, with even the bosses feeling a bit on the easy side, but the game still manages to ramp up the challenge after those first parts, particularly with the fight against Star and especially the final boss - arguably being more challenging than even the official game's Pacifist run.
Without spoiling anything the story itself is just really good too. The major characters were generally enjoyable and well fleshed out (Martlet is adorable :)) and the way the story unfolded was something I... really wasn't expecting, with a particular plot twist that those who have played the game know about. Although this isn't technically official, the writers definitely made this really feel like a prequel to Undertale that hits upon it's own lore beats with ties to what we know of Undertale's backstory from the game.
I guess my only criticism with the story is that I did find Dalv's character to be kind of... out of place with everything else. His character itself is once again enjoyable, but (at least in the Pacifist route, no comment on the Geno route) as a 'main' he feels like he doesn't have that much bearing on the plot - basically disappearing entirely until making a minor reappearance in the post-credits scene, and I can't help but wonder if the writers were originally intending to go a certain direction with the story but that changed by the time the game was finished. Otherwise, the story and characters were really good, and I definitely enjoyed seeing how the story played out and even tied into the official Undertale lore.
Presentation-wise it's also really good. It does keep mostly to the Undertale art style but the character animations are surprisingly well-done (I especially liked in the Feisty Five mini-boss how each character has it's own entrance animation, including Mooch just kinda... running in and falling over), and the soundtrack is also pretty catchy as well.
If you enjoyed Undertale to any extent, I would definitely recommend playing this.