This review will be focusing exclusively on the genocide route, since that is the one I went down for this replay. It fucking sucks!
In a total of about 2 and a half hours, I managed to finish the game. For this route in particular, that entails a total of two actual boss fights that are worth a damn, and the remaining two hours spent wandering in circles for way too long searching for enemies. Spawn rates are reduced tremendously while you're on the hunt, and once you finally have everything you need done, the reverse takes effect. You are now going every like 5 steps for the game to tell you that you cleared the area, by opening a battle and repeating the same dialogue box each and every time.
It sucks, too, because I really enjoyed those two bosses. I enjoyed the pacifist route way more, since there are more fights that are actually worth getting invested in, fun dialogue to read through, cool characters that you get to know throughout the story. All of that disappears for genocide, though. Again, all that's left is an empty, fittingly so, but still tedious slog of a grindfest.
i can't complain though, the only reason i even wanted to do this was because i replaced the file used for megalovania with the homestuck rendition of that same track, and i wanted to see if it would work like i hoped. lord knows i was fuckin' ecstatic when it did lmao
7/10 game, even shorter than I remembered, but certainly didn't feel like it.
In a total of about 2 and a half hours, I managed to finish the game. For this route in particular, that entails a total of two actual boss fights that are worth a damn, and the remaining two hours spent wandering in circles for way too long searching for enemies. Spawn rates are reduced tremendously while you're on the hunt, and once you finally have everything you need done, the reverse takes effect. You are now going every like 5 steps for the game to tell you that you cleared the area, by opening a battle and repeating the same dialogue box each and every time.
It sucks, too, because I really enjoyed those two bosses. I enjoyed the pacifist route way more, since there are more fights that are actually worth getting invested in, fun dialogue to read through, cool characters that you get to know throughout the story. All of that disappears for genocide, though. Again, all that's left is an empty, fittingly so, but still tedious slog of a grindfest.
i can't complain though, the only reason i even wanted to do this was because i replaced the file used for megalovania with the homestuck rendition of that same track, and i wanted to see if it would work like i hoped. lord knows i was fuckin' ecstatic when it did lmao
7/10 game, even shorter than I remembered, but certainly didn't feel like it.