After finishing undertale I really wanted something similar to it…I’m sure if I said that to anyone they’d all turn to me and go ‘just play earthbound/mother’ but unfortunately I’ve already done that so this will have to do.
After the surprising success of undertale, Toby fox was hoping to recycle one of his old ideas into his own undertale au just to jump on the trend. This idea would turn into deltarune, not only an anagram of undertale, but a game trying to be its own thing entirely…does it succeed? Kind of
You play as kris, a silent protagonist like in undertale but in this there’s just something different about him…(not gonna spoil here) you then meet suzie, a wolf girl who is basically the school bully, they then both get sucked into the dark world where they meet ralsei and are forced to close one of the dark fountains. The chapter tries to bring suzie closer to kris and it tries to show her that violence isn’t always the first option…which is gonna bring me into combat.
The combat in this game is…kind of better than undertale? Imo anyway. It’s a lot more exciting and built up then in undertale, which makes a lot of sense as undertale almost tries to deter you from killing but in chapter 1…it feels like they almost don’t really care. If you want to kill every enemy go for it, if you don’t you barely get anything (won’t spoil here) so it almost feels like it’s not worth it.
After playing chapter 2, the problems for chapter 1 sticks out cause it feels like chapter 2 does everything 10x better and fixes some of the grudges I have with this chapter…but I can explain that another day.
Great story, decent characters, wonderful music per usual, sans deltarune is now a thing
After the surprising success of undertale, Toby fox was hoping to recycle one of his old ideas into his own undertale au just to jump on the trend. This idea would turn into deltarune, not only an anagram of undertale, but a game trying to be its own thing entirely…does it succeed? Kind of
You play as kris, a silent protagonist like in undertale but in this there’s just something different about him…(not gonna spoil here) you then meet suzie, a wolf girl who is basically the school bully, they then both get sucked into the dark world where they meet ralsei and are forced to close one of the dark fountains. The chapter tries to bring suzie closer to kris and it tries to show her that violence isn’t always the first option…which is gonna bring me into combat.
The combat in this game is…kind of better than undertale? Imo anyway. It’s a lot more exciting and built up then in undertale, which makes a lot of sense as undertale almost tries to deter you from killing but in chapter 1…it feels like they almost don’t really care. If you want to kill every enemy go for it, if you don’t you barely get anything (won’t spoil here) so it almost feels like it’s not worth it.
After playing chapter 2, the problems for chapter 1 sticks out cause it feels like chapter 2 does everything 10x better and fixes some of the grudges I have with this chapter…but I can explain that another day.
Great story, decent characters, wonderful music per usual, sans deltarune is now a thing