Keep playing as you would! You can kill or not kill. You get XP and more HP when you kill, less death if you don't. The game won't spell out the consequences for your decisions-- that's by design.
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Undertale |OT| Indie RPG with determination and spider bake sales
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Keep playing as you would! You can kill or not kill. You get XP and more HP when you kill, less death if you don't. The game won't spell out the consequences for your decisions-- that's by design.
Sparing gets you gold, which you can use to buy items which will help you survive (mostly armor and consumables). Generally that's preferable to running if you can figure out how to convince the monsters not to fight.
I completed the game without XP and gold with only a few really tough sections, and I'm not that great at bullet-hell games.
Using mercy gives you Gold for items and armor. Running away does not. You should definitely be trying to find the most current armor and picking up items at every store you get the chance. Play how ever you think you should when it comes to enemies.
That's not the dev door is it?
You have to avoid every name in the true credits to get in there.
I think the very fact that you're having difficulty resulting from being merciful has done a pretty decent job of spelling out at least some of the consequences of being so very pure of heart
Thought this was going to be the
sound test (link), which contains the supremely creepy Gaster's Theme, a bunch of random musical clips, and precisely none of the actual music that shows up in the game itself
Stone Ocean
Member
killatopak
Gold Member
Finished this game a week ago on a true pacifist run. It's probably one of the best games I've ever played. Is the genocide run worth it? I wanna know what's the difference between them but I feel so sad doing it especially after what flowey said at the end.
Modest Mauser
Member
If you don't wanna do it just YouTube it. A Genocide run has permanent consequences.
Please note that if you do this, you'll still feel very bad.
1.- This is just my theory, but my estimation is that the game takes place between 202X and 203X, 201X was the year Chara fell, not frisk, a span of 10 to 20 years would be enough for Undyne and Papyrus to not know Toriel. Alphys knows about Toriel because in the very least, she has their home videos.
2.-Some people theorize Gaster might be the skele-bros' dad, but that's also just a theory, I think the implication is that Toriel and Asgore are the oldest because presumably everyone else is having a normal life (we saw entire families in snowdin) while the goars aren't having kids in the foreseable future. Bur hey, Gerson the turtle seems pretty old too.
Coincidentally, its a really morbid thing to think Toriel will outlive Frisk and every and each one of her students in the human world.
2.-Some people theorize Gaster might be the skele-bros' dad, but that's also just a theory, I think the implication is that Toriel and Asgore are the oldest because presumably everyone else is having a normal life (we saw entire families in snowdin) while the goars aren't having kids in the foreseable future. Bur hey, Gerson the turtle seems pretty old too.
Coincidentally, its a really morbid thing to think Toriel will outlive Frisk and every and each one of her students in the human world.
Toriel is. Saint god.
Also, Toriel is the only person that is *really* trying not to kill you. Papyrus will give you a free run after a while, and Asgore doesn't really WANT to kill you - but damn if he's trying.
Toriel is just... trying to shelter a child. Having to kill Toriel is why i haven't played genocide yet ;_;
Also, Toriel is the only person that is *really* trying not to kill you. Papyrus will give you a free run after a while, and Asgore doesn't really WANT to kill you - but damn if he's trying.
Toriel is just... trying to shelter a child. Having to kill Toriel is why i haven't played genocide yet ;_;
WRONG.
Toriel can totally kill you if you're not careful (it happened to me because im a bit too nervous and moved into the bullets by accident), Papyrus literally CAN'T kill you, his normal attacks stop when you reach 1 hp, you can get yourself to 0 hp in his final attack, but if you do, instead of dying the game CRASHES, their whole universe stops and rewinds because Papyrus can't kill!
Your soul moves faster than her attacks and they pool in the bottom, it's totally possible, there is even a special sprite of her looking horrified after she kills you.
Also, please stop making me feel bad that i "died" in two encounters you're supposed to not be able to die at .-.
Also, please stop making me feel bad that i "died" in two encounters you're supposed to not be able to die at .-.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Only time I could get Toriel to kill me is during hard mode.
Toriel will be more likely to
Also re: Sans and Papyrus (GENOCIDE AND GENERAL SECRET STUFF SPOILERS):
kill you if you're trying to kill her.
Also re: Sans and Papyrus (GENOCIDE AND GENERAL SECRET STUFF SPOILERS):
The merchant in Snowdin and some allusions that Sans makes during your second dinner date both imply that the skeleton brothers are not from "these parts." The genocide run and Sans' lab almost explicitly confirm that, so basing their age on whether or not they know Toriel might not be sound.
Np, i died at Toriel too. Thrice. No, don't ask me how. I'm bad at bullet hells. Really bad.
Stone Ocean
Member
I dunno, would 10~20 years be enough for another 6 humans to fall into the underground? I thought that shit took a relatively long while
An as said above yeah, Papyrus and Sans knowing who Toriel used to be is kind of a crapshoot since they could've showed up anytime between Asriel's death and Frisk's fall
An as said above yeah, Papyrus and Sans knowing who Toriel used to be is kind of a crapshoot since they could've showed up anytime between Asriel's death and Frisk's fall
My personal theory that could kinda fit on that span is the following:
First human (toy knife) was an orphan, no body came to search for him cause he had no family.
Second human (bandana/glove) was a teenager delinquet/thug/gang member, likely had no one to report his death
Third human (glasses/book) probably was an explorer/archeologist, it's likely that his dissapearance was reported as "unknown location"
Fourth human (Ballerina) a little girl who fell down accidentally, her dissapearance cause the Fifth human (cook), her mother, to come looking for her, after none of them cameback, the Sixth human, a local sheriff (cowboy hat/gun) came to investigate since the mother had previously reported the missing girl.
if you take in account the last 3 humans coming very close to each other, these could easily fit in that span, but again, that's just my fan theory.
Second human (bandana/glove) was a teenager delinquet/thug/gang member, likely had no one to report his death
Third human (glasses/book) probably was an explorer/archeologist, it's likely that his dissapearance was reported as "unknown location"
Fourth human (Ballerina) a little girl who fell down accidentally, her dissapearance cause the Fifth human (cook), her mother, to come looking for her, after none of them cameback, the Sixth human, a local sheriff (cowboy hat/gun) came to investigate since the mother had previously reported the missing girl.
if you take in account the last 3 humans coming very close to each other, these could easily fit in that span, but again, that's just my fan theory.
I'm more inclined to think that the previous humans were all children (seems more elegant that way) since those items were all wearable by a child.
Plus, the gun was found by Catty near the dump and didn't necessarily accompany the cowboy hat.
Although I understand that theory as a way to explain the time window.
Plus, the gun was found by Catty near the dump and didn't necessarily accompany the cowboy hat.
Although I understand that theory as a way to explain the time window.
To be fair, "just stop moving" is suicide in most bullet hells
Use gold you get from running from enemies to buy items.
The little speech she gives you at the start is great. The idea you are a threat to both monsters and humans took me by surprise, although Toriel said something like it when you kill her, and seeing her act as a hero was awesome.
Genocide Spoilers
Vinesauce's Joel got dunked on in one of the most hilarious, genuine reactions I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFImzL68v5E
Not pictured - the entire stream chat telling him to spare Sans, with no one warning him about the trap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFImzL68v5E
Not pictured - the entire stream chat telling him to spare Sans, with no one warning him about the trap.
Don't worry,
I died to her too. I don't know how but it happened.
Alternatively,
killing everyone but Papyrus, leaving him wondering where all his friends went in the ending.
And yet
He's so determined to make the most for everyone, always optimistic and working hard for monsterkind.
This sort of thing and his speech if you abort a genocide run on his fight...
Papyrus truly is the most pure of all monsters.
fight took me nearly an hour. was DETERMINED not to do the easy thing.
M0nochromatic
Member
Yeah, you're getting quite a bit into the later half.
Yea, wtf was up with that. I couldn't take any screenshots with Steam.
A Link to the Past
Banned
So is it pretty much accepted that (game code spoilers/all mode spoilers)
Gaster is/was a skeleton?
a
spooky scary one
oooohhooooohh
also
seems pretty obvious that he is related to sans and papyrus somehow
Aw, can't blame Toby then.
depends how far you go, but that seems to be the popular interpretation
M0nochromatic
Member
Well, (All Everything Spoilers)
The names of Sans weapons, along with his sprite similarity to the brothers, and him also being a font seems to indicate he is. Whether he's their third bro or whatever is more up for debate
Ricerocket
Member
I saw this live and lol'd so hard. I also had no clue at the time and there was no way anyone can just slay
Sans knowing he's just that chill down to earth guy that you can trust.
Panthalassic
Member
Hope this is the right place to ask but I'm having a real hard time having my game recognize my save file.
So I originally played a few hours or so of the game on an older Macbook. Got a new Mac today and copied the game and the save files over to the new mac. However, when I boot the game, it treats it like I'm just starting out - "name the fallen human."
The saves are in this folder /Library/Application Support/com.tobyfox.undertale/. I simply copied and pasted it into the new Mac's Application Support directory.
I've unistalled and reinstalled the game (originally purchased from Humble Bundle) but that's not working. Something isn't right and I'd GREATLY appreciate your help other than "you shouldn't have bought a Mac."
So I originally played a few hours or so of the game on an older Macbook. Got a new Mac today and copied the game and the save files over to the new mac. However, when I boot the game, it treats it like I'm just starting out - "name the fallen human."
The saves are in this folder /Library/Application Support/com.tobyfox.undertale/. I simply copied and pasted it into the new Mac's Application Support directory.
I've unistalled and reinstalled the game (originally purchased from Humble Bundle) but that's not working. Something isn't right and I'd GREATLY appreciate your help other than "you shouldn't have bought a Mac."