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Undertale |OT| Indie RPG with determination and spider bake sales
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ColossalLazy
Member
Sometimes you should know when to quit. Too much work to get a bad ending.
Gonna do another true pacifist route and leave it at that.
Hypereides
Gold Member
Watched an entire walkthrough of this game. The praise is well deserved.
I would've thought it was a localized JRPG if I had not known it was developed in the west. That's how well crafted it is, which is a compliment by itself. The creator gets an extra plus for the humor and puns, that was refreshing and well done.
I would've thought it was a localized JRPG if I had not known it was developed in the west. That's how well crafted it is, which is a compliment by itself. The creator gets an extra plus for the humor and puns, that was refreshing and well done.
Also goes to show how much a well thought out soundtrack can drive home feelings.
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah, do not have the time to spend another 30 minutes with Undyne. I am not good at Bullet Hells and the 360 d-pad suuucks.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Yeah that'd be hard. I went through everything with a DS4.
shaowebb
Member
As a shmup player believe me when I say you'd be better off just switching to keyboard rather than fighting the 360 dpad. I use stick anytime I can, but honestly keyboard is needed for the last of genocide run anyhow in my opinion. Unless you need the circle pattern for one of the particular attacks I've seen. Considering the rest you'll face on that run...still better to keyboard than pad that one.
Hypereides
Gold Member
Completely. it made me reminisce the megaman and final fantasy soundtracks from the good old days. I'm surprised something like Megalovania was produced by a small, amateur, indie developer.
I believe Megalovania, in particular, was composed by Toby Fox when he was 18. Going by the wikia (spoilers), it originally appeared in the EarthBound Halloween ROM Hack, and in a Homestuck album, to then be remixed for Undertale.
Hypereides
Gold Member
Nice, if true. kid got talent.
Stone Ocean
Member
Weird, I thought Megalovania was originally one of his Homestuck songs
It seems a lot more people are familiar with homestuck than the earthbound hack.
(I'm one of the few that only knew about the hack version lol)
Dr. Buni
Member
And people laugh at me when I say a good soundtrack is much more important than graphics.
It is much better than most JRPGs (the ones I have played anyways).
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, I wasn't particularly inclined to do the genocide path anyway, but seeing where the true ending leaves everything and what I'd have to do to play again guaranteed it.
It is fulfilling, but I have to emphasize just how dramatically different the atmosphere and events are during a Genocide run. I didn't think the changes would be as significant as they are, but it's not some throwaway alternate route; it's practically its own game. Also informs a few things about the world that aren't covered in the True Pacifist route.
Undertale's probably the game that's made it feel the most genuinely evil to play that way, while taking the "evil" options in other games often feels comical or forgetful.
Felt oddly satisfying in a way, too...
I found Genocide harrowing, but even if just for the genocide-only boss fights, it's a thing to run IMHO.
The last boss in particular is an achievement in storytelling by itself.
I guess after I take a break for awhile...could try for it. You cant do a true full reset after doing Genocide right? But if you've already done Neutral and True Pacifist, does it really...matter?
EDIT: Burgerpants really reminds me of something from Ren and Stimpy.
It's amazing how they managed to capture the spirit of that fight inside a note chart.
I keep listening to it/finding new remixes of it to listen to
Here's a piano version with a different feel
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Seriously Genocide has the best boss fights. It sucks you have to be a complete ass to get to them though.
Earthpainting
Member
There is an Undertale mod for it in the workshop. I don't know how elaborate it is though.
Seth Balmore
Member
Agreed. I've had it randomly playing in my head ever since I completed the Pacifist run. It's so pretty. <3
The world is ending.
Yeah, Finale comes up as a second for me, especially the first minute.
Dr. Buni
Member
Yeah, I love it. Though it is only second to my favorite track in the game, which is
"ASGORE"
Undyne's
Seth Balmore
Member
Oh yes. Listening to
Bergentrückung + ASGORE
I read somewhere that Toby Fox largely composed the soundtrack first and wrote the encounters based on the songs? It would make a lot of sense.
OminoMichelin
Member
basically everyone laughs it off
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I've tried about 30 times to beat the last Genocide boss. I think, he wooped my ass so many times that he stopped counting. At least this music is godly. I'm going to win eventually though, that's the meta. If I give up then the game wins.
Bwhahaha, if that happens with 'Mom' I can only imagine the reactions to 'Flirt'. Thanks pal!
Dr. Buni
Member
Yes ;_; I totally did not want to fight such a lovable character, especially with such an emotional song playing in the background. And I was going for a genocide run, so I... had to kill him >_>
I wish there were more games like this.
Specifically,
they make fun of Frisk for flirting with her and also calling her mom.
TheSlySoul
Member
If you want the conversations at the end, here is my playthrough:
https://youtu.be/nnAgRPPP8RI
https://youtu.be/nnAgRPPP8RI
I have a bit of a weird question, but does anyone know where the most common way to represent Undyne's ears in fanart/cosplay comes from? In the sprites, it seems like the fins are a single long outwards curve from top to bottom, but 95% of fanart shows it as multiple inward facing curves.
Obviously everyone is allowed to draw things as they'd like, but I'm curious why the off-model interpretation became more widespread than the seemingly canonical one.
Sprite:
How I see it:
How everyone else sees it:
Pics just found at random on google. I couldn't draw if my life depended on it
Obviously everyone is allowed to draw things as they'd like, but I'm curious why the off-model interpretation became more widespread than the seemingly canonical one.
Sprite:
How I see it:
How everyone else sees it:
Pics just found at random on google. I couldn't draw if my life depended on it
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
She has webbed ears, and webbing usually has a slightly concave curve between bones in animals.
Earthpainting
Member
Going by your examples, I thought this was going to be about her hair. She has darker and way more hair during the one scene at the dump in the pacifist run, which I assumed was a wig. Most of the fan art seems to give her a bunch of hair rather than keep it like Sasuke from Goemon. I never even noticed the ear thing until you brought it up.
I just finished the game a few days ago. After hearing so much positive praise for this game, I really wanted to give this game a try, and I am totally glad I did. Incredibly enjoyable and refreshing, and a really nice change of pace from all the bigger budget titles I've been playing. I was enjoying it from the beginning, but it was from about the halfway point and beyond where I really got into it
The game's soundtrack is incredibly amazing as well, I have many different tunes stuck in my head for a while now. I'm very impressed that this was mostly done by one person.
I got the neutral ending first time through.
Been going back to try the pacifist run. Been an enjoyable challenge. I'm kind of glad I didn't first attempt this, because I haven't been great at dodging most attacks, so staying at lv 1 would have probably frustrated me too much. I'm finally made back
The writing in this game is really well done and funny. I'm looking forward to playing some more when I have the chance.
I think this was the boss fight against the mad dummy and beyond.
I got the neutral ending first time through.
I couldn't figure out how to spare Toriel, since I thought I could chip her health down low and go from there. Whoops! I basically played the game, sparing a good amount of enemies in the beginning, but then started fighting more as the game went on. Ended up killing Toriel, Undyne and Mettaton. That Flowey final boss though. Wow! Breaking the fourth wall and having them use save states against you made for a pretty creative and memorable encounter.
Been going back to try the pacifist run. Been an enjoyable challenge. I'm kind of glad I didn't first attempt this, because I haven't been great at dodging most attacks, so staying at lv 1 would have probably frustrated me too much. I'm finally made back
to the hotlands. I just did the cooking session with Undyne.
Panthalassic
Member
Personally, I draw them the second way because she's a fish and I'm a big fish nerd. And I think the general consensus is that they look cooler that way.
BrosukeHanamura
Member
Yep.
I'm pretty sure Hopes and Dreams is the reason I made semi-finals at a Smash tourney a couple of weeks ago.
Stone Ocean
Member
Remixing perfection is hard.