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Undertale (SPOILERS)

This original review, upon closer inspection, was incredibly biased. I'll try to be less bias now, but expect some bias to be thrown in there. Bias bias bias.

Undertale is a game that was created by Toby 'Radiation' Fox.

This game has amazing ideas, most of which are executed well. The problem with it is that it sometimes randomly screws up what it's trying to do when forcing you to do an empathy; a prime example is in the Genocide run. Which Frisk/The Fallen Child, or who ever, moves when people are doing their spiel before fighting... really disconnects me from what happening. It'd be a lot better if the player did this. This might have even worked in the whole moral of the Genocide ending (you're the monster for killing innocent people). Same goes for the Neutral; if you murder, throughout the entire games, no one cares unless you specifically murder main characters.

The Characters are archetypal. You could say that all the main characters are deeper than they really appear, but those character arches are still archetypal.

The idea of resetting and saving is not really toyed with. What I mean by this is that it really could've been expanded upon game-play wise, as things that happened after you Save Scum could've been talked about or at least hinted by one of the main characters. They do serve a good plot point in the narrative, however.

I wish some of the side characters had a little more personalities. What I mean is that, while the game does a good job in making me feel empathy for the bad guys that'd we'd be slaughtering. Some of them though... Are just kind of boring, and unoriginal, like Vegetoid.