Undertale full version live reactions: day 1

[kjorteo]

• Enemies that can successfully be spared now have their name in yellow, which makes it easier to tell figure out the Act commands (when their name turns yellow, it worked.) That's pretty handy, although in the very same message that explained that I could do that, the game also straight up warned me not to rely on it as there will probably be times I have to spare someone even when it's not yellow (Toriel?)
  
• Was the press X to skip text (well, instantly print it all instead of waiting for the scroll) feature in the demo? I can't remember but it's another huge quality of life improvement if so. Even if it comes from a frog who's sad that everyone always skips his text and gets even more sad if you do it too (the game checks.) Damn it, Toby.
  
• "Eat your greens." And with that, Vegetoids finally have a non-fight way of being spared. Thank God. The process for sparing them is actually really cool and single-handedly turns one of the least creative enemies in the ruins into perhaps the most. I actually like Vegetoids now. Amazing.
  
• Toriel still remarks on what an "interesting" child you are if you flirt with her after calling her "mom." GOTY
  
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Made it up to just outside Toriel's house. Next time: probably feels!

Comments

[davidn]

It's been a while since I saw this account :)

I played it for about four hours last night. The number of ways in which he brings up and then subverts RPG tropes is incredible - I'm looking forward to your reactions! And this is absolutely a game that I would want to voice through with whoever else is interested.

I think the only significant difference from the demo is the highlighting of enemies when you can Spare them... I'm pretty sure the option to skip text was there, but the frog telling you about it wasn't. I think that that, together with a slight adjustment later on, make The Big Thing in the demo a lot easier to notice.

But the choice is still yours. Ally... or betray? :)

[kjorteo]

You must have missed all the Oblivion posting that has been going on over here lately!

And aaaa yes I can't wait to get further in and react to everything and probably be run over by a freight train made out of solidified tears (dapper blook?) and then come back and voice everything, definitely. :)

[davidn]

Oh... so you did. I'd seen them on my friends page and everything - just that when I came here from the Tumblr link and was on the actual entry page, I seriously wondered where I was for a minute.