Undertale full version live reactions: day 3

[kjorteo]

DOGS.

• "Warning: Dog Marriage"???
  
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• THIS IS ABOUT A MINUTE AND A HALF INTO TONIGHT'S SESSION BY THE WAY
  
• Oh, that's the Dog Marriage.
  
• "Icecap and Snowdrake confront you, sighing. Jerry." I'm about an hour into this game and it has easily and by far the most inventive enemies of all time.
  
• Can I just talk about the Snowdrake a little, by the way? I already knew that this game was a massive deconstruction of RPG monster slaying as meaningless XP grinding fodder, with enemies that all have their own unique personalities and goals and likes and desires and lives and families (you monster.) However, I am absolutely floored by Toby's ability to convey so much through just the interface. The Snowdrake is comes to you and tells a bad Toriel-tier pun, then looks expectantly for your reaction like a miniature Napstablook. If you laugh, he blissfully declares, "See? Laughs! Dad was wrong!" And then he can be Spared. This is (to my knowledge) not a "real" character that exists in the overworld. This is an enemy that only exists as a random encounter on the battle screen. And yet, there's a STORY there. There is DEPTH. In just that tiny little isolated space! This game is incredible.
  
• You know, I almost had the explanation for the color tile puzzle down before the whole thing turned out to be a false alarm anyway.
  
• Everything about the Greater Dog is amazing, from the to the Sparing progression to even the music. I love this game.
  
• Aw, poor Gryftrot. Another miniature story all in an isolated random encounter!
  
• That's... another dog on that rope....
  
• Aww, Papyrus is turning soft. You adorable dork.
  
• I HAVE FOUND YIFFTOPIA. God I want to talk to everyone but I really should call it a night here. There's a save point here, so... NEXT TIME, THIS TOWN THAT I ALREADY LOVE EVEN AT FIRST GLANCE.

Comments

[premchaia.livejournal.com]

Act → Flirt

Act → Seduce

Act → ???

[kjorteo]

*sexy wiggle*

[premchaia.livejournal.com]

*bob* *bob* *bob*

[davidn]

What did you say to Papyrus about the tile puzzle? As the giant explanation went on I slowly realized it wasn't going to happen, and selecting "Do you understand? > No" made him stumble over his own rules and eventually give up. I'm curious to see what would have happened if I'd said yes!

The huge deathtrap with scythes and poundy things and then a puppy just happily swinging at the end :)

[kjorteo]

I almost-but-not-quite had it after the first explanation, so I said No in hopes that he'd clarify (or even just repeat) so I could get the rest of it down on the second attempt. Then the second attempt was all muddled and mixed up and made things even worse so I said so, and then he just left the instructions on the far end after the puzzle and told me to come read them and turn the machine on when I was ready, and that's when I realized this puzzle wasn't actually going to happen. (And even then, I at least tried to read the instructions and activate the machine just to see what would happen, though the instructions were illegible chicken-scratch and the machine was out of order anyway. This game is amazing.)

[davidn]

That's right :D I love this game.