Undertale full version live reactions: day 6

[kjorteo]

Things are heating up!

• It took me three tries to realize that Thundersnail is literally unwinnable, but the reaction to over-cheering is a brilliant touch.
  
• *Lies down on Napstablook's floor* Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos!
  
• I was worried the game might have bugged or something when I got into a fight with Napstablook's music still playing, but no, that was intentional and totally worth it.
  
• That's actually a really clever way to have a prophecy that could go either way as far as pacifist/genocide runs.
  
• Special enemy Temmie appears here to defeat you! I really should start expecting this sort of thing by now.
  
• Is that an... inactive Moldsmal?
  
• NO. NO IT'S NOT.
  
• Temmie Village. ...That's all right, I didn't need my brain anymore anyway.
  
• You know what? Screw it, I have almost enough money if I go back and forth and grind (Spare) against the Woshua/Aaron combo a lot. I am going to pay for Temmie's college education and see what happens.
  
• I unlocked... Temmie armor? That's in the "this item is clearly a joke you can't actually buy" price range anyway?
  
• Oh! It's game-breakingly powerful (supposedly) armor with a price cut if I lose too many battles. I have yet to get a game over (and even if I did I don't want to do the give up easy mode thing) so I'm probably never going to need this, but that's kind of a cool thought anyway. Plus, I can feel satisfied with the good deed of having... funded... Temmie's... something, I guess.
  
• King ASGORE Dreemurr. I knew the whole "he's a big fluffly cuddly pushover" thing was bullshit.
  
• Aw, poor monster kid.
  
• Oh, the kid tripped and is dangling from the ledge and Undyne is right there, this is a somewhat classic but still very appropriate "flee or risk your neck to save the kid" scenario.
  
• And I have officially made a friend!
  
• Asgore has claimed six human souls and I'm supposed to be the seventh so he can "become a God." Oh and something about the barrier I guess. Yeah this isn't going to end well.
  
• UNDYNE TIME
  
• I... appear to have exhausted my pacifist options. I'm actually not sure what to do at this point. I guess they did hype up Undyne as being every but as unrelentingly determined as the child....
  
• Oops, so much for not getting a game over.
  
• This is what Flowey was talking about before, isn't it?
  
• "But what will you do when you meet a relentless killer? You'll die and you'll die and you'll die. And what then? Will you kill out of frustration? Or will you give up on this world entirely?" I'LL GOOGLE HOW TO PACIFIST-BEAT HER, HOW'S THAT.
  
• Oh, duh. And the game even hinted... right. Yeah. Sorry.
  
• Another chance to show mercy to a fallen enemy!
  
• Okay that was really intense and I'm in a new area and there's a save point, I think we're good for now.

Comments

[davidn]

Napstablook is so wonderful and tragic :) I want to hug him, but, well, my arms would just phase through him. I couldn't stop laughing at "Spooktunes", either. I didn't get into a fight with it on, but... now I want to see what happens!

Thundersnail stumped me, as well :) It's a nice illustration of the futility evident throughout the game.

I didn't actually find Temmie Village in my playthrough until very near the end, long after you can first discover it - it's an obvious nod to Saturn Valley but a different variety of bizarre English dialect, and an area with a useful unique property. im Tem! i'M TEM! I'M teM! Hi, I'm Bob. But I didn't realize the armour became more... reasonably priced as you go through. By the end of the game I'd saved just about enough to buy it but it would have been pretty useless at that point anyway - as you noticed, the random encounters disappear.

I did, however, work out how to get past Undyne! Actually, "work out" is a bit of a generous term - I happened to go to the Mercy menu during one of the rare moments when the Flee command is available and realized I hadn't used it before and that it might be the way out. I didn't realize at the time that it was only selectable on rare occasions during the fight, or that I had been given the solution if I had read between the lines in the right way.

You're entering the section of the game I love the most, and that's saying something :) I see someone is spilling beans wildly on Tumblr, you might want to just keep your eyes off your messages until the end of the game! Even when trying to help in my first-time Super Metroid run a couple of years ago, people were giving away things that I shouldn't know at that point and I needed to be very careful about what I read.