Team Hatoful presents the Undertale Demo - Part 4

[davidn]

It's the final part of the Undertale demo! In this, we realize what we now have to do, and head to the final confrontation, which I attempt to resolve in the most peaceful manner possible.

Please have a supply of buckets for tears on standby, and curb any temptations for extreme violence towards plants that this video might unexpectedly awaken in you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bP0dUPdEA

Comments

[davidn]

I don't think I adequately conveyed how much Flowey scared the life out of me when he transformed - I thought I was in a tutorial, I wasn't really paying much attention, and then suddenly... that evil face and the shaking text... my hand had reflexively gone to Alt+F4, which fortunately/unfortunately did nothing! Just after that, I was pretty uneasy about... not Toriel specifically, but really anything that this game was going to do - especially in that long walk with the appropriately-named scary music playing.

Toriel definitely isn't evil, but I wonder how innocent you could truly call her... she honestly believes that keeping the human in her home is the best for her, not even considering that she might want to go back to her real home, but she knows from the start that she's going to do that without telling the human and reacts to the request to leave by attempting to seal off the exit forever.

It's odd that she leaves the player alone suddenly after babying you through three puzzles, although I suppose she did say to wait for her rather than trying to go off on your own... still, it's a sudden change from her very protective attitude up until then for the sake of baking a surprise pie, and nobody who's ever played any game before is really going to spend even a moment sitting there.

[premchaia_pre4]

Hmhmhmhmhm. Suppose you were living isolated underground and had ample evidence that you were the most powerful thing around after spending so long adapting to it, and saw creatures whom you empathized with so strongly repeatedly falling in by accident. You have the resources to give them marginally acceptable lives there, but not the resources to get them out safely. Every last one of them so far has been ignorant or careless of the danger ahead and perished ignominiously after you allowed them their choice; they may well be perfectly knowledgeable about some other world, but as a result they get overconfident in this one, and they can't think of any reason to listen to you.

Would your emotions be fully stable after all that?

And do you allow it the next time?

(Perhaps keeping in mind that the question comes from someone whose predecessor, in the same physical form, seems to have had some form of posttraumatic augh whose trigger(-ish) was basically “foundational aspects of human civilization”, of course.)