Team Hatoful presents the Undertale Demo - Part 5

[davidn]

This weekend, we went back to Undertale and showed it what we intended to do the first time - namely, restart fresh and survive the game without any huge lingering feelings of guilt and heartbreak. It must be said that it didn't go quite as we had intended.

http://youtu.be/068lSV3YkeY

Apparently, in addition to all the Psycho Mantis trickery that we went through above, if you're on really bad paths then you'll get additional bloodthirsty dialogue in red text and Flowey will occasionally peek out at you from the corners of the screen. All this adds up to make it clear that Undertale is an immensely clever game. I am never playing it again.

Comments

[premchaia_pre4]

I hadn't encountered those additional bits when on the “worse” paths! Hmm. How does one trigger that?

[davidn]

I don't know, I saw it on Tumblr. I really don't want to experiment!

[premchaia_pre4]

I'm thinking… lies.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

So I spotted another example of this game railroading you! When Toriel starts to beg you to go upstairs, the game just REMOVES your flee option for no reason. That kind of thing is why I can't feel personally involved in the sequence of events!

[davidn]

In most scenarios I would say that was to stop you from backing out and messing things up once you were on the right track, but, well...

[premchaia_pre4]

Does the railroading make you cross?

(Sorry.)

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

shouldn't that have warned you not to attack her?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I mean towards the end, once you've already got the 'spare' thing figured out.

[raptorianone.livejournal.com]

All of the feels. All of them.

You guys found some things I didn't, too. I think everyone has a slightly different experience with this game.

if you're on really bad paths then you'll get additional bloodthirsty dialogue in red text and Flowey will occasionally peek out at you from the corners of the screen. I kind of doubt this is true - I did a playthrough where I actively tried to get the 'kill everything' ending (failed, but still tried) and nothing like that happened.

[davidn]

Okay - so it might be safe to assume that I took one step too far in believing the usual made-up Tumblr bullshit. With this game, it's honestly difficult to tell.

Nevertheless.

http://kenbocalrissian.tumblr.com/image/51346893569

[premchaia_pre4]

That one's valid, at least.

Late append: that said, I didn't manage to find any other red text along similar lines, nor was I able to reproduce any odd Flowey occurrences, so.