This journal is for the people played Undertale and Deltarune, if you don´t play it don´t read it. =P
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Personally when Tofy Fox gifted the demo, well I don´t expected it, a friend super lover of Asriel told me about it. I don´t wanted to play it because is revive my fan of the game but died accidentally thanks to the toxic community. :v
Whatever, the game looks like is a reboot, an alternative story or something like of the original game, is not clearly following the things happened on the first game, looks like in the end the human keep with Toriel but after I think kill everybody, I mean, did you remember the topic of if you end the game on genocide and then pacicist, etc, you unlocked a small alternative ending? well, I think is the real ending... or is something called me the attention on the begining of the game.
The second point is our character, Kris, it called me the attention because I called it on the first game and I was "man, and I knew something of the game?" xD Well thinking Toby loves play with anagrams and those dark masonic things I am pretty sure "Kris" is a "Risk" for this new world.
Third point, now is my review on general of the game. Is not bad, the start give you a lot of cool things from the first game, like to see Temmie finally got to college, or Toriel is a teacher, and we have new characters like this dark version of Asriel, Ralsei, and Susie, that rude girl playing as the barbarian of the team. Not bad, not bad but the main problem compared with the first game is, Ralsei is too cute and compared with the rest of the characters are opaque, I mean, not exist a real moment were Susie bright too much compared with Ralsei. Undertale did very well with it, each level a character bright for itself, the first level we have papyrus, second Undyne, etc. Here, mmm, not really, Susie is nice, I liked that character, but is not very worked compared with Ralsei, he is everywhere and most of the jokes and funny moments go around him.
The next point is the music, compared with the first undertale, is not bad, but is not enough epic or cool as I want to play it on loop many times. Maybe the unique I liked it is when you are creating the character.
Now, the new additions, I liked the fights, but the menu is very messed, obviously he is inspiring on Final Fantasy or Phantasy Star, is not bad, but if I will him, I should keep the buttons big like the fist game, only keep the colors of their respective character for identify the turn of each one. The other point is, well right now is not implemented as I can see: the creaction of the character starting the game, I suppose after the end of the game will appear that thing, if not well on the begining,but looking the number of things will affect the story, damn he is getting in a huge problem, I think is thinking on "depending of your choice the game will change" but something more big, something like a visual novel, something like did Life is Strange or The Walking Dead of Telltale games. If he is going on this point, it will be a mess, is thousand of hours of "play and test"... but thinking this is a demo I´d like to suppose he has already content there.
Graphics, I cannot say too much, it keeps the original idea of the first game but looks like he passed to 8bits to 16bits, some aspects are cool: animations, ambient, some character design, I think on this topic satisfy the line of the first game.
Story, the most important topic for me, as I said, I don´t know where the story will go, if this is a reboot, a fanfic or an alternative world, is not bad, I liked it, but the topic of a paper castle, full of soldiers with pieces of chess, card guards and, well, is basically another Alice on Wonderland, an intertext, and this topic is 10000% already used of many ways, passing for different moment of the history with different uses and ways, with Disney (the classic animation), the movie Tim Burton, the creepy videogame of American Mcgee, even Matrix has this topic, etc. Personally I think he consider the worst idea for make a new world... a dark world. I am mexican and maybe I should used topics normally do not appear on movies or videogames, I should put the travel to Mictlan, is the hell of the aztecs, very complex, or Xibalba, the underground mayan world, is perfect for a gore story, or even create a different story on base of different legends and stories of the medieval age... but cards? chess? jewelry? is for me the most weak point of the game.
My conclusion: the demo is not bad, Deltarune is looking good, but I am not very excited compared with the first game, because the first game was very well balanced between characters, music, epic or funny moments, deep or dark moments and very different endings. This second game looks like is going to be the same but with more stuff, it looks like it gonna be more large, more complex, but is not balanced, an example, the "bad guy" is not in all a bad guy, on the first game, Flowey, is a real bad guy, and here is were Deltarune will fail, because a good story require a good enemy, a character you need to hate but admire or feel something for it on the same time, Flowey did it very well and it hides the real intentions until the game ends, here, well I´d like to think, or the real enemy is not showed already yet, or our real enemy is ourself, again with the anagram of Kris - Risk.
I´m going to give a 7/10. Is nice to see again Undertale from the real creator and not a fanmade game, but if the ending content is part of the stuff showed here, mmm, I hope it change on some topics, example balance of characters, reduce the acting of Ralsei (at least he is the real main character) and increase the acting of Susie, find a better enemy, the music need that thing did on the first game: the feeling, it lacks of it.
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Normally I don´t publish reviews of games I play but I decided make an exception on this one. Obviously this is a demo (the version 0.6.6.6... that Toby is a loquillo with the masonic messages), many things can change during the time Toby publish a second chapter or the completed game. I am not very excited, I will not going to make fanarts of that story, sorry, but until we don´t have a product finished I cannot draw something about it.
And that´s all, let me know what do you think about the return of Undertale on this game. See you soon. :3
