… ExpandĮasily the most overrated game of 2015. Undertale guilt-trips players into giving it positive reviews. That's why it makes sense for fans to say that people who criticize this game have no soul. Players consequently find it impossible to criticize the game, and try to make themselves feel like good people by singing its praises. I believe this game's lesson is: if you treat cutesy things harshly, you will feel guilty. On an ironic note, Undertale is a game about guilt whose fans en masse downvote useful negative reviews while upvoting useless positive ones. If you like Undertale's characters, look into Baldur's Gate (I don't like either, but like Jar Jar Binks they're similarly silly and annoying and beloved by people who baffle me). If you like having the choice between being good and evil, play Planescape: Torment, KOTOR 1 & 2, or Fallout 1 & 2. If you're looking for a cheerful, benevolent RPG (as one might expect this one to be based on its description), play The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. If you want more about guilt, play Planescape: Torment or Star Control 2 or read Crime and Punishment or an Ayn Rand novel. I didn't identify with the guilt trip as much as some-the payload was so underwhelming for me, that it didn't even occur to me that it might move someone enough to like the game. The emotion is guilt it relies on a plot twist, and its effect is increased by making the people in the game cute and familiar. The game's payload is a single emotional experience. The huge disconnect between my opinion of this game and the average opinion has made this a psychological puzzle, more interesting to me than the game itself. The ending was a perfunctory deus ex machina. Before the end I couldn't wait for this, one of the least enjoyable gaming experiences of my life, to be finally over. The one interesting idea in the game, "monsters are people", can't single-handedly carry the entire game. ![]() The characters are cliches and shallow caricatures of people he seems to know in real life. ![]() The author tries to be cute and quirky and comes across to me as annoying and puerile he acts as if breaking the fourth wall and being self-deprecating is the height of wit. Reading the reviews after playing the game, I couldn't believe them. I bought it expecting it to have great writing, characters, plot, or gameplay, and was disappointed when all of those things turned out to be sub-par as well. The author tries to be cute I didn't read anything about this game before playing it, merely saw that it was an ugly game with overwhelmingly positive reception. I didn't read anything about this game before playing it, merely saw that it was an ugly game with overwhelmingly positive reception.
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