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>October 2025
>I am forgotten
>I won't even win a single award at TGA (E33 takes best music, Hades 2 takes best independent)
What went wrong?
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its not fucking finished
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>Game that had to be banned because it was too popular on /v/ and getting in the way of shilling
>Taking "official" game awards seriously
>People are only not talking about it because some schizo failed to acquire nerd and has been spamming walls of shit into the threads and there isn't anything of to substance to discuss (because again, nerd acquisition failed)
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>>723043348
Hard to give a shit when it takes 10 years to hit the halfway point.
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>Implying anyone watches the gay awards for anything but the game announcements since it's bootleg e3
>implying people actually don't care about deltarune anymore and it isn't the problem that the admin's pet retard has been throwing a giant fucking tantrum recently
Gay
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It's a downgrade in every way, and even Toby admits it
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>won't even win a single award at TGA
lol
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Yo wait, actually, is the faggot asleep? Can we actually talk about Deltarune without walls of fucking sheer fucking seething?
Fuck yeah! Finally! I can ask you guys what you think the Cactus looks like in the Dark World or that weird fucking maze where Kris can't find his hand.
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>>723045182
The gatchapon one in chapter 3? That's about Dess I'm pretty sure Kris maybe lost his hand or something and it's related to what happen to Dess since it plays the guitar song from the sweepstakes. Some shit must have gone down at the shelter and Kris knows about it
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>>723045532
Oh yeah the one from the sweepstakes
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Shit wait it's saturday, people are talking about Undertale Yellow and the fan games.
fuck
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>>723046242
yeah, but that guy is probably still out, nobody's sperging the fuck out over there either.
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this is the thread
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>>723046319
Yeah if you actually want to talk about shit people care about it seems like fagmaster's asleep so we can actually talk about shit. Which is nice.
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>>723045182
I think the stuff with Kris's hand is symbolic of their issues with whatever happened with Dess (feeling guilty about not being able to save her or something) and their whole situation with being controlled, not literally losing their hand like some people have been speculating
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>>723046482
Like a metaphor? I mean I get it, but I think it might be a little interesting if Kris had lost his real hand and it had to be replaced.
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>>723046482
I would also link the suspicious hidden in the code black deer in the minigame, all in the same chapter
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>>723043348
Anon, Undertale didn't even get NOMINATED for game of the year.
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>>723044874
You can legit see the contempt in Kamiya's eyes from having to sit right next to an english speaking "gainin insect" lmao.
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>>723046630
What was that about like a variable changed the sprites from Deer or something?
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>>723046659
*gaijin lmao, too tired to type engrish right now
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>>723046704
It's controlled by some variable called Toriel that hides their appearance. Both the ice mage and the black deer.
Also
Chapter 3 OST > Chapter 4 OST
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Normal games
>Slow start
>Everything starts to ramp up in the middle
>Big finale
Deltarune
>Slow start
>Everything blows up in the middle, everyone is getting raped, there's blood on the screen even tho it's a game for children
>Dissapointing finale because it's rushed

SAD!
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>>723046914
Chapter 3 was 95% filler dialogue and then one good fight right before the credits
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>>723046991
I like chapter 4 more, but that's bullshit
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>>723046991
>Chapter 3 was 95% filler dialogue and then [the most important moment in the game]
Yeah, that's the point
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>>723046991
Character development is not filler.
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Guys I think I love tv
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>>723046991
>Chapter 3 was 95% filler dialogue
Didn't get S-Ranks on his first playthrough award
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>>723043348
>What went wrong?

41% of the audience dies every year
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>Make a game for 10 years
>Release and make the money
>Rush the rest of the chapters
>The game is a dissapointment

Toby Fox is shit
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>>723046482
Yeah when I first saw this scene I interpreted it as Kris censoring what he actually lost on that day with "your hand".
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>>723047195
I LOVE TV
Too. Chapter 4 still better in my opinion
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>>723046914
I'm interested why Toby revealed the Knight and a Titan this early, how you can even scale from that with Asgore
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>>723047393
>Asgore has a weapon you can only obtain by beating the knight that does a metric fucktillion damage to a titan
It's obviously going to get serious
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>>723047393
People said the same thing with Jevil back then ("if that's the secret boss of Chapter 1, Toby will never outclass that") then with Snowgrave and Spamton in Chapter 2 ("no schizo boss will ever reach the height of Spamton").
We'll be fine.
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>>723047570
>no schizo boss will ever reach the height of Spamton
This is still true, though
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>>723046659
You'd think so wouldn't you? But sadly Kamiya revealed that he worships globohomo and Americans and loves having black people and gender politics shoved into his stories.
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This will be the end of Deltarune.
Dess was the aunt
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>>723047617
need poppet
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>>723044874
>Toby gained weight and has a beard
Holy twink death. No wonder he hides his face.
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>>723044874
The only normal person in this photograph is Sakurai, and that really says something.
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>>723047765
I like the community's darker interpretations of Dess
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>>723047393
>I'm interested why Toby revealed the Knight and a Titan this early
Because he wanted to sell the game and now that he got the money all chapters are going to be 0/10. Screenshot this
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>>723043643
We're in an unfortunate spot in terms of discussion right now. We know a lot more than when we were all just blindly shooting in the dark, but on the other hand, we have a good enough idea of what Chapter 5's gonna be like. Anything we don't know at this point, we can only speculate at with fanfiction.
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So how do you guys feel about Yagi since the thread seems really reasonable right now?
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>>723048505
>we have a good enough idea of what Chapter 5's gonna be like
We definitely do not lol
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>>723048904
I think he's pretty alright, might have been neat to see that original OC but we probably will never get to see it. The whole thing was pretty interesting, you know considering it all basically turned out to be real and not just some guy making up shit for years.
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>>723048351
The continuation of sneedgrave looks interesting thoughever
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>>723049015
>Festival tomorrow
>"Flower shop" dark world
>Culmination of the choice of who you're taking to the festival
>Rudy might get fucked up trying to attend
>Asgore running around with a black shard
>Tenna at Mettaton's
>The ONLY thing we know is the Castle Town might be visited and the rabbit innkeeper and QC are sisters
Insane
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>>723049015
It will open with The Festival happening in the Light World where we either continue to awkwardly third wheel Noelle and Susie or take Noelle for ourselves, and afterward it'll go into the Flower King Dark World with Asgore as the main antagonist. That's more than we knew about any of the last Chapters, except maybe Chapter 3 just because it ended up being smaller in scope.
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>>723049135
I wonder why people are so afraid to talk to him
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>>723049294
Nothing in Chapters 5+ will be interesting because Fox got the money and he has no incentive to do anything so he's rushing the chapters so that trannies would shut up
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>>723049545
I'd imagine it's probably the dozen other guys who may or may not be actively watching his profile that will probably immediately jump on you, or that aside from maybe getting some lore about that dead blog that might tie back into Deltarune an "original" picture of the OC from back then would probably just be a picture of Ralsei drawn by a 12 year old.
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>>723049673
That or just messing it up again and not getting to actually talk to him at all, whatever.
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>>723047393
You can't raise the stakes beyond "the end of the world" but you can make things more personal
Asgore fucking dies in Chapter 5, either getting murked by schizoboss not-Flowey if we're just fucking redoing Undertale or getting slashed by The Knight like Tenna after he betrays Carol's plan/is no longer useful.
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>>723049467
When exactly does the festival even take place? I don't remember it even being mentioned if it takes place during the day or night.
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Look into your heart, you know I'm right.
Papyrus is the shadow crystal boss of chapter 5.
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>>723049993
That's not what the [FRIEND INSIDE ME] says.
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>>723049807
That's a good question, especially since it's at least partially Halloween-themed, but considering the pacing of the story I would think it has to at least start in the daytime. I can't imagine how they would have you dick around in the Light World all day not actually doing Festival shit while the Festival is being set up, and we can't have shit hit the fan in the Dark World and then go fuck around for the rest of the Chapter.
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>>723049673
>>723049760
Yeah I guess that makes sense. It would kind of suck if he got mad and just said to fuck off.
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>>723050092
What's weird is Jack is apparently for the Festival, but Faw Faw was putting up like, Pine needle decor up at the town hall.
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>>723050085
I don't know, you ever notice that papyrus looks a bit unusually like woody? especially when he does the bug eye thing?
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>>723047765
this movie really pisses me off whenever i remember it it feels like the kind of "what if people liked me even if im an autistic weirdo" fantasy adolescent me would have and its somehow popular among the same kind of people who would ostracize people like the main character
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>>723050376
No not at all. I'm not even sure how you could say they look similar?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5veC7ouG6Q
>we got the Freedom theme on banjo in the real green soul fight
What did they know?
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>>723050531
Probably a stupid question and the answer is "the name of the gif" but what movie?
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>>723050954
dude you answered yourself its the perks of being a wallflower
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>>723051045
Well I did say it was probably a stupid question.
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>>723050942
I'm gonna miss all the stupid fake schizo bosses.
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How will people's opinions of the Sans and Toriel scene in Chapter 4 change after everyone remembers that Sans is a time cop and he's getting close to Toriel to investigate the shit going on in the Shelter?
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>>723051140
He's still kind of a jerk.
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>>723051140
Not by much. There are better ways to earn Toriel's trust than date rape.
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>>723051140
wouldn't change my opinion of him in the slightest (already negative since undertale) and my hatred is mostly directed towards whoriel anyway
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>remix the same song five times
>gets exponentially more kino each time
How does he do it?
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>>723051140
It has potential but what he could do, enter a dark world and gaster blaster Kris ass?
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>>723051528
It's a REALLY good song.
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>>723051528
Him commenting on the fight in chapter 3 is still nuts. Fun Gang Fanster W.D. Gaster is fucking rad.
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>>723051528
Is it better each time or is just really really good every time?
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If Deltarune chapter 3 had been released alone, it would be remembered for having one of the most outrageous cliffhangers in the history of gaming, like HL2e2. But because it came with chapter 4 people don't register it that way.
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>>723052601
Imagine the video essays about this shit
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>>723048904
I still think someone should ask him what happened and if he knows how weird it is that he's kind of in Deltarune since none of his friends seem to want to answer any questions. You know like if he's ever thought about it at all.
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>>723043348
>hades 2 taking best indie
only if silksong takes goty lmao
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>>723052974
Me personally I'd rather not imagine video essays at all. Those things are obnoxious. I'd rather have like, 20 evil Kris fan games.
WAY better than fucking video essays.
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>>723052601
glad at least chapter 5 got split off or else everyone would gloss over chapter 4
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>>723052601
I feel like some of the impact would be lost since the Knight is beatable, and if they changed it for Chapter 4 people would probably complain.
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>>723053070
I'm sure it'd be fun to get an answer about that, but it's probably not happening.
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I love the way Noelle switches target
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>>723050376
So that's the power of brainrot...
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>>723043348
I'd like to imagine it's people growing up and realizing that this series is not that special
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>>723053816
Without context she sounds saner in the Weird Route screenshots.
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It's honestly really refreshing to have a normal thread for a change.
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>>723053968
Tempting fate, Anon.
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>>723043348
>lets make undertale but worse, with furries, and furry rape
toby fox is the neil druckmann of pixel games
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>>723053816
In the Weird Route she specifically tells Kris to "look for supplies" in her room
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>>723054010
They're both shameless plagiarists as well
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>>723053991
Oh no I know THAT person is probably about to wake up, but they can't un-nice the thread that's already happened.
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>>723053968
All of this an more is possible if you just ignore shitposters
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>>723054130
Uh, anon, I don't know if you realize but people WERE ignoring shitposters. The guy who was pissed off was filling the thread with hundreds of posts replying to himself.
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>>723048904
>>723049135
What's the story here? I don't know anything about this
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>>723051140
It will just affirm to me more that toriel is a cunt which is an opinion i have held since UT released
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>>723054130
Sans is such a a dick
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Chapter 4 was a lot more serious and straightforward so I think people have forgotten how much interesting and weird shit was in Chapter 3
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>>723054267
Alright so like years and years ago a while after deltarune came out some dude cryptically asserted that Ralsei was based off this one dead kid who was a fan of undertale, and there were a bunch of particular details about it:
Deltarune (Survey Program Demo) specifically came out on his birthday Halloween, he had a pink and green goat OC and a personality basically identical to Ralsei, this OC was friends with a Kris a knight and a dragon, he likes cave story apparently 8ch and tumblr were the only places to know about this guy and he had (tried to) commit suicide some before Deltarune came out and it was basically impossible to search up anything about him because all of his stuff was taken down.
Well as it turns out, despite this rumor floating around for 8 years, if you punched in a search for some of the REALLY specific details about him, people found remnants of a person that matches this description to a frankly disturbing degree except, he wasn't dead. Not on tumblr anymore, he's apparently been off that website for YEARS, but he did have friends that had old mostly abandoned blogs that still that had proof he existed. There was a failed attempt to contact them by a poster here pretty catastrophically, but, with the names of one of his friends people were able to find his personal steam account since they're friends there.
To anyone's knowledge nobody's actually gone and actually talked with him on steam and asked him about ANY of this really strange 8 year long mess or if he knows literally anything.
Oh, and I don't have it, but someone did find some fan art with an id of it of a second Mimiga character he apparently had, but nobody knows if he made it, why it has an ID or any real information about it.
And I think that's pretty much it, you can find some more information by checking a 4chan archive, the thread people found him was a couple weeks ago.
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>>723054898
I don't really remember day one Deltarune came out, but didn't a lot of people skip Chapter 3 entirely to try and spoil Chapter 4 for people?
I wonder if that's messed with peoples perspectives on it.
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>>723054898
Isn't that like the ONLY look we get at the back wall of the dreemurr household?
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>>723051569
give us our vessel
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>>723054267
>>723055390
Also sorry about taking too long to type this up I was checking the archive to make sure I was getting the details right.
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After the Mantle game, is anyone else looking forward to killing Susie and Ralsei in the weird route as teased by Eram?
It's funny how in the end I mainly did the genocide route for the sake of curiosity and challenge, but in Deltarune I do actually want to kill the fucking main characters by this point even when I know I'll be punished by the game for that.
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>>723055884
I can't say I'm looking forward to that at all, personally, which is why I'm not gonna do it.
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>>723055884
Their fights will be kino
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>>723055884
I'm much more attached to Susie and Ralsei than I was anyone in Undertale and I'm not an edgelord so I'll be pretty upset if it comes to that
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What made him this way?
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>>723056150
I mean all Darkners are kind of like that.
Their whole thing is that they're upset about not being able to do their purpose or becoming destructive in "serving" that purpose.
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>>723054898
>>723055483
Chapter 3 is the diversion chapter, with a side of family background,
but because of the wait and being attached to chapter 4, it kinda misses that effect.
These weird Kris solo excursions seem to be some sort of mental experience, because the party doesn't acknowledge it,
yet you get an egg out of it that persists into the light world.
Eggs, glass (shadow crystals) and the black shard seem to be the only light world objects that actually originate from the dark worlds.
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>>723056150
Copious amounts of fluffiness
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>>723056719
Chapter 3 was also supposed to be the introduction to the weird route
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tranny thread
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>>723056774
It's also where the proper tutorial for the eggs is, including it's own.
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>>723055390
>look this shit up
>it's real
what the fuck, how did you guys even find out about this?
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>>723057195
Autism + years of content draught
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as the board owner of 8ch's /mtt/ at the time, i should have done something about that fag enabler thread
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>>723056774
Yes and no, that's the weird thing about the chapter release system:
on one hand the game is clearly built around the episodic format, with mystery building, foreshadowing and cliffhangers,
on the other hand the game pretends to be a standalone release, especially on chapter 3, with the egg tutorial, snowgrave tutorial, and the chapter itself being a fun and games distraction.
I guess Toby feels the need to keep up the pretension of someone playing the game just by himself,
even though half the game's background depends on out of game knowledge.
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>>723057381
Ok I'm willing to believe a lot.
I'm not about to believe YOU are the owner of an 8ch board.
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>>723057195
I mean it says right on the post man, some dude years and years ago cryptically referred to that guy initially informing people that he existed
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>>723057278
I need at least two more explanations
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>>723056774
>>723057464
The Weird Route is especially fascinating from a development perspective because it's become a major part of the game but it was absolutely not part of the plan in Chapter 1
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>>723057381
Also, you know if you really WERE the /mtt/ guy and DID get rid of that thread all those years ago, I'm pretty sure people would have been able to confirm every other detail since most of the information was found through his friends on tumblr, including his personal steam account, and it's possible he might even remember this having happened at all which might be a good thing to ask him if anyone ever gets around to doing it.
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>>723058052
I'm sure the game's changed some since chapter 1's release but I don't think at all a
>Follow the real prophecy to see what happens
Type route was never in the plan for the game.
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>>723057887
About what?
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>>723058187
i said i should have, not that i did you retard
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>>723058459
Why is it Mario and what is the first grave mean? And why the friend?
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>>723058518
Oh, sorry man I think you misunderstood me I didn't say that you were lying that you did something to the thread back then, I just didn't believe you were actually the guy that owned the board I guess if that's how that works?
But either way, it's pretty cool to meet you I suppose.
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>>723058318
I don't think so either, I think the extent of it was that Toby knew he wanted something like that in the game, but wasn't finalized on how to approach it at the time. That's not unheard of when developing any story, certainly not in game development.

The Shadow Crystals weren't even in SURVEY_PROGRAM. Whether that was because it was too much intrigue to introduce in an otherwise largely self-contained experience, he didn't know what they should do or what they should represent, or he simply didn't think of them at the time, I'm not sure about. But any of the above are plausible, in similar manners to the Weird Route.
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>>723058052
That may not be true.
No, you can't initiate weird route in chapter one but there are obscure sequences you can do that mirror/foreshadow how weird route dialogue functions.
Pic related, if you talk to the other classmates first your dialog options are just "Not Yet" and "Yes".
But, if instead you immediately beeline Noelle and ignore everyone else, it becomes "Yes. Ask."
IMO it's so specific and miss-able a detail that it suggests the player/soul commanding Noelle was always in the plans.
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>>723043348
I still enjoy Deltarune and Ch3&4 had some great music, but E33 had a crazy amount of great music.
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>>723058814
*unless this was not in the SURVEY PROGRAM release but I don't have that to test.
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>>723058802
anyone could create and run an 8ch board, i took over ownership of /mtt/ in like 2016 and abandoned it a bit before the original 8ch died
and again, i didn't do anything about that thread, i'm saying that i should have done something about it
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>>723058873
It was, I just checked. Though the condition appears to only be if you talk to her again; talking to other classmates before talking to her once leads to the same "Yes. Ask." option.
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>>723049807
>>723050092
I imagine the festival will be past the Police Station.
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>>723050942
It even laughs like Gerson.
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>>723059001
Yeah, I think where we're getting a little crossed is that what I said was two qualifiers as in:
>I was the admin
and
>If you did something to the thread
With both of the preceding qualifiers being true
It potentially might not actually mattered beyond making it more complicated to verify the specific details of the rumor, because it's possible that Yagi might remember if someone said something to him all those years ago if someone actually asks him.
I never actually was saying you did something to the thread, I was saying it potentially wouldn't have mattered since the other details were recovered from off of 8ch.
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>>723052601
I knew Ch3 would suffer a bit because people would just go straight into 4, but at least people love Tenna. Maybe that's why we didn't get a schizo boss.
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>>723059226
Technically chapter 3 has two.
Maybe 3 if you want to count Watercooler
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>>723058318
Toby has had the broad strokes of this game floating around in his head for a very long time, but he didn't really write everything down and outline the entire game until around 2020 while he was putting the development team together and starting work on Chapter 2.
It's impossible for us to say how much Undertale's influence changed Deltarune unless Toby clarifies it himself, but one thing we do know is that the whole ACT/SPARE system was carried over from Undertale because Toby thought people would expect it coming from Undertale. The whole "FIGHT vs SPARE" thing became the driving theme of Chapter 1 and is foundational to Susie and Ralsei's characters in ways that are still intensely relevant (eg. Ralsei implying at the end of Chapter 4 that his motivation for encouraging pacifism is hoping it would change the outcome of The Prophecy). I think this is a clear enough example to say that while Toby "came up with" Deltarune almost fifteen years ago, it was hardly fully formed and set in stone back in 2011.

Toby has talked about his inspiration for Detlarune was a dream, which did not show him the game but "the ending of a game." Deltarune was created to achieve that ending; the ending itself has been the point from the beginning. In Chapter 1, the idea that there was "only one ending" was repeatedly emphasized.
I believe that this the story moving away from this with the introduction of new elements like the Weird Route and the Shadow Crystals, and the narrative elements like Gerson being unable to finish the story and Gaster awaiting the completion of "MY DELTARUNE," is a genuine development and evolution from the original narrative, motivated by Toby reflecting on the work itself and what completing "MY DELTARUNE" now means for him.
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Use of "schizo boss" fell off here a little due to Gerson
Everyone wanted or expected something like Friend Inside Me but looking back im glad the game has remained unpredictable or not tied down to a formula
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>>723058814
Speaking of Chapter 1 details, originally the text for getting the Hot Chocolate in SURVEY_PROGRAM was "Kris got the Hot Chocolate." But that was changed in the final release to "You got the Hot Chocolate."

As far as I can tell, this was definitely a mistake that was caught by Chapter 2's release. All other self-referencing dialog used "You" instead of "Kris" at the time, and that's still mostly true, the only exceptions made now are under very suspicious circumstances (the Knight battle and when Kris sketched out a tree in the Chapter 4 Egg room, notably).
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>>723059597
I think when they came up with
>Kris called for help! But nobody came.
>You whispered Noelle's name...
inspired them to do another pass through on how that convention was handled
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>>723058814
The earliest clear evidence of intent for the Weird Route is this official sticker, which I believe was released in 2020, ahead of Chapter 2 but after the point where Toby has stated he had finalized the story.
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>>723059597
"You" vs "Kris" is still extremely inconsistent
It's "Kris's SOUL" when you're fighting Jackenstein and the Titan Spawn, but it's "Your SOUL" when you're fighting the Titan (and King and Queen)
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>>723059512
Right, I think the whole "one ending" bullshit more refers to how this game started in Toby's mind, in the sense that that one ending was what pushed him towards where he is now, both with the game itself and his entire career as a whole.

Considering a fever dream inspired it, I'm willing to bet that the ending he had in mind doesn't actually make much sense, especially since it was before literally any other details about Deltarune were conceived. But it probably looked really cool, it must've been divine to push one man this far in trying to realize it. The surrounding dialog seems apprehensive on committing to that being the only way this game ends, though, or perhaps more accurately, this being the actual ending itself (in the sense that this sequence always happens, but the context leading up to it is different, and there's still more of the game to play and outcomes to influence afterwards).
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>>723059885
All of those are chapter bosses, so maybe Kris only needs (You)r help for the big boys
Does it say Kris or (You) for Tenna?
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Another night in a row that i flossed my teeth
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>>723059663
Yeah, that too, that might've been in tandem with developing Weird Route as well.

>>723059885
It's possible that it's an oversight, considering the edit for Chapter 1, but I do wonder if there are any implications if it isn't. Maybe Kris still has his SOUL, and just needs ours for our enhanced properties? But such a thing wasn't really established, and according to the mysterious caller, Kris needs us for the Dark Worlds, if nothing else, to close Dark Fountains, I bet.

>>723060135
I checked the string dump I have on hand, it doesn't seem to have them for King or Queen.
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>>723059975
Gerson's story really makes me think the "ending" (or at least the Roaring) is going to happen in Chapter 6, and then Chapter 7 will be something crazy we can't even speculate about yet
It will be like the world ending in Mother 3 but still having more game after that

>>723060135
There's no SOUL shenanigans in the Tenna fight, you don't get Dual Heal or Red Buster/Dual Buster
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>>723060252
>I checked the string dump I have on hand, it doesn't seem to have them for King or Queen.
Sorry, I'm retarded. I misunderstood the point. There's no related dialog for Tenna.
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>>723060320
>Chapter 5: flower king
>Chapter 0 & 6: Shelter
>Chapter 7: Lake
>Weird 7: Holiday Manor
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>>723058576
I can't explain why it's mario, but the first grave there was a poster years ago that would take that one "Ralsei is about 12 inches" image, add 1 to the image and edit the image of Ralsei a little bigger, and do that for every deltarune thread he saw.
He got up to like 50 and then the admins permanently banned him for some reason.
I can't explain friend either I don't remember it being there.
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>>723060252
It's reasonable to assume that the SOUL was Kris's SOUL before we started possessing it. I don't think we can read into it more than that.
"You" vs. "Kris" is just not consistent, like the rest of the narration. "You" usually means "Kris," except when it doesn't. "Kris" is specified when Kris specifically taking action is significant ("Kris called for help"), except when it's not ("Kris spun around"?).
It's not worth overanalyzing the wording, you just have to consider the context on a case-by-case basis.
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>>723047617
As a schizo battle that is in contention
But as a character yeah, fujos be crazy
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>>723043348
It's not forgotten, the threads keep getting deleted by jannies abusing their power.

also this >>723048505
the generals on /vg/ and /trash/ are still very active.
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>>723049015
Likely going to take place in the Festival or Asgore's Flower Shop.
Asgore is likely to be a boss or he'll at least have a huge role.
It'll likely go over Asgore's past and why the divorce and his firing happened.
Also it'll probably resolve that whole Arc. Maybe we could even influence whether or not he tries to get back with Toriel or moves on.

>>723060884
It's likely "You" when it's an action Kris would have taken without your involvement (in this case drinking hot chocolate). And "Kris" when it's an action you made them take.
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>>723043643
>spamming walls of shit into the threads and there isn't anything of to substance to discuss (because again, nerd acquisition failed)
Never seen that affecting a Deltarune thread. Also jannies if you're reading this, the fact this has been going on for over a month and you haven't stopped it is genuinely pathetic, do fucking better.
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>>723061398
If you don't mind me asking for clarification, you mean the janny's pet retard flooding the thread with walls of garbage, right?
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>>723061540
Oh no. There's a guy on trash LITERALLY spamming shit. I thought that was what you were talking about.
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>>723061604
Oh, no not at all, like the past couple weeks of deltarune related threads have literally been one guy probably using an llm to shit out circular "arguments" about literally fucking nothing for hundreds of posts so much so to the point that it was actually straight up impossible to actually talk about the game.
I don't really care about the porn board (but it was never actually for this, it's literally there if a janny is having a melt down and hates a thread that is breaking no rules so people can still talk and they can still "delete" it) if I'm being totally honest.
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>>723061781
I mean I see a few posts that are AI generated, but the thread seems fine to me? It's not like it's being flooded?
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>>723060252
>It's possible that it's an oversight
Seems a bit inconsistent doesn't it?
I think the soul and how it functions is supposed to be a bit mysterious and surprising.
It's your avatar, but it's also a tool used by Kris for closing the dark fountains, providing light and who knows what else.
It also spontaneously lights up (by itself?) in the final stretch of chapter 4.
>>723060884
It's definitely meant to get your attention every time "Kris [action]" is mentioned.
The confusion between (you) and Kris is of course part of the central conceit.
Also when does it say "Kris spun around"? I can't find it in the text.
>>723061359
>It's likely "You" when it's an action Kris would have taken without your involvement
Nah, it's the opposite, "you" most of the time, even when (you) do shit Kris dislikes, like romancing Berdly,
but it's "Kris" when it wants to emphasize that Kris is doing something.
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>>723061861
This thread is different. Let me tell you for the past couple weeks it's been genuinely awful.
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>>723062054
I'm talking about the /vg/ one? I've only seen like 3 posts that were made by the bot you're talking about in the entire thread.
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>>723062083
Can't help but notice you're ignoring that I've repeatedly pointed out that this thread or are incapable of recognizing that.
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>>723062446
>is different clipped off of my post
Gee thanks 4chan.
Not like that's a crucial detail or something.
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>>723062446
this is a one off thread that was created less than 12 hours ago. Also seeing no AI here anon...
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>>723043348
>I won't even win a single award at TGA
Oh no. ot wasn´t normienated for the show.

People who measure the worth of a videogame by any vidya "shows" or their nominations are retarded subhumans.

Not that I defendinge deltarune, didn´t played it and not will probably never play it but damn nigger, why do you care about any corpo cocksucking?
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Is it true that Noelle was raped in the sweltering summer of 25?
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>>723059017
That police tape is really conspicuous.
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>>723062858
There’s no physical evidence that would prove that in a courtroom
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>>723057464
>I guess Toby feels the need to keep up the pretension of someone playing the game just by himself, even though half the game's background depends on out of game knowledge.
He fully expects people to collaborate and share secrets, because he wants that schoolyard rumor nostalgia. That's the real pretense, because he laments that everyone just data mines shit now, so there really are no secrets anymore.
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>>723043348
Because his fan base consisted primarily of teenagers when it first came out, and after seven years they grew up and realized its writing - which was a primary reason why they played it - is actually dogshit and insufferable which bogs down any experience they might have
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>>723055390
>>723055784
That's surreal as fuck, I know toby didn't rip him off, he probably knows toby didn't rip him off, but it might feel like the universe itself is trying to fuck with him. Thanks for sharing
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>>723062858
KWAB
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>>723063608
I wouldn't really call it "ripping off" in this case.
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>>723063245
>he laments that everyone just data mines shit now
Yes, but with how prominent the MYSTERIOUS VOICE is, it's obvious that this is taken in mind.
In a standalone game, like Undertale, the secrets are basically up for the grabs,
but Deltarune is released episodically, so even if every supposed secret gets uncovered the minute the game is released,
its actual significance remains unknown.
He gets to have his cake and eat it.
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>>723043348
Its not even a full game maybe expect awards when its actually complete
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>>723065410
>>723066470
What a clever cookie
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>>723066787
only meant to reply to one guy, sorry
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>>723055884
Why you dislike Susie and Ralsei?
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>>723056150
>"It is better to die for a lightner than live for yourself."
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>>723047393
>why did itoi reveal the masked man this early
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>>723049993
Spamton Neo doesn't count, since he's Snowgrave exclusive 1v1.
I'm thinking Kris will be the finale one to get a 1v1 fight in the normal route.
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So who the fuck is Eggman? It's obvious that out of all characters, him and Kris have the strongest past and connection.
Is he Gaster or Papyrus? FRIEND? Kris's actual dad or just some unrelated human man?
My personal theory, is that it's his father, what happened is Kris's dad killed his mother for whatever reasons (with a kitchen knife no less) Kris saw that, got traumatized which in result gave him violent tendencies thus the whole "where no one is murdering anyone" , also why he wanted to have a kitchen knife.
Egg rooms are also mysterious by nature, because they break the game, literally, Kris disappears into somewhere, and Susie and Ralsei don't say anything about it, the biggest evidence that it's all may unironically be dream, if just not real.
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>>723043348
Deltarune is not finished. What do you even expect? Unlike Undertale, there's a limit to what you can talk and speculate when a game isn't finished. Plus I don't think the game awards accept unfinished games, either.
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>>723068692
I really wonder if we are actually going to get a explanation about Kris past and why he was adopted.
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>>723047570
No schizo reached Spamton’s level, that is true.
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>>723049993
Papyrus is definitely going to be the schizoboss, but patternfaggotery is gay. He won't be a Ralsei solo boss but he will give his scarf to him (like he gave Flowey his in the Alarm Clock)
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Chapter 3 was a shitty Zelda rom hack with one good boss and Chapter 4 was a glorified visual novel. Not exactly award winning material.
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>>723044874
>>723048060
he wants to be japanese
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>>723055884
I am curious if they will have an actual fight or if they will just be one-shot. Kinda crazy all the old fangames got it right.
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>>723062858
'd 'o
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>>723069424
One shot.
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>>723061861
You are talking to an emerging thread schizo that believes all Deltarune threads are just a particular schizo samefagging. I don't understand why Deltarune threads attract such mental illness, but just ignore those types of posts.
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>>723062858
It was metaphorical.
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>>723068692
It's Papyrus, that's why he's "forgettable".
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>>723062858
No.

She was defiled and had her purity taken away, but she still has her hymen.



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