When you realized that you just waited over a year and a half for a honest to fuck filler arc, how did you feel?
>>742687378This is how I feel
You begin to realize that Toby is turning into Hussie.
>>742687964fucking kek
I signed up for another installment of Whimsical Adventure feat. Weird Teens and that's what I got. Two more to go. It's not like It's gonna get milked endlessly. It was not a bad episode and I trust that shit will get more serious in the finale. The story doesn't need constant epic reveals, after the doe mindrape and titans, It needed a break and that's what ep5 was.You ever wondered why games like DMC have puzzle sections?
>>742687680>turningNigga the entire premise of Deltarune is literally Homestuck 2
>>742687378As a Coffin of Andy and Leyley fan, this has nothing on me
>>742687378Even the yurifags who are normally into that are finding it weird that the game took it to this direction.
Daily reminder.
>>742687378It had Flowery and the Weird Route was some of the best stuff in the game narratively so I was pretty happy with it.
>>742687993Master of copingTeach me, oh, Savant of the Cope.
>>742687378>year and a halfWasn't it just one year?
>>742687378theyre in the pipesralsei is in the pipesthe pipes
>>742687964>stop asking for good pacing and just enjoy your garbage throwaway filler arc!! it has wholesome yuri slop!!!No.
Nah, this chapter was great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYUaus3RGI
>>742687378a bit peeved, especially considering that it was supposed to follow up the kino that was 3 & 4i cannot imagine how much more jarring it would be playing 3, 4, and 5 all back to back and going from fighting the titan and susie declaring that they'll fight against fate only for all of that to be thrown out the window and the story comes to a screeching halt, because susie decided her date with noelle is suddenly more important and the dark world is just an undertale/ ch1 memberberry fest which is a shame because there are a lot of little moments that are really good, but as an entire product it's definitely one of the weaker chatpers, maybe only surpassing ch1 and that's primarily because ch1 is the most primitive and has the least content
if i was given one wish, it'd be to see toby's reaction to every part of the fandom coming up with the prophepsyop theory individually on the day of CH5's release because of how poorly written suselle is compared to everything else.no doubt that if toby really is trying to push suselle he's actually pissed about it.>what do you mean that even tumblr hates suselle so much that they think the prophecy is brainwashing people?
>>742687993It didn't "need a break" it needed to be one complete game instead of doing this episodic shit
>>742687378We got some more mystery boxes to ponder about. Here's me hoping that history doesn't repeat itself like >>742687680 is suggesting.
>>742688056Expecting the average Deltarune fan to be able to count is a bit much
>>742687378broken, betrayed, trapped, brapped
>>742688056a year and 3ish weekspeople started getting really schizo a month and a half before release because toby was being extremely cagey with anything about ch5 and people were thinking it was about super important plot stuff that would happenturns out it was because he didn't want to let people know that it was just ch1: japan
>>742687943Yes. Plenty of people pointed out how friendshippilled Susie was and how Noelle wouldn't like Susie seeing she's no longer that bully from Chapter 1 just to quadruple down and go all in on Susie doing a complete 360 into the festival becoming a huge deal as a romantic date about Noelle while ignoring what happened in the previous chapter, not to mention the retcon on the bullying situation on Kris which was previously estabilished to be Toriel and home life to be a crush on Noelle that had no previous hints.That not being enough, he also made sure to include a line saying how Noelle likes the new Susie even better than before, completely out of nowhere, to hamfist further Suselle.The whole Suselle section this time feels like a humiliation ritual for Kris that you cannot opt out from with all exits being blocked off, just grin and bear it until the Dark World sections opens up.
>>742688138fr what do you mean 'needs a break', this game has been in development for almost a decade
>>742687680>Find out it's going to be released episodically 30 years ago What a stupid idea, I thought, now every single release will be overanalysed without a complete picture, the pressure to change ideas or have their mysteries called will be signficiantly higher. Oh well, at least there's no way will Toby be stupid enough to actually focus on relationships beyond cute asides and indulge/enrage the absolute worst people in his audience. >Does exactly that. Thank god I never bought it. and only played the demo. I can forget the whole thing exists now and never read a thread about it. Everyone else remotely interested is fucked though.
>>742688093Yeah chapter 5 was Deltarune at its peak I don't understand all this tortantic shitpostingI can't believe Toby Fox hates ME personally because [schizobabble]
>>742687378Like gaster isnt sending his best
Always bet on some form of Kris Knight!
>asgore revealed to be set up for chapter 5 from the 3 boss prophecies>he's got a black shard from the hidden scene in chapter 4>talks to himself that he's gonna bring the family back together and solve the mystery>here comes chapter 5, the big asgore chapter>"OUUGHHH KRIS THAT HORRIBLE INCIDENT AAGGHHH IM GONNA BRING MY FAMILY BACK TOGETHER THOUGH">it's also the chapter with the festival>nothing happens in it lol even though it was set up day 1So uhhh am I to believe it was always going to be this way?
>>742688227Not just teased from Chapter 1, teased about in concept art and tweets into this huge event which turned out to be fuckall
>>742688209The shit you enjoy about Deltarune is not what everyone else enjoyed about Deltarune
>>742687993we REALLY needed a silly lighthearted break over halfway into the story that toby poured his supposed heart and soul into and is the apex of all of his creative energy thus far, we NEEDED to hit the brakes after waiting an entire year on this big event built up for next to no payoff, we NEEDED content like swishes my big fluffy $$$$-ing tail and george floyd's ram ranch for 90% of the chapter, see it's badly written on purpose because the characters are like being controlled dude whoa tobert does it again!
>>742687680We just had our [S] GAME OVER moment in the weird route, too.>>742688139Chapter 6 will be the one that makes or breaks the game.
>>742688209>chapter 5 was Deltarune at its peakHahahahahahahaha wow.
>>742688176they are cucking them with barney, making ralsei more female than female and having skeletons fuck their mom so bad theyre hungover anonplease understand
>>742688227The incident which was so memorable, Kris, I shant speak a word of it, or acknowledge the character who looks just like my son. I think Toby had the beginning and the end figured out, but not how to get there, could be wrong tho
>>742688093While I was playing it I kept on waiting for something to happen but I found that when it was over I had enjoyed it. I think it's going to be the Hotlands of Deltarune in the context of the full game.
>>742687964Posted it again award.
>>742688292>kind version somehow the huger bitchContext? I don't know the homosucks.
>>742688193now that i think about it, susie's behaviour with noelle is really bizarre pre ch5 than in ch5she gave zero indication that she had a thing for noelle even as late as ch4, hell in ch2 she seems outright confused why noelle would ask to study with her at all and doesn't really want to do it and again in ch4 when rudy is practically asking her to take noelle to the festival and susie is being a brick wall about it then in ch5 she's acting like the date is what she's been waiting for since the start and going on and on about how much she wants to be with noellei really do want to know what toby thinks of brainrot theory, imagine if he was playing suselle completely straight and this is how people reacted to it: susie is so ooc they think that the plot itself is corrupting her personality to progress
I want to throatfuck Aqua. Does that make Chapter 5 worth it?
>>742688286>chapter 4 ends with susie claiming she will defy the prophecy>chapter 5 begins a few hours later with susie acting giddy for a date, seemingly embracing the prophecy now>"uhhh actually the prophecy is controlling her, yeah that's it, that's why she's acting OOC and why her best friends kris and ralsei or even any of the darkners in the beginning bring up she's acting weird"Toby-sama, I kneel.
>>742688292Who's gonna be the Condesce to neck Noelle out of her mania, though?
>>742688382I prefer the mizzles desu
>>742688220>the knight is/ has kris' soul deboonked by /ourgirl/
>>742687378I'm not a retard who thinks he knows better than the author of the work.This chapter was fun but also important, as it established Noelle, Susie, and Kris's dynamics much more clearly.The story about flowers who were only suppose to live for one day was beautiful too.>implying fillerFoolish.Chapter 6 should be exactly what everyone's expecting though...
>>742688320Is Hotland even that bad? Yeah Alphys can get annoying but the Mettaton minigames were amusing and it has the best field theme in the game
>MORE VAGUEPOSTS>MORE SHIPBAIT>WE NEED TO KEEP PEOPLE ENGAGED WITH THIS UNFINISHED GAME FOR ANOTHER 4 YEARS>It's been 6 years and we've ony released 2 chapters? QUICK, VAGUEPOST IN THE NEWSLETTER>Those crazy theorists, trying to connect dots in my unfinished game *laughs* Let's make the secret boss a joke about them.>QUICK, THEORYBAIT IN THE ANNIVERSARY STREAM>THE FANS DIDN'T LIKE MY WACKY TORIEL JOKE, DAMAGE CONTROL>SUSELLE IS GREAT SHUT UP SHUT UP>haha, ironic anime jokes>lol, that UTY ending amirite?
>>742688227>the festival seems like itll be the big climax of multiple story beats>it might even be when the fucking roaring kicks off and things get serious>the tension between characters, asriel finally coming back, all of the intrigue>the festival is a literally empty 10 minute segment with the only notable things being the completely out of line bullying of catti, normalnpc feeding onion-san to people, and sans openly teleporting>most people's bingo cards had the festival going on TOO long but it didnt even last at all>you spent more fucking time putting susie in a duck suiti really wanna know what happened with its development
>>742688442Exactly my point, anon.
>>742688286Chapter 5 felt like if someone installed a speed bump on a highway where everyone's driving 80 miles per hour. Its like all the characters have amnesia of the day before.
>>742688318no you're right the reason why he started making deltarune was because he had a schizo fever dream back in 2011he wrote it down and came up with a super rough draft for the characters and maybe bits of ch1, but shelved it after making a single room because he realized he was way out of his depth, so he made undertale as a practice run to see if he could make a game the actual work on deltarune didn't begin until 2016, where he claims to have written down the overall plot and wrote some songs like it's tv time, first draft of sunset of 7 sons, and iirc black knife we know queen changed from that original draft because she was supposed to be more of an antagonist before becoming the goofball we got, and i'm 100% certain that ch5 was heavily rewritten due to how weird it feels coming off of ch3 & 4i wouldn't be surprised if that's why it took an extra year
>>742687964>if Deltarune was written by Ian Flynn
The festival oooo the important festival, don't forget the festival is coming up
>>742687378>over a year and a halfI'm taking the bait.It was a little over a year. Less than 13 months.
>>742688193
>>742688459>"your brother asriel is coming back this weekend!">he doesn't>nobody really seems to say why or anything he just doesn'tWHERE THE FUCK IS HE
>>742688620The boys!
>>742688227>>742688276the most exciting thing during the festival being "rudy... fell? oh no!" is a damn shamethe only "minigame" is a fucking quick time event that you cant failwhy not cut out the platformer gimmick (its cool, but its not UT/DR. toby should've saved it for a third game) to make the festival bigger?open up the area beyond the police tape and put the festival there?add a between street or two to expand hometown without having to change the existing rooms?NOPE!you get 4 notable interactions and one minigame.btw the alt route where you skip the festival is better
Are there retards here that genuinely think Rudy died in this chapter?
>>742687964You'd think all the theory schizos would have fucking killed themselves after Mike but they're still swarming around like roaches.
>>742688620kek
>>742687794That's kind of par for the course when it comes from characters Ralsei already dislikes and it being the member berries chapter. Like there are two characters that actually care about the hat ralsei thing and that's Flowery and Orange.The former forces it onto him and Ralsei already actively hates him. Susie even points out that Ralsei liked being a butler and he said finds that rather "context-based" before tossing that suit in the water. Even then, nothing stopped him from taking off the hat from then to the Petal Feather so he might not have total resentment towards wearing a hat.Orange on the other hand tends to call him ugly and tells him to wear a hat a few times, but that also tracks as she's also very insecure about her appearance and abilities that even when Ralsei tries to be nice she gets upset and pisses him off. Its not totally out of left field to get angry at someone who talks shit but hasn't looked in the mirrorToby has definitely put stuff in with regards to what fans do. The Mikes merely existing is proof of that, so in that instance you're probably still right. but unless you for some reason see yourself in mainly Orange I don't think Toby writes every line or character that you or I don't like with the explicit purpose of kicking you in the knees and spitting in your mouth
>>742688640>asriel should be back in time for the festival>few chapters later>asriel should be back in a few more days>chapter 5>well asriel should be back later this week, we should surprise him at his dorm instead!unironically all in on the simulation theory
>>742687680>>742688139>>742688227>>742688292>>742688318>>742688380>>742688459>>742688552Chapter 6 is gonna fucking suck, won't it?
>>742688459It was never meant to be that big and all the hype was just magnified by the year long waits between all the chapters.
>>742688640she said 'next week'which could mean anywhere from sunday - saturdayit is a bit strange that he missed the festival though, but the excuse might be that it brings back painful memories he'd rather avoid
>>742687964>nah bro chapter 6 and 7 shouldn't give us any lore bro, let's just keep filling game with uwu wholesome chungus bro>trrust me bro, trust the fox bro, trust the plan> oops the game is over and it didn't delivered, but we laughed a lot with the memes bro
>>742688667The Weird Route festival is a lot better, but I wouldn't exactly say you skip it, you still see the attractions and go on the ferris wheel and everything.
>>742688430Imagine, you could be the retard who *knows* he knows better than the author's work!
>>742688691Toby has to cure himself of the brain parasite and make Chapter 6 the best it could possibly be. If it fucking sucks and we still get more mystery box bullshit 90% of the way through then Deltarune is as good as done.
>>742688691god i hope not if he blows ch6 after the weak showing of ch5 it's unironically overi was really concerned about ch5 and while it think it was sub par, it wasn't bad enough to use up everyone's goodwill but if ch6 is also mediocre it 100% willthere's a reason why people only care about what will happen on the weird/ aborted route right now, they completely stole the show this time
>>742688737No one "knows" where Toby's going with this.
>>742688691I hope not, I hope the irony pilling and constant references stop, but im afraid theyll only get more intense. I think weird route will be the only 'groundbreaking' part of the game desu
>Catti shits on Susie in every chapter>Susie snaps back once>"Holy fuck why is Susie such an asshole"Do faggots here self insert as Catti or something?
>She's saving the day~>Mew Mew tatsukete~
>>742687378Doe? With suicide pactDinowife? Fentanol addicted to fantasyTwinkbro? Non existentDad? MissingMom? DrunkLife of Kris is falling apart
>>742688220I never doubted
>>742688793temmie might have a decent idea, although we know that toby snuck in the true lab without her knowing so she probably doesn't know everything this time either
Chapter 2 will probably remain as THE quintessential Deltarune chapter even after the game is complete.
>>742688620Cope. Plenty of people loves Suselle.
>>742688840Truth
>>742688757toby pls take the ivermectin route and stop looking at the deltarune subreddit pls im begging you
>>742687964He isn't wrong.Look at Noelle on the Weird Route - people assign to her the most insane theories possible, meanwhile both her and her goals are extremely open and straightforward.
>>742688827She's a Mew Mew girl with a Mew Magic Cane地獄越え願いはキューティ革命世界は闇に 脳裏のリズムShe is saving the day! ミュウミュウ助けて!She's a Mew Mew girl who is ready to play全力で突き進めばいいのキューティ革命世界殺戮 今度は水中She is saving the day! ミュウミュウ助けて!She is saving the day! ここは冷てー!She is saving the day! 歌詞わからねー!Cutie Mew Mew Magic で変身しちゃいましょう
>susie brings noelle to the dark world>"Fahaha! Wow, I knew it was too good to be a dream! How quirky and fun, just like in Dragon Blazers 69! Hai Queen, good to see you again!"
>>742688640>WHERE THE FUCK IS HE
>>742688691like others have said its a pretty thin margin. if ch6 is the same kind of filler non-chapter without any plot advancement im done giving a shit until the weird route or twisted route has a resolution
>>742688227>chapter is literally named after the festival>fuck all happens in it>you look at stuff then go sleep by the lake while your friends dyke out
>>742688815>shits on Susie at every opportunityLiterally only said to keep Noelle away from Susie since she's bad news and had been prior to Chapter 1Disingenuous nigger
>>742688701at least we had mewmew
>>742688840Chapter 2 really does have it all, doesn't it?>Spampton's whole deal>Berdly and Queen being hilarious>the weird route
>>742687378I think it was great until chapter 5, it feels like it forgot the build up to this chapter. Chapter 4 also felt way more serious then this chapter. 5 feels like it should of came before 4. Only the weird route delivered.This chapter also made a lot of the main cast very unlikable and they felt very out of character most of the time.
>>742688640forget the stupid goat where the hell's my boy papyrus
>>742688640He's fucking deadWhat do you think exists outside of hometown anon?
>>742688897at that point you just shut the game off and uninstall it
>>742688701theoryfags have it coming, what the fuck do you think happens to people who just chug kool-aid without knowing what's inside?plotfags should know full well that it's just going to be mother 3 and/or twin peaks againshipperfags will continue to be baited and thus continue their endless blood feuddiscussionfags will clap like seals whatever happens so are not worth considering
>>742688949Ralsei was so annoying to me this chapter and the theory baiting about him 'knowing things' pissed me off because im sure itll go nowhere
>>742688949>5 feels like it should of came before 4.Maybe it was originally?
>>742688692The chapter is literally called "the festival"
>>742687378
>>742688941Magical girls suck dick though?
>>742687964IT'S NOT LORE IT'S THE PLOT OF THE FUCKING GAMEIF YOU'RE GOING TO SERIALIZE YOUR GAME WITH 7 CHAPTERS THEN THE PLOT NEEDS TO FUCKING PROGRESS AT LEAST A LITTLE TINY FUCKING BIT WHEN YOU RELEASE A NEW CHAPTER WE JUST FINISHED CHAPTER FIVE (5) OUT OF SEVEN AND WE STILL KNOW FUCKING NOTHING ABOUT THE ANTAGONIST OF THE GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING GAME OR ANYTHING ABOUT THE FUCKING DEER BITCH DISAPPEARING (WHICH IS NOT "LORE" IT IS THE FUCKING EVENT THAT THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND)DO YOU KNOW WHAT LORE IS? LORE IS HOW THE MAGIC SYSTEM WORKS. LORE IS LANCER'S FAVORITE FOOD. LORE IS NOT "WHAT IS THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY THAT EVERY CHARACTER KEEPS BRINGING UP EVERY FUCKING SECOND" AND IT IS DEFINITELY NOT "WHO THE FUCK IS THE MAIN ANTAGONIST AND WHY ARE THEY DOING ANY OF THIS"IF YOU WANT ME TO STOP ASKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO DESS THEN STOP HAVING EVERY CHARACTER MAKE THESE SPEECHES ABOUT HOW IT'S A BIG DEAL AND ALSO THEIR CHARACTER ARC REVOLVES AROUND IT BUT DON'T ASK WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS BECAUSE THAT'S JUST AN UNIMPORTANT BACKGROUND DETAIL FUCK YOU
>Orange represents Noelle>Orange calls Pink "big sis" Could Pink represent Dess?
>>742689026You know nothing about magical girls.
>>742689026God willing.
>>742689026Kilometres, yes
To me Hometown exists in a wider world but Gaster's experiment just separated it from the rest.
>>742687964We have retards here that started saying retarded crack shit like the Knight is a Kris Noelle amalgamate so they aren't wrong
>>742688993youre retarded. 'theoryfagging' 'plotfagging, you mean being interested in the plot of a story? youre all so retarded now, holy fuck this is why everything sucks, people like you. People who think 'plot' is some sort of niche thing in a STORY and what matters is shipping and 'aww my le chunguses are being faggy!! yaay!'. Holy shit, zoomers are actually fucking braindead
>>742687964CH5 felt like it under delivered because it was essentially a lot of filler plot. People expected after CH4 that shit would actually ramp up especially with how much the festival was talked up up until this pointThis is why people overall like the weird route despite it being short. It actually delivers from the previous momentum of the last chapter
>>742689049But that's a... th-that's a... t-t-t-t-t-t...
>>742689034The plot did progress though>Asgore kidnapped>Susie knows another bunker code>Bringing Noelle into the fun gang>Kris brewing with resentment/complicated emotions in the backgroundHow is this not plot progression
>>742689060the knight's probably Kris in SOME way.Their fountains produce the exact same worlds.but, y'know... Whoever the roaring knight is, it won't make a lot of sense until we get some details.
>>742689026what is the problem with dicks
>>742689034I'm just imagining you ranting like this at the end of hotland
Remember how it was supposed to be three heroes? Toby forgot for the sake of his dyke fetish
>>742689135>The plot did progress thoughNOOOOO Not like that!
>chapter 5 is meant to be like hotland, pacing-wise!>you don't get it, it's supposed to be shit!
>>742688840y'know, i wonder how much CH2 fucked with the perception and development of future chapters>S rank main route>S rank weird route>T rank secret boss to the point that we got a mini sans-mania featuring the spammy little mailmanby pure chance toby lucked into making the perfect deltarune experience in chapter two out of seven, you cant just go back to a "yeah its alright" experience immediately after that.
>>742689041>Orange represents Noellewhat
>>742689135>all the plot progression was saved for the last 10 minutes of the chapterTRICKY TOBY HAS DONE IT AGAIN
>>742688815>susie is a dick to jockington>susie is a dick to kris>susie is banned from free ham sandwich day>lolno, catti's just a jealous femcel
>>742687378Eh, it was okToby better deliver in the last two chapters, otherwise it's going to feel worse as time goes on
I'm getting real tired of the bullshit on people not understanding who the flowers represent and just adapting their own retarded takes for it just because it might share a singular trait with an existing character rather than the wholeI'm at my limit to start scouring through both Undertale and Deltarune so people can finally understand the characters better rather than just assuming because potato brained toutuber said so
>>742689163It's been foreshadowed since undertale.
These threads serve to remind that Toby assumes everyone is a gay autistic tween like he still is at heart and he doesn't comprehend how people with critical thinking skills could question his art. Also that waiting years on end for dripfed storybeats is the worst possible thing you could do with your writing and he simply got himself in over his head.
>>742689135nta but>Asgore kidnappedat the very end and we did nothing about it>Susie knows another bunker codeat the very end and we did nothing with it>Bringing Noelle into the fun gangdidn't happen, the ending was susie PLANNING on inviting noelle>Kris brewing with resentment/complicated emotions in the backgroundthats been happening every chapter
>>742689138>the knight's probably Kris in SOME way.More like the Knight is probably Kris SOME of the time.
>>742688286>george floyd's ram ranchIt's called Buckbroke Mountain
>>742689135The bunker code should have been collected by your own merits not as an afterthought and an accident
>>742689149people generally think hotland was weak and kind of annoyingthe best thing about it was the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4sPRIyHKM
>>742689034This is art. I will save this rant and use it for the appropriate time.
>>742689135Also forgot to mention the whole subplot of Susie going full Maelle and drowning herself in dark world escapismBut I guess that's not enough plot for you guys
>>742689135I mean the issue is every point you said happens at the very end so the rest of the chapter is biding time until then.
>>742689163>>742689226Yeah, it was supposed to be three heroes: Kris, Ralsei and Noelle, and Susie was supposed to be the villain.
>>742689201I'm personally of the opinion that chapter 3 as a "complete picture" with all the weird hidden shit in it does hold a candle to chapter 2 in general feel. It's chapter 4 and on that are basically nothing like it.
>>742689093Weird route also reveals an aspect of Noelle that pretty much ties her whole character together, greatly improving her. That's something the other main characters sorely need at this point
>>742688815Susie is oblivious and unintentionally hurts Kris's feelings this chapter. Many anons have take this affront personally and now hate her.
>>742689163>He wants them to follow the prophecy word for word>He forgets that 1 (possibly 2) of the playable characters isn't a hero
>>742688840Just like how Homestuck Act 5 is considered peak Homestuck. Though some would argue that Act 4 is the superior part, just like how there’s people who prefer Chapter 1 over 2.>>742688360Because of her implied attributes, Dess often gets compared to Vriska Serket, a character in the webcomic Homestuck, infamous for killing several characters and creating the early-arc main villain Bec Noir, who coincidentally is often compared to the Roaring Knight.Now, Vriska has an ancestor that shares several traits with her, who takes her place in a previous version of her universe with the name “Aranea Serket”. While she initially appears to be a more verbose but nice version of Vriska, she starts manipulating one of the main characters after being revived through the Ring of Life, culminating in an effort to make the timeline where the major antagonist of the comic never comes to being non-canon, which fails, with herself being killed off alongside the entire allied cast bar two characters. You could say that the ring shenanigans and her efforts trying to break free from fate parallels Noelle’s actions in the weird route.
>>742689135None of that is plot progression, youre genuinely so retarded if you think thats meaningful plot development or progression. >Asgore getting kidnapped was a forgone conclusion already set up. >Who gives a fuck if Susie knows another bunker code, why are there 2 bunker codes? If anything the plots getting convoluted>Who gives a fuck, shes already been a party member, its not as if thats gonna be some new special thing>Hes been doing this the whole time. You faggots cant recall what happened in the past two chapters? WE FOUGHT THE KNIGHT AND THEN A TITAN. And then we just dick around being subjected to horrible on the nose references and bad jokes. Plot development wouldve been Asgore actually telling us what happened during "The Incident", at least a little bit. If Toby wanted to keep some of it secret, have the Knight abduct him mid-speech or something.
>>742689237I think most sane people know that, it's the insane one's who are acting as if it's not the case. It doesn't take this long to tell a satisfying story.
>>742689261I'm not interested in SUSIEtownThis is supposed to be the adventure of the three heroes Kris is the leader, susie is the tank, and Ralsei is the healer, and Noelle shows up sometimes and Toby ruined it
The Princess and her Knight in shining armor.
>>742688209>Yeah chapter 5 was Deltarune at its peakAgreed. And not just because I love Mew Mew. It's a fun goofy adventure, and probably the last time we'll get that.
Alright, anons. Tell me how you'd improve Chapter 5 and what would change. In detail, please.
Chapter 2 was still the best, it felt so dynamic, the composition of the team wasn't constantly the same even
>>742689296tl;dr
>>742689295Yes i wanted it to follow the prophecy word for word, not to have the prophecy be forced and rushed by sabotage
This thread is proving once again why it's a good thing you retards aren't the ones writing the story
>>742689358The Holidays are the Serkets.
I jerk off to Weird Route Noelle Scenes nightly.
>>742688793I had a dream-within-a-dream scenario where I dreamt that I dreamt the same dream as Toby. I don't know how I knew it was the same dream Toby had. I also didn't remember any details when I woke up.
>>742689348I bet you'd love it if i shook some colorful plastic keys in your face and played peek-a-boo with you too
>>742689368If I was writing the story it would have been done ages ago.
>>742689368I wanted my hmofa adventure game not death note with cuck shit
>>742689350Make it chapter 4 and put our current chapter 4 as chapter 5.
>>742689368nigga this is just mild criticism Toby isn't infallible
>>742689387...is Kris Tavros then?
>>742689392Nah. The chapter is also well-written and good thematically, but apparently you missed all of that.
>>742687680die a hero or live long enough...
The only reason Toby made Deltarune episodic is because he has become addicted to attention.
>>742688949>last chapter>Susie rights down a dead father's final message to his son>played complete straight, very effective>this chapter>quirk chungus lesbians
Imagine if he waited until 2030 and dropped the entire game from start to finish on UT's 15th anniversary instead.
>>742689350That's an impossible question to answer because no one has the full picture yet.It's a good chapter though, the more I think about it the more I wouldn't change the thing.Ehhh.... Maybe make Blue a little more fun.We all know this is the last "fun" chapter anyway, we all know when chapter 6 comes out and it's depressing as shit we're all gonna look back on chapter 5 wistfully.
>>742689326Gross.
>>742687378it's crazy how many people who claimed to be fans of the game are getting filtered by Chapter 5. it's like people forgot the game they've been playing.
>>742687964>Rudy had an accident and probably is gonna die>Susie is dissociating from reality and regressing as a character>Ralsei is revealed to be sandbagging and is starting to care about himself despite not being real>Dark world video game mechanics reinforced as explicitly existing in universe>Noelle set up to enter the dark world despite Kris best attempts to keep her out of it“Nothing happened in this chapter it was filler where Gaster”
>>742689436It's for the best, the amount of discussion and theorizing it's generated is almost as fun as the game itself. In a world where most games have their mysteries datamined within a weak, we get to speculate about stuff for a while instead. Things like the TwistedSwd are more interesting because we have no clue how it will be used.
>>742689135>Asgore kidnappedI'm annoyed that he got to do fuck all this chapter, then when he finally gets a resolution to his plotline (the details of which are kept infuriatingly vague) he just gets ejected from the story. I have no further use for this cringe fat man making a fool of himself in front of his ex-wife, into the dungeon he goes
>>742689391Freaky.
>>742687378Not as bad as waiting 5 or so years for chapters 3 and 4.
>>742689206i can see it, ch5 does imply that noelle was pretty pushy as a child and we also know that she would often run to dess when kris was teasing hernoelle is also a lot braver than people give her credit for, remember that bravery is not an absence of fear, but rather one's ability to persevere in spite of it, and we see noelle doing that in game and in the sweepstakesi don't know about pink representing dess though, she's almost entirely disconnected from the other flowers and isn't even one technically
>>742689498It would have been best if he finished the fucking game.
>>742689350Dump Suselle completely. Give all the flowers namesMake it so you can attack FlowerySolo ralsei boss fightMake an actual dojo with new fights instead of one pacifist-only fight which gives you no rewardMake so you can recruit Jack even if you attacked the Titan spawn More events at the festival Make it so berdly actually grows a spine and fights for his girlDump mew mew completely
>>742689490It's easy to forget considering how fucking long this game has been in development for.
>>742689550it's been one year. fuck off.
>>742688840Spamton was a high bar to clear.
>>742689564Since Chapter 1?
>>742689494theoryfags don't play the game they just want their fanfiction validated more news at 11Now excuse me, I have more NORM, THE HOMETOWN BUTCHER images to post. All canon btw!
>>742689425My peek-a-boo sessions are also great writing because I make Ratatouille references in between going "here I am!" Then I jangle the yuri keys, and start talking in a weird voice (equivalent to the incessant typing quirks) and then at the end I sing 'Banana Phone' to you. You'd be clapping like a sealion.Is deltarune the only game youve ever played and TADC the only show youve ever watched?
>>742689480I would've preferred that honestly because now we have faggots that won't shut up about how every secret and plot twist the game has to offer hasn't been rammed down their throat
>>742689295the only character i can accept not being one of the heroes is susiekris and ralsei have too much going for them to not be at this point
>>742689438>rights downAnon...
>>742689082>t. man thinks there is totally gonna be an epic bossfight against yellow & pink cat who is behind every single bad thing in every darkworldthe trophy is not a sign of fisher's mastery, but of fish's stupidity, and chapter 1 cliffhanger into chapter 2 beginning should have clued you instrange that you missed the part where such bait directly relates to shippers, but i guess first two lines sent you into a blind rage
>>742689350switch 4 and 5remove the zesty buckforce toby to rewrite whatever the guest writers didhave asgore give more detail on dess's disappearenceremove all teenage romance drama
>>742689490Can't believe an rpg fan might not like platformers and anime catgirls
Alright man, fuck this.I will do a proper flower analysis so people can understand once and for all whom they're supposed to be even though this shit will probably take multiple posts, going back and forth to take bits and hints of the character to put in some collage.Feel free to share it elsewhere or don't, I refuse to partake in social media anyway.See you in half a day or so.
>>742689597It's a subtle reference to how Susie is illiterate
>>742689326swap the two and i agree
>>742689532>i don't know about pink representing dess though, she's almost entirely disconnected from the other flowers and isn't even one technicallyDess was the previous cage
>>742689619Characters*
>>742689545Hell just make a kriselle+ralsusie mod at this point and make the pain go away
Keep seething retards chapter 5 is loved by everybody but you disgusting looneys
>>742689581>took you 5 minutes to come up with thatMan, no wonder you couldn't appreciate Chapter 5. It's okay, some people are just stupid.
>>742689601I cant even parse this pure mental retardation, can you try again and actually make sense this time?
>>742689521
how do so many of you retards take a childrens game so seriously but you wont just read a fucking book for those precious dark violent storybeats you crave so badly
PINK IS NOT A FUCKING FLOWERTHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT AN OUTSIDERMORONS
>>742689619Good luck anon, you're going to need to dig real deep for some of them
>>742689605Clearly not if they don't like cat girls. They usually aren't magical girls but still
>>742689682And now he's furiously waiting to post "yeah, you're stupid!" or some variant.
>>742689418Kris is many Homestuck characters, really.
>>742689358Toby fox raped andrew hussie.
>>742689682There is nothing to appreciate, its bottom of the barrel shitposted gunk. Ive played through it twice and both times sucked compared to the other chaptersThe fact that you have to resort to calling me stupid is hilarious, are u a child?
>>742689261>susie does a 180 from the previous chapter>no apparent reason, she's just crazy now>no connection to anything that happened beforeThat's not a plot, that's just something to keep people guessing during hiatus. Nothing set up previously got payoff, we're doing the same shit we've been doing since chapter 2.
>>742689482>we all know when chapter 6 comes out and it's depressing as shit we're all gonna look back on chapter 5 wistfullyThe fuck do you mean? I wanted the tone to get serious after we fought the Knight and a Titan. That's how plot progression works.
>>742689694Not that much, I will need to dig through newsletters and text dumps from both Undertale and Deltarune for the most part.It'll be just time consuming, really.
What did Carol mean by this?
>>742689693WHY ARE YOU YELLING
>>742689494>Dark world video game mechanics existNothing new>Ralsei is revealed to be sandbagging and is starting to care about himself despite not being realNothing new>Rudy is gonna dieNothing new>Noelle is gonna enter the Dark WorldAgain, nothing fucking new!
>>742689413You don't have all the pieces yet. You don't know how this fits into the overall story because you don't have the overall story. I agree that this chapter wasn't what I expected or necessarily wanted, but I'm going to suspend judgment on how well it fits into the overall narrative of the game until I know what that narrative is.
>>742689692Yeah because I wanted to play a video game and go on an adventure. I don't like what the adventure is turning into
>>742689775>The fact that you have to resort to calling me stupid is hilarious, are u a child?Brother, you started this shitslinging with your intensely rude messages. If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
>>742689350>Have Asgore actually talk about what happened on that horrible day>In chapter 6, have Suselle actually go to shit because of Susie's escapism and Noelle's desire for [Freedom Sauce] clashingThis is really I that I want.
>>742689350make it clear that susie is just doing the festival with noelle to make her happy/ get closer to her to get another shot at the festival code, also cut back on the humiliation ritual kris is going through, it's borderline spitefullighten up on the constant undertale/ ch1 callbacks and references give asgore more of a presence in the dark world, make him push back more against flowery wanting to just fuck around either flesh out yellow/ blue/ green/ orange more or relegate them to side characters, as it stands they're just kinda there at the castlehave asgore actually explain what he's talking about instead of vagueposting holy fuckreveal more about the knight, if we're doing a masked man thing we would already have a pretty good idea that he's claus at this point in mother 3, there is no reason why we still know basically nothing about the knight more than half way through the game
>>742689692Deltarune is well written precisely because of the ludonarrative mastery and tonal juxtaposition you can't find elsewhere. Name a single book that can grip you as tightly.
I'll forgive Toby if he can put out something as heartfelt as Chapter 4 again now that the "fun chapters" are supposedly over
>>742688292>Noelle is AraneaSounds about right.>introduced as a more level headed counterpart to vriska, who is often compared to dess>turned out to be even more of a vainglorious piece of shit who fucks up the timeline for good
>>742689903House of Leaves
>>742689494it's all set up but none of the set up applies to itselfmuch of this could've been done in half the chapter and the rest of it would be going forwards with it
>>742689692Because I don't want to get oranges, I want the apples I already have to magically become oranges.
>>742689425>>742689682>>742689871https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7ugBaZsp8top tier trolling
>>742689865I lost my patience with the fucker. He had a job to do, to sell the Legend of Delta Rune and he failed to do so.
>>742689578I can't wait to finally go up to Gaster Dings and tell him he's a shit writer and his Deltarune fucking sucks.
>>742689905CH5 wasn't a "fun chapter" though. You can see all the red flags being set-up from a mile away, and they'll all hit the fan the moment Susie drags Noelle into the Dark World, no matter the route.>>742689919>vaingloriousNoelle literally just wants to leave town and live her own life. It's Susie who wants to live in la la land.
>>742689568I don't think it can be done.
>>742689792where are we here
>>742689790>susie does a 180 from the previous chapter>Reading comprehensionAnon she was clearly happy/enamoured about the idea of being a hero or someone importantWithout the dark worlds she's just some sad kidShe greedily thinks she can be the second hero, fall in love and somehow avert the final prophecy like the greedy dragon she is. Prophetic... levels of greed, aye?
>>742689163That is fundamentally how the NTR fetish work. He is doubling up with meta NTR but having the main character not just cucked out of both girls he loves but also his very role in the story (remember when Susie made it so everyone can act and Ralsei tried to keep it as Kris's special thing? Remember how Gerson decided Susie has the white pen of hope and not Kris? Remember in chapter five when Susie decided she and Ralsei can just act on their own for that one platforming section.)
>>742689494Also>Kris realizing that he can't pursue both his agenda and his personal desires
I hate death note. And how it's poison spread to everything. All the lying and the sabotage and the scheming and the vagueposting right in the audiences face,and it fucking sucks. I don't want that on my action movies, I don't want that in my fantasy films. And I don't want it on my video game adventures, it has to be purged from deltarune, I didn't get the game for this.
>Krusie incelsEternally seething>KrisellefagsSchizo crack theorists>Lorefagscrying like man children>FRIENDfagsMogged by Hometown Butcher>Secret Boss fagsWonnered if you guessed that it would be Mew Mew, Seething if you thought it was going to be another dogshit Spamton clone>Toriel haters with their cuck projectionsBTFO'd>Fun haversNonstop winning
>>742689993anon did you forget that her idea of the prophecy comes crashing down after the titanshe even outright calls it stupid and that she isn't going to let whatever the end is happenthen in chapter for she's all gung ho about everything again
>>742689790She's outright stated she'd want the adventure to keep going forever, but it's handled so badly. Literally a few hours before the Festival, she saw the end of the Prophecy, fought a Titan and lost her respect for the only person in Hometown that she always had respect for. A few hours later she's acting like a giddy schoolgirl over her date without even a single comment from Ralsei, Kris, Lancer or the Queen that she needs to cope in a healthier way.It's similar to Ralsei's arc in this chapter, where it was pretty obvious he was struggling with what to tell his friends and how to cope with the Prophecy coming true, but his dislike of Flowery is so instant and out of nowhere it feels OOC, even though there's plenty of good reasons for him to clash with Flowery on a philosophical level. I can see what the chapter is *trying* to do, but it doesn't do it very well.
>>742687964Out of your five published chapters, three have been filler. With only two left to go. How slow must it be for you to criticise it?
>>742689239The knight being a shadow abomination made from a dead person's shattered dreams can't be ruled out. Ghost in the machine. If deltarune parallels undertale, I suspect we may very well not know the true nature of the knight until 7B and it will be something deeply upsetting. Or at least attempt to be since I'm just thinking of how we don't really learn flowey's origin story from their perspective except at the end of a genocide run. 7B maybe is a depressing end world encounter with the fallen star or such. Hard to say.
All the "nothing happened in Chapter 5!!!"fags are making me realize how much actually happened in Chapter 5. I was a bit lukewarm on the chapter when I first played it, but I'm coming around to it more and more with distance.
Susie is your Jedi waifuNoelle is the Sith waifu
>>742689987>call to adventurehappened>meeting a mentorchapter 4 with susie and old man>crossing the thresholdentering the bunker or whatever the end game will be
why make a bunch of teaser and hype content for a chapter where literally nothing happens
>>742690051>it doesn't make senseIt all makes sense.Not from our point of view, because Kris does shit without us.
>>742690087Because you don't know better so go write your own story if it bugs you
>>742690064I feel the exact same way. It's strange.
>>742689350>Alright, anons. Tell me how you'd improve Chapter 5 and what would change. In detail, please.One: Maddie needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine. Two: Whenever Maddie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Maddie?"
>>742689605UNDERTALE had CAT GIRLS??????
imagine how fucking pissed this place would be after hotland came out if undertale came out in chapters>wacky comedy again after the relative seriousness of waterfall>no lore revelations>only new genocide boss is a joke>homosexuals
>>742689596Kris can't be one of the original heroes due to the Vessel existing.
>>742690039Having dark Fountains be made spontaneously right in front of your face to force the prophecy while you can't do anything about it isn't fun. Being forced to spate every boss in the chapter isn't fun either. Having the shelter code almost get destroyed, making natural game progress impossible, that is not fun.
>>742690087A ton happened if you realize that the entire game revolves around the romance plot and the cucking. That is why there is so many live a live and bahamut lagoon references in this and past chapters.
>>742690017Deltarune is nothing like Death Note. Death Note had the cat and mouse game of Light and L as it's focal point. Deltarune is just vague bullshit meant purely to make people speculate about every element of the narrative because Toby is too cowardly to actually tell a story.
>>742690120Only in the Switch versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXONIHQ_4KQ
>>742690087why did toby put on this big show about how he couldn't show anything more about ch5 because of spoilers after the winter newsletter when it was just a filler chapter?
>>742690063>Normal route>Knights dies fighting titans or some eldritch entity after Susie/Noelle fuck everything up without their identity ever coming up>You only learn about who the knight is if you do side Bthe seethe would be legendary
How do we tell normies that Suselle aint happening?
>>742690087In all fairness the biggest tease for this chapter was the ARG for the thing that actually did end up being big
>>742690087to stretch things out for as long as possible and make youtubers make theory videos as free engagement and marketing when the ending revelation is going to be something you can explain in a sentence or two.
>>742689969Chapter 5 was a "fun chapter" because all of the fallout will happen later. This chapter has>Getting ready for a date>Third wheeling on a date>Funny festival antics/sappy lesbian dialog depending on your choices>Chapter 1 nostalgia>Six brand new joke characters>A whole series of dedicated scenes where you can get funny joke dialog between the joke characters>A secret boss that is lampshaded and played for laughs before the fight even startsThe actual "serious" things that happen this chapter are Flowery dying and Asgore getting kicked out of the plot and they happen right at the end. Any fallout with Noelle is next chapter stuff
It feels like the entirety of this chapter was just people grin and bearing as Toby REALLY wants to appeal to the mentally ill part of the fanbase by shoving wokeslop in your face the entire chapter.
They thing that drives me insane is all the Toby cocksuckers have extremely visible Tumblr accent. You can HEAR it in the way they type.
>>742690039>Gaster not really present>Not really breakdancing eitherBased.People seem to violently misunderstand the point of Kris' dark worlds. They're literally deflecting escapism nonsense (that so far outside of Weird Route have had no real consequences for their loved ones.)So why not defuse everything that happened at the Festival that the kid is having trouble processing by going on more funny adventures like before. The big shift will happen when his creation of one leads to a real major incident (likely with Noelle to make a rift between him and Susie).
>>742690126she can be if you're second hero kris pilledthe actual prophecy does not call for a monster, only ralsei's abridged version does
>>742690169I don't think we have to say anything.It looks like shit'll get tragic soon.
>>742690087>Nothing happened>We gain insight on who is the Knight(Noelle) and who will die(Susie)
>>742690142Don't shove that into a fantasy adventure game, I'm not interested in that, purge it or I will.
>>742690198I can smell the /v/ in you. You think this is a good thing, but it's not.
Deltarune is written almost exactly like a netflix show or a marvel movie
A chess board has 8 columns. What happens when a pawn reaches all the way to the enemy's side again?
>>742687964Kindly fuck off already. People absolutely HATE theory-baiting games, and Chapter 5 have done exactly that, posing more and more questions and zero actual answers. Chapter 5 is like a Hello Neighbor or FNAF, vagueposting on top of vagueposting, without actual substance. Sure, theorists would love that, but actual players want ANSWERS, not questions.On top on that, nothing actually happened in Chapter 5. Every chapter before that ended on a shocking reveal or similar stuff. Take note that "shocking reveal" does not equal "lore". There was plenty of background lore in Chapter 5 already, but there's zero plot progression or shocking stuff. Chapter 5 was great, but it fizzled out without actual BANG at the end.
Remember to plant your dangerous labeled seeds on the next chapter.
>>742687378im still waiting for undertale hard mode so there's nothing toby fox can do to dissapoint me more than he already has
>>742690236One day, sooner then you realize, you and your kind will be rounded up and put to death in camps.
>>742690105>there is a coherent plot, it's just happening off-screen and not being shown to the audienceYou realize that doesn't make it better right
>>742690276You know its never coming.
>>742690169>Shitposters and Suselle fags unironically think that Noelle is going to be fine with the idea of playing make believe while her dad is dyingIts going to explode so hard I don't think toby will even need to code in a 4 people party system*that* bad of a meltdown.
>>742690264That shit's foreboding as fuck, what's so important about the seeds?
>>742690284>immediately seethes and posts impotent fantasiesI was right. Unironically, touch grass.
>>742690276Can I have your Shadow Crystal when you inevitably give up
>>742690258But why get promoted to a knight?
>>742689856This is basically it, the plot "advanced" in the literal sense that stuff that is important kept happening but there is literally nothing new that we learned.>oh no the stakes are higher>oh no we're closer to the shelterAnd so on And so on. It's the bare minimum of the story waddling towards its end.
>>742690258It turns into angel and murders the Prince of the castle town
>>742690313seed packets with warning labels means they're toxicso kris is either going to keep them as an easy 'time to finally kill myself' option or poison someone
>>742690313Kris will poison either Susie or Noelle.
>>742690167Going by flowey, the Normal route gave the identity but not the context and what led them to become what they became IIRC?
>>742690258>you become a queendamn yo this is a tranny game
>>742690124It's almost like Toby's writing doesn't work when it's stretched out for 8 fucking years.
>>742690190That and Toby's latent weeb seethe that he's forever a dirty gaijin deep down, willing to compromise his vision just to remind you that he drank with ZUN so that he feels just a little more Japanese
>>742690312I cant imagine we would suddenly switch Ralsei for Noelle anyway, so i think Noelle will fuck something up pretty early after introduction to the dark world
can someone tell me what happened to the sing projects that got posted a couple days agoare they still going
>>742690340it's really telling that ch5 ended the exact same way as ch3 did, the only meaningful difference is that susie now has a single shelter codewhich means she either has to get 2 in ch6 or the actual shelter dark world is going to be shunted to the second half of ch7
>>742690395i'd switch ralsei for noelle in a heartbeat
>>742690417Shelter just being the boss enemy after some cutscenes would be annoyingEven if I know undertale did that
So will Sans actually stay doing nothing despite him indirecting creating Deltarune back in Undertale
>>742690430It'd be more interesting if Susie got switched out, she's already had enough spotlight
Anyone have that comic where Noelle reads your mind
>>742690480He's going to start selling red herrings
>>742690371It makes sense to poison Noelle. You can perfectly see she's insane and obsessed with the lake.She's up to something.
haha
>>742690417I thought you only needed any 1 of those codes to get into the shelter.But honestly you're right, Asgore being kidnapped is "something happening" to brainlets but from a lore perspective, the stakes were already basically maxed when people started being kidnapped, nothing is gonna change that Kris's dad is also kidnapped because it won't change how he or anyone else acts or thinks about the situation at al.
>>742690308of course>>742690319of course
>>742690508there are several comics like that
>>742690486imagine if kris actually crashes at noelle's place to completely throw off suselle to keep her away from castle townthe cuck becomes the chuck
>>742690371I dunno, its dangerous but I can see kris being that drastic>Poison her just enough that she can't be in adventures but not enough that she's in serious dangerWould be a good way of cockblocking susie from being retarded
>>742690480he did almost nothing in undertale and he seems pretty much the same guyI expect he won't even go that far this time
It's probably never going to happen but I wish Toby would go full despair kino like in Yoko Taro games.Furiae isn't too different from Noelle when you think about it her goddess/angel theme, repressed true feelings, wanting to break free from their roles, being psychotic bitchesFuriaes theme is called Growing wings with her reminiscing of the past and wanting to grow wings to fly away (and fuck her brother)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0RZeIfT4Y
>>742690548iirc ch3 made it pretty clear that it had three entry fields with once code eachno point having three separate locks on a door if you only need one to open it
>>742690371I can see some awful shit like that happening, what with chapter 6 being the chapter where shit hits the fan.
>>742690380Falling Star is a name that sounds like the thing you'd find in 7B outside where you're supposed to be so I'm wondering if that'll be a part of it. But it's not in a mandatory cutscene so it may just be a seed of something that may never sprout.
>>742690486Yeah, into the cuckshed
>>742690480Got too popular and is now permanently a gag character
>>742690508She saw the intestine thoughtsShe saw the intestine thoughts
I would just have it so you can get the shelter codes on your own merits, like a good adventure gameInstead of having these layers of bullshit trying to argue how you technically accomplished something by getting the code by accident and losing it if not for sus ex machinaSeriously, does Toby not know how an adventure is supposed to workThis isn't fucking death note, don't sabotage the quest right in front of my nose or I won't be interested in it anymore
>>742690313Kris is going to kill herself.
>>742690610YOUR OPINION IS SHIT TOBY
>>742690653That would require him to design a good mystery game.
>>742690526what chapter ?
>>742690692I do t even want a mystery want an adventure game, the Legend of Delta Rune is what I paid for, ch5 is not the Legend of Delta rune
>>742690664What is the Funky Town of Delta Rune? What if there is more than one Funky Town?
>>742690692deltarune has a lot of elements for a good mystery but toby seems to have gone to the abrams school of mystery box writing
>>742688459I honestly could not believe it when it time skipped to the end of the day after walking around doing nothing interesting or important for 10 minutes. Fucking inexcusable. No follow up to the church being trashed. No follow up to the sans toriel thing. No asgore interactions with anyone in the light world. Unbelievable. No queen and king parade which they make out to be a big thing?
>>742690653The whole "Kris works against you" think being more gameplay would be nice. Yeah they fuck you in dialogue but they accidentally did some ludo in ch 5 with it.I just really liked how you can cut hanging notes asgore had and your other party members then read them. Kris can't stop them from doing that. I now know there is a chance the Kris has been associating with the knight long before the whole prophecy loop.When it's just to cockblock info with no method to outplay Kris it's less interesting imo.
>>742690738ch4, but it requires you to no have onion
>>742688459>vast garden charred in an inferno of jealousy>ralsei shoots fire for 1 second doing nothing at the end of the chapter
>>742690312>*that* bad of a meltdown.my guess is noelle just fully genocides the castle town with the exception of king who is trapped in the basement, and mr. society who's currently making a ranch in '??????'
>>742690758we do get a followup at the church, alvin says he was pretty upset about it but got distracted by the note susie left, and doesn't think that whoever left that could've trashed the churchso susie's off the hook
>>742690772Working with Kris and syncing to their wants is a huge ask when they don't do shit to give that.And it also is advice that can crash you into the weird route.Hell the whole new mew thing is taunting you for not noticing Kris dreamed of being with Noelle with its crystal.But if you do the WR it is supposedly a worse ending than what NR has.It's like they want people to gamble on the WR.
>>742690756>but toby seems to have gone to the abrams school of mystery box writingToby knows about david lynch, he has good influence.
>>742690598I don't know, I think the lake is already a more chilling moment than anything in Drakengard, though I do like Drakengard a lot as well. I don't think Deltarune is ever going to go as edgy or outlandish as Drakengard does in places, but I think it'll express the emotions of what it does, including the despair, more prominently. I haven't played Drakengard in a while but I was thinking of it a bit after Chapter 5 because, if I remember correctly, isn't the path to the endings past A in Drakengard reached by going back to older chapters and having a new path opened from some of them that wasn't available the first time through? I seem to remember there not being any real logic for why getting Ending A would let you branch off at a certain point in the story to go down the route to Ending B, but I wonder if Deltarune will do the same in a more diegetic way. I don't think Deltarune will do this, but something else that's interesting about Drakengard's endings is that the first one you get is the least fucked up, and then by pursuing the additional ones you see darker and darker paths. That's something I wouldn't mind Deltarune doing, where the normal ending is the 'good ending' but the endings you get if you dig deeper are darker but also richer in what they tell you about the greater narrative and world.
>>742690742It's your town...Your town isn't real...
>>742690828it should be pointed out that gerson was talking about lord of the hammer, which was not 1:1 with the prophecyhis version of ch2 and ch3 also don't line up very well the real lie was asgore's panel, which was just straight up misinformation
>>742690889Bitch better hold off on her crashout until I get shit handled with seam And also this means they punish you for recruiting loool.
>>742690872why's gaster always associated with evil in this community?
>>742690329>a Knight can move unhindered over both friendly AND enemy pieces>a Knight can be moved on the FIRST TURN>every move a Knight makes causes them to swap between LIGHT tiles and DARK tilesWHAT DOES IT MEAN
>Asgore kidnappedChanges nothing.>RudyBait and switch.>Shelter codeChanges nothing.>Romance dramaJust repeating what was already said in 3&4, still no consequences.
>>742690879more like twin yiiks
>>742690919He's a pirate. Pirates are evil
>>742690313He's going to pull a Chara to techincally fulfill the heroic sacrifice part of the prophecy.
>>742690756Toby started off with an ending and worked backwards. That's the opposite of the Abrams School.
>>742690889Cap'n Cakes and the Sun and Moon characters look so out of place with Toby's designs it's crazy. Although at least they're not as bad as Blue I suppose, that nig looks like he came out of a Steven Universe fan comic
>>742690480It took the literal end of the world to make him do anything.
>>742690063>The knight being a shadow abomination made from a dead person's shattered dreams can't be ruled out.The armor is the abomination. Anyone can wear a mask.
>>742691016goat shit
>>742690919Because it's stupid. Knight/FRIEND/Chara etc. aren't with Gaster and probably are a problem for his own determination extraction agenda.
nyonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvMZDB-RpYk
>>742690889I saw the thumbnail and thought it was High Tail Hall
>>742689082Stop asking questions.Just consume product.Clap your hands like a seal and worship Toby as a God he is.
>>742689034The problem with modern writing in a nutshell. They keep doing this mystery box shit, turning the plot into an endless mystery treadmill, except half the mysteries shouldn't even be any, because it's either treated as common knowledge by the characters in the narrative, should be something the protagonist asks about at the earliest opportunity but doesn't for no reason other than plot convenience, or should have been revealed much earlier to give the story a sensible pace. But you know what gets more word of mouth for your hack game? More mystery! More questions! More vague allusions that something may happen at some point! Keep playing and maybe you'll find out!
>>742688640Papyrus has been teased since chapter 1 too lol Toby is a fucking hack. I'm tired of subversions, I'm tired of him changing plans because he hates it when fans figure out his plotlines.
>>742690480He gave you bread and fucked your mom what the fuck more do you want
Releasing chapter 5 with the absolute state of its weird route was quite possibly the shittiest call Fox could've made - and he didI don't care about your mentally ill tumblr teenage lesbianism to play through it the "Normal" way
Can anyone give me a quick recap of what happened in the weird route of all chapters, I forgot what happened
>>742691157The Weird Route was the best part though.
>>742690187What I mean is that everything has this uncomfortable underpinning for anyone who actually pays attention, especially if they did Weird Route first.
>>742691157The Weird Route was necessary because, as many people have already figured out, the road to the "true ending" will be on some variation of the Aborted Weird Route, a middle road.
>>742691157Based And since it's 7B it'll be years until he can wring you through an hour long shame session about how horrible and evil you are for running away from the meat factory's happytown farm and contriving worse than death fates on Kris and Noelle out of spite
Chapter 5 really is the great filteringFinally weeding out all the faggots that don't like this game, as well as filtering the chudcels that can't accept that they're playing a game made by a woke lib for woke libs
susieknighters ww@
>>742688691Expect no plot moving even an inch, a cliffhanger and subsequent exposition dump in chapter 7 where 90% of questions stay unanswered
>>742691168>Chapter 1Nothing>Chapter 2Doe mindbreak, Thorn Ring from Spamton, frozen chicken, Spamton Castle and Spamton solo fight>Chapter 3Nothing unless you count mantle>Chapter 4Doe rape, Kris disassociating and getting creepypasta vision when talking to Susie and Gerson having like two lines about it>Chapter 5Kris gives up on life, Susie is abandoned by everybody and doe rapes back
>>742691184Yeah, the whole 5 minutes of it
>>742689034>WE JUST FINISHED CHAPTER FIVE (5) OUT OF SEVENDon't forget about the New Game+ where we'll be replaying the game with Noelle in the party. Unless every item in the game has a description from her for shits and giggles.
>>742691194Nothing comes of it in Chapter 5
>>742691245Wouldn't she be dragon though
>>742691072fuck yeah high tail hallim gonna go jerk off the tranny fox maid
>>742691234>contriving worse than death fates on Kris and Noelle out of spiteI want worse than death fates for them though, that's why I keep torturing them. It won't have to be contrived at this stage either.
>>742690883> I think the lake is already a more chilling moment than anything in DrakengardNothing is beating that CH13 or hell that one scene where after you hear women and children getting slaughtered you get Arioch just eating dead kids remains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riToAaa9tw4&t=336it's been a while since I played too but yeah, after getting an ending you unlock a new path in an earlier chapter by going back. Now that would be a really interesting thing Toby could do. Thought I kind of doubt it because it would be a lot of new dialogue and sequences but hey, Drakengard did it in a more budgeted way that was really interesting.
>>742689135>>Asgore kidnappedhe hasn't done anything important yet so this is actually the opposite of plot progression>>Susie knows another bunker codewhich is useless on its own and can't even be verified>>Bringing Noelle into the fun ganghasn't happened yet>>Kris brewing with resentment/complicated emotions in the backgroundthat's been obvious since chapter 3
>normal route goers won't be able to change anything>shadow crystal gatherers will have a better chance of doing something to change destiny but will probably still ultimately fail>egg hoarders will get further context>weird routers will change things for the worse
why did Josefumi have the birthmark
>>742691168ch2: (you) show noelle that she can use ice magic and continuously goad her into brute forcing her way through the cyber city with it because it makes her 'stronger', burghley gets snowgrave'd and noelle leaves right afterspamton takes over the mansion and the chapter ends with kris having a solo fight against himnothing really worth mentioning happens in ch3 aside from eram taunting kris about how some part of him enjoyed the previous daych4: we learn that after ch3 kris took berdly to the hospital and spoke with noelle at some point the night prior to reassure her about the previous day's events, noelle takes kris to her room to talk and it ends with (you) forcing the thorn ring on her after kris took it off her the previous night kris then prosneeds to beat the shit out of (you) in a trash cangerson tries to give kris a pep talk in the dark world, kris will attempt to eat the seeds if ralsei offers an apple, and ralsei is worried that the road they're going down will lead to something worse chapter ends with carol calling kris to tell him that noelle is looking forward to going to the festival with him tomorrow
>>742690861>we do get a followup at the church, alvin says he was pretty upset about it but got distracted by the note susie left, and doesn't think that whoever left that could've trashed the church>so susie's off the hookThat's not a followup, that's a blowover. Same with toriel on the couch.
>>742690187After chapter 4 and all the buildup, people were right to expect some narrative payoff in this chapter. Instead all we got is setup for something that will presumably progress the plot next chapter, in another year. As it stands, nobody's plans changed in any way in chapter 5's normal route.
>>742688957Expect this to be subverted. EVERY POPULAR THEORY GETS SUBVERTED OR MADE FUN OF.
>>742691368Surely the Twisted Sword will save us all
>>742690910>asgore's panel, which was just straight up misinformation>Flower man trapped in asylumAsylum can be synonymous with shelter. It was telling us he's going to get sheltered like undyne.
>>742688840so this is what toby meant by chapter 2 being the most ambitious chapter
>>742691319Imagine if it's like just losing is deathBut winning is the worse than death fateAnd it's against something like the Fallen Star (unsure if it's an actual being or simply a metaphor honestly)
>>742691368only those who walk the path of the star will see the happy ending
>>742691417At best you can say>The Pizzapants joke subplot is done>Asgore has been "wrapped up"/shelvedThat's about it
>>742691431MikeKEKS still crying
>>742688380it especially doesn't make sense when she says that she didn't like kris because of how close they were to noelle, when kris and noelle hadn't been close in years
>>742691337These things are dark in nature, but I don't think Drakengard often really drives home the real depravity of it. Even though there's a decline, the atmosphere of the game already feels deranged from the outset in a way that makes its darker moments more amusing for seeing how far they'll go than they are haunting. The dark moments in Deltarune's Weird Route are comparatively a lot more intimate and escalate from humbler and more innocent beginnings that make the descent more felt.I'm not saying any of this to shit on Drakengard because I like both games a lot, but even if the actual content of the plot doesn't push things in as surreal a direction as Drakengard does, I think it already has brought out the emotion of its dark scenes more and will presumably continue to do so.
>>742691461Oh Pain
>>742691396it was acknowledged so i would say it was a followup even if it was a lazy one, makes you wonder what the point of the church being trashed was thoughand iirc you can chew toriel out a bit if you say that she was loud last night, she can't really bs her way out of that one like with the key and the chargerit's not very satisfying but you can at least make her squirm a little bit
Huh. Someone made a mod that replaces Susie with pink for chapter one. Interesting.https://gamebanana.com/mods/691534
>>742688380>she gave zero indication that she had a thing for noelle even as late as ch4really
>>742691376The same reason Gappy saw the mystery man.
>>742689149Except Undertale lasts less than 5 hours and Deltarune is setting up to be up to 40 MINIMUM
>>742689286As they should. If we aren't getting dino or doe pussy then there is no reason for us to be around them.
>>742688380The teas in chapter 2 didn't even imply Susie held Noelle in a higher regard than Kris or even Ralsei lol
>>742691452it was called 'boss3' in the filespeople have been coping by saying it was actually talking about the flower, but then what was the point of ice wolf specifically referring to asgore as the 'flower man'?if both flowery and asgore it should've been flower men, but that would've given away that the flowers would be characters and toby couldn't have a spoiler like that when the chapter was over a year away
I can't wait to get all the shelter codes only to find out they don't work anymore.
>>742691376Because Deltarune is a story about breaking a curse.
>>742691497>he atmosphere of the game already feels deranged from the outset in a way that makes its darker moments more amusing for seeing how far they'll go than they are haunting. The dark moments in Deltarune's Weird Route are comparatively a lot more intimate and escalate from humbler and more innocent beginnings that make the descent more felt.actually yeah I do get what you mean, Drakengard establishes itself already as a dark game from the beginning. Deltrarune has the benefit of getting to tonally whiplash you which makes its darker scenes hit harder
>>742690226You know, Kris being the second hero fits well with my headcanon that the original Deltarune had Kris x Vessel and Suselle as the main ships lol.
>>742691587The teas in chapter 2 are why everyone thought she'd be too friendshippilled to start dating Noelle
>>742691376Deltarune really is bringing up bad memories
>>742691368>>742691337I think the True Weird Route will be almost completely disconnected from the other routes. After all, the goal there for Kris and Noelle is just to leave town.
I had more interest in the Burgerpants subplot than SuselleAnd it's bittersweet that the best one seems to be Bratty coming around on starting to like being around Burgerpants just for being earnest
>>742687378I see threads for this every day and I struggle to understand what makes it so popular. I know people love anything overtly gay today, and the graphics are reminiscent of 16 bit and 8 bit RPGs (but worse), and the music people seem to like — that’s the most understandable to me. But looking from the outside in, the complete package just seems gay as fuck and worse than the actual classics it pulls from. And I’m not sure anyone who grew up playing SNES and PSX and NES RPGs would ever really bother with Undertale or Deltarune to begin with so it’s like my only option is to talk to people who have only played modern slop RPGs and think Expidetion 33 is the greatest game ever made
>>742691376toby forgot
holy fuck, aborted weird route is interesting.
>>742691532if you have evidence, please share it with the classall i can think of is her saying she didn't pick on noelle because she gave her a pencil one (1) time
>>742691653>I know people love anything overtly gay todayThen why are you alone?
>>742691664Best part is that Kris was really going to say the Noelle line but had to throw himself into the water
>>742691587toby almost certainly regrets ever adding the tea to the game, since he made them rot in ch3it also doesn't make much sense when you look at them retroactively with how much more we know about the character's relationships and feelings about each other
>>742691664Everyone and their mother knows this will lead to the True/Golden Ending.Especially since it has a fuckton of variations.
>>742691653It's not impressive that you don't know anything.Go play undertale before you touch deltarune, if you're thinking about it.
>>742691653We don't actually like this wokeshit bro, it's just a joke lmao
>Knight exist at the end of Chapter 4 Normal route>Knight no longer exist at the end of Ch4 WRAre Noellebros really actually about to fuck the Knight?
>>742691695I have a family of my own, I grew up in the 90s. Your post is giving covert virgin btw
>>742691664Thats SOUL being an incel, Kris is still Krusiepilled
>>742691720>Kris has multiple instances where he prevents himself from saying things he doesn't want to>This one is totally different though because...?
>>742691653The love for the game has nothing to do with gay shit, it's probably because the music makes good emotions while playing the game, and to the lesser extent the people are curious how are the mysteries of the story going to be resolved
>>742691493>when kris and noelle hadn't been close in yearsEhh, judging by their interactions, I'd say it was more a case of push-and-pull from both ends. Both clearly deeply care for one another, even beyond "just" love, and keep reaching out and pulling back, especially Kris.Notice that when Noelle thinks he's going for her she gets so manic from joy people draw her as going insane.
>>742691521People expected something to happen, not a line of dialogue to say "this was irrelevant"
>>742691621i think the 'original' timeline was (you)vessel/ kris/ ralsei/ noelle, with kris and noelle being the big couple i guess there would be nothing preventing (you) from having a romance with anyone but noelle, but that's beside the point whatever happened was so bad that kris decided that she would need to always make sure that she knew what (you) were doing so (you) didn't fuck something upthis of course relies on time travel nonsense, which i am unsure should be in the game at all
>>742691767Yeah I recognize that but it's interesting how these are the souls' choices.
>>742691773So the story is what’s got people hooked
The plot progressed so much in this chapter. Jockington grew a beard. So much plot has progressed.
>>742691770we know kris can prevent himself from speaking if he wants tohere he actually was starting to say it before he threw himself inall susie caught was 'don't' though
Is the fallen star even a thing that'll ever be relevant?Or is it just fluff Like it sounds like the kinda thing that might be encountered at the endgame of an alt. Route or just never at all
>>742688318He did somewhat acknowledge Ralsei at the fountain of you talk to himHe says he doesn't look like a monster upon closer inspection, which is a nothingburger observation since Ralsei is confirmed to be a special darkner
>>742691664We really want a piece of that doe
>>742691767>telling someone to not get between you and your childhood crush is somehow an incel moveRetard faggot logic.
>>742691839He's never done it by just not saying it though, it's always something else. This is no different than any other time
ME LIKE!!!!
>>742691845I imagine it'll relate to the Knight in some way, given they're of the Star type, have star attacks and they're the one handing out Shadow Crystals.
>>742691817I don't know, I don't personally feel like the story is progressing too much especially in the last chapter, but I still played it when it came out and will probably do the same when chapter 6 releases. I'd say it's the music, but I'm not sure
>>742691884So it being at the end of 7B... yeah don't win against it
KRISELLE ROUTE CONFIRMED
Can we take a moment to talk about how good TV WORLD is? Probably one of my favorite tracks in the entire OST.
>>742691879GUY LIIIKE
>>742691930That's the ending to the Weird Route.I actually wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
>>742690664
>>742691930Absolutely haunting crystal to put in the gameLike it's taunting you for not doing the WR
I'm still furious, FURIOUS, that the DINO bitch COCKBLOCKED me and Kris! The weird route is completely justified.
>>742691872She's officially a girlfriend of your childhood crush and Noelle doesn't see you openly as anything other than old friend. You are being an incel Chud acting like that. If Kris felt resentment toward Susie, he would listen to Soul telling him to ditch Susie at the end of chapter 5, but you still end up stuffed into the baloon for happy Kris to simp over Susan
>>742689792>>742690086im not saying this in defense of toby, but the hero's journey is NOT a holy grail of storytelling, or even for telling stories about "farmer boy becomes a hero" in the first place.this is what gerson was talking about with "a path so blue its all you can see"if you make a story that just follows a template like this its going to be generic and bland, you need to go over the linesfor example trials and growth should be happening all throughout the story. not just in the first half.or "crossing the threshold into the unknown", your hero could be a noble boy that just knows the entire world due to his studies and his call to adventure is wanting to see that world first hand, where he THEN gets wrapped up in whatever the plot is. (while never going into the unknown, simply solving the problem within the known stage)and "gets gift", what the fuck is that even supposed to mean? is the whole story just to get a mcguffin? is it some gifted power? getting a gift is usually earlier in the story. this point would make more sense as "fulfills call to adventure"and atonement??? when was this grave sin set up?????thinking about it there are probably less stories about following a hero's journey that follow this chart than there are that dont.hell in deltarune's case the chart is currently>crossing threshold (entering dark world)>call to adventure (ralsei's story)>helper (ralsei joining kris)>finally changes (end of CH1, susie)>returns changed (susie leaving CH1's dark world)>revelation (end of CH2, roaring explanation)>meeting a mentor (CH4, gerson)>gets gift (CH4, from jackenstein)>revelation 2 (CH4's final prophecy)>gets gift 2 (CH5, from aqua)>helper 2 (set up for CH6, noelle)>trials and growth are sprinkled throughout
>>742691968you know kris flirts with EVERYONE, right anon?
>>742691940Yeah it's pretty fuckin' funky.
>>742691564What about friendship?
>>742691968That's probably the single most important point in CH5 where the player is reminded that Susie is supposed to be a selfish bitch.
>>742692001I know I make him do it
Asgore's fucking worthless vague posting genuinely made me lose interest There are only 2 fucking chapters left
>>742692001This one was serious!
>>742692001I'd atleast understand if Toby made it so there was alternate dialogue if you didn't flirt with any enemy except her. Like attacking them and allat. But even in that case, she's still a big FAT LIAR!!!
>>742691985Oh don't get me wrong, the Hero's Journey is just a tool you *can* use. I don't think using well-established rules to write is a bad thing or even makes something generic and bland, cause there's plenty you can still do with it. The problem is, if Deltarune wants to do something different or mess with expectations, that's absolutely fucking fine, but chapter 5 is still a goddamn mess. It rushes through the Light World for no reason, slows down the narrative for no reason and it barely answers anything for no reason.
>>742691930Ferris rides and most festival being split into Krusie and Kriselle confirm Kriselle route already. We don't really need any Cheese or crystal theories to confirm it. If anything its Kralseifags who need more than the bath scene to confirm that Ralsei can become a real boy and not look like an incest ship
>>742691959kek
>>742691810I think Kris just got convinced by the Knight to become a Vessel for the Soul. It's clear that the Knight needs (You) for it's plans, and it's much better if the Soul doesn't try to just rip the Shelter's door open with Susie when the plan still isn't done.
>Implying there will ever be consequences for Mary Susie
Friendship chads still winning
People make such retarded theories I'm not sure if they are serious or just saying shit for the sake of itYou are so out of touch with common sense, basic writing sensibilities, logic, rigour, and taste that it's just comical
>>742692001I gotta win!
Am I the only person who didn't find Chapter 5's Weird Route scary or creepy at all? Chapter 4 WR was worse
>>742692059It sounds like a very tired talking point for everyone, so of course he'd be all "y'know, the incident..."
>>742691968Susie literally saved Maddie from sex offender registry. Unless you meant Kerdly, then you're just a faggot.
>>742692109>You are so out of touch with common sense, basic writing sensibilities, logic, rigour, and taste that it's just comical>he says in a Deltarune thread
>>742692059>There are only 2 fucking chapters left>Chapter 6 Side A (Normal Route)>Chapter 6 Side B (Aborted Weird Route)>Chapter 7 Side A (Normal Route)>Chapter 7 Side B (Weird Route)>???Aborted Weird Route???>New Game+ (Noelle in the Party)
>>742691940TV World is my favourite area theme
Chapter 7 Side B will let the Player larp as Giygas.
>>742692108weak bait, Kris wanting canon romance is already canon
>>742692140>>>>>
>>742692132they have abolished age of consent in hometown
We're not going to know who the knight is until chapter 7.
>>742691875NTA but I don't get your point...?Kris mumbles what he doesn't want to say and is kind of forced to, intonation also changes when he's more than happy when the Soul says chooses something he does want to say In this instance, he was going to say normally before he is forced to throw himself off
>Undertale's entire story is told in the span of 8 hours>Retards here for some reason genuinely think Toby can't wrap up this story in 2 chapters
Kris still make me seethe. When the fuck are we going to beat him up?
>>742691664Don't count on it lasting past this chapter.Toby thinks you are gross.
THERE ARE 3 SAVESLOTS YOU FUCKING RETARDS
>>742691968We can try again with Mew and Maddie after we get our vessel back trust bro.
>>742692108I wouldn't count out the romance entirely.There seems to be some signs of Kris having an opinion on Susie and Noelle..
>>742692205You could always run into bullets buddy
>>742692132all kris has to do is say>im mature enough by human standards to date maddieand all the monsters would turn a blind eye.
>>742692140this is assuming a lotfor all we know chapter 7 side B is a fucking cutscene + dialogue and the aborted weird route just leads to flavor text and some different details in the ending
>>742689350Improving chapter 5 in a substantial way would require past chapters changing and the release schedule overhauled.However I would definitely rework the festival to not be third wheel city, I feel like it's intentional by Toby to be that, but I feel like it's not a good concept inherently from the perspective of a player (I can see one way this ends up being interesting, and I doubt Toby will do thatThe dark world stuff was fine for the most part, but as other people said, more dojo fights, better last egg room since it reveals almost nothing and blue should either be cuter/a girl or be freakishly masculine to the point it's parody
>>742692230That's not enough
>>742692196My point is that this scene is no different from the rest. He stopped himself from saying it, just in a different way
>>742691975A person can care about someone's feelings and still experience resentment for them. Kris very clearly resents Susie and Noelle's relationship but he doesn't want to say it to them, because he knows it would hurt Susie and (probably) Noelle. There is also the added layer of Kris very clearly trying to protect others away from him, such as Noelle. It also is not 'incel chud' behaviour to express your discontent with your best friend's budding relationship with your childhood friend. This is literally day one of that relationship. If there was ever a time to speak up it would be then and there. The alternative would be living with regrets. Kris choosing not to express his issues with them together is not healthy. It is self-destructive.And to clarify it doesn't matter if the issue is "Kris likes Susie", "Kris likes Noelle", "Kris likes them both" or even "Kris just doesn't want his friends together." What matters is that he clearly doesn't like them together and he is refusing to express it for their sake, not his own. That's damaging to their friendship. Because he isn't communicating the tension he has with them.
>>742692132/ss/ is based, actually.
>>742692217Side A = Normal routeSide B = Weird RouteSide C = Twisted Sword True Route
>>742692236The Aborted Weird Route has too many variations and introduces too many potential changes, plus the Late Aborted Weird Route has both the Weird Route flag still on AND gets a unique one that's applied retroactively.
>>742692158Together foreverEternity awaits Everyone else is forgotten
>>742687680In his defense the secret boss did have a unique and memorable theme. Haven't been able to get it off my brain since the damn chapter released.
>>742692201>Undertale's entire storyundertale left an absolute fuck ton of unanswered questions in the plot and the potential of 'hard mode' to answer those questions, which we never got.you can't give toby fox the benefit of the doubt when he hasn't finished his game from 11 years ago.
>>742692331(Honestly kiddy gloves compared to the kinda shit I recall from Look Outside's bad endings)
>>742692132>>742692285seconding that /ss/ is cool.stop bringing irl into shit.
twisted sword route is a larp it's just an item you get it won't do anything special
>GUYS THERE ARE 3 ROUTESaborted weird route could end mid chapter 6 for all we know
>>742692285>pink and yellow GET OUT OF MY HEAD
>>742692385I just am hoping the pure crystal has a final secret boss to it
how much of a kino it would be if kris suffers his fate?
>>742692385>a sword you get from fusing TWO KEY ITEMS>not specialanon come on.
>>742692312People are moronsAborted weirds are ABORTEDNothing happens after them because things are fixedThe only exception that might apply is the chapter 5 aborted route because it happens after the final "no going back" sounding chime in chapter 4 and also features after 30 minutes or so of actually changed gameplayIt also aborts rather ominouslyIt's 10x more likely that this will be the "third route" if such a thing exists than it is for Toby to require us to get the thornring in chapter 2 Which I might add changes nothing besides giving you the ring and would necessitate replaying most of the game. Which is like 20+ hours or so
>>742692201>Undertale's entire story is told in the span of 8 hoursExcept it isn't. A bunch of shit remains unexplained and a bunch of shit you can only know by checking newsletters and blogs.
>>742692232Books about humans would contradict him through age of consent and Kris being 15
>>742692442>A bunch of shit remains unexplainedsuch as?
>>742692460Except said books would point out that 15 is legal in most of the world.
>>742692418I think soThe game actually lets you get the shadow crystals for free on your save if you've beaten them before and are fairly in your phase with clear hints. It's much more likely that they will have real payoff than the eggs. Seam also wants to fight someone "stronger". So the game is kinda setting up a fight with him
>>742692385I don't care that Asgore didn't dump the details of what happened to Dess or that Friend was irrelevant or whatever else people are complaining about with Chapter 5, but this would actually be the most hacky and unforgivable thing Toby could do. He knows well that this is not the kind of game where just having a really good item is something to get excited over so if the result of the mystery that's been hanging over the game for years that involves the combining of two precious items that can only be attained by hopping between routes and, presumably, doing every secret boss in the game, is all just that you do 5 extra attack damage, that would be complete shit.I don't think that is what's going to happen because I think Toby knows better than to tease you with an item like that and give it the nebulous 'TranceDown' description just for it to be a good item, but if he did, that would be the most disappointing thing he could possibly do.
there are real people who believe ur gonna see gaster on screen and fight FRIEND as a boss and that kris and noelle fuse attack on titan style into a time travelling knight. they can vote in elections like you and me
>>742692385>tease uberstrong item obrtained by fusing the death rape route item and some kind of super version of the secret boss item>it does nothingToby wouldn't be THIS MUCH of an asshole. Would he?
>>742692431Toby can do better.
I mean it's like flowey psychologically was tortured beyond comprehensionTo the point Asriel was just fine with being allowed to perish at the end.
>>742692385Why would a sword that has a unique effect requiring two important items, one of which comes from an alternate route do NOTHING
>>742688640>>742688903>>742688957Asriel is dead. His ashes were buried underneath a big tree just outside of the police tape. Ralsei is the tree and he fused with the ashes.
>>742692431What happened to him ?
>>742692569To subvert your expectations and spite theorycrafters for daring to care.
>>742692492legal if he had sex with Susie or Noelle, not an adult femcel who was confirmed no longer attending school in the middle of the battle. That goes under grooming act.
>Noncanon fanart, schizo theories, porn addict fantasies, and misinterpreting dialogue/cutscenes
>>742692221Be real, the vessel would be just the sameDeltarunes game design makes it impossible to be anything of actualy valueToby hates self-inserting,hates romance options, hates attacking enemies, and hates actual adventures.
>>742692595that goes under the "nice" act
>>742692108We did alright
>>742692595ERM AKTUALLY the body has a mind of its own and the age is unclear, so she's not a pedoMr officer its my body lusting after this teenager its all good
>>742692583His world gets fucked up and then he spends some time in the fixed universe that was made to replace it but he ends up having to go back to his own world. He was optimistic about rebuilding it though.
>>742692441Yeah, I mostly mean the Late Aborted Weird Route. It's also when the unique flag shows up.
>>742692383That's actually /ll/ Kris though.
>>742692586>implyingToby doesn't react to us, he doesn't read the forums.All of the music is ten years old, this story has been a long time coming.
The Weird Route doesn't seem to map to the the secret gameboard at all. It's ass backwards. You already have the sword before the ice magic level.
>>742687378I've been playing fan games just to fix the itch. Been playing through Outertale, it's pretty fun
>>742692647oh, pardon me.
honestly serious sam is better than chapter 5 nothing really happened and the new characters are awful except for yellow and blue
>>742692586The only things in the game that are reactive to the audience are jokes, and I don't think all those jokes should be there, but you're a retard with a victim complex if you actually think that Toby is going to deliberately ruin his dream game just to annoy you.
>>742692614I know, anon. I just want to dream of a better future...
>>742692678You should play chapter 5, it might shatter this fantastical view you hold.
>dude every secret boss has to be literally spamton again>dude stories need to escalate continously and can never have a momentary release of tension>set-up isnt development>character development isnt development>dude where is gaster friend eram egg sans egg shadow crystal creepypasta man>why does my COMEDY GAME have a comedic boss in the light hearted chapter>why didnt kris chara genocide all of hometown in chapter 1>every single dialogue option is actually a different route and you need to select all of these options to unlock the gaster sexscene on the third timeloop firegrave routeI've fucking had it with you retardsIf Toby listened to his autistic fanbase this game would be absolute fucking trashEverything you say is dumb, LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Every suggestion, every idea, every theoryKill theoryniggers, kill shippingniggers, kill every redditor, 4cuck, tumblerrite, playthroughwatcher, secondary - all of you need to dieFucking hell. There is zero point in browsing these threads outside of release day to see if you missed anything. There is a negative amount of worthwhile discussion to have.I'm so fucking glad Toby made Mike. Hopefully he'll make something even better that will push you over the edge
My big problem with Deltarune is that even if it is a story about the message and not about the lore or whatever, Undertale put all its cards down from the start. Don't kill anyone, period. Any choice you make is informed from that initial warning. DR is so nebulous about what it's actually trying to say, or what the truth of the plot even is, we really have no idea what to expect, what our choices are doing or what the """routes""" are or if they're even real.
>>742692727>if you actually think that Toby is going to deliberately ruin his dream game just to annoy you.No one "thinks" that.It's an observable fact that he's doing so.
>>742692756I agree but MewMew was too comedic for a Shadow Crystal boss.
>>742692741You're really bad at trying to convince people you're right.
>>742692756Get a glue
>>742692691I just don't see it going the way it does at allWR maps more to the spamton neo fight It's not surprising people keep thinking it's a different route like it is just way too contrived and hometown is fucked by the roaring and the angel not being there for it anyways.
>>742692756
>>742692786she makes me hard so I don't care. Besides she has a tragic component too.
>finally get new item synths>one of them is literally just making one the most expensive piece of armour in the game objectively worseWhy would you do this to me, Toby?
>>742692815Are the Jews in Castle Town with us right now
>>742692796I've no use trying to convince a 10 year old who formed a parasocial relationship with toby of anything. You either have a functioning brain and you see it, or you don't and you can't.
>>742692832Is the Gold Widow even worth it beyond the epic Muffet reference?
>fnaf world is part of deltarune confirmed
>>742692872anon you have no idea what you're talking about, I think the other guy's right about you having a victim complex.
I played undertale because it was funnyI enjoy deltarune because it is funnyAll this lore stuff is generally lame as hell
>>742692883It's good armor
>>742692825She does but it isn't emphasized enough. I'm not saying every secret boss should be Spamton, but Spamton did do a much better job of balancing the comedy with his more layered side. I really like MewMew's shop and was taken in by it when I first saw it, but I felt like I didn't see that part of her at all in her fight or the surrounding dialogue, and even going back to her shop afterwards I didn't feel like it was the same character. Her whole character didn't need to be some deeply melancholic thing, but more of a throughline between the tone you get in her shop and the tone of the fight would have been appreciated, along with some more presence in general.
>>742692883What else am I gonna do with all that money?
I find it strange they call ch 2 the most ambitious despite ch 3 coming off as more elaborate And fighting a titan inch 4 showed an issue with the setupThe format kinda sucks ass for a titan enemy without doing some OFF Enoch type perspective shifts
>>742692914-90% money from battles
>>742692898Case in point.
>>742692756I just want the Legend of Delta Rune.I got the game because I saw the prophecy cutscene and the king fight on YouTube and I wanted to play a game like that.The least you can do was tell that story, but Robert couldn't even do that.
>>742689603>force toby to rewrite whatever the guest writers didIs there any proof of this?I've been in the chapter 5 threads since its release and I haven't seen anything concrete about this. If there were names I'd think they'd be paraded across the board as the boogeymen who ruined Deltarune.
>>7426928835 DEF and +1 ATK&MAG is pretty neat. Not a "I NEED THIS" sort of gear but you get a lot of money anyway
>>742690259>Chapter 5 was greatThis is where your post fizzled out
>>742692948Do you use money for anything other than consumables by that point?All the armor you can buy from the shop you find in multiple copies throughout a chapter.
>>742692943>without doing some OFF Enoch type perspective shiftsWhat are you even trying to say? The enoch fight isn't more imposing than the titanYou literally fight the titan atop it and have to climb up to even reach the headThat conveys a much grander scale than seeing Enoch big mug in the background
>>742692948Goldwidow is only -10%, the one that replaces it is -90% for one extra defense making it worthless. It's literally a netskie hat with the money debuff and it costs $10000 to get
>>742692982They're the fuckers who forced you to watch mandatory suselle cutscenes
>>742692978You are literally getting that game if you just pay attentionYou got it in chapter 4 and it sucked ass
How long will chapter 6 be? Longer than chapter 5?
>>742692982No, people are just making shit up to cope with the fact that they didn't like it. Toby doesn't even allow official localizations in languages he doesn't understand, there's no reason to think anyone but him is responsible for the script.
I had a dream where I played a future chapter and it turned out the loop was real and Carol was actually a Noelle from a previous playthrough who became pregnant with herself.
>>742692995i don't but im counting on something super mega expensive appearing in future chapters instead of them introducing 5th worthless currency
>>742693035I'm not feeling it when the new dark worlds are only there to stall for timeThat's notnhow an adventure is supposed to work
>>742693018this
>>742693039My guess: Shorter than 5 but still long
Suselle slop was only bad in chapter 2 and you can skip the lion share of it by just not viewing the ferris wheel sceneIn chapter 5 there is an actual purpose to it. It's there to show how including Noelle in their adventures is awkward as fuck and how Kris doesnt actually like Suselle and is jealous. You can even work against it by stealing multiple of their scenes at the festival.
>>742692920Eh, she's purposely meant to be a joke on what fans grew to believe of the crystal holders so it's fine to me. And besides I like her "turning off" in the shop, it is in line with Toby never liking spelling it out for the player. You can figure out that she's letting herself be more like her ideal self because she has the mew mew body, and the fight is her relapsing into mad dummy self because you touched a nerve.
what is this "chapter 4 sucked" revisionism it had the coolest dark world, best music, amazing bosses. it's the closest to chapter 1 vibes wise
>>742693035>>742693089It also forced the homoshit into it that I definitely didn't want and the mystery slop that I hated even when I was a kid
>>742693010Bleh I think I just found the last actual fight part a bit weakBut I was fighting the roaring knight in ch 3 a bunch so going from that to the titan felt like a drop in difficulty that yeah I get comes from an intentionally super hard boss to a story mandatory one
>>742693047Bro what
>>742689494>rudy is gonna dieNO FUCKING SHIT YOU MONGOLOID HE'S BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR 10 YEARS NOW>>Susie is dissociating from reality and regressing as a characterTHE WRITING TAKING A NOSEDIVE ISN'T PLOT PROGRESSION YOU ACTUAL FUCKING CRETIN>>Ralsei is revealed to be sandbagging and is starting to care about himself despite not being realWOW JUST LIKE HE HAS FOR THE PAST THREE CHAPTERS HOW NEW AND INTERESTING>>Dark world video game mechanics reinforced as explicitly existing in universeNO FUCKING SHIT??? THAT'S ONE OF THE ENTIRE POINT OF UTDR HOW RETARDED ARE YOU ACTUALLY>Noelle set up to enter the dark world despite Kris best attempts to keep her out of itWOW NOELLE HAS BEEN SETUP TO ENTER THE DARK WORLD HOW EXCITING SURELY THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN BEFOREI'm convinced chapter 5 defenders are actual clinical retards there is no other way you fucks can act this mentally disabled so convincingly
>>742693089Chapter 5 massively set up Susie and Ralsei’s character development, resolved Asgore’s Toriel trauma, and provided more information on what game mechanics are canon (all of them) I feel like you people just want Gaster to randomly show up >>742693139Chapter 1 is the worst chapter
>>742693186hey man take it easy
>>742693106How about we save time by not including the vomit inducing dialogue that I physically could not bring myself to read
>>742693047This is why Noelle looks so inbred
>>742693047nigga...
>>742693139>amazing bosses.Jackenstein is TAKING TOO LONGGerson is a pushoverThe Gerson Statue is a interactive cutsceneDon't even get me started on the Titan
>>742693198>bro the SETUP was MASSIVE the implications are going to be INSANE bro just one more chapter bro the payoff is going to be HUGE i swear>I feel like you people just want Gaster to randomly show upKill yourself genuinely
>>742693139It sucks because the dark world is a long slog carried by a few hype momentsDark worlds are the worst part of DeltaruneThe chapter 3 boards are way better. They had more detail, more humor, more secrets. Walking through the same fucking colored hallway and fighting piss easy enemies isn't particularly interesting. It only works when there is a lot of stuff happening along the way. But there are fewer jokes, the platforming is boring, the music is annoying.It's a necessary loredrop that sets the stakes and lays the groundwork for the story but it isnt actually fun to play
>>742693198I never cared about gaster. I just wanted to fight the knight and his fountain bosses and move on with my life.Game would have been better having a world map where the Fountains are already there for you to take on one by one
>>742693139I don't think Chapter 4, or any chapter, sucks, but I did always think people were overrating it. I think there's a number of things to like about Deltarune and not everybody latches on to the same aspects of it, and for people who value the main narrative and lore a lot Chapter 4 has a lot, but for me a big part of what makes Undertale and Deltarune work are the different routes and the feeling that there are secrets and things you'll miss your first time through. I think Chapter 3 is really good for that with Mantle, the real Knight fight and the secrets in the gacha machine for instance, but Chapter 4 is probably the most linear in the game with a really obvious and kind of underwhelming secret boss and not much there for the Weird Route, even if the doe rape scene is memorable. It's still good though.
>>742689350make it chapter 4
HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
>>742688193>>742688380this really feels like the consequences of taking the better part of a decade to write and put together something that, game engine permitting; really should've been done in 3, 5 years max.
3 > 2 > 5 >=4 >> 1
>>742689494>Susie is dissociating from realityPeople keep saying that but it's just vibes for now. Ralsei sandbagging and the player/character disconnect are openly pointed to several times, the idea of Susie's attitude being unhealthy has not so far. You're telling me that the writing only becomes subtle for this one singular character who is otherwise treated by the narrative like she can do no wrong?
PEOPLE CANT ACTUALLY CONTRADICT THEMSELVES AND CHANGE O ALGO
>>742693047Krisellefags got cucked by Rudy GAWDiday impregnating his own daughter
>>742691845It's about the Shadow Crystals. A star that has fallen is a dream that has been broken. From its bitter tears rises something that looks like glass.
In chapter 4, when you have a choice between "proceed" and "please don't" in the noelle house, how are you speaking without kris
>>742693319Not if they literally stop you from fighting the enemiesFuck that, this is a video game and they are inadequate party members now.
>>742693291>writing becomes subtle>Susie doing the exact same door slamming pose as Asgore lost in his dark fountain obsession after you walk her “home” while sad music playsYou people are not real
>>742693047>someone dreamed of my shitpostLOL
>>742693231you guys have too much time to sit with this game. if it was released all at once the titan fight would be undeniably amazing, it's a classic JRPG moment >>742693256and i'm getting the feeling you guys don't even like RPGs! chapter 1 and 4 are the closest to a traditional uhhh VIDEO GAME yknow the thing we're playing fuck minigame shit RPGs are not supposed to be keys dangling every 2 minutes, they have large areas where you fight enemies and explore without much dialogue. that's a good thing :)
>>742693047>rudy fucked his daughtertoby...
>>742693319>o algo
>>742692678>Toby doesn't react to us, he doesn't read the forums.Can someone explain to me what's the point of this blatant gaslighting pretending toby is this magical creature unblemished by interaction with the fanbase?We are fresh off of a chapter where toby spent some 40% of "jokes" total screaming at various groups of the fandom he hates with all his being between Toriel's behavior being retroactively excused by a second key, Ralsei spending first half hour of the dark world going "We are really doing the hat ralsei thing AGAIN?", the freedom motif being deliberately misplaced, ralsei lampshading how hecking cool it would be if the secret boss had memorable music, making yellow a suicidal faggot cowboy, outright insulting players if they find a secret platform by climbing vines. Most of this shit isn't hidden in the slightest either, it's in your face. What the fuck are you doing pretending this isn't happening? What do you get out of blatantly lying to people who played the same game you did and know how full of shit you are?
>>742693186I don't even know if the people who write Ralsei know who Ralsei is meant to even be lolBut him being distressed in ch 5 after a titan but being stuck in bullshit filler episode adventure makes sense like all this fucking lotus eater shit from flowery while he knows the roaring is like 1-2 days away Ralsei is the only one who seems to get the stakes while Kris motors to prophecy and Susie just doesn't seem to give a shit.The festival vibes all felt off to me since the last church chapter established their religion and showed awareness of the incoming fate in a rather deterministic way that shows an awareness of being stuck in the path laid for them. The festival didn't seem like some final sunset celebration despite this sunset motif being clearly present. No one seems to be mourning or prepping or showing any sign of knowing the prophesied end time is near. I don't expect panic, but I just didn't find the vibe of the festival to be true to the situation ch 4 left things in. I'm not expecting a funeral or cult shit.It had me questioning the actual danger of the roaring since it seemed like everyone was acting like any other day.
>>742693384I like rpgs but deltarune's strength isn't the rpg elements or the combatThe battle system sucksThe act system is largely pointlessMost bullet patterns are too easy and uninterestingMost fights dont have actual mechanicsThere are save points every 2 seconds to the point where you'd have to die on purposeToby fox isn't an rpg veteran. He is funny and people like his characters and worlds, that's it
>>742693139I like chapter 4 a lot, but I like 2 and 3 more.
did I do something wrong or is toby really an asshole? "insert chapter 7 side B" really?
>>742693374Yes. That's not how Toby usually writes. There are no blatantly repeated quotes making it ridiculously obvious that two things are connected. If Castle Town is meant to be a fool's paradise why are we even meant to care for it?
>>742693394Toby obviously is aware of what people are saying about the game but there is nothing about a secret joke or Toriel's apology that comes across that way. The only egregious things done in that vein are the hat thing and the lackadaisical lead up to Pink.
>>742693384Ch4 had the shelter shit that went completely nowhere the moment the actually dark world startedThat dark world nothing more than a stall for time and nothing was actually accomplishing, literally walking in circles until the game says it can go to the next chapter
I'm just saying we better be getting chapter 6 in like janurary, I don't want to be stewing with my disappointment for a year+
I cant believe that moby dox would do a parodyhe has always been sincere and serious to the max
>>742693492Just insert side b. You do know how to do that right?
>>742693047The baby is you...
>>742693492What are you talking about? That's just a good cliffhanger.
>>742693360And the roaring knight is composed of this stuff.Who or whatever the roaring knight isIs, they're composed of broken dreamsHundreds of broken dreams.
I want deltarune to have less jokes, less characters, more grinding and longer hallways and I'm DEAD serious
>>742692383>>742692285EJA EJA
>>742693494Not like it mattersIt's SUSIEtown now, because Toby doesn't view a shit about his customers
>>742693465One can only hope that someone makes a deltarune-like(ugh) that focuses on the RPG part someday.
If you genuinely thought we were going to fight FRIEND and that FRIEND is a character rather than a generic dark world enemy you need to kill yourself
I feel like Chapter 5 did too much to avoid you having regular battles. It's like I got to the recruit quota for each enemy type then never fought them again
>>742693492He means to flip the disc overThe needle of the record player has dropped, the sound that the world now hears will change the nature of all realities, both yours and mine
>>742693547Always bet on Noelle crashout Knight!
>>742693456>No one seems to be mourning or prepping or showing any sign of knowing the prophesied end time is near.The average Joe is not aware that the prophecy is reaching its end, it's just another Festival for most of them.
>>742693529>>742693543>>742693578fuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
>>742693394That does not happen, he is simply not reading what you type.He's working on a game.
>>742693571I think the playtesting is really hurting the game. It's like every 5 minutes has been designed by a board, averaged out into the most surface-level entertaining "moment". Everything has to be a "moment" there cannot be under any circumstances 10 minutes where you're just fighting enemies and exploring
>>742693494>There are no blatantly repeated quotes making it ridiculously obvious that two things are connectedI don’t know what this means you can’t just reject an obvious connection because of meta reasons
>>742693384>yknow the thing we're playing fuck minigame shit RPGs are not supposed to be keys dangling every 2 minutes, they have large areas where you fight enemies and explore without much dialogue. that's a good thing :)It'd be great if Toby Fox understood this and tried to expand upon the base concept of his game instead of doing>remember le epic zelda ?? xd>wow now it's megaman x!!! :DAnd adding gimmicks that are underdevelopped and underutilized to fill the gaping asshole that is the main gameplay system. As a game deltarune is really poor which is incomprehensible, it's basically only a decent and engaging bullet hell when it comes to secret bosses.
>>742693319/qa/ lost
>>742693562Seam's familiars got them all fooled lolSword route had goomba IMAGE FRAUDS summoned by a boss whose colors line up with seam and somehow instead of noticing that they hallucinated a whole ERAM being that never shows up elsewhere Every chapter comes with lots of hallucinated future chapters
>>742693578Toby's real project with Deltarune is making his fictional world real and the real world fictional. Chapter 7's release will herald the end of days. You heard it here first.
>>742693562Kris was going to genocide hometown and kill SansToriel was going to firegrave chapter 3Mike was FriendFriend was going to show up in chapter 5Gaster will give you your vessel at the meat factory before you fight Kris The player will be the angelYou will timeloopAnd you will like it
>>742693638Remember, Deltarune is waiting.
THE RAPED with human soul and parts
>>742693621The dream of being with Noelle was likeOne shard How are they getting hundreds of them
>>742693047you mean noelle was actually post-scratch carol all along? damn
toby is actually seething everyone figured out FRIEND and now he's rewriting everything he really is Isayama
>>742693681I quit. I wanted the Legend of Delta Rune, the one with three heroes, a Roaring Knight and his 6 fountain bosses, not what the game turned into with the shelter shite and December and friend and Mike
>>742693571I genuinely wonder if Leaflings are fought anywhere else beyond one room
>>742693652It's a feeble connection. The music could just be sad cause the Knight got away again and they saw a friend die. It could be sad because Kris is feeling left out or because we know the Susie doesn't know Noelle is going through it right now. I'm not saying this can't be where the story is leading to but I would like it to be directly addressed beyond "Susie closes a door the same way as Asgore so she's cray".
>>742693494>If Castle Town is meant to be a fool's paradise why are we even meant to care for itYou can care for something while also acknowledging that making it the center of your life is not a good thing. The ending alone emphasizes this by presenting Susie's return to it as sweet and contrasting it against the stark reveal that she doesn't have a place in the Light World to call home.
>>742693742Yes Friend is actually the real villain. That is why Toby showed them at the start of chapter 3 for a random main story dialogue
>>742693670But where are the stakes?
>>742693757Remember, when Susie has it its OK, but when you, the paying customer that generates the developer's income, have it, you're pure evil and you need to call yourself a parasite on every video on the game you can findSubversive little cockroach
If aqua is proof of femkris then seth is proof that berdly is trans
>>742693747The shelter was obviously important since Chapter 1.
>>742693747Have you never played Persona? The bosses are the random Shadows, the shelter shit is Adachi.
>>742693849
is it possible to abort weird route on chapter 5? what happens if you take too long to proceed or say stop
>>742693562>FRIEND is a character rather than a generic dark world enemyI agree that we won't fight it, but there's no way he will be a regular enemy. Why would Toby keep teasing him like that? He's a hack, not a loony.
>>742693848I don't even know what you're trying to say but you need to accept that Toby Fox didn't create Deltarune because you specifically pissed him off and he needs to get back at you.
>>742693856I dont care about persona, too Japanese
If somebody even mentions c*ara it is proof that they are terminally 12 and utterly retardedDon't bother reading what they are about to say
>>742693879he's a spying device and eram fight used friend as a generic mob. screencap me. i'm a prophet
>>742693873You can't stop, Noelle drags you in anyway. You can drown and that will kick you back to the normal route, but a couple of things have changed (very minor ones) and Noelle is still fucked in the head.
>>742693873You can abort on Chapter 5, saying stop just makes Noelle force you, but if you take too long to proceed you get back on the main route.
>>742693624They literally have a church that spreads gospel about it
>>742688691Expect a LOT of half answers to lingering questions, and a few more new questions to be thrown on the pile to be answered in chapter 7. some satisfactorily and others not. and without a doubt expect some schzio babble teasing from toby as he prepares to announce a chapter 8/New Game+ mode after release that will take another couple years to come out as he goes back over things and decides to retcon and rewrite things to fit plot points he left vague. I guaren-fucking-tee it.
>>742693879>Why would Toby keep teasing him like that?To bait theoryfagsTo make (You) seetheTo mock (You) in ch 7 for ever believing that he would do such a thing
>>742693879Friend is just a concept.I feel like people are not talking enough about how the dark world is tailor made for Noelle, her glitchy cat petters pets are there (Clover, Friene) and the world operates on Dragon Blazers mechanics
>>742693578>"this reminds me of yiik", says man who has only played yiik
>I keep calling chapter 5 shit!>Why doesn't everyone think it's shit yet!??!!
>>742693947>how the dark world is tailor made for NoelleThat's because she's the knight duh
>>742693879Friend is just the monster you see in the darkenessThat is why he shows up in dark placesThe dark lonely basement of chapter 2The secret room of the first mantle boardThe bunker of the last mantle gameHidden in the background in a room off the beaten path in the darkest part of chapter 5
>>742693849You forgot about asriel having Down syndrome
>>742693927>>742693940>aborted snowgrave chapter 5very. very. interesting
>>742693941They do but that doesn't mean they see the signs of the Roaring coming. All the signs other than Jockington growing a beard have occurred in Dark Worlds that are beyond their ken, they don't know that three heroes have supposedly come about and that there's a Knight they've been dueling or any of that. If they knew I'm sure they would have said at the service instead of acting like it was business as usual, but even just from what we know of the prophecy I don't see how they could know.
>>742693904>Iog Kris that horrible day that I won't mention>tomorrow we have to do something...don't do things tomorrow>again with the hat ralsei>fountain made spontaneously >shelter code almost destroyed Nah some of this shit seems like it's personalI hated the stall fountain in ch3, and they did it again
>>742693923>he's a spying deviceProbably, but he could still be an NPC>eram fight used friend as a generic mobYeah there's not much I can argue here. My current cope is that it plays into the whole DEVICE bullshit and is some sort of Gaster/gamebreaking tease.
>>742693571Did you know that the Shi + Kawkaw fight is the only instance of a regular battle having mixed enemies in the entire chapter?
>>742693492you know exactly what you did wrong weirdbro
>>742693923I'm a Seam = Eram truther I just haven't seen anything suggesting Eram is a novel entity.
>>742693571Deltarune has been like this since chapter 3. I've accepted it at this point.
>>742693571The game would be massively improved if we had to fight 20 swatchlings in chapter 2 rather than 9
>>742693959You’re going to be very upset when The Roaring is a meteor with Gaster’s face on it
>>742694010Didn't he show up in the lightworld atop Noelle's house too?
You can't fight the dancing mantis right?
>>742694119I'm more of the opinion Seam is friend, but he could just be friend adjacent
>>742693047
>>742694132Chapter 4 is kind of an outlier because it encourages you to do actual farming (mints from the Mizzles and gold for the fountain armor), something which you'd think would be heresy in a UTDR game
>>742693748Better yet, is SHEARY even fought beyond the one forced encounter?
>>742694119And what exactly is the evidence of this theory that you clearly just pulled out of your ass?
>>742687378Please include "deltarune" in the OP of your general thread.
>Remember everything you liked about Chapter 1? Well, now the game is about my AGP deergirl fursona so yeah fuck you-- Toby Fox since Chapter 2
>>742693139Peoples opinions change over timeAlso lots of anons recently replayed likely and realized the gameplay in 4 leaves some shit to be desired
>my AGP deergirl fursonanot even trying to find pointed criticism anymore, we're just saying shit now.
>>742694148Friend is just the monster you see in the darknessRalsei literally says this in gameYour chair with clothes on becomes an entity when you are in the dark and scared of the unknownYou hear the wind blowing and making creaking sounds? That is a monster out to get you
>>742693561>deltarune-like(ugh)As in toblerone bullethell box combat encounters?
Are you going to avenge Onion in the next chapters?
>>742694148It was probably in the non-corporeal, shadow-in-the-corner-of-your-eye-that disappears-once-you-look way, like when Ralsei was explaining the Dark Worlds in chapter 3.
>>742694226debunk it that's what I thought
>>742694196Noelle appearing so late and then shoving herself into the spotlight constantly is pretty intentional. Kris is meant to find her annoying and intrusive and I've found it's the fans that identify more with Kris that like her the least. She's constantly trying to take Susie and bring up memories that he would rather forget, about Dess.
>>742694196They hated him because he told the truth
>>742694226I would like Noelle if she didn't turn into god knows when around Susie The scene where she spells December's name is still the best one she had in the whole gameYeah I want hmofa in my hmofa game how could you tell
>>742694087I believe it
>>742694148The knight literally is real and we see it in the light world when it is darkThere is your answer
>>742693394Is this your first time interracting with an adolescent low IQ sociopath? I envy you if that's the case. He does it because he gets off on no one being able to cave his skull in through the monitor for it. The alternative is that he'd be torturing animals so there's a silver lining there.
>>742694249Fuck no faggot I'm embedding with the Gaster Militia and overthrowing the Castle Town monarchy
>>742694196Speak for yourself, I liked absolutely nothing about CH1.
>>742694302>Noelle appearing so lateShe becomes prominent in the game's second chapter, that's early. It's not as early as the introduction of the main party but it's as early as you can get if you want to do their introductions first.
>>742694249Probably notThe game only let's you crawl at the speed of a snail only to not let you accomplish the goal the game gave youI learned that in chapter 4, at noelles house, God that whole sequence was shitThen ch5 did it again at the very end, what an actual hack
>>742694207Yeah I replayed all the chapters before 5, I think 2 and 3 have the best pacing and combat.>Queen gets a proper fight that encourages you to use all the mechanics AND a fun gimmick fight >Spamton is easy but hype>Tenna is again a fun gimmick fight>Roaring KnightI don’t think 4 is bad but the Jackenstein fight really drags on
>>742692474Sans' deal, Gaster's deal etc
Kris isnt nonbinary for a story reason it's just so both gender can self insert. Kris being an established character doesnt change thatThey are obviously male coded
>>742694196chapter 1 was complete shit thoughgenuinely not a single remarkable thing about it
>>742694173Chapter 5 also expects you to get a-lot of points too (Pink and the rewards at the end). But thats always extra desu. The main experience is extremely curated. I liked 5, but it felt like I was going through less of an rpg... and more of a movie game at times?
>>742694439Jevil's cool.
>>742694415He is non-binary for brony points, there i no deeper reason
I didnt realise that you could parry flowery last attackI just tanked all the hits because i couldnt even see that you needed to jump over him
That god Toby realized everyone was tired of Jevil/Spamton clonesMew Mew is legit one of the best bosses he's ever done
>>742694439Susie and Lancer's shenanigans are the funniest Deltarune ever got.
>>742694510not even remotely
>>742694496I'm not reading that dialogueThis is not the Legend of Delta Rune and as such does not belong in the game
>>742694459>but it felt like I was going through less of an rpg... and more of a movie game at times?Deltarune and Undertale were always like that and you’ve probably just aged enough in the last ~10 years this bullshit has been being worked on to realize it
Queen and Tenna?GoodMewmew? BadThis is a serious game for serious people
chapter 1 was magical you're all such lateshit faggots there was something so special about survey_program I love lancer I love rouxls I loved meeting susie man fuck you just say you weren't there to experience it
>muh Legend of Delta RuneIs this the new resident schizo?
>>742694330>Holiday Manor darkworld with lightworld segments inbetween rooms>Mostly safe respites>At one point the knight comes out at you in the LW like this
>>742694531Do you think Tenna sperging out ever five minutes is more humorous than actual character banter?
>>742694180Seam was suspicious as fuck about the shadow mantle and the image goombas are connected to the boss fight. The pixelated boss you fight shares the same orange coloration for their mouth.
>>742694496>everyone was tired of Jevil/Spamton clonesPlease show us where the jevil and spamton clones are you schizo
>>742694571I thought tenna and queen were kind of threatening
>>742694575I think I've seen him before for some other game.
>>742694573>lateshit
>>742694547>Undertale were always likeI kinda disagree. Undertale would actually leave you alone for decent periods of time and y'know... let you do puzzles and fight random encounters. I think people have forgotten how much more curated Deltarune is compared to Undertale now.
>>742694495you might be stupid
>>742694581Damn that is a slamdunk thenSeam is controlling the friend apperances with anal beads in his ass you really figured it out anon
>>742694571I don't think every character or enemy needs to be extremely serious, but that doesn't mean every lighthearted character is handled equally. I definitely think Queen and Tenna handle it better than MewMew. We don't even need to look beyond Chapter 5 for a character who is at once funnier, more threatening and has a more effective serious side in Flowery as well.
>>742694580tenna literally just moving around on screen is funnier than anything in chapter 1and not even because tenna himself is particularly funny
>>742694627Undertale is a gameDeltarune is a VN disguised as a movie game
https://youtu.be/Ce-gU8G6Viktake me back
>>742694608Tenna people say wasn't like evil enough but they were trying to lock you in with them for as long as possible to hand toriel off to the knightBut people kept wanting them to be more evil.The queen wasn't evil enough and came off as way too easy ti talk out of her plot. Like all Ralsei has to do is tell them about the bad roaring and that's enough? It's bizarre.
Mew Mew
>we waited a year for no answers and a bunch of anime jokes right after shit got real>also the festival was nothing>OMG YOU'RE IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE
>dude it was magical you dont get itThe gonermaker sequence conveys the exact same thing as booting up the survey program and the actual chapter sucks even with nostalgia googles on People are literally contrarian for the sake of it or yearn for the life they had 10+ years ago
>>742694740
Why doesn't the Home Town have a court? Explain!
>>742694685>tenna literally just moving around on screen...it is chuckle worthy, I won't lie. But I actually missed when Toby Fox relied on character dialogue and banter for the bulk of his humor.
>>742694767Undyne is judge, jury and executioner.
>>742694780This wasnt even a thing in undertale retardbro Any more revisionisms you want to spew forward as a cope?
>>742694757I played chapter 1 recently (and 2. Just before 3 dropped in fact). 1 is fine, its the most like Undertale.
>>742694708>Makes Nostalgia chapter>Gets people nostalgic for the good ol' daysBravo Tobert
>>742694757>liking the start of deltarune is contrarian>disliking the game this fanbase started with for like 3 years is NOT contrarian ?
>>742694757>it opened a window like an installer bro u wouldn't get it xDFooling noone but themselves, and if not it's pathetic to cling to the 'achievement' of having opened a program early
>>742694810>This wasnt even a thing in undertale retardbroWhat cope is this? Deltarune is massively different from Undertale atp, even humor wise. I would recommend replaying the game.
>>742694852Chapter 1 is by far the worst chapter you fucking tool
chapter 1 is good but it's not as good as the other chapters
>>742694928Yeah because there were no visual gags in undertale at all dudeNo characters sliding off the screenFunny sound effectsFuck off moron I can guarantee that I played through it more recently than you
>>742693047Toby…
>>742694975>Yeah because there were no visual gags in undertale at all dudeI never said there wasn't. Can you not be assmad about people rightfully pointing out how Toby's writing has become infinitely more self indulgent? Wow. I wonder what character in Undertale's entire joke was being a 3d model and spamming images in their text. Or when Undertale kept on spamming the explosion.sfx constantly.
this thread looks like it was a fucking warzone, wowguess that makes sense when OP is basically asking for a hours long debate on if CH5 is good
>>742695072references and slide gags?high artexplosions and gimmicks?bad!
>>742695167Gigantic 3d model doing default mixamo dance = this is exactly the same as Undertale. I wonder if you shat your pants laughing at the water cooler too.
>>742695072Sorry bro but Queen getting drunk and throwing her wine glass into explosion.sfx and going>whoops that was my extra dangerous glassIs still the funniest joke in the game
>>742694316>HMOFA game But Deltarune isn't an HMOFA game?
>>742695261I chuckled because it was funny
>>742695072Stop insulting God and the Toby Engine will not come for you
>>742695486The based route.
the majority of deltarune players pretend they have played undertale but only inherit knowledge from lets plays they watched when they were 9
>>742695335How do you call it then? At least 2 monster girls and one ghost doll want to be impreganted by your vessel.
>>742689568>if Toby had known how popular Spamton would become he would bot have made him so evilYou know it's true
>>742695556It kind of does feel this way. Doesn't it?
>>742695556The lesbians in Undertale were party of a dating sim parody so it wasn't just (you) sitting there and being forced to watch all of it. Sure, the fish knight loses some potential for more distinguishable traits but it isn't at all like Chapter 5 with the fair date.
>>742687378I'm starting to believe you guys played an entirely different chapter from meYou're gonna be so confused by the rest of the story