Deltarune Chapter 2 release 17 Sep

[danzibr]

I watched Jacksepticeye's let's play of it, and the story is nicely set up, but the original genius of Undertale is lacking a bit to be honest. It is still a fun game, and a great RPG parody, but it's not THAT levels of geniality.

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The game's overreliance on Queen as a comedic relief is very noticable. Plus she/it is very one dimensional. Undertale had King Asgore and Flowey as sympathetic villains. Deltarune Ch. 1 had Lancer which was no villain at all, but at least his father had a unique stance on Lightners (if you cease to play, we cease to exist). But Queen is just....weird, man. Berdley is a much more sympathetic and well written character, who would have made a great "dark lord" or however the masters of the Dark Fountains are called. I could have seen a twist in which he enjoys his position as "knight in glow-in-the-dark armor" and controls Queen to be a front for his power fantasies. Similar to King of Spades, he would want Kris to remain in the game because this allows him to stay in his RPG persona.

Deltarune has had its share of lolrandom events and happenings, but they should at least be framed by a somewhat consistent narrative and most importantly characters.

On the one hand, fair...

On the other hand, I'll hold back such judgments until the whole game is out.

EDIT: @Lord Raziere, nice write-up! I'm a fan of the first of your candidates.