Undertale

I played this game for two hours before being bored enough to uninstall it. Not bad but not fun.

I wanna try this because IT IS THE BEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE

If you wanted to hold off on playing this truly excellent RPG just because it was on Steam, then you owe it to yourself to pick this up for its GOG rerelease! Undertale is hands down my favorite game of 2015, and I truthfully consider it one of the greatest--and certainly one of my favorite--games of all time! Story--Long ago, humans and monsters lived together in harmony, until war broke out between the two races. The humans, proving victorious, sealed the monsters underneath the earth behind an impenetrable barrier--anything can enter the barrier, but nothing can leave. Many years later, in the year 201X, you play as a lone human child who falls through the barrier and into the monster kingdom of the Underground. It sounds like a basic story, but how it is executed is anything but. I don't want to give too much away, but you will meet plenty of colorful and memorable characters throughout your journey who will terrify you, melt your heart, make you laugh, make you cry, and overall make you fall in love with the entire cast in general. There is not one main character in this game that you will get bored of or dislike, and that makes it so much harder if you travel down the... "quick and easy path", as Yoda calls it... Gameplay--Undertale plays like classic top-down JRPGs like Earthbound, and it is more than evident in the graphical design and humor used in the game that most of it was Earthbound-inspired. The combat is where the game truly shines, however, switching up the RPG formula to a Touhou-inspired bullet-hell shooter format to let you dodge enemy attacks. One would think this could get repetitive pretty easily, but Undertale manages to find a way to keep each new combat feeling fresh and interesting, even changing up the gameplay style for boss battles. Music--The music is just awesome! What more needs to be said??? You've probably heard it in a Youtube review somewhere and didn't know where it came from! Get this game NOW!!!

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first of all, shame on you people who are giving this game a negative score just because the fandom's crap and/or it's "cool" to hate popular things on principle. i think the fandom's cancer too, but i'm gonna judge this game on my own merit and not based on what i've seen of the fandom. while it's not Game of All Time for me, Undertale is definitely one of the most memorable experiences i've ever had out of a game. granted, the battle system (while unique) can be a bit confusing to settle into if you're not used to shmups and MegaTen-style negociation. while solid in that field otherwise, the real soul of Undertale is its writing and cast. the pacing is well done, there's personality down to even the random encounters, and there's a good deal of moments both genuinely heartwarming and genuinely funny and tearjerking throughout. a baller soundtrack helps with that, too. of course, it's hard to really gather all that from just fanart and screenshots. whatever your opinion on the hype Undertale has garnered, you should at least play through it at least once. or twice, maybe. i wouldn't really worry about going "pure pacifist" the first time around; play it how you will the first run, and then strive to "SPARE" everyone on the next run. and maybe kill everyone after. your call. i ain't gonna judge. if you hate Undertale, you probably haven't played it yet, and i suggest you do: the best way to hate something is to become fully familiar with it. who knows? you might even end up liking it in some aspect or another. i dunno. i can't tell what people like and don't like in things. but really though, just stay away from the fandom. or any thing's fandom, honestly. [[a more in-depth (if sorta outdated??) review can be found at my blogspot: http://kokorogensou.blogspot.com/2015/10/steampunk-undertale.html ]]