From a technical standpoint, this game is nothing special: it ran on my sub-potato PC just fine. In fact, the game is capped at 30 FPS so don’t be expecting any butter smooth movement. However, this game is without a doubt one of the best games I have ever played. With funny, quirky and interesting characters and three main endings the game never fails to show you something (on your first playthrough, more on that later). Name more a more iconic duo than Sans and Papyrus, I’ll wait! The music is also one of the best things about this game, from 8-bit chiptune to rock this games OST never fails to amaze. Two years after the games release I’m still listening to the soundtrack.

This game is also a good tear jerker, there are some moments that with the storyline and the music just absolutely rip the heart out of you (maybe that’s just me, but I’d assume that’s a lot of people obsess over this game). It also has happy moments too. There are times where it gets a chuckle out of me and other times it makes me let out a frustrated “argh!” as I face an enemy for the fourth time.

That’s another thing too, you are almost guaranteed to die at least once in this game. So, in order to continue, you must have determination to reach the end! As I said, the game has three main endings: neutral, pacifist and genocide. You can do either neutral or genocide first, but to get pacifist you need to do a no kill neutral run. And I mean no kill. This game remembers, so choose wisely.

Now, I’ve said that this game has multiple endings but one of my main gripes with this game is that it has very little replayability. Yes, you can play it over and over to see how many neutral endings you can get but the meat of the game will always be the same. Once you figure out the puzzles you can essentially speed run them, once you figure out how to pacify an enemy you can just skip battles and once you’ve seen all the quirks they get kind of old.

The graphics are nice but a little bit all over the place. The main game is in colour, but the fight scenes are rather monochrome. Perhaps the stark contrast between the main world and the fight scenes is an artistic choice, the importance of which I could have failed to pick up on. Regardless, the graphics in this game aren’t exactly going to blow you away but like the rest of the game does an excellent job given the constraints it has been given

But yeah, that’s my thoughts on the game. Hyped for Deltarune and what it is gonna be like, but it seems the dev isn’t going to make an “Undertale 2” which is sad. However, as the saying goes: “You either die a hero, or see yourself live long enough to become a villain”. I think Undertale as we know it is dead, but that doesn’t mean we should forget it! I thoroughly recommend this game to anyone who hasn’t played it yet. As to whether you should buy it on sale or not is up to you. I bought it on sale, but that’s only because I’m a student and can’t splash out all the time. If you do get it on sale though, I recommend buying the game and the DLC (which is just the soundtrack) as a bundle. I bought them both for £5.

From a technical standpoint, this game is nothing special: it ran on my sub-potato PC just fine. In fact, the game is capped at 30 FPS so don’t be expecting any butter smooth movement. However, this game is without a doubt one of the best games I have ever played. With funny, quirky and interesting characters and three main endings the game never fails to show you something (on your first playthrough, more on that later). Name more a more iconic duo than Sans and Papyrus, I’ll wait! The music is also one of the best things about this game, from 8-bit chiptune to rock this games OST never fails to amaze. Two years after the games release I’m still listening to the soundtrack. This game is also a good tear jerker, there are some moments that with the storyline and the music just absolutely rip the heart out of you (maybe that’s just me, but I’d assume that’s a lot of people obsess over this game). It also has happy moments too. There are times where it gets a chuckle out of me and other times it makes me let out a frustrated “argh!” as I face an enemy for the fourth time. That’s another thing too, you are almost guaranteed to die at least once in this game. So, in order to continue, you must have determination to reach the end! As I said, the game has three main endings: neutral, pacifist and genocide. You can do either neutral or genocide first, but to get pacifist you need to do a no kill neutral run. And I mean no kill. This game remembers, so choose wisely. Now, I’ve said that this game has multiple endings but one of my main gripes with this game is that it has very little replayability. Yes, you can play it over and over to see how many neutral endings you can get but the meat of the game will always be the same. Once you figure out the puzzles you can essentially speed run them, once you figure out how to pacify an enemy you can just skip battles and once you’ve seen all the quirks they get kind of old. The graphics are nice but a little bit all over the place. The main game is in colour, but the fight scenes are rather monochrome. Perhaps the stark contrast between the main world and the fight scenes is an artistic choice, the importance of which I could have failed to pick up on. Regardless, the graphics in this game aren’t exactly going to blow you away but like the rest of the game does an excellent job given the constraints it has been given But yeah, that’s my thoughts on the game. Hyped for Deltarune and what it is gonna be like, but it seems the dev isn’t going to make an “Undertale 2” which is sad. However, as the saying goes: “You either die a hero, or see yourself live long enough to become a villain”. I think Undertale as we know it is dead, but that doesn’t mean we should forget it! I thoroughly recommend this game to anyone who hasn’t played it yet. As to whether you should buy it on sale or not is up to you. I bought it on sale, but that’s only because I’m a student and can’t splash out all the time. If you do get it on sale though, I recommend buying the game and the DLC (which is just the soundtrack) as a bundle. I bought them both for £5.