Gaster and The Screaming Ghost Of Claus. One of the most well-known Undertale secrets involves a. After what seemed like years of memes about when Sans would be joining the Smash Bros. Roster, it finally happened, kind of. The spooky skeleton brother will now be playable, but as a Mii Fighter.
It's been five years since Toby Fox's Undertale was released and two years since the follow-up game, Deltarune, was unleashed with a lengthy 'Chapter One' on PC and Nintendo Switch. For anyone wondering how much developmental headway the game has made, Fox has provided updates on a few distinct occasions.
Here's everything we know about DeltaruneChapter 2.
When is the DeltaruneChapter 2 release date?
Deltarune Chapter 2 currently does not have an official release date. According to a September 2020 Famitsu article featuring an update from Toby Fox, development on Chapter 2 began around the middle of 2020 and has progressed at a faster rate than Chapter 1.
Fox believes there will be a playable version ready by the end of 2020. That estimate isn't accounting for finishing touches like translation, bug-testing, and porting.
It's likely we'll see an initial release of Deltarune Chapter 2 by the middle of next year. Presumably, it will release on PC, Switch, and PlayStation 5.
From that point, further chapters might be released rather quickly. 'After gaining experience from this chapter [Chapter 2], I think making future chapters will be easier,' said Fox in the September 2020 Status Update.
Is there a Deltarune Chapter 2 trailer?
Despite what the numerousfan-madevideos imply, there is not yet a trailer for Deltarune Chapter 2.
However, there are a few screenshots featuring updated models found in Chapter 2. Here's one that was featured in Famitsu.
What's the gameplay like in DeltaruneChapter 2?
Similar to DeltaruneChapter 1, the second chapter will feature turn-based combat resembling the Final Fantasy series. There will be some bullet hell components, but that'll no longer be the main event. Other changes include the removal of random encounters.
You'll now be able to see enemies on the overworld before fighting them, giving you a chance to avoid them all-together.
![]() Is DeltaruneChapter 2 the last chapter in Deltarune?
No, it's not. In the Famitsu article, Deltarune Chapter 2 and Deltarune as a whole are treated as separate entities, implying there will be more than the two chapters. We don't know how many chapters Deltarune will include, but Fox has completed the outline of events of all chapters and the 'first draft' of all cutscene dialogue.
In his Status Update from September 2020, Fox had a section labeled 'Progress chapters 3+.' This titling implies that there will be at least four chapters in the Deltarune with room for more.
Items beneath the Progress Chapters 3+ title, intimate there will be at least six total chapters. Under 'Map Design' Fox says the completion of the map 'varies per chapter, earlier chapters totally completed.'
Fox uses the plural terminology of 'earlier chapters' in the section for Chapters 3+, implying at least two chapters make up a section. If Chapters 3 and 4 are considered 'earlier' then at least Chapters 5 and 6 must exist to make 'later' chapters.
Not counting the prologue, a single Undertale playthrough lasted six chapters. Perhaps that's the number we can expect for Deltarune.
How many endings will Deltarune have?
Undertale famously had three distinct endings. Deltarune will have just one. While this might dissuade some gamers from enjoying Deltarune, Fox has confirmed that your choices still matter. In an FAQ, Fox said, 'There's something more important than reaching the end.' This coyly implies that parts of the game might be significantly different between playthroughs.
Your choice still matters, it just won't affect where the characters end up.
Is Deltarune a sequel to Undertale?
Not quite. Deltarune takes place in a world distinct from Undertale's, but Fox has confirmed there will still be some connection between the two.
'Deltarune's world is a different one [from Undertale],'said Fox in an FAQ. 'With different characters, that have lived different lives. A whole new story will happen .. I don't know what you call this kind of game. It's just a game you can play after you complete Undertale, if you want to.'
As seen in Deltarune Chapter 1, characters from the first title will appear in the game, but they won't have lived the same lives as they did in the original. To understand every reference, Deltarune players should still beat Undertale before playing.
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It's been a pretty solid couple of weeks for video game storytelling. Soma did it for me with its existential sci-fi, monsters notwithstanding. The Beginner's Guide probably wasn't worth the ten bucks entry fee but the story made a point and made it pretty well. And of course there's Undertale, which I have been hankering for an opportunity to talk about at length.
Is Undertale Appropriate For Kids
It was pure bad luck that it came out around a time when there are plenty of other things lining up for a ZP-ing, but then I probably wouldn't want to do a big review of it, because that would increase the chances of spoiling or overselling it to people who haven't played it yet. I'll repeat the same advice I've heard given in several places about the game - if you haven't played it, do so before you learn any more about it. Like, right now. Before you read on.
Still here? And still haven't played it? I can't blame you, it's not an enormously good argument to sell the game with. I mean, how would you even know it's the kind of game you'd like? Well, if it helps, it is at time of writing sitting at the top of the Metacritic charts for PC games released in the last 90 days, and at number 11 of the all-time list. So you don't have to take my word for it. Now kindly bog off and play the sodding thing through to the end before the next paragraph starts. Both ends, ideally.
Right, so now we're all on the same page. Good, isn't it. But what is it that gives it its near-universal appeal? I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably not the graphics. It wobbles between basic and functional to just plain bad. Also, besides the exceptional music, the sound design isn't that great either. I wish it would make up its mind whether it's going to stick with the retro chiptune audio or not.
But by going with the graphics that it does have, Undertale is very, very, very reminiscent of Earthbound, the classic quirky RPG from the latter days of the SNES, which also had similar gameplay, similar quirky metahumour and a similar overtone of a complex world seen through the filter of childhood nostalgia (a cousin to my long-held 'big headed child exploring scary world' theory of automatic indie popularity). So is it just nostalgia for Earthbound that makes Undertale's success? It might be the starting point, but where Earthbound indulged the metahumour, Undertale pushes it up to 11. It seems to subvert every standard video game trope it employs, from the save system to the character naming to the unexpected crashes to desktop, for both comic and emotional effect.
Where it differs from Earthbound is that to like Earthbound you have to be able to tolerate turn-based RPG battling, which is always something of a tall order. Undertale has a similar battle system on the surface, but in practice your ability to dodge incoming attacks by moving your heart icon around has more in common with bullet hell shooters. It's a genuinely innovative gameplay mechanic that the game uses to its full potential, and as well as Paper Mario's timed hits system manages to hybridise turn based and live combat elements in a way that actually fucking works. But even it is not what makes Undertale really good.
It could be the incredible attention to detail, to the point that you can have played the game over and over again and still be finding new dialogue and little touches. Did you know that if you carry a Spider Donut from near the very start of the game all the way to the Muffet boss fight, you can end the fight instantly if you eat the donut in front of her? Or that, if you hang onto the Stick starting weapon even after swapping it for something better, you can use it in battle to instantly pacify dog-based enemies? And a lot of things will change according to your choices, of course, because every battle presents the option to either kill your enemy or (through various means) befriend them. And this is starting to rub up on the nub of the matter.
What really makes Undertale is the story and writing, which is on the one hand hilarious enough to suck you in from the start, and is also, by the end, rather heartfelt as well. I'm not too proud to admit that the Pacifist ending consistently makes me well up a bit every time I see it. And anything that can touch my stony heart deserves a good hard analysis.
Re-playing and re-watching the pacifist ending a few times, I managed to pinpoint the precise moment when the old lower lip gets to quivering. It's the moment when the main villain absorbs all the other monsters of the underworld to combine their power against you, and informs you that he can feel how much they have all come to care about the protagonist.
For some reason, that's the moment when it all hits home. As the game begins you're sold on the underworld as this dangerous place full of monsters that want you dead. And while that's technically true, the recurring theme of every 'boss' character you go up against is that they're all pretending to be something they're not. They're all complex, flawed, good-hearted people who have mostly been punished in the past for their naivete, and now feel forced to attempt to meet you with hostility to avoid any further tragedy. But when they meet you (or at least the pacifist version of you), they just can't keep it up. Because by refusing to fight no matter how much shit they throw at you, you're showing them that they gave up on goodness too quickly, and one by one you reach the real person inside.
What Au Do You Fit In
The main villain is characterised up to this point (most clearly in the neutral ending) as completely irredeemable, because they lack a soul, and consequently the ability to love. But when they absorb all the other characters, they also start vicariously feeling their love for you, which is ultimately what redeems him. That's what gets me, I think, this triumph of kindness reminding people of who they were before tragedy twisted them, maybe that says more about me than the game.
After all that, there's also a bad ending, if you wantonly murder every single thing in the underworld, and I almost resent the game for having it. After doing such a good job at making me care about the characters, it seems borderline psychotic to include it at all. The fact that it exists means we have to do it if we want to see all the content. But on the other hand, the pacifist ending concludes with the game practically begging you not to delete your save and start again, and completing a genocide run has permanent effects on the game that persist even to ensuing games. So while I may resent the game for including the option of a genocide run, it doesn't seem to be as much as the game would resent ME for doing it.
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