The only problem is, AFAIK, we haven't seen evidence that any other characters have a SOUL in Deltarune.

This is a good point, I'm mostly assuming monster having souls is a thing because that's how Undertale worked.

And yeah there's clearly some kind of "device" thing going on in Deltarune, though I don't have a theory on that beyond wild guesses as I don't think we've gotten to that part of the story yet.

anytime, good luck out there

Bark bark! Awooo :)

I've learned to desire the chemical

You would hope that the big twists in Deltarune will be like this, something people didn't really think about but also not hard to explain.

I've had so much sex with men Lol

I don't, I'm sorry

Things are even weirder on the PS4 and PS5 where the options button kinda works like "start" but the share button is an entirely different kind of thing, and the "select" button is basically the big touchpad in the middle that doesn't need to be a touchpad.

Pretty much every game uses these buttons in slightly different ways. Big budget games generally map them to "open menu" and "bring up the map" which is why the xbox and valve controllers are the way they are, but I've seen them used for everything from saving to resetting to gestures, basically anything that doesn't need to be pressed quickly.

Ultimately I think Nintendo going with symbols that don't really mean anything is the right call, but they are still start and select in my head because I'm old.

nightmares suck ass. I prefer having fake things in my head that I decided to put there

that was clever

I will if I have time

The writing and story is sooo bad. This game would have been so much better with cohesive and meaningful narrative arcs.

All Hazelight games are like this Lol

I give you two moneys

Thank you for the opportunity but I'll decline

Lol

Thank you for just posting and fuck planter and ken

I hate this. maybe you didn't need to explain what this meant

there always could be more fire

Yeee I hope the good laptop lasts a long time.

side b is too creepy for me to actually do lol

You can only get the Chapter 2 Shadow Crystal when doing the Side B (Snowgrave)

This isn't true, I haven't touched the weird route and I have the shadow crystal for ch2 for defeating Spamton.

There seems to be only one normal route. The recruiting system seems to just be for bonus scenes in castle town, and doesn't change the game that much. This is kinda like how the neutral route in Undertale is basically the same even if you do some killing.

The Shadow Crystals are bonus difficult bosses with a little extra story. The save slot stuff for that is mostly just a way to get the ones in previous chapters if you miss them the first time. If you get a chapter's shadow crystals in a save file, then all save files in that slot in future chapters will be able to get the crystal from a spot in castle town. This seems to be a replacement for Undertale's no mercy route for people who want tough bosses, where you don't have the be evil.

There's eggs, which are weirdo side content that doesn't come with a difficult boss. We don't know what all that is about yet.

The weird route is a horror side thing that's more fun to watch on YouTube than it is to play.

The intended way to play Deltarune is just the normal way, maybe with the secret bosses if you want a challenge. It's not like Undertale where the changes between routes are littered throughout the game, because you're expected to play it multiple times. Instead, there's so much in just one playthrough that everyone has a little bit different experience and that's the point.

It's funny that my "Flowery is too many things" part forgot to mention that he's also Rudy, who was Asgore's college roommate.

The creator of Infiniminer, a defunct shooter that wasn't just a heavy influence on Minecraft but basically set up the community and basic gameplay ideas that allowed Minecraft to exist at all, has said that he stopped feeling any sort of way about Minecraft's success once it got incredibly big. Like once it got bought for billions of dollars it just started being a fake thing. That's where doge is at I think.

What happened with doge would have happened no matter what once the fascists came in. That it was connected with something cute and likable is just some kind of weird quirk that doesn't matter. And it's all so big it becomes fake.

I binged it last night and it's great

this is true of every scene. there's a lot of the online scene who are actually good offline