The Marvelous World Of Undertale (I Think)

Natasha Bibbs
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read

<I have never played a real video game so I looked up the best video games and this came up sooo…>

Undertale is a role-playing game, I had to look up what an RPG was when we were talking about it in class; I’m such a noob. It gives old school pixelated graphics, which centers a human child confusingly finding her way into an underground world. This world is populated by monsters. In the game you go through a path that involves puzzles and encounters with other monsters along the way.These fights can get you gold and EXP. In fights you must drag you love icon to and fro dodging other icons to do damage.

After watching a gameplay of the very beginning you will see an affable flower talk to you about increasing your “LV” in fights. It escalates quickly with the flower showing their true colors by trying to hurt the child saying “it’s either kill or be killed”, wow what a radical. This shows the overall theme of the game. The child is quickly rescued by a figure named Toriel who not to mention has a goat head. This child tries to find the castle of Asgore, the king of the caves. Through her journey, she meets companions and what the player chooses to do with them determine what route they take.

This game also has an intense back story. The storyline is about monsters being sent forcibly to this underground world because of a loss with humans. The humans in the surface world are protected by a magical barrier that can be crossed with multiple souls. One human soul and one monster’s soul or seven human souls to be exact.

This game was created in Gamemaker Studio by Toby Fox, an indie developer. In an interview he says that it look him 2.7 years to make Undertale. It surely paid off with his 10/10 rating on Steam and IGN.com. Along with exceeding his $5,000 goal on Kickstarter, with people raising $51,000!

The graphics in this are simple pixels which gives it a homely arcade feel. The puzzles in this aren’t the main challenge, the fights are. The dark plotline is also an interesting part that draws in the player. On the Undertale website it states “The RPG game where you don’t have to destroy anyone”, which foreshadows a lot more than I thought.

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