Delta Rune — No Excuse.
GAME: Delta Rune
TIME TO COMPLETE: ~2 HOURS
PLATFORM: PC
(SPOILER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS FOR THE BEGINNING OF DELTA RUNE)
You have no excuse not to play this game.
Delta Rune, the second piece from the team at Undertale, released on October 31st. AND it’s completely free.
I’m writing this as soon as I finished the game because all I can say is:
Holy.
Shit.
I marathoned it all in a two hour sitting because I legitimately could not stop. From every second, I was sucked in, reviving my body with nourishment that only Toby Fox and co. could provide since Undertale.
Delta Rune is an anagram of Undertale by the way.
You start off creating a character and I grew attached immediately because I’m a pisces. And then the game takes it away (RIP Shell).
Instead of your character, you play as Kris, which I can assume is Frisk from Undertale all grown up (as in the end, Tauriel mentions that you’re going to college soon). That’s RIGHT!! Tauriel is in this and so are your favorite Undertale characters, but you don’t see or interact with a chunk of them until you have played the story.
You go to school, with Dr. Alphys as your teacher and you are assigned a group project with Suzie, the school badass, bully, and misunderstood teen. You are then sent to get chalk out of the closet for Alphys and are then thrust into the dark kingdom, which was strange but I got over it.
You meet Ralsei (an anagram of Asriel!), who informs you of your destiny and mission and — AH! Im not going to ruin it for you because you need to play it NOW. IT’S FREE.
Toby Fox is a master of character design. The art is amazing and the gameplay is challenging yet doable. It expands on the mechanics that Undertale established and the additions are welcomed and easy to pick up on.
And I can’t freaking wait for chapter two.
