Flowie owned me COMPLETELY the first two times I fought it -- I didn't last 3 seconds. But the third time suddenly the hit boxes were suspiciously lenient, and the attacks seemed to do much less damage. Blah, don't hold my hand, unless I ask you to! The victory felt really undeserved. I have spoiled myself enough to know that the genocide route boss fights are brutal, but to be honest I still expected a bit more from the ending of the neutral route.
I assumed that the scripted element here was part of the narrative. DETERMINATION.
pretty much doesn't care that you "defeated" him because when his HP reached 0 he just reload his save from the beginning where he was full HP. He just wanted to give you a false sense of hope and then snatch it away.
My point was that Claus's irritation at the last boss getting easier with your failures can be assuaged by an appreciation of how it's relevant to the narrative.
Flowey doing the opposite when you eventually triumph isn't related to Claus's complaint (but Flowey doing it is certainly extra sublime in the context of the player already picking up on the effect of save/reload).
In post 381, Iecerint wrote:My point was that Claus's irritation at the last boss getting easier with your failures.
Oh, just to be clear. I am not irritated at the fact that the boss gets easier. I was irritated that it got easier TOO fast.
I totally see the narrative reasoning, I just thought it could be done in a more mechanically satisfying fashion.
Well, I was about 1 attempt from ragequitting in frustration and not even finishing one playthrough of the game, so I think they balanced it about as finely as they could.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
That video's my new go to for explaining Undertale.
On another note, I saw a younger cousin of mine today and remembered she was a homestuck so I tried to tell her about this game but she's already at Mad Dummy.
heh, I tried so hard to get into Homestuck and I just couldn't.
Maybe it's just the way the story is presented or something, I don't know.
I do like the art style though.
genocide? I used the Genocide remover program and my game has an actual clean slate. But even if I play again it wont be the same. Also despite everything I think this not-completely Geno but almost geno phone call was the most heart breaking:
In post 397, Parama wrote:i don't feel like absolute garbage because i literally never killed anything in the game once, because i am not a murderer
I didn't either. I had my boyfriend do it on my savefile because
1) didn't know what would happen and that way we didn't need to buy 2 copies
2) I just could never git gud enough and my only knowledge of Geno was that it's RLY HARD (I died a lot on pacifist)
3) Watching it happen and then
