Rewrites and Cul-de-Sacs

The reveal in Chapter Six that "The Cage, with Human Soul and Parts" isn't referring to Kris at all but, in fact, the original pilot episode of Star Trek is going to blow everyone's minds and be super obvious in retrospect.

Its been almost ten years and I can't think of another game that has disappointed me so comprehensively as Battle Chef Brigade. I can't think of another game that started with such an exciting and engaging premise and then flat out refused to deliver on it. Baffling.

This has probably been in the discourse for a while now but it wasn't until ,my big replay before Chaper 5 that I started thinking about it, but I feel like it seems heavily implied that Susie is a foster kid. Going back over the way she discusses her own past, the word 'parent' never comes up. The one wrinkle in all this is Toriel, who ought to be in a position to know, who asks Susie to "call her folks" about sleeping over. A slip of the tongue? Discrediting evidence? Don't know, but Susie's complete lack of parental reference points came across starkly in the replay.

Another mild Detaune disappointment was I thought we were finally going to get a solo Ralsei fight, having had multiple solo Kris fights and two solo Susie fights. Felt like we were right on the cusp of it too, the setup was all there, and then like a lot of Chapter 5, a lack of payoff. I think Chapter 6 will probably end up feeling overstuffed given all the work it has to do to set up a finale that was left undone in Chapter 5. Unless my ridiculous idea comes true, and Chapter 6 is the end of the game mechanically, and Chapter 7 is just Undertale's 'walk back through the game and talk to everyone' but for all previous six chapters and their dark worlds combined. Chapter 7 will be 30 hours long.

Whatever our disagreements on various elements of Deltarune Chapter 5's pacing, writing, and structural choices, surely we can all come together as one people to solemnly agree that Pink's bomb attacks were some fucking bullshit, yeah?