I felt like just coming in here to talk about deltarune a little bit and I just wanna say...
I miss chapter 1 and 2, I miss the feeling that those two chapters gave me. Maybe it's for nostalgic reasons, or maybe it's something else, but... At the very least those chapters had something to say and at the very least were consistent, everything else after that just felt completely different to how I thought deltarune was supposed to be...
Chapter 3 was the weakest chapter due to it being a complete nothing burger of a chapter, with the only thing that saved it was Tenna even though he's kinda just Spamton but worse. Chapter 4 was okay somewhat, it was actually at the very least getting all serious... And then chapter 5 came along, and it became so underwhelming, with the gameplay and the weird route being the only good things about the chapter.
And let me tell you, the lore has become so unpredictable for the sake of being unique even though it's not always the best case in terms of writing a piece of media. And it sucks ass.
Like... God forbid we care about the story and it's characters and theorize what's gonna happen next with them, only for it to all turn out completely fucking pointless in the end.
And they're not even fucking consistent with it, it doesn't even stick to it's landing because it gets resolved in the most shallowest fucking ways known to man.
King's whole abusive behaviour and his actual interesting goals and personality and being Toby's first ever evil character? Nah, he's actually a big softie and he knew Lancer would just bounce around all fine even though that doesn't change the fact that he was gonna throw his son off the fucking roof anyways but whatever who tf cares!
Queen's mind control and kidnapping because of her own goals and motives? Nah, she didn't know about The Roaring and is just a memelord girldad and bananas!
The whole mystery shrouding around Mike? Sike, you get three characters that cosplay as him for a joke about people theorizing shit way too much and a secret dialogue with Tenna even though most people probably gave him to Mettaton anyways and don't know this!
Tenna dying that actually raises the stakes and makes the Knight be this actual dangerous threat? Nah, you can revive him and the Knight is beatable even though that diminishes any actual threatening behaviour that they've had!
The whole talk about how kindness is not a solution to solve every problem and how sometimes the best possible answer is to fight them? Nah, fuck that let's heal Flowery because we want to beat him in a different way!
There's more to it than that, but I'm too tired to do more... Like I won't even be suprised if the Knight turned out to be Papyrus or something. Or something even more unpredictable that will make no lick of sense for deltarune whatsoever.
Idk what else to say... So TLDR; Chapters 1 and 2 > chapters 3, 4 and 5. And that opinion's never gonna change for me.
