Deltarune Chapter 5 (PS5)
He fucking did it again, that fucking dog got me again
Surprise is far and away Deltarune's greatest strength, I find. Chapter to chapter, the ways Toby Fox finds new ways to surprise the player, in big and small ways both, is consistently the driver behind each one's greatest moments. The moments are, in and of themselves, generally excellent, many of them would stand as the best as they are, but the surprise in how things are presented, in how things are revealed, in how mechanics work amps them up.
Chapter 5 plays on and with the emotions in myriad and very distinctly targeted ways (ROT13: lbh erzrzore fbzr bs gur zber cebzvarag svare qrgnvyf bs Haqregnyr'f onpxfgbel naq orggre-xabja frpergf) and it's just fucking great with it from start to finish. One last fun adventure, indeed.
I wondered if Chapter 4's secret boss could be topped and I'll be damned if Chapter 5 didn't manage to pull it off through sheer glorious batshit spectacle. 4's could not be topped narratively, I think, so smartly they went the other way, just off the fucking rails. It and the final boss of the chapter are insane fights that have me wonder how fights can get harder from here mechanically - already on PC, a hotfix inserted a mechanic to weaken this chapter's final boss if you die to it too much, so there's clearly a fear that they're toeing some kind of line.
But to be frank, I want them to throw that fear away. The time is now. The children must learn. Make them recognise that we are not far off from the revival of Embodiment Of Scarlet Devil. Make the Chapter 6 final boss force you through an Ikaruga level. Your ass will be beat and you will grow.
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