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Often when you see Deltarune discussed on here, they're only talking about the characters. It's understandable, since they're good characters, but what about the gameplay? What's the GAME like?

Well, there's a bit of a trick there. The gameplay and the characters intertwine very frequently, to the point where they are often one and the same. Even from the very beginning, when you first save the game:

You steal Kris' save file from them. This is part of an ongoing battle between yourself and Kris that only escalates in future chapters, but this post will only focus on Chapter 1.

In terms of regular gameplay, it's mostly fairly easy bullet hells. Deltarune's first distinction from Undertale is having some of these in the overworld.

However, in the more standard battles, the main distinction is the addition of party members, whose personalities are reflected in the gameplay. Your first party member is Susie, who talks last and Axes questions sooner. As in Undertale, there are both violent and non-violent solutions to battles, but Susie is already choosing violence for you, so you have to stop her first if you want to stay pacifist.

Of course, each enemy has unique attack patterns that reflect their distinct roles and origins. Many of the characters are real-world objects given life, such as playing cards of each suit, so their attacks resemble those objects as well.

These attack patterns also reflect on other characters. Notice how the diamond bullets are both on their own with the diamond guy, and paired with a heart ring with the hearts girl? Well, what if someone brought only hearts?

This uses gameplay to show how Lancer is an idiot. The gameplay and the characters are intertwined.

Even the easy overworld puzzles are used for character purposes. This simple switch puzzle uses the way JRPG party members follow directly behind you, but it also is impossible with your incomplete party.

You need Susie, and Susie needs you. As much as she doesn't want to.

This doesn't mean she's cooperative, though. Susie's personality is even reflected in the equipment menu.

Ralsei will wear the White Ribbon, but Susie refuses, because she thinks it's juvenile. Even though it's the strongest equipment available at this point, you're not able to give it to her.

She'll take the weaker Amber Card armor, but even here, her personality continues to show. Once you give Susie armor, you can't take it back if you don't give her something else.

Naturally, a party member this uncooperative would have some kind of falling out with the group. She straight up leaves and becomes an enemy.

Once again, gameplay is being used to reflect on character. Susie is also an idiot and can't do this simple symbol matching puzzle, so she needs you to cover for her.

Then when she actually does solve one herself, she refuses to admit it, because she doesn't want to be seen as a nerd.

At this point in the chapter, Susie has gone through character development, but that's a CHARACTER kind of thing, and we're just here for the GAMEPLAY, so we're skipping over all of that lame crap like the unlosable Vs. Susie boss fight. It's just a glorified cutscene, nobody wants to talk about those. All that matters is this:

Oh and also this is when the JEVIL boss fight comes in with WAY HARDER BULLET PATTERNS than anyone else in the chapter and it's SO COOL

Oh, and whether you beat him with violence or pacifism determines which piece of OP equipment he gives you. I chose violence to give Susie the Devilsknife, because it shows yet another character interaction:

Susie refuses to re-equip her own starting weapon, because it's obviously worse than what you can give her later and she doesn't want it anymore.

Anyway here's what happens when Susie decides to act kind.

I mean, it's not her axe, right? This is better.

Anyway, this entire thing is a CALLOUT POST. I am calling out /u/Hexxas, user flair Head Trauma Enthusiast, on /r/CuratedTumblr. This entire post exists to get YOU SPECIFICALLY to SHUT UP about DELTARUNE. Every goddamn Deltarune post I see on there, you're ready in the comments to bitch about how nobody ever talks about the gameplay. Do you see now? Do you see how unnatural it is to focus only on this element when making a tumblr post? The people talk about the characters because it's BLORBO FROM THEIR SHOWS. That is the CORE of Tumblr. What the fuck is it with THIS SPECIFIC GAME that suddenly makes you so invested in ONLY hearing about the goddamn gameplay? ENOUGH!

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Partner and I: good for you that’s cool what’s that like

Professor: Harvard has changed a lot since October 7

Partner and I: we bet

Professor: Harvard has also changed a lot since Covid

Partner and I: makes sense

Professor: Harvard has also changed a lot since the invention of White Claw

Partner: oh you should talk to IS about that. She spent many years in late capitalism’s most elite institutions

Me: don’t make me think about that right now… I’m thinking about motorcycle

Professor: what were late capitalism’s most elite institutions like

Me: they’re interesting but I don’t recommend it. Everyone is either a rich nepo idiot or actually cool and smart with severe childhood trauma. And a fair amount start dropping dead in their 30s and 40s from overwork

Professor: fascinating

Partner: socialism

Professor: wait… so socialism works?

Partner and I: yes

Professor: I think we need to meet in the middle. Be more moderate. But first we need to kick out the fascists

Partner and I: no, and yes

Professor: wait why don’t you want to meet in the middle

Partner and I: we’re socialists

Professor: I bet you could have some sort of moderate socialism

Partner and I: no

Professor: that’s interesting… wow I’m so happy I met you guys. We should talk more about socialism, especially as the election approaches

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🪓imaginaryaxes Follow

Pi is sooooo overrated, what does it even do. "Ooh I've got infinite digits" so does any recurring decimal. You aren't special.

🔁tangentrial

#just use 3.14 #no one cares about all your precious digits

^OPs tags are so real

🔁modulussy

OP is literally a radian user.

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🏆best-mathematical-identity Follow

🔁euler-hardly-know-her

Sorry but how could you not vote for Euler's identity!!! It literally combines 5 different constants

🔁trigtits314

Ok but euler is sooooooo overrated,,, also half the things he "discovered" were stolen from middle-eastern mathematicians

#sin²x + cos²x =1 is literally perfect #don't talk to me or my son ever again

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📉integreat

Does anyone know how to evaluate an integral with indeterminate limits??

🔁differential-equeertion

L'hopital.

🔁integreat

Omg sorry to hear that!! Why are you telling me on this post though? (And you're French???)

🔁differential-equeertion

Girl...

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🥧i8sumpi

She circumference on my diameter till I can't be expressed as a fraction using rational numbers

🔁imaginaryaxes

Omg 🙄🙄🙄 more pi-posters. Get a grip and just use 22/7

🔁i8sumpi

#also #even if i was doing calculations right now #I'd still use the value of pi saved to my calc #22/7 is only accurate to 3sf

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❤️‍🔥proofbyseduction Follow

Proof by induction my beloved <333

🔁algebro-deactivated20260510

Proof by contradiction is better.

🔁proofbyseduction

Prove it.

🔁calculussy

Holy shit op you killed them... another win for proof by induction

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📐sinesinner

Has anyone considered the beautiful curves of the sine graph...

#call me the denominator of tan the way I want sine to top me

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⚛️pi-protection Follow

Call out post for @/imaginaryaxes !!! (Google doc attached)

Tw for pi-phobia, bullying, and harassment.

Ok, so we've seen a lot of their pi-phobia, and harassment of pi-lovers already, but I did some more digging, and found they also bullied a minor, as well as suggesting killing all degrees users (insane that they're a radian user and a pi-phobe!! Girl what!!). They also sent complex number calculations to someone who had complex numbers in their trigger list (I love complex numbers, and wish people weren't triggered by them, but that is NOT ok!!!) And they've done this to a bunch of other users as well (screenshots in the google doc!)

Some people have suggested they're faking being a radian user to give us a bad name, and while there isn't much evidence for this, I think the fact they're a pi-phobe says it all. Radian-faking is wayyyy too common now.

I've attached all the evidence in this google doc, and more people keep adding stuff, so I highly recommend blocking them. (Reminder not to harass them though!!)

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here’s an old patreon reward to fill in the drawing-hiatus void a bit; something I get asked about a lot is the ‘acting’ in my comics and how to be subtle with conveying emotions. The answer is mostly experience and constantly observing people in real life to learn about expressions, but knowing when to ‘dial up’ or ‘dial down’ emotion is very important! context is king- this is basically the same advice that Carl Barks gave on one of his reference sheets here (in a much more succinct manner!):

I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!

I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!

(lots more after the Read More cut...!)