One Point of Inspiration

For most of my time playing deltarune (or at least since more stuff came out about the roaring knight in chapter 3) I have been a pretty consistent believer that Dess is the knight. However, I don't remember who posted it but I saw someone theorizing that the knight is actually Asriel and he's opening dark worlds drying to find Dess after her disappearance, and that got me thinking. I would say then that I was a 50/50 believer that it's either Dess or Asriel, Dess because it makes sense with her story and the Knight's design, and Asriel because of that line of reasoning.

However, I just finished my first replay of Undertale in a while, True Pacifist route, and noticed that Asriel's Hyper Goner attack is INCREDIBLY similar to the last part of the Knight's final attack in their ch3 secret boss battle (do I have to spoilers that?). Like, I had no idea (I haven't played Undertale in a while) and now that leads me to believe even more that the Knight could be Asriel instead.

(I wish I had taken a screenshot of it because I can't find any good ones on the Internet but use your imagination for comparison. Or a better search inquiry.)

It also makes a lot more sense now why Kris is working with the knight and why they are okay with it. Only question is why Noelle is not, if they're all so connected. (Maybe Noelle is and that's part of the Weird Route idk I haven't done much with the Weird Route).

Visuals: ✨STUNNING✨ all of the backgrounds are so DETAILED and PRETTY and the colors are MAGICAL. Not to mention that all of the characters are GORGEOUS. A visual masterpiece, if I do say so myself.

Music and Soundtrack: Practically as incredible as the visuals, and while both are incredible, they enhance each other so well. I watched this with my sister and we were commenting on how it feels like the Legend of Zelda games (specifically botw and totk) and overall it is such a piece of art.

The story: I’ve heard quite a few complaints about it in my passing through the internet, but I thought it was really fitting of a world healing from the effects of ATLA, and realistic in the way that some people push forward to a better future, and some get stuck in the past. Sure, it’s not as long as a 3 season show, but it wasn’t supposed to be. To refrain from any spoilers, this is gonna be very vague and non-specific, but I thought the story had a good progression and also provides room for growth afterwords (something I was a little worried about because for a moment it felt like the events of the movie would end and nothing would change). It’s a little unclear to me how certain elements of the story come to happen, but overall, I’m happy with it.

A small gripe and my thoughts resolving it (this might be considered the tiniest bit spoiler but not enough for me to hide it): there wasn’t a whole lot of moments where the team is just being the team together. We see a lot of how connected they are and their history when they are fighting together or solving problems, but there’s very little of the strategizing moments, where we see how they all think and build off of each other that shows a lot of their personality. However, upon thinking about it, I realize that this type of moment could have been put in the film, but I don’t know if it would be better for it. It is pretty fast-paced, and with the way things progressed, taking one or multiple moments like that to slow down and talk through everything would have ruined the momentum, and therefore I think this method of showing their closeness and teamwork through the way they work together subconsciously, like it’s second nature, always looking out for one another, is enough without needing their moments of downtime throughout the film.