deltawoon

if at this point you truly believe the weird route to be about some presupposed perverse fascination the player is meant to have about noelle then that says more about you than it does the game. like if you refuse to recognize that it is, in fact, about kris and noelle's messy past and current relationship then you are not meeting the game where it is at all

the weird route is weird because it's a route centered around the monogamous codependent relationship between kris and noelle, in the polyamory game. the normal route is the route where kris, susie, and noelle are all being drawn towards one another in what is maybe the most compelling coming-of-age polyamory drama written since homestuck. deltarune is explicitly calling monogamy weird compared to polyamory. what a fucking video game.

like this is really just what bothers me the most. like do we maybe think that the meta elements here are being used allegorically. like maybe that noelle sees it in that way, and that she also sees kris as the player of the game of life, and how that might be why she pushes them to command her to do things in chapter 5-B, because she too recognizes the gender roles inherent to these narratives like the commanding masculinity of the protagonist, and why she uses that to push at the bounds of the world in a way that is clearly expressed as two children enabling each other's delusions that have been ingrained in them by the same society that formed the dire sort of environment they occupy, all pushing them to a mutual suicide. do we maybe think that. are we capable of learning from undertale anymore.

i cant form a coherent thought on the big darkness beneath the town its all scrambled