“Despite everything, it’s still you.”

Where do I even start with this game? I may not have been here as long as others, but this game has had such a profound impact on me that I thought it was only right to express my love for it. I found it briefly in 2024, during one of the hardest times in my life so far, and then forgot about it again. But at the start of this year, I found it again, and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.

Every ounce of this game is filled with charm and creativity, from the diverse cast of characters, the story, the music, and its message.

Every single interaction with each of the characters made me feel something, whether it was making me laugh, or cry. Seeing how my choices affected their stories really made me all the more attached to how things would turn out. Whether it was freeing everyone in pacifist, or erasing them and the world in no mercy. Each and every one of them felt like people, all with their own desires and fears. The character writing shines in every interaction.

Undertale, to me, was a game that was meant to be replayed, I really was the player that thought because I “could” I “had” to. And that’s what’s so special about this game to me, and it’s that it sees how you, the player, treat a game.

Another thing about Undertale that cannot be replicated is the amount of creativity it as inspired over these past ten years. It has inspired so many to make aus, comics, fanfiction, art, and so much more. Frankly, it has been an amazing experience to be in this fandom with this many talented people.

I have posted the speedpaint for this drawing on youtube, and thank you to Toby Fox, Temmie Chang, and everyone else who contributed in making this amazing game. Here’s to 99 more years!

For example, we all pretty much know the misconception that Sans remembers resets, and how often it’s used in fan works, but there is another character that canonically remembers resets and controlled them himself, Flowey. There’s a lot that can be done with Flowey that would fit so well resets wise, like playing into how he didn’t like resetting at first, but the more he did it the more he chased whatever new “content” he could find. He’s ripe with potential for someone to use in a reset centric story, it’s one of the biggest defining parts of his character.

Another one I see a lot is Sans being vengeful over what happened to Papyrus and the other monsters, but yet again there is already another character that does that exact thing in game. Undyne’s speech on the rocks in Waterfall changes with every monster you kill, she is enraged at what you’ve done, especially if you kill Papyrus.

First thing is that he's pretty different from the rest of the underground in terms of how he thinks about fighting. Because from the books in the library we know that attack patterns could be used to express monster's emotions and are used in things like greeting cards. But he doesn't think of it that way at all, seeing how he's reluctant to even hit Frisk, let alone think of fighting as something that could be fun.

Another thing is that he sees it as something wrong, and just blatantly refuses to do it again. We already knew that he had a strong set of morals because of his status as a judge in the narrative, but it adds so much to the weight of his actions in no mercy. He didn't just wait so long to fight because of the possibility of a reset, but because he thought it was so wrong to do so that it outweighed fighting us for our actions. But what would happen forced him to put aside his own morals that he followed so closely.

dave and rose have both cultivated random friendships with animals on campus/around town, rose with stray cats and dave with the local crow population, he even tried tasting the bird seed once (says its not bad)

june, sollux, and karkat are in the same comp sci class, june complains about hating it and sollux says that maybe she’d hate it less if she was actually good at it, so they’ve been beefing ever since

kanaya hits up the local thrift shops for clothes to work on, and eventually jade, rose, and feferi join in too

jade still has reminders but instead of them being on her fingers it’s a meticulously filled out planner which is color coded and everything (and it actually works for her)