Gotta know about that hot new deltarune discourse cuz my entire knowledge is misgenderin' the nonbinary kid, sayin the butch dino aint a lil lesbian, and ppl calling transfemme headcanons for the goat femboy erasure. Gimme the tea fujofreak
someone posted like a 200 page thing about how they hate deltarune and also it's bad in that order (here) and some of this is good and most of it is unbearable.
one of their chief complaints is that the game is "unfunny", not a shred of actual critique for the ways you actually can critique comedy, it's just bad because it's tumblr. now, some may call me biased on this point,
long thing complaining about the spritework being ugly and inconsistent. ?
there's a part at the start where they complain about alphys being a one note joke character, commend lancer for being a joke that turns into a serious character, and when someone on twitter was like "what about true lab" they said "i didn't bring that up because it wasn't relevant"
the one undertale character they like is asgore because he's the only one with a real compelling conflict and they really whine about the games being too mean to him and making him the butt of divorce jokes. noted toddler obliterator asgore dreemur
"toby fox wants you to play the prequel game before you play the sequel game. this is because he doens't want to develop new characters and is using nostalgia baint to trick you into liking the characters."
they seem really upset that it's not a hard game? like. they accuse it of being a fake rpg from someone who doesn't care about rpgs the same way DDLC is, and i find it untoward to say that when you're claiming it's not a game because it doesn't have Real Gameplay. you don't care about visual novels. 'rpgs' have been next to visual novels as choices for beginners who just want to get something out there with pictures for ages. they're comparing an indie rpg to shin megami tensei instead of the genre of indie rpgs. i think there's room to-
hold on i lied when i said i read it i'm only most of the way through because it's so fucking long and there's a bit where they compare toby fox's response to fandom to scott cawthon. where am i.
"What (scott) has never done is reshaped a Five Nights at Freddy’s game to be what his fans wanted" ... ""Five Nights at Freddy's 3" was a definitive ending, until it wasn't, because fans thought it wasn't scary enough. So he began work on another title that was scarier than anything he had made prior to explicitly subvert them." ???????. oh my god it keeps going. it's saying that the fazbear fanverse initiative is a more real support of fan content than toby fox's Weak Platitudes because it's monetarily supporting and platforming fan projects. name a single fazbear fanverse initiative project right now without looking it up. go on. "toby fox would never do this and it proves he doesn't really care about transformative works" by picking a list of fanworks to be Real And Good and all the rest are less important.
god. okay. some of the points are good (deltarune is more of An Event than a video game; saying That Scene made it through to release without anyone mentioning it could be read Like That, and that it is a bad thing to release a game with a scene that could be read Like That, is infantilizing everyone involved to the nth degree; both games are weak on their premise (which is especially funny considering it's taken entirely from another game toby didn't even play because it was only in japanese at the time of undertale's creation(this is not mentioned in the essay because it would require acknowledging that moon is an rpg))) but it's so tied up with the fact they clearly just don't like the game because they wanted it to be something else. "toby fox REFUSES to write a good story because he's AFRAID" i think you have exactly as much of a parasocial relationship with him as the fanbase does my friend. like sure ralsei and susie's designs were more interesting before but there is a point being made about a character's eyes being visible. you can disagree with the choice, but to say the game decided to do Nothing because toby fox was making it bad on purpose is disingenuous.