just finished first playthrough of chapter 5
holy shit????
i somehow have all the questions yet none at the same time?? omg??
noelle and susie??
rudy "falling down"?? (like is he injured? is he dead? is it a fake-out from carol because her and kris have a plan and she needs noelle to Not Be There??)
THE FLOWERS
the fucking flowers
the closest fucking thing we have to canon versions of the human souls' personalities from undertale???
And they're all amazing???? (Flowery's an exception but honestly I don't hate him as much as I expected lol) (I spent all my F$ at the cafe whicH IS WHAT THE ORIGINAL CAFE IN CASTLETOWN SHOULD BE LIKE TOBY GIVE ME MOREFILLER NPC DIALOGUE)
THE SUBTLE REFERENCES TO FAN GAMES?? I SEE YOU TOBY FOX
the pink coins are actually what i hate most about this chapter lmao. like for the secret boss, fine. I love Pink, Pink is such an interesting subversion of the boy-crazy magical girl lead and what love means to a young girl, GAWD I LOVE HER. BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAD TO FIND NINE MORE TO GET THE COOL ARMOR FROM THE FLOWERS, IM—
(the detail of them lining up with their undertale counterparts is so cool though. My brother and I only had enough for the orange flower's armor weapon (i forget if it was the bandana or the glove) as a result of spending all our money at the cafe for the pair interactions)
honestly this entire chapter was me going "hOLY SHIT THAT WAS IN UNDERTALE THATS WHAT TOBY WAS TESTING OUT AHHHH" to my younger brother who is essentially a personal lets play livestreamer for deltarune specifically (i buy the game and do all the funny voices, he does the actual hard gameplay like battles)
the way it mirrors chapter one?? Like??? The nostalgia being such a central theme to the chapter with the thesis of even if we have fond memories, it's always best to move forward is so loving. So obviously toby makes us experience this personally by having so many parallels to chapter 1 of deltarune and undertale just so he can change the trajectory of the rest of the game in chapter 6 and absolutely eviscerate us emotionally and mentally
also last minute thing but i did NOT notice Catti being jealous of Susie for being Noelle's crush at ALL. genuinely thought she actually believed susie was cursed like a dunbass
ALSO ALSO THAT FUCKING PHOTO IN SANS' LAB. WE ACTUALLY GET AN ANSWER FOR THAT IM CRYING UNDERTALE SANS IS ALMOST CERTAINLY DELTARUNE SANS AND PAPYRUS IS IN FUCKING SNOWDIN RN SOMEWHERE IM— HE GOT PAPYRUS A SOUVENIR (i was so convinced papyrus was the ice-e mascot though rip)
imagine the underground is technically just a dark world that only sans has access to but is also a parallel world somehow at the same time
ALSO ALSO i dont want anyone saying toriel is a bad mom. little absent minded? sure. naive about her teenage child and weirdly strict over the unnecessary things? fine. BUT BUT BUT she admits to being worried about kris in the last chapter! She tried calling them but they were in the dark world and never got that call (or however many calls she made before bumping into sans). The only reason she wasnt even moreso worried was because of sans calming her down and assuring her that he saw them with susie and that they'll be fine.
anyways i have too many thoughts but too lazy to make separate posts about them so im just dumping them all into here
