butchlesbianhartman:

Now presenting: Kris

ask-doggo-things:

So, I caught myself thinking about Deltarune last night, before I went to sleep, or tried to at least. I was thinking about how strange it is that theres much less freedom of choice in it, then I realized that I preferred it that way, then I realized why.

From a writing standpoint, Toby cannot rehash the exact same themes from Undertale. It cannot be the whole “choose who to spare or who to kill” thing again. It just cant, we’ve already done that, what would be the point?

From that, I realized that perhaps, perhaps, that might be part of the entire point.
Instead of exploring the ramifications of your freedom of choice in a game
Its the ramifications of when you have no real choice at all

Think about it, theres three instances in the game where your choices outright don’t matter or that you simply aren’t given one:
The first is at the beginning, when you make a bunch of choices, then Gaster destroys them while telling you “you dont get to choose who you are in this world”
The second and third is Suzie, who stops you from making a choice at all and outright says along the lines of “your choices don’t matter”

And again, subtly enough, you aren’t even given the choice of actually killing monsters throughout the game. A couple friends of mine tried but the monsters actually just get knocked out or run away or just cant be defeated that way, not even the current last boss.

AND THEN, that whole thing at the end happens regardless of your choices.

Then it hit me

Remember when we all installed the game?

Remember the agreement?

We accepted to the terms that, and I quote, “YOU ACCEPT EVERYTHING THAT WILL HAPPEN FROM NOW ON.”

We agreed to not have a choice.

We lost the right when we installed the game, that was the trap in the agreement.

That’s just my thoughts on it though, I might be totally off. It just makes a lot of sense to me and I wanted to share it.

nattico:

Game: Your choices don’t matter.

Me: ok

My choices: *don’t matter*

Me: