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despite everything, it's still you
I keep getting distracted! By all of the art ideas all at once, and then I end up playing video games instead, and then I feel bad.
To which note: I watched playthroughs of Undertale because I haven't played it yet, and I was really itching to play Deltarune. This is partly the fault of an artist I watch on youtube*, as I ended up watching his video theorising about who the villain is in Deltarune. Which, now I'm most of the way through chapter two of said game, I disagree with him (since you have to take specific actions for something he mentions to even occur), but I guess we'll see when the entire game is out! (If it ever is. I mean, I hope so, but also if Toby loses interest/can't finish it because of health reasons or whatever else, so be it).
So yeah. Undertale is an okay game! I probably would have enjoyed it better had I played it myself/closer to release date. Like. A lot of it has been so thoroughly referenced and over memed that I just. avoided it because of that, I guess! I do not think it is the greatest game ever made, but I do think it does some interesting things in interesting ways.
I am of the opinion that Chara is the bad guy in the entire scenario. I think their influence corrupted Asriel after he became Flowey. Asriel even says that Chara hated other humans and wanted them dead, and it's implied that - somehow - Chara is influencing Frisk if you decide to do a genocide run. I don't think Asriel is entirely innocent, however, but I also don't think he's the bad guy here.
And that's all I have to say about that!
And then, of course, Deltarune does a thing I absolutely LOVE in fiction, which is taking characters we already know, but putting them in entirely different situations. Which is, to digress slightly, why I think I love AUs so much, and why my two favourite episodes of Farscape are the ones they are (John Quixote and Unrealised Reality, before you ask. I mean, JQ is also one of my faves because it's Stark-centric, and Stark is my favourite character. And now I really am digressing)**.
I'm about halfway through chapter 2, I think? I don't know, since I'm avoiding spoilers (apart from that one video, lol). It took around three hours or so to play chapter 1, and I can't imagine 2 is much longer? Guess I'll find out this afternoon :D
I also started playing FFIV on my PS2, but haven't got too far with that (just met up with Yang), thanks to the aforementioned Undertale hole/feeling guilty about playing video games, although that's nowt fresh.
And that's pretty much all that's been happening with me for the past few days!
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*AND my current favourite streamer. He says people keep bugging him to play it, but he's reluctant to, because they'll want him to do certain things, and he (obviously) wants to play it the way he wants to play it. But he's had trouble with people backseating in the past, so I totally get where he's coming from.
**Also if we really digress, it's also why I think I love reincarnation stories, because it scratches a similar itch. And also why I started writing that story one time when I was in my early twenties that went nowhere but was along both of these lines. I still think about it a lot, even now. I'd still really like to write something like that one day (well, maybe not exactly, but with those sorts of themes).
To which note: I watched playthroughs of Undertale because I haven't played it yet, and I was really itching to play Deltarune. This is partly the fault of an artist I watch on youtube*, as I ended up watching his video theorising about who the villain is in Deltarune. Which, now I'm most of the way through chapter two of said game, I disagree with him (since you have to take specific actions for something he mentions to even occur), but I guess we'll see when the entire game is out! (If it ever is. I mean, I hope so, but also if Toby loses interest/can't finish it because of health reasons or whatever else, so be it).
So yeah. Undertale is an okay game! I probably would have enjoyed it better had I played it myself/closer to release date. Like. A lot of it has been so thoroughly referenced and over memed that I just. avoided it because of that, I guess! I do not think it is the greatest game ever made, but I do think it does some interesting things in interesting ways.
I am of the opinion that Chara is the bad guy in the entire scenario. I think their influence corrupted Asriel after he became Flowey. Asriel even says that Chara hated other humans and wanted them dead, and it's implied that - somehow - Chara is influencing Frisk if you decide to do a genocide run. I don't think Asriel is entirely innocent, however, but I also don't think he's the bad guy here.
And that's all I have to say about that!
And then, of course, Deltarune does a thing I absolutely LOVE in fiction, which is taking characters we already know, but putting them in entirely different situations. Which is, to digress slightly, why I think I love AUs so much, and why my two favourite episodes of Farscape are the ones they are (John Quixote and Unrealised Reality, before you ask. I mean, JQ is also one of my faves because it's Stark-centric, and Stark is my favourite character. And now I really am digressing)**.
I'm about halfway through chapter 2, I think? I don't know, since I'm avoiding spoilers (apart from that one video, lol). It took around three hours or so to play chapter 1, and I can't imagine 2 is much longer? Guess I'll find out this afternoon :D
I also started playing FFIV on my PS2, but haven't got too far with that (just met up with Yang), thanks to the aforementioned Undertale hole/feeling guilty about playing video games, although that's nowt fresh.
And that's pretty much all that's been happening with me for the past few days!
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*AND my current favourite streamer. He says people keep bugging him to play it, but he's reluctant to, because they'll want him to do certain things, and he (obviously) wants to play it the way he wants to play it. But he's had trouble with people backseating in the past, so I totally get where he's coming from.
**Also if we really digress, it's also why I think I love reincarnation stories, because it scratches a similar itch. And also why I started writing that story one time when I was in my early twenties that went nowhere but was along both of these lines. I still think about it a lot, even now. I'd still really like to write something like that one day (well, maybe not exactly, but with those sorts of themes).