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The first time I played Undertale, I believe I was in the middle of the fifth grade, mid-2017. I had heard of the game earlier in the year through Youtube, I don't remember exactly from where, but since I wasn't allowed to use the laptop at home I had no chance to play it. I had managed to find a Google Drive containing the game later on(don't know how lucky I am that it wasn't just an outright virus) and started playing it once I finished my schoolwork. I COULD have attempted to just download it on the laptop I had as part of my IEP, but for some reason that thing was resided to Undertale *fangames* instead. For any of y'all reading this with younger siblings, tell them to see if they can manage to install Opera browser on the school computers, then turn on the VPN. It's smooth sailing from there.
This isn't large, but one largely *enjoyable* fantasy improvement that I have in this second playthrough is the fact I've discovered I can do a pretty good Papyrus impression nowadays. Acting out his voicelines aloud when he comes on screen immediately makes the game more enjoyable for me, as well as my younger sister whenever she's watching me in this replay.
The more I used the phone to call Undyne & Papyrus in the various rooms, I started to realize that I had never learned much of their backstory on my first playthrough. Being the kid I was, I was mainly focused on finding all the secret characters and items rather than engaging with the characters, and with that in mind it kind of makes sense why I'm the one with the worst takes on them in the room whenever an Undertale-based discussion comes up. So many jokes that I had thought were fanmade up to this point(I can understand your laughter) happened to be from these, and I don't regret going back for them.
I don't think that anything much else is to be said about the experience beyond that, I'm just glad I took the time to play the game again even if mainly for my sister's sake.