That feeling when you aren't good enough at coding yet to make your dream game, so you gotta backtrack and make a smaller game, and that smaller game ends up becoming the sort of cultural touchstone that would've influenced the teen protagonists of your first game more than CRT TVs would... Happens to everyone, really.

measures have to be taken, but promises have to be kept.

PREQUEL!

Perseverance leaves the RUINS!

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the king's favorite.

im in a friend groupe with two other guys, lets call them John and Max (fake names) me and John both absolutely love Undertale and talk about it with eachother quite frequently. Max had never played, but had seen some gameplay and heard us talk about it sometimes and got intruiged.

when undertale went on sale a few days ago, he bought it and played it for the first time. both me and John insisted that we wouldnt tell him anything and dont give him any instructions unless he was genuienly confused and asked for a small hint himself.

my issue is, is that the moment he started playing, he skipped every single interaction. im not exaggirating, he skipped the intro cutscene, pretty much all of toriels dialog and didnt talk to a single person. that in itself isnt particularly wrong, everyone can play the way they want to, but he just finished and texted me something along the lines of

"i dont get what the hype is all about. it was alright i guess, but it was kinda boring and i still dont get why i was there in the first place"

this genuienly annoyed me. i dont expect him to interact with every single echo flower, sign or nps, but just read the required dialog befre complaining he doesnt understand the story?? i get that undertale isnt for everyone, but i feel that, if he had just given it a chance, he would have liked it.

now im wondering how to tell him this without sounding like the steriotypical undertale fan dictating how every new player should play the game. he knows theres different routes, and i kind of want to encourage him to play the pacifist route, and actually pay attention this time, but i dont know how to it without sounding stuck up.

what do you think? is my annoyance even justified here?

A few notes

1: I really like how much expression I gave his mouth and how varied they are

2: I’ve never done smear frames before, I’m really proud of the up/down smear frames, less so the left/right smear frame but I’m still happy enough with it

3: while I made the resprites partly because I don’t like the original battle sprites that much I don’t think they’re bad or that like are better, I like mine more personally but that’s an opinion and not objective, and I do think the originals have a charm that can’t really be kept with a resprite like this, and I believe Toby Fox said he intentionally made some sprites look a lil “worse” or something along those lines, so even if I did think the originals were bad it wouldn’t be a reflection of Temmie Chang’s or anyone else’s spriting capabilities to me and I’m certainly no where near Temmie Chang’s level of spriting

4: I mostly made these for fun because I was bored

5: I have someone using UTMT to put my sprites into their game and so far I think it looks neat, idk if anything will come out of it like for public use but if anyone wants to use my sprites for anything I don’t mind I think it would be neat

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