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Deltarune (Video Game)
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Due to the sheer volume of spoilers, all of them are unmarked in this page. You Have Been Warned!Deltarune is an episodic Role-Playing Game by Toby Fox for the PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4. A successor and "parallel story" to Undertale, Fox describes it as, "a game you can play after you complete Undertale, if you want to."The town of Hometown is a perfectly normal and charming little sunny suburban community where pretty much all the residents are monsters living peaceful and mundane lives. You, the player, are placed in the role of Kris, the only human resident of the town. Otherwise, Kris lives in a perfectly normal house with their rather overprotective and snail-obsessed mom, Toriel.One day at school, Kris and resident bully Susie are tasked to get some chalk from the supply closet. Said closet turns out to be Bigger on the Inside, and Kris and Susie somehow fall into a dark and otherworldly place. They form an uneasy alliance to protect themselves against creatures that inhabit the place, and soon they meet the Prince of Darkness, Ralsei, who tells them that they are the fabled "DELTA WARRIORS" who are prophesied to save the world.But the dark world is full of many opponents and oddball characters, as well as the continued question of what kind of heroes they will be, and whether the choices they make matter or not...Gameplay fundamentals have changed little from Undertale (with Action Commands and the ability to non-lethally defeat enemies being core parts of the system), though it has changed to accommodate three party members, each with their own classes and abilities. The game also introduces a TPnote "Tension Points" instead of "Tech Points", though a couple NPCs make the obvious "toilet paper" joke system for combat, allowing the player to build up a special gauge by guarding, attacking or grazing bullets, with excess TP converted into money after battles.Initially teased on the Undertale Twitter account on October 30, 2018, the first chapter was released for free a day later on Halloween, in the guise of a "survey program." The second chapter, also free, was released on September 17, 2021. Chapters 3 and 4 are planned to release as a paid bundle some time in the future, with the remaining chaptersnote including Chapters 5 to 7, although it's unknown how many there will be at this time following suit in a final bundle. The game is available from various digital retailers, as well as its official site. | |
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Shop Fodder | |
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Shop Fodder: The rare Glowshards can be sold for a decent sum of money. Their one practical use is for sparing a Rudinn, but given that Rudinns are among the most basic enemies in the game and exclusive to the first chapter, it doesn't amount to much. The value they sell for increases with each chapter passed. The Dog Dollar only exists to be sold, but gets halved from its base value of 100 D$ per chapter. Not a great prospect when the first one is available in Chapter 2 via a bizarre secret. | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: While giving his thoughts on the demo, Toby Fox admitted he found the ACT/FIGHT system a lot less meaningful due to his choice to only include one ending for the game. Chapter 2 introduces more factors affected by whether the party uses violence or mercy, though outside of the Weird route (which is deliberately distanced from typical actions and is ambiguous as to what it implies for the rest of the game) they're still kept relatively minor. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: While Undertale could get quite dark, Deltarune is much more direct and, to a lesser degree, somewhat more cynical. Characters are less hopeful and more jaded, and the heavier themes come into play much earlier. There is also a fair amount more profanity (which is likely why the game went from an E rating to a T rating after Chapter 1's initial release), particularly in Chapter 2. | |
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Shows Damage | |
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The flying numbers that Shows Damage are colored differently based on which character dealt said damage. Kris's are blue, Susie's are pink, Ralsei's are green, and Noelle's are yellow. | |
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Pre-existing Encounters | |
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Pre Existing Encounters: Unlike the Random Encounters in Undertale, all battles occur from on-field enemies rushing toward you. | |
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Cheated Angle | |
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Cheated Angle: Because most of the characters aren't drawn from top-bottom perspective, Kris's laying down in bed sprite is the same one as their left facing sprite and they simply walk out of bed without changing their angle. | |
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Violation of Common Sense | |
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Violation of Common Sense: The method of being kind to enemies who are trying to kill you is Lampshaded by Susie. And opposed to Undertale, this method is often subverted for each chapter's Arc Villain: You can technically win the fight against King without fighting, but either way, Ralsei will be too soft with King and heal him, nearly getting the party killed when King pulls an I Surrender, Suckers. The spare method for Queen's first fight at least makes more sense (loosening Berdly's wire to avoid him getting injured), but once she gets her Humongous Mecha, it's clear that you must fight. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: The Amalgamates never came to be, but Everyman is still out there, appearing as a Recurring Extra as pieces of graffiti or rarely as part of boss attacks. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Besides the Greater-Scope Villain(s), numerous characters are mentioned but unseen and unheard as of Chapter 2: Asriel is mentioned repeatedly by the residents of Hometown, but is stated to be away at college. Dess is mentioned in a sparse few lines of dialogue from both Noelle and Rudy, being the oldest daughter of the Holiday family and implied to either be dead or missing for some time before the events of the game. The mayor of Hometown, whom you are prevented from seeing by NPCs blocking the way. All that's stated in Chapter 1 is that she's female and non-charismatic but competent enough to keep getting reelected. Chapter 2 confirms that she's Noelle's mother, but she still doesn't appear onscreen. Asgore's overdue rent notice is signed by a mysterious "C.". | |
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The Virus | |
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VIRUS: Virovirokun and Poppup. | |
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all lowercase letters: The game's title is stylized this way, in contrast to Undertale's all-uppercase title. | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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You can technically win the fight against King without fighting, but either way, Ralsei will be too soft with King and heal him, nearly getting the party killed when King pulls an I Surrender, Suckers. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Deconstructed as the central theme of Deltarune. Deltarune portrays the idea of fate and destiny in a scary and pressuring way. You don't get to choose your character and you don't get to choose how you play the game. Nowhere in the game do you actually have free will or make any impactful choices. In the ending, Kris tears out the SOUL from their chest, seemingly so they can have free will and a choice of their own, even if it's sinister or psychopathic, since Kris may not have wanted to be good or be a hero in the first place (and many characters make the point that Kris is acting very out of character, implied to be due to the influence of the player on their decisions and abilities). | |
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Regenerating Health | |
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Regenerating Health: When a party member's HP is depleted, their health will be set to -50% of their maximum. Their HP regenerates by 13% each turn, reviving them in four turns (at 17% of maximum) unless the player uses items or magic to speed things up. | |
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Product Displacement | |
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Product Displacement: The self-heal move used by a few bosses is pretty transparently a carton of Silk-brand almond milk based on the design, but look closely and you'll notice that the pixelated text reads "Milk" instead of "Silk". | |
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Permanent Elected Official | |
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The mayor of Hometown, whom you are prevented from seeing by NPCs blocking the way. All that's stated in Chapter 1 is that she's female and non-charismatic but competent enough to keep getting reelected. Chapter 2 confirms that she's Noelle's mother, but she still doesn't appear onscreen. | |
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Status Effects | |
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Status Effects: The two statuses currently found in the game are Sleep, which works as expected, and Tired, which allows an enemy to be spared with Ralsei's Pacify magic without having to turn their name yellow for a normal spare. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: In Kris and Asriel's bedroom, Asriel's side has a framed image of a yellow daisy on the wall, nodding back to his Undertale counterpart's reincarnation as Flowey. In the alleyway, behind Alphys in Chapter 1 and Bratty in Chapter 2, there's graffiti of Everyman, previously used for all of Reaper Bird's attacks in Undertale. It also shows up in a few boss attacks across the game as an Easter Egg, including as one of the heads in Jevil's carousel and as an inactive lurker in Queen's social media attack. Three of the dead monsters in the graveyard are based on the components of the Amalgamates from Undertale, who were supposed to die before being experimented on. The Portal Door that allows the player to fast-travel across each Dark World is identical to Sans' door in Undertale. | |
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Reused Character Design | |
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Reused Character Design: Aside from the Costume Evolution, most characters returning from Undertale who didn't get an Age Lift use the same designs. Sans is one of the very few characters who didn't even receive a Costume Evolution. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Time Span: Each chapter takes place over a single day, with the Dark World adventures occurring during a few hours between the end of the school day and sunset. | |
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Bag of Spilling | |
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Items and money from the previous chapter carry over, averting Bag of Spilling. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Noelle's crush on Susie transcends "tease" into "all but overt canon". Sadly for her, Susie seems to be Oblivious to Love. | |
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Healthy Green, Harmful Red: While damage is indicated by red numbers, healing is represented by green numbers appearing above a character's body. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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In the alleyway, behind Alphys in Chapter 1 and Bratty in Chapter 2, there's graffiti of Everyman, previously used for all of Reaper Bird's attacks in Undertale. It also shows up in a few boss attacks across the game as an Easter Egg, including as one of the heads in Jevil's carousel and as an inactive lurker in Queen's social media attack. | |
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Sound Test | |
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Among the various Easter eggs in Undertale that hinted at Gaster and Deltarune is a Sound Test of sorts where the player is thanked for the "feedback" of listening to Gaster's song for a few seconds. Years later, the Deltarune demo is presented as another survey and Gaster's Theme is not-so-subtly featured in both the morbidly humorous vessel setup as well as in various other places later on. | |
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Empty Shell | |
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Meta-wise, the actions of the player are seen as incongruous with Kris's personality, as if you are a higher being who uses them as a vessel. This extends to the superbosses, who have gone mad from hyper-awareness of their world, and Chapter 2's Weird Route, where the player, through Kris, compels Noelle into murdering Darkners and even her own classmate. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: Kris can carry around a lot of stuff in their pockets even if it doesn't look like it should be able to fit with only a few exceptions. A notable example is when Susie asks Kris to steal a statue that looks like her from the room Queen made for Noelle, even though it's much larger than them. | |
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Stat Grinding | |
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Stat Grinding: Unlike the Character Level system in Undertale, beating up enemies in Chapter 2 onwards will cause your stats to granularly increase. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: Kris' love for chocolate is mentioned in multiple places by the narration and people who know them well, with Toriel even having to hide chocolates from them so they don't eat them all at once. Being a Composite Character of Frisk and Chara at least in design, this appears to be a reference to the Undertale fanbase having fun portraying Chara, whether good OR evil, as a ravenous chocolate-loving maniac based off a single line in the game. Ralsei's Valentines 2024 mentions Susie wanted to roll up all the valentine paper into a giant tube. Ralsei indignantly refuses her pestering to pretend to smoke out of it, playing on a meme showing Ralsei smoking an improbably-large marijuana cigarette. | |
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Ruder and Cruder | |
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Ruder and Cruder: Characters' swears are stronger here than in Undertale, most notably Susie infrequently talking about thrashing asses and Rouxls Kaard's infamous "GOD DAMMIT". This is likely the main reason why, while the console versions of Undertale have an ESRB rating of Everyone 10+, Deltarune's first two chapters are rated Teen. | |
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GIS Syndrome | |
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GIS Syndrome: Played for Laughs with the stock image of an almond milk carton that pacifist-enforced bosses (K. Round and Sweet Cap'n Cakes so far) use to restore their health if they take damage. A stock explosion GIF is also often used in place of proper art whenever an explosion happens. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | comment |
Boring, but Practical: The DD-Burger/Double Darkburger is a fairly plain healing item but one of the best available in the early game. For just 140 D$, two Darkburgers from Seam's shop can be combined into a single DD-Burger by Malius, healing 60 HP upon use and turning into a Darkburger that heals 70 HP, similarly to the Bisicle from Undertale. Since the party can only hold a limited number of items at once, DD-Burgers allow them to carry a lot more mid-strength heals, with the only disadvantages being that Noelle dislikes them (only healing 20 HP per use) and that they can only be made between Dark World visits. | |
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Recurring Riff | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3bbf3fef | comment |
Recurring Riff: Just like in Undertale, there are riffs that are used throughout the entire soundtrack, including a few from Undertale itself. The most used riff so far seems to be of "Don't Forget", though there are also many likely instances of Gaster's theme. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Toriel and Asgore still had a falling-out in the past, but this time, what actually caused it isn't explained. Asgore was formerly the chief of police. Some unspecified incident forced his removal, and subsequent replacement by Undyne. If the player inspects an article about it, Kris will close their eyes, refusing to read the contents. Kris apparently did some interesting things in their past. Some are described by the residents of Hometown, while others, such as hiding under Noelle's bed to scare her and putting a bath bomb in the toilet, only get a mention, leaving the details to the player's imagination. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7 | comment |
Take That, Audience!: A lot of content in the early game pokes fun at common Fandom-Specific Plots, such as Toriel adopting human children post-game. In a more general note, it examines the common fandom wish for there to be a sequel to Undertale by creating a simultaneous Happy Ending Override and a scenario where the main cast doesn't have the same relationships as in the first game, completely averting one of the main reasons that fans wanted to see a sequel.invoked | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7 | |
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Explosive Overclocking | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8 | comment |
Spamton has a unique spare method in cutting his strings, and arguably the condition he's left in afterwards (falling "dead" onto the ground when cut free vs. exploding in a failed attempt to power up) makes more sense for his post-battle scene and the reaction Kris has while leaving the basement. Not only that, but the cutscene immediately after sparing him also has a unique background and song that aren't present in the violent victory cutscene. His speech afterwards is the same for both, and he turns himself into an item either way, but the mercy-granted Dealmaker glasses (a strong armor that also grants a substantial D$ multiplier) are much less situational than the violence-granted Puppet Scarf (a weapon that massively buffs Ralsei's attack but also cuts his Heal Prayer healing). | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3f70415 | type |
Because Destiny Says So | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3f70415 | comment |
Because Destiny Says So: Deconstructed as the central theme of Deltarune. Deltarune portrays the idea of fate and destiny in a scary and pressuring way. You don't get to choose your character and you don't get to choose how you play the game. Nowhere in the game do you actually have free will or make any impactful choices. In the ending, Kris tears out the SOUL from their chest, seemingly so they can have free will and a choice of their own, even if it's sinister or psychopathic, since Kris may not have wanted to be good or be a hero in the first place (and many characters make the point that Kris is acting very out of character, implied to be due to the influence of the player on their decisions and abilities). However, Chapter 2 reveals this is either a lie, or there's a loophole — Kris can't make impactful decisions, but the player can cause other people to do so. Specifically, Noelle can be forced into killing every Darkner she encounters, and if you equip a specific ring for her, she gains a lethal ice spell that she can use to seemingly murder Berdly and go on a horrifying killing spree, which ends with the violent death of Spamton NEO. Back in the Light World, Noelle implies that a voice was telling her to do all those horrible things, which is implied to be the player's voice. | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_405f6f52 | type |
Recycled Soundtrack | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_405f6f52 | comment |
Recycled Soundtrack: The theme that plays when a new character joins the group is re-used from Fox's soundtrack for Rose of Winter. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_405f6f52 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41c08e5 | type |
Establishing Series Moment | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41c08e5 | comment |
Establishing Series Moment: The game begins with the player selecting between various appearances, likes, and a name. The game then tells you those choices "will now be discarded" because "no one can choose who they are in this world." This lets the player know what they're in for right away. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41c08e5 | |
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Non-Lethal K.O. | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41d128e4 | comment |
Non-Lethal K.O.: Enemies flee or get blasted away when out of HP. Notably, EXP is unattainable by any method, as it presumably still stands for "Execution Points" as in Undertale, and none of the player characters ever kill anyone (and in the one specific situation when anyone does, XP gain isn't actually listed). This also applies to player characters whose HP is depleted; this is lampshaded by Ralsei if you use a ReviveMint on Susie: | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41d128e4 | |
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Sand Blaster | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41e5787c | comment |
RABBIT and DUST: Rabbick is the only character belonging to both of these elements so far. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_41e5787c | |
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It's a Wonderful Failure | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_45e41b66 | comment |
It's a Wonderful Failure: If you choose "No" when asked to continue after dying, the voice from the intro talks about how the world was covered in darkness. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_45e41b66 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_46911ea7 | type |
Player and Protagonist Integration | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_46911ea7 | comment |
Player and Protagonist Integration: Building on Undertale, the game continues the implication that the Player Character is literally being controlled by the player (or an in-universe entity that controls them). Not only that, as the game expands to having you control a team, you for a short time leave Kris's perspective to follow a party member that separated from them with a lesser degree of control/guidance. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_46911ea7 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4733b5a5 | type |
Saying Too Much | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4733b5a5 | comment |
Spamton is constantly glitching and twitching, enlarging his head to launch miniature copies of himself, spew stock sales lexicon, or suck in the battle box, and he'll horizontally stretch the first few times you try to deny his final offer. At his shop, he looks in all sorts of directions and tensely shakes during some of his lines, with his sprite scrambling at a couple points (including when he tries to tell Kris about the Knight). He gets worse as Spamton NEO, moving like a deranged marionette as his limbs flail and circle during his attack animations. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4733b5a5 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_477bcc9f | type |
Greasy Spoon | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_477bcc9f | comment |
Greasy Spoon: QC's, the local diner, where Kris, Asriel, Asgore, and Toriel used to eat when they were all living together. Fittingly, the Southern-accented, kindhearted rabbit shopkeeper from Snowdin is the head waitress here, and calls Kris "hun". | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_477bcc9f | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4a83c749 | type |
Big Door | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4a83c749 | comment |
Big Door: There's a large bunker-style door built into the landscape in the forest to the south of Hometown. Locked, obviously. The epilogue of Chapter 2 has some of the classmates attempt to open it, but to no avail. The door in the castle town leading to the classroom Dark World is a giant golden door with the Delta Rune emblazoned on it. Sealing the fountain reveals that it's just the door connecting the supply closet to the unused classroom. | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | type |
Shock and Awe | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | comment |
ELEC: Werewire, Tasque, Ambyu-Lance, Maus, Werewerewire. The most common element thus far, assigned to over half of all the enemies in Chapter 2. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | type |
New Work, Recycled Graphics | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | comment |
New Work, Recycled Graphics: While most of the content of Deltarune is brand new, there are minor elements recycled from Undertale. The Heart/SOUL (though it has a different sprite in Bullet Hell segments), the Annoying Dog/Toby Avatar (during most Dogchecks), and Sans all reuse their previous sprites, and the Light World's UI is directly carried over from Undertale. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4f4bbeff | type |
Interspecies Friendship | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4f4bbeff | comment |
Interspecies Friendship: Kris forms some with Susie, Ralsei, and Lancer in the Dark World, and seems to get on well with some of their classmates. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_4f4bbeff | |
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Painting the Medium | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: The game's UI elements are styled differently between the Light World and Dark World, emphasizing the plain, everyday nature of the former and the enticingly unusual nature of the latter. In the Light World, text boxes and menus are styled identically to Undertale, consisting solely of black boxes with plain white text and borders, with menus being segmented into multiple boxes in the vein of EarthBound. In the Dark World, a more advanced menu divided into drop-down tabs is used, in-game text features a subtle blue drop-shadow, and text boxes have a fancy silver border. Lightners have monochrome portraits like in Undertale, while Darkner portraits are in full color. | |
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But Thou Must! | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_504e271f | comment |
But Thou Must!: Appears to be the theme of the game; despite appearing to have a similar structure to Undertale in terms of choosing between pacifism or more violent methods, the game constantly forces you along only a single path. You are even told multiple times that "your choices don't matter", and many of the choices you are offered get rescinded immediately, in direct contrast to the extremely choice-driven experience of Undertale. The biggest choice a player can make is with the alternate route of Chapter 2, but it involves going completely Off the Rails and its results are less than pleasant. | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_506143c1 | type |
Fisher Kingdom | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_506143c1 | comment |
Fisher Kingdom: The outfits of Lightners change when they enter the Dark World, as well as brightening their skin tones. Kris' skin changes from dull yellow to light blue, and they change into a suit of armor. Susie becomes pink-colored, and wears a biker outfit. Noelle gets paler fur, and wears white robes. Berdly's feathers become slightly paler, the sclerae of his eyes change from white to yellow-green, and he changes into high-tech armor. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_506143c1 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_509769e7 | type |
Numerological Motif | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_509769e7 | comment |
Numerological Motif: The numbers 17 and 666 are used in the game's data to imply a connection with Dr. W.D. Gaster, as they did in Undertale. The bunker at the forest uses the room ID 17 and plays a muffled version of the "garbage noise" from Entry #17, slowed down by 666%. The Voice's dialogue in the Survey is printed on-screen with ID 666, which was formerly used for Gaster's Wingdings text. The Chapter 2 demo was released on the 17th of September. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_509769e7 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_51c70be6 | type |
Obliviously Evil | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_51c70be6 | comment |
Both games' take on resolving conflicts with violence are also different. All of your opponents in Undertale are Obliviously Evil at best and Tragic Villains at worst, and can eventually be reasoned with peacefully and even befriended. In fact, doing so is the only way to achieve the Golden Ending. The King in Deltarune, however, is undeniably, unwaveringly evil, and even if you've been going for a pacifist playthrough, your attempts to settle matters peacefully nearly get the entire party killed, and the "peaceful resolution" is his son overthrowing him and locking him up, with the lesson learned from the encounter being that sometimes a certain level of violence is necessary. | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_52db461d | type |
Significant Anagram | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_52db461d | comment |
Significant Anagram: Explored not only as hints for connections to the previous game, but as a theme. "Deltarune" is an anagram of "Undertale", and like an anagram, characters and the plot set-up are rearranged in a different order. On top of that, both names can be turned into the word "unrelated", hinting how Deltarune seems to be a world unto itself instead of a continuation of Undertale. "Kris" and "Ralsei" are both anagrams of "Frisk" (minus the F) and "Asriel", respectively, who they strongly resemble, but have numerous deviations. "Dark" — "Kard"; Playing Card Motifs are present with most major characters from the first Dark World. | |
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Not Completely Useless | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c | comment |
Not Completely Useless: FIGHTing (and dealing damage in general) is this in a "pacifist" run. While all enemies (sans GIGA Queen) can be defeated without pressing the FIGHT button, it can be used to end the King fight early without affecting the ending and Susie's Buster spells take down Queen's acid shield a lot quicker than ACTing will without getting Berdly injured. | |
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Orphaned Etymology | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_568b9d5 | comment |
Orphaned Etymology: A poster for a ferris wheel is seen in the city. There's no indication in the game whether or not George Ferris Jr. exists in this universe, and Susie at one point ponders what a Ferris even is. | |
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1.0 | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_568b9d5 | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: Although some Darkners are bad people, most of them are just normal folks living their life in the Dark World. | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | type |
The Goomba | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | comment |
The rare Glowshards can be sold for a decent sum of money. Their one practical use is for sparing a Rudinn, but given that Rudinns are among the most basic enemies in the game and exclusive to the first chapter, it doesn't amount to much. The value they sell for increases with each chapter passed. | |
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Chromatic Arrangement | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_59275ef7 | comment |
Chromatic Arrangement: The main three characters, Kris, Susie, and Ralsei, form this in the Dark World, with Kris being blue, Ralsei being green, and Susie being reddish-pink. | |
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1.0 | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_59275ef7 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | type |
Enemy Scan | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | comment |
Enemy Scan: The Check option in the ACT menu returns from Undertale, letting the player get an enemy's attack and defense, as well as a short description of them. In Chapter 2 onwards, however, it only gives a description, leaving the stats to the recruit information. | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: In opposition to Undertale: Your choices don't matter. Your Character Customization choices at the start of the game are immediately discarded, you're unable to choose your partner in class, Dialogue Tree choices will result in no actual difference (sometimes, you won't even be given time to pick a choice before another character cuts you off), characters will tell you multiple times your choices don't matter, you are incapable of engaging in full genocide or full pacifist playthroughs like you could in Undertale, and at the end of the game, control of Kris is literally ripped away from you. If you corrupt Noelle in Chapter 2, however, this theme is broken in the most horrifying manner possible. Another central theme that's directly tied to the first is seemingly "freedom", whether it be release from a prison or the ability to have agency at all. The Shadow Crystal holders mention "freedom" a lot. At the end of the "corrupt Noelle" route, it's implied Noelle becomes more aware of the lack of control over her own life and how she was being manipulated by "Kris". And after the battle against Spamton NEO, Kris is deeply unnerved at the potential cost of what it takes to gain "true freedom". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5d1eb74d | type |
Dump Stat | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5d1eb74d | comment |
Dump Stat: For any player doing a Pacifist Run, they won't care much about equipment that only increases Attack, or weapons without additional effects, as outside of certain targets, FIGHTing results in failing the pacifist run. And since Susie's only (non-joke) spell is an offensive one, they won't try to increase her Magic either. Any Magic-boosting item is wasted on Kris, since they can't use any magic. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274 | comment |
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Deltarune spoils a few things about some of the endings for Undertale; perhaps most notable being the original game's twist of "the protagonist and the player are separate entities" being casually mentioned during the character creation screen. The game's official site does state it's "intended for people who have completed Undertale," and the narration that appears when booting up the console version for the first time reaffirms this, bringing up a prompt that allows the player to purchase Undertale if necessary. | |
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Lonely Piano Piece | |
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Lonely Piano Piece: If the player chooses not to continue if they die, one called "Darkness Falls" (a melancholic version of W.D. Gaster's leitmotif) plays. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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In Chapter 1, regardless of whether you attacked everyone or spared everyone, the outcome is the same. Kris and Susie escape the Dark World, Kris pulls out the SOUL, and Susie has a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Mood Motif | |
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Mood Motif: A lo-fi filter that cuts off high frequencies is used at the beginning of each Dark World overworld track ("Field of Hopes and Dreams" and "A CYBER'S WORLD?"), with the rest of the song featuring a fuller, clearer sound; concurrently, the instrumentation shifts from a single instrument to a much beefier arrangement. The transition between these portions symbolizes the shift from the mundanity of the Light World to the vibrancy of each Dark World. | |
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Spoiled by the Manual | |
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Spoiled by the Manual: Parodied; the unused assets for the manual Ralsei gives you lists the controls for the overworld, menus, text, and (not-actually-in-the-game) cooking, with three of the four buttons corresponding to "butter" and the final one being used for "pulsar cannons." | |
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New Game Plus | |
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New Game Plus: After completing a chapter once, you can skip its opening Hometown section by returning to bed and accepting a warning prompt that will ask you to confirm if you're sure, since you will miss a lot of story content. | |
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Bizarro Elements | |
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Bizarro Elements: Every character and magic ability in the game is categorized into one or more elements. Some elements are your standard fare such as "ELEC" or "ICE", but there are more types that fit this trope, such as "MOUSE" and "ORDER". Starting in Chapter 2, you can check a recruited enemy's elemental type at SAVE points; however, these are merely cosmetic strings added individually for each enemy. A character with multiple elements will have them listed together, separated by a colon symbol (for example, Rudinn Ranger's element is JEWEL:BLADE). To recap, here are all the elemental descriptions thus far, along with characters associated with them: RUDE: Susie's Rude Buster attack deals Rude-elemental magic. This is the first element to be explicitly stated in the game, from the very first chapter. JEWEL: Rudinn and Rudinn Ranger. HEART: Hathy and Head Hathy. ORDER: Ponman, Ambyu-Lance, Tasque Manager. RABBIT and DUST: Rabbick is the only character belonging to both of these elements so far. FIGHT: Bloxer and Werewerewire. MOUSE: Jigsawry, Maus, and Mauswheel; the latter having the element MOUSE:MOUSE:MOUSE. PUZZ: Jigsawry. BLADE: Rudinn Ranger. ICE: Head Hathy. Noelle's spells are also Ice-based, such as IceShock. ELEC: Werewire, Tasque, Ambyu-Lance, Maus, Werewerewire. The most common element thus far, assigned to over half of all the enemies in Chapter 2. VIRUS: Virovirokun and Poppup. CAT: Tasque and Tasque Manager. COLOR: Swatchling. CHAOS: Jevil. His element as written in his unused Recruits bio is CHAOS:CHAOS. An actual hidden element system with in-battle effects exists in Chapter 2, but as it stands it is incomplete and only partly relates to recruit descriptions. Elemental armor can defend against bullets of the same element pair, and in some cases multiple elements. So far, we know of these elements: Element 0: Default neutral element, does not partake in element calculations. Element 1 (Elec/Holy): The unused Sky Mantle item is said to protect against Elec/Holy bullets. However, both the item and the element itself are currently unused. Element 6 (Puppet/Cat): Tasque, Tasque Manager, and Spamton NEO. Three armor items reduce damage from Puppet/Cat attacks. Element 7 (Mouse/???): The unused Mouse Token item reduces damage from a presumable Mouse-related element pair. Spamton’s Q&A also mentions [Thunder/Light]note which may be the same as Elec/Holy, [Dark/Star], and [Death/Scythe] pairs, none of which exist in-game yet. | |
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Critical Existence Failure | |
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Critical Existence Failure: Downplayed by the game's HP and revival mechanic. When a party member's HP is depleted, their Non-Lethal K.O. state is represented by their HP being set to the -50% of their max HP, which can be healed to the positives to revive them. The implication is that one can fight unhindered to the point of collapsing, but not dying. | |
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Permanently Missable Content | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_6602cad | comment |
Permanently Missable Content: Played Straight with most of the things in individual Dark Worlds, which cannot be revisited once completed. Played With regarding the Shadow Crystals and equipment dropped by superbosses; if you beat them on one save, the rewards will appear in the hole near your town in all other saves. However, this logically requires having defeated them in the first place, so you can still permanently miss these items on your first playthrough. | |
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Author Avatar | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: Once again, the Annoying Dog appears as Toby Fox's avatar. In Chapter 1, he can be seen via text actively working on the game in the library's computer lab, and becomes a recurring gag starting with Chapter 2. Similarly, Temmie represents the game's artist Temmie Chang. | |
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An Ice Person | |
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ICE: Head Hathy. Noelle's spells are also Ice-based, such as IceShock. | |
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Hello, [Insert Name Here] | |
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Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Defied in the vessel creation intro in Chapter 1. The player is given the choice to enter multiple values for their character, only to have most of them discarded before the game starts. However, the name inputted as the player's own name becomes the name of the save file itself, which starts by overwriting a pre-existing file labelled "Kris".note Only on a never-used save slot; an erased save slot shows as "[EMPTY]". The save file name is also used in the Castle Town in Chapter 2, named [name]Town. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_6a1c2a6 | comment |
Cosmic Horror Story: Both in a meta sense and in-universe. Meta-wise, the actions of the player are seen as incongruous with Kris's personality, as if you are a higher being who uses them as a vessel. This extends to the superbosses, who have gone mad from hyper-awareness of their world, and Chapter 2's Weird Route, where the player, through Kris, compels Noelle into murdering Darkners and even her own classmate. In-universe, the Dark World is a sub-dimension consisting of inanimate objects given life with the power of the Dark Fountains. If too many Dark Fountains are formed, beings called Titans will rise from the earth and destroy the world. | |
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Game Over | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_7228d0cb | comment |
The first time you get a Game Over, you get a few screens of dialogue. It's changed to a simple "want to continue?" yes/no question every time you die after that until you quit the game. Alternatively, you can mash buttons to skip the game over screen. | |
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Plot Tunnel | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_727b944e | comment |
Post-Chapter 1, the Spin Cake now counts for this. While it got a massive healing buff (it now heals 140 HP for the party), Topchef now resides in Castle Town (instead of the Card Kingdom), which can't be revisited in the middle of a Dark World, restricting it to one use per chapter. | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The flying numbers that Shows Damage are colored differently based on which character dealt said damage. Kris's are blue, Susie's are pink, Ralsei's are green, and Noelle's are yellow. As of Chapter 2, hostile enemies glow red to distinguish them from the harmless NPCs, though some NPCs become hostile if you fulfill certain conditions (such as breaking a vase near a Swatchling). | |
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Holiday Motif | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_744ab89c | comment |
Holiday Motif: True to their names, the Holidays are a family of anthropomorphic reindeer themed after Christmastime. Noelle is named after Noël, the French word for Christmas, Rudy is named after the title character of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and "Dess," the name of Noelle's unseen sister, is implied to be short for "December." Rudy occasionally uses Christmas-themed wordplay (e.g. "jingle my bells") and has an angel tree-topper in his hospital room, while the month of December is ironically a Trauma Button for Noelle. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_7464705c | comment |
Another central theme that's directly tied to the first is seemingly "freedom", whether it be release from a prison or the ability to have agency at all. The Shadow Crystal holders mention "freedom" a lot. At the end of the "corrupt Noelle" route, it's implied Noelle becomes more aware of the lack of control over her own life and how she was being manipulated by "Kris". And after the battle against Spamton NEO, Kris is deeply unnerved at the potential cost of what it takes to gain "true freedom". | |
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Technical Pacifist | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_777c0033 | comment |
Technical Pacifist: One way you can play the game, since you cannot actually kill anyone. You can just force your way through every enemy encounter with no impact on the plot, since all of the enemies just run away when out of HP. In Chapter 1, the only differences it makes are that Jevil will reward you with different equipment depending on whether you won violently or nonviolently, and the cutscene with the King changes but still has the same outcome. You can also spare the majority of Darkners in the chapter while still fighting certain encountersnote Lancer, C/K Round, Lancer and Susie, Jevil, the King and still get the pacifist ending for the chapter. In Chapter 2, however, beating up an enemy violently (even non-lethally) prevents them from being recruited into Castle Town. | |
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Healing Boss | |
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Healing Boss: To ensure that they can only be defeated through pacifism, both K. Round and Sweet Cap'n Cakes automatically heal all damage inflicted on them by drinking from an edited stock photo of Silk almond milk. | |
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The Lonely Door | |
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The Lonely Door: Each Dark World has a fast-travel system in the form of a standing Warp Door with a fire flickering under it. Most of the Warp Doors in each Dark World are empty and unusable until the party travels through the one that is active. | |
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Portal Door | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_7c8981df | comment |
The Portal Door that allows the player to fast-travel across each Dark World is identical to Sans' door in Undertale. | |
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Too Awesome to Use | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_7d561d58 | comment |
Too Awesome to Use: The Top Cake is a phenomenal item, healing the whole party for 160 HP, more than their maximum HP in Chapter 1, and only Susie's max HP after sealing the Cyber World, 190 HP being high enough to fully benefit from the Top Cake. However, you can only get one by repairing the Broken Cake in Chapter 1, so that usage needs to count. Giving the Top Cake back to Topchef rewards the party with a Spin Cake, which only heals 80 HP but can be replenished infinitely by talking to the chef, even across chapters. Post-Chapter 1, the Spin Cake now counts for this. While it got a massive healing buff (it now heals 140 HP for the party), Topchef now resides in Castle Town (instead of the Card Kingdom), which can't be revisited in the middle of a Dark World, restricting it to one use per chapter. As of Chapter 2, revival itemsnote Four Revive Mints (revives one downed member to 100% HP) and one Revive Dust (revives all downed members to 25% HP) are only found in the overworld and not in any shops. Naturally, you'll likely want to save them for the superbosses of the game or bosses in future chapters. | |
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Magical Land | |
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Magical Land: The Dark World is a land created by a Dark Fountain in the regular "Light World" that is shaped by items nearby the fountain. | |
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Story Branch Favoritism | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_7e2b418c | comment |
Story Branch Favoritism: While pacifism/violence plot differences aren't very prominent in Deltarune outside of very specific cases, the Shadow Crystal bosses seem to subtly favor taking one tactic over the other: Jevil is typically easier to fight than he is to spare, and sparing him just involves making him tired and casting Pacify as opposed to something more unique. In his post-mercy speech, he states that he will sleep in his cell for another century, ominously warns the heroes, and grants them the Jevilstail, a decent piece of armor with no unique traits. Beat him violently instead, and he commends the heroes' strength, foreshadows the coming of Queen in Chapter 2, and joins the party by transforming into the Devilsknife, which is Susie's strongest weapon as of Chapter 2 and reduces the TP cost of her signature Rude Buster. Beating Jevil violently also doesn't ruin the "pacifist" King cutscene. Spamton has a unique spare method in cutting his strings, and arguably the condition he's left in afterwards (falling "dead" onto the ground when cut free vs. exploding in a failed attempt to power up) makes more sense for his post-battle scene and the reaction Kris has while leaving the basement. Not only that, but the cutscene immediately after sparing him also has a unique background and song that aren't present in the violent victory cutscene. His speech afterwards is the same for both, and he turns himself into an item either way, but the mercy-granted Dealmaker glasses (a strong armor that also grants a substantial D$ multiplier) are much less situational than the violence-granted Puppet Scarf (a weapon that massively buffs Ralsei's attack but also cuts his Heal Prayer healing). | |
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Crystal Dragon Jesus | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_83adb272 | comment |
Crystal Dragon Jesus: "The Angel" is worshiped at a church, complete with stained glass, a priest, and Sunday school. This would normally be an innocuous religion were it not for "the Angel's Heaven" being the thing that the Delta Warriors are supposed to banish, according to the prophecy spoken by Ralsei, which has unsettling implications. | |
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Player Death Is Dramatic | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_83d20bbf | comment |
Player Death Is Dramatic: Just like Undertale before it, if the HP of all party members in battle reach 0, everything will vanish except for the SOUL, which then cracks and shatters into pieces. This is actually played with, since Kris does remove the SOUL from their body no less than twice without dying, but the SOUL is the representation of the Player's will, so if it breaks, the game is over anyway. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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The game also deconstructs the fan's expectations of any sort of sequel or prequel to Undertale by using an Alternate Universe plot to ruse and draw Paranoia Fuel from said expectations. invoked | |
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Superboss | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_8454f523 | comment |
As of Chapter 2, revival itemsnote Four Revive Mints (revives one downed member to 100% HP) and one Revive Dust (revives all downed members to 25% HP) are only found in the overworld and not in any shops. Naturally, you'll likely want to save them for the superbosses of the game or bosses in future chapters. | |
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It's All Upstairs From Here | |
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It's All Upstairs From Here: Both chapters' Dark Worlds end with the heroes climbing up the Arc Villain's base to seal the fountain, though the greatest foes lie on the lowest floors of the bases. | |
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Old Save Bonus | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0 | comment |
Old Save Bonus: The player is able to import save data from an earlier chapter's completed file when starting a save file for the succeeding chapter; the game marks a file as "complete" after viewing the credits, and certain actions taken in the old file will affect the new one. Items and money from the previous chapter carry over, averting Bag of Spilling. Talking to NPCs in the Hometown epilogue will change some of their dialogue and actions in the next chapter. | |
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Character Customization | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_8aaa6f4f | comment |
In opposition to Undertale: Your choices don't matter. Your Character Customization choices at the start of the game are immediately discarded, you're unable to choose your partner in class, Dialogue Tree choices will result in no actual difference (sometimes, you won't even be given time to pick a choice before another character cuts you off), characters will tell you multiple times your choices don't matter, you are incapable of engaging in full genocide or full pacifist playthroughs like you could in Undertale, and at the end of the game, control of Kris is literally ripped away from you. If you corrupt Noelle in Chapter 2, however, this theme is broken in the most horrifying manner possible. | |
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Deconstruction | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Deltarune loosely tries to deconstruct RPGs and the storyline and cast members of classic Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy-style games by having more of a psychological approach and a nitpick of the various tropes without trying to be too self-aware or critical. However, while Undertale was a deconstruction of Level Grinding and RPG combat, Deltarune mainly deconstructs the idea of But Thou Must! that most RPGs use by default thanks to usually having one defined plot outlined for the story, by showing just how bleak and suffocating a world where choices are superfluous at best would truly be. It outright proclaims that your choices are irrelevant and simply not giving you much in the way of options to begin with. The game also deconstructs the fan's expectations of any sort of sequel or prequel to Undertale by using an Alternate Universe plot to ruse and draw Paranoia Fuel from said expectations. invoked The Weird Route of Chapter 2 deconstructs the player's control over party members in an RPG, as the player has the power to mold Noelle into a killer through commanding her in battle and tailoring Kris's out-of-battle responses to gaslight her towards violence. It's also implied that Kris is aware of, and horrified by, what you, the player, are making them do to her, but is unable to do anything about it. | |
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Bullet Hell | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_8aeccf04 | comment |
Bullet Hell: In addition to the combat system being a refined form of this from the original game, there are also elements of it incorporated in the overworld at certain parts. | |
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Action Commands | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403 | comment |
Action Commands: When FIGHTing, a bar comes from the right side of the screen, and the player has to press a button when it reaches a box on the left side; the closer the bar is to the box, the greater damage the attacking character deals, with a perfect attack turning the bar yellow and making a special sound. When more than one character attacks in a turn, multiple bars appear, with some bars being synchronised with another. Select enemies and bosses include ACTs that require the player to complete various minigames in order for them to be effective, such as lining up Bloxer segments, gauging how Susie throws Kris and Ralsei at a target, blocking pop-up ads through button mashing, and timing when a cage drops to catch swarms of maice, among others. | |
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Health/Damage Asymmetry | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_93d914ad | comment |
Health/Damage Asymmetry: The amount of damage the player characters can deal is easily more than half their health, and can reach more than double in the case of Susie's and Noelle's spells. Meanwhile, the most damage that an enemy can dole out is around a third of a party member's health bar, and their health bars are larger than the player's, with the superbosses having an order of magnitude more health than the entire party. | |
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Bus Crash | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_952d21ec | comment |
Bus Crash: As part of the Alternate Universe setting in the town, headstones for some of the monsters who were previously part of the Amalgamates as well as Gerson can be found in a small graveyard, retroactively naming them as well. | |
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Creepy Basement | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_95be648c | comment |
Creepy Basement: Both of the Arc Villain's bases have one, being dimly lit areas with unsettling music playing in the background. Both of them hold their respective chapter's hardest fights (albeit only on the normal route in Chapter 2, with the Weird Route moving the fight to the Dark Fountain). | |
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Pacifist Run | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_97ebe48b | comment |
Pacifist Run: Enforced. Since reducing enemies' HP to 0 does not kill them, whether a playthrough is "pacifist" or not depends on if you resolve battles peacefully or through non-lethal force. Consequently, doing one or the other has much less of an impact on the story than in Undertale. Certain bosses are outright impossible to bring to 0 HP or spare, killing any strict violent/merciful runs of the game then and there. Only through going completely Off the Rails in Chapter 2 can the player instigate something similar to the Genocide run of Undertale. | |
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Gemstone Assault | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_98431ae2 | comment |
JEWEL: Rudinn and Rudinn Ranger. | |
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As You Know | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: Several characters (especially Toriel) will talk about past events with Kris conveniently conveying information about their backstory to the player. | |
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555 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_984763bb | comment |
555: In Noelle's hidden blog, Berdly leaves a few comments. His username has his phone number in it, which starts with 555.note Funnily enough, his phone number is one number too long, being (555) 672-52899. | |
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Eye Motifs | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_99208bf0 | comment |
Eye Motifs: Eyes and vision are central themes, tying in with the overarching light/dark dichotomy. Among other instances, Several characters (e.g. Kris, Lancer, and Susie in Chapter 1) have Hidden Eyes that only rarely become visible, the player has to blind eyes as part of a puzzle to enter the Dark World, Ralsei wears large glasses that accentuate his eyes, and in Chapter 2, Susie's bangs no longer cover her eyes outside of battle to cement her Heel–Face Turn. | |
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NPC Boom Village | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_994caac5 | comment |
NPC Boom Village: As you recruit more monsters, Castle Town becomes more lively. | |
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1.0 | |
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Anti-Escapism Aesop | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9981590a | comment |
Anti-Escapism Aesop: The game's plot is a subversion of this trope. The Dark World is a clear metaphor for escapist hobbies like games, the internet, and television. While the dangers of spending too long in the Dark World (i.e. getting too absorbed into fiction and escapism) are discussed, it also acts as a way for the characters to escape the social expectations of the world they live in and explore new sides of themselves. Susie, for instance, goes from a maladjusted bully lashing out because that's what people expect of her into a caring big-sister figure once she's introduced to a positive relationship with Lancer. Ultimately, escapism is very healthy and a natural thing for every person to do, and there's nothing wrong with running away from your problems for a bit. | |
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Intrigued by Humanity | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9a08c9a6 | comment |
Intrigued by Humanity: The bunny monster children have an adorable fascination for how Kris is made up of flesh and blood instead of magic. | |
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Story Branching | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0 | comment |
Story Branching: Even though the game makes a point of saying your choices don't matter, there is some minor differences in the plot of Chapter 1 where, depending on if you spared or fought everyone, Kris and Susie will be able to say goodbye to everyone on amicable terms or be chased out of the dark world by the inhabitants, respectively. Regardless, the beginning of Chapter 2 plays out the same. Chapter 2 gives the player much more choice where, depending on the player's actions, can end with one of the Lightners dead or alive. Only time will tell how this will play out in the later chapters. | |
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Odd Organ Up Top | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9bb355f3 | comment |
Odd Organ Up Top: In Hometown, the receptionist at the Town Hall has a manicured hand for a head. | |
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1.0 | |
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Fantasy Keepsake | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9bbe05ee | comment |
Fantasy Keepsake: The "Ball of Junk" item found in the inventory outside of the Dark World is made of items Kris acquired there (having at least one Dark Candy while leaving even makes the game mention of it smelling like scratch'n'sniff marshmallow stickers). The "Use" command prompts Kris to look at the ball in admiration, likely reminiscing about their adventures in the Dark World. When told to drop it they express hesitation to do so, and then extreme bitterness when successfully pressured, resulting in you losing all the items in your inventory. | |
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Eldritch Location | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: The Dark Worlds: a mysterious entity can suddenly decide to give life to a room which becomes a micro-world, where all the items become characters with a story, and where the furniture becomes complex structures. It even applies to electronic devices whose software becomes a part of this world. | |
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Comedic Strangling | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9c748cd4 | comment |
Comedic Strangling: When Berdly admits he has a crush on Susie, Noelle (who has feelings for Susie as well) lets out a multitude of "WHAT?!"s as she strangles him. | |
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Leitmotif | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: Besides the original leitmotif "Once Upon a Time", which shows up a few times (most notably in "You Can Always Come Home", a reprise of "Home" from the original game), there's a new Leitmotif called "Don't Forget". The Shadow Crystal holders, the game's once-per-chapter superbosses, have their own associated leitmotif which has made an appearance in each of their battle themes so far. It can be heard on its own in "Dialtone" from Chapter 2. | |
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Respawning Enemies | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | comment |
Respawning Enemies: Going back into a room that you've previously cleared of enemies will have them show up again in the same places, and you will have to fight them again if you cannot escape them. Justified here as reducing HP to 0 is a Non-Lethal K.O., so even in the worst of circumstances, nobody dies. This is also lampshaded if you repeatedly fight the very first Rudinn, with the game's narrative text repeatedly insisting it's a different one each time with incredibly minor (and not visible in the game) differences. | |
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Save Point | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | comment |
Save Point: Progress can only be saved in the Dark World, via white sparkles that contain some unspecified power. | |
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1.0 | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a4905771 | comment |
Double-Meaning Title: Aside from being an anagram of Undertale, Delta also is used in mathematical notation to designate the difference between two values, and Deltarune has many changes from Undertale. Finally, the Greek letter Delta is a triangle, at least when uppercase, and the party in Chapter 1 consists of three heroes known as the DELTA WARRIORS, the "Delta Rune" itself being the name of the Dreemur family royal crest. | |
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1.0 | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a4905771 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a4d8473b | type |
Stealth Sequel | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a4d8473b | comment |
Stealth Sequel: Inverted. At first glance, the game appears to be a sequel to Undertale's True Pacifist Ending, seeing as the monsters are living on the surface and Kris, who could easily be mistaken for an older Frisk, is living with Toriel. However, once you get the opportunity to explore Hometown towards the end of the first chapter, it becomes clear that events don't correlate between the two games and that the cast of Deltarune aren't the same people as their Undertale counterparts. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Hitbox Dissonance | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a5e998f0 | comment |
Hitbox Dissonance: To make grazing more exciting, many attacks are actually far smaller than they appear to be, though the most egregious single example is probably Jevil's carousel attack — despite the animals' large size, the only parts that actually do damage are the areas just around the wings, occupying only around a third of the sprites. This is a point of advice at the Castle Town Dojo in Chapter 2. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a5e998f0 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a6561504 | type |
Ascended Fanon | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a6561504 | comment |
Ascended Fanon: Explicitly played with, as the charmingly domestic town lifts elements common in fan works, such as Asriel surviving what happens to him in Undertale's Pacifist ending. But it also subverts a lot of those expectations as well, with many relationships from the previous game nonexistent, such as Undyne not knowing who Alphys is. | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a6561504 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a73cfb7f | type |
Animate Inanimate Object | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a73cfb7f | comment |
Animate Inanimate Object: The Darkners are a variant. Though they are fully-animated monster people inside their own world, they are suggested in Chapter 1 and more or less confirmed in Chapter 2 to correspond to objects found around Hometown. Chapter 1's Darkners become toys, cards, and chess pieces from a school storage closet in the Light World, while Chapter 2's correspond to the hardware and software found in the Librarby computer lab. | |
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1.0 | |
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Heart Beat-Down | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a934ba19 | comment |
HEART: Hathy and Head Hathy. | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a934ba19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a934ba19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Emergency Energy Tank | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a9f549fe | comment |
Emergency Energy Tank: ReviveMints fully restore the HP of a party member if they're knocked down, but only two can be found in each chapter. | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_a9f549fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Evolving Title Screen | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ad754f85 | comment |
Evolving Title Screen: After you beat each chapter, going to that chapter shows Ralsei's legend as the intro and provides a new background for the file select screen. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ae8f59a6 | type |
Hammy Villain, Serious Hero | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ae8f59a6 | comment |
Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: Kris, although a bit strange, is stoic, quiet, and cynical, never showing any outward reaction to the weirdness of the Dark World. The Arc Villain of Chapter Two is Queen, an Affably Evil Lady Drunk with a Noblewoman's Laugh and a larger-than-life personality, who likes blowing things up and making Big Entrances. Many funny moments are had when Kris and Queen interact, with Kris not even changing their deadpan expression as Queen goes on one of her tangents, leans on their head, or treats them like an old pal. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ae8f59a6 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b0e1ca3f | type |
Non-Elemental | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b0e1ca3f | comment |
Non-Elemental: Some bullets are classified in the code as element 0, which is not affected by any resistances from armor. This mostly applies to overworld attacks. | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b0e1ca3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b0e1ca3f | |
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Experience Points | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b21ed2d2 | comment |
Enemies flee or get blasted away when out of HP. Notably, EXP is unattainable by any method, as it presumably still stands for "Execution Points" as in Undertale, and none of the player characters ever kill anyone (and in the one specific situation when anyone does, XP gain isn't actually listed). | |
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Flushing-Edge Interactivity | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b40bdc2b | comment |
Flushing-Edge Interactivity: The toilet in the Dreemurr household can be flushed multiple times; a fanfare plays when it is flushed. Do this enough times, and Toriel will ask Kris if they flushed a bath bomb again. Keep doing this, and she'll declare that they'll be footing the plumbing bill if the toilet breaks. | |
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Follow the Plotted Line | |
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Chapter 2 is a little less strict about the need to Follow the Plotted Line, but it still has every event play out largely the same, even though sparing or fighting enemies now affects the population of your town. | |
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Rainbow Speak | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b6f33a21 | comment |
Rainbow Speak: Important words tend to be colored either yellow or red. Special nouns are also put in all caps, most prominent being the KNIGHT and the FOUNTAINS OF DARKNESS. | |
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Obvious Rule Patch | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b89ed08a | comment |
Obvious Rule Patch: During Chapter 1, the Manual is secretly a Lethal Joke Item because it can be used to make a number of enemies Tired, which lets Ralsei cast Pacify to spare them without needing to go through the normal process. To prevent this from becoming a dominant strategy for the rest of the game, arriving in the Dark World in Chapter 2 secretly removes the Manual from Kris's inventory, and Ralsei places it in Kris's room of the castle where it can never be picked up again. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Within the two chapters that have been released so far, every returning character from Undertale plays a much smaller role, with the player being free to completely ignore the vast majority of them. Some characters don't even show up at all: Asriel is away at college, while Gerson Boom and the Amalgamates (or at least their constituent monsters) died before the events of the game. | |
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Boss-Altering Consequence | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b915b765 | comment |
Boss-Altering Consequence: In Chapter 1, the game lets you choose which machine to build in the "Create a Machine to Thrash Your Own Ass" segment. Rouxls Kaard will use this machine against you in Chapter 2 and the head of the machine determines the special attack. The head of the machine also determines the special move that you can use against Giga Queen. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: Considering that most returning monsters have made up or at least unusual names (Toriel, Undyne, Alphys, Asgore, etc.), it's a bit weird to see a lot of the newer ones have names like Rudy or Alvin. In particular, the current roster of playable party members as of Chapter 2 consists of Kris, Susie, Noelle... and Ralsei. | |
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Sweet Tooth | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_bac9f95d | comment |
Kris' love for chocolate is mentioned in multiple places by the narration and people who know them well, with Toriel even having to hide chocolates from them so they don't eat them all at once. Being a Composite Character of Frisk and Chara at least in design, this appears to be a reference to the Undertale fanbase having fun portraying Chara, whether good OR evil, as a ravenous chocolate-loving maniac based off a single line in the game. | |
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Hard Truth Aesop | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_bbc77bb5 | comment |
Hard Truth Aesop: In stark contrast to Undertale, this game makes the point that some people are too unreasonable to be dealt with peacefully, even if you try your best to be nice or spare them. For such people, the only way to pacify them is through force. This aesop sees use in Chapter 1's Final Boss fight, where Ralsei's attempts at peacefully resolving the conflict with King nearly gets the party killed, and King is only able to be subdued either through magic or an outright revolution (depending on the player's actions). Conversely: Malicious people can be contained depending on the context, but never truly reformed. Jevil is imprisoned, but once released displays the same violent temperament Seam describes. Sometimes, no matter what you do or how good you are, you have no control over your situation. | |
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Equippable Ally | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c06102d7 | comment |
Jevil is typically easier to fight than he is to spare, and sparing him just involves making him tired and casting Pacify as opposed to something more unique. In his post-mercy speech, he states that he will sleep in his cell for another century, ominously warns the heroes, and grants them the Jevilstail, a decent piece of armor with no unique traits. Beat him violently instead, and he commends the heroes' strength, foreshadows the coming of Queen in Chapter 2, and joins the party by transforming into the Devilsknife, which is Susie's strongest weapon as of Chapter 2 and reduces the TP cost of her signature Rude Buster. Beating Jevil violently also doesn't ruin the "pacifist" King cutscene. | |
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Character Level | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c1c29f00 | comment |
Character Level: Like Undertale, the game tracks your EXP and LV. However, EXP and LV still appear to quantify Killing Intent, and the protagonists are unable to kill anyone due to the enemy running away after a certain amount of health is lost (non-lethal beatings still don't give any EXP). There is even a boss that must be overcome in another way due to it being able to heal itself more than the party can damage it, removing even the ability to non-lethally beat up every enemy in the game. Thus far, LV only increases for the party as they complete chapters by sealing the Dark Fountains, and Kris still remains at LV 1 when in the Light World. Even on Chapter 2's Weird route, which does involve a party member killing enemies to get stronger, the system isn't framed in the exact same way that it was in Undertale. | |
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Nice, Mean, and In-Between | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c1cef253 | comment |
Nice Mean And In Between: Kris, Susie, and Ralsei form a trio like this. Ralsei is the nice one, being the most pacifistic, gentle, polite, and affectionate of the three, even to his enemies; Susie is the mean one, being rude, brash, aggressive, and cruel (at least at first); and Kris is the in-between one, since they are stoic and because you control their actions. | |
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Playing Card Motifs | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c32ff95d | comment |
"Dark" — "Kard"; Playing Card Motifs are present with most major characters from the first Dark World. | |
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Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c5e66801 | comment |
Border-Occupying Decorations: Console releases feature a decorative border around the screen, thanks to the game using a 4:3 display as part of its retraux aesthetic. The border's contents dynamically change based on what area of the game the player is in. | |
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Nap-Inducing Speak | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c6b3a885 | comment |
Nap-Inducing Speak: While you can't read Ralsei's manual, you can use it in battle to make enemies sleepy and vulnerable to his Pacify spell. | |
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Universal-Adaptor Cast | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e | comment |
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The game plays with this by putting the characters from Undertale into a suburban setting far distanced from the Underground. While they lack many elements of their original history and are decidedly unrelated casts, their personalities remain the same with slight alteration to account for their new situations. | |
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Magic Skirt | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c978ad0b | comment |
Magic Skirt: Well, Magic Robe in this case. Even when he's completely upside down, Ralsei's cloak doesn't budge. | |
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Have We Met Yet? | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ccfe1fc7 | comment |
Have We Met Yet?: Back in Undertale, Sans' remarks about his original home, his accusations towards the "anomaly" and bothering at all to let Frisk stumble into the backroom lab of his house imply he expected the kid to know what he was going on about. In Deltarune, the SOUL is the one expressing through Kris curiosity about how people like Undyne and Sans are doing in this new world. To further muddle matters about what is happening, Sans denies knowing Kris while standing before a building that looks plucked right out of the original game's Snowdin. | |
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LampShade | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_cd01a310 | comment |
Chapter 2's Weird Route has "Proceed". If you choose to turn Noelle into a cold blooded murderer, when you come across the first annoying mouse puzzle, you'll be given the option to say "Proceed". Doing so enough times will cause her to rush past the puzzle. You'll do this again for the second annoying mouse puzzle, except this time she freezes the puzzle, but when you reach the third one, she will automatically freeze it without you telling her. When encountering Berdly, you'll be given the option to say "Proceed" again. Doing this is required to continue the Weird Route and it receives several lampshades from Noelle and Berdly. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Nothing Is Scarier: The desolate gray valley Kris and Susie find themselves in when first entering the school's Dark World. There's nothing but a few odd little creatures, piles of what seems to be dust and bleeding eye symbols in the walls. When Ralsei explains the prophecy of the Titans later, those eyes are seen as part of one of their bodies. As of Chapter 2, nothing is said about either the valley or what the locked room to the west of the storage room could even be to contain such a thing. The bunker. A rusty red door located south of the town, after a long trek through a path, during which no music plays apart from the Entry 17 ambient noise from Undertale, slowed down by 666% to mimic humming machinery. It goes completely unmentioned by anyone in Chapter 1 and is still unopened and unexplained by the end of Chapter 2. In chapter 2's epilogue, Monster Kid and Snowdrake can be found musing about what's on the other side, but for now, all one can do is imagine. | |
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Spiritual Antithesis | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ce2969d8 | comment |
Spiritual Antithesis: To Undertale, which was all about player choice and the consequences therein, while Deltarune thus far regularly denies the player the privilege of making any meaningful choices. Both games' take on resolving conflicts with violence are also different. All of your opponents in Undertale are Obliviously Evil at best and Tragic Villains at worst, and can eventually be reasoned with peacefully and even befriended. In fact, doing so is the only way to achieve the Golden Ending. The King in Deltarune, however, is undeniably, unwaveringly evil, and even if you've been going for a pacifist playthrough, your attempts to settle matters peacefully nearly get the entire party killed, and the "peaceful resolution" is his son overthrowing him and locking him up, with the lesson learned from the encounter being that sometimes a certain level of violence is necessary. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: While Deltarune as a whole is more cynical and depressing than Undertale, it has yet to get nearly as dark as Undertale's darker moments on the main route, primarily because violent options result in a Non-Lethal K.O. at best, and a minimal modification of the post-boss scenes at worst. Chapter 2's alternate route averts this, culminating in the player coercing one of Kris's friends into killing another in a way that is implied to stick once they're back in the Light World. On a more specific level, while most of the Darkners actively antagonize Kris and the other Lightners, with the exception of Spamton, they aren't openly out for Kris's SOUL. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ceabe589 | comment |
Berdly has an especially distorted portrait during his more smug moments. There's also his entrances into cutscenes, such as him slowly floating and circling down the side of the screen when he and Susie rescue Noelle. | |
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Alternate Reality Game | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_cee9aeed | comment |
Alternate Reality Game: Deltarune featured an ARG as part of the Spamton Sweepstakes charity event in 2022, in which the sweepstakes website featured a number of hidden links to various pages. Some are just Easter eggs hinting at content in future chapters, while others take the form of blog posts by Noelle providing lore about herself and the rest of Hometown's residents; some of these are connected by interactive pages that tie in with the blog's contents. A few other pages, including a couple of Noelle's posts, hint at lore for Spamton himself. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Attempting to talk to Undyne about the Dark World causes her to laugh you off. | |
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Sigil Spam | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d026cad8 | comment |
Sigil Spam: The Delta Rune itself appears repeatedly in the Dark World, and the Delta Warriors each have a heart visible on them somewhere. Ralsei has one on his robe from the beginning, Susie's belt buckle is heart-shaped, and and Kris's SOUL manifests as a heart. Elements of the Delta Rune can also be seen in Toriel's house, on the school's front door and on the top of the church's tower. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Deliberately Monochrome: The Lightner characters have black-and-white dialogue portraits. The Darkner characters have fully-coloured portraits. | |
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Taken for Granite | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d08049db | comment |
When Berdly is about to create another Dark Fountain, Ralsei reveals the consequences of filling the world with darkness. The world would fall into chaos, with the fountains turning into Titans that devastate the land. Eventually, Darkners would be crushed by the darkness and turn into stone, and Lightners would be left to fend for themselves. | |
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Combat Exclusive Healing | |
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Combat Exclusive Healing: Ralsei, Susie, and Noelle's healing spells are only usable in combat, and the TP they use doesn't even stay after battle, as it's converted to money. That said, you can buy healing items or SAVE to restore health. | |
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Developer's Foresight | |
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Developer's Foresight: As with Undertale, Toby Fox and crew have put so much effort into having the game respond to almost anything a player might do that it required a subpage to contain the examples. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d308cbb0 | comment |
Early in Undertale, Sans teases the protagonist with a fake word search puzzle featuring a character named "Ice-E" on the side of the paper. Ice-E is never seen or mentioned again anywhere in Undertale, but turns out to be the mascot of a pizzeria in Deltarune's Hometown. And in Chapter 2, the nonsense word in the word search that almost matched the first row of the word search is revealed to be just one letter off from Ice-E's "catchphrase". | |
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Defend Command | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d3327df0 | comment |
Defend Command: Defend is a new option in the battle interface that lets party members steel themselves to take less damage on the enemy's turn. This also boosts the Tension Point gauge, which applies instantly with obvious benefits (for example, if you lack enough TP to heal with Ralsei's magic, defending with another character can let him cast the spell on the same turn). | |
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Close on Title | |
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Close on Title: Each chapter ends with the game's title showing up. | |
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Easy Levels, Hard Bosses | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d4fa75fc | comment |
Easy Levels, Hard Bosses: Deltarune shares the same difficulty traits as Undertale: most areas are straightforward to navigate and it won't take longer than two or three turns to fight or spare a group of enemies, but bosses have a variety of dangerous attacks and take at least twice as long to repel no matter which method you use, with major fights breaching 15-20 turns in length. The number of bosses has also been upped from Undertale, with Chapter 2's normal route alone containing seven required bossesnote Sweet Cap'n Cakes, Berdly (twice), Spamton, Rouxls Kaard, Queen and GIGA Queen, a superbossnote Spamton NEO, and three Unique Enemy encounters framed like mid-bossesnote Tasque Manager, Mauswheel and Werewerewire. | |
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After-Combat Recovery | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d5a561a0 | comment |
After-Combat Recovery: After combat ends, any downed party members will be revived at 12% of their maximum HP. | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | comment |
Anti-Frustration Features: One of Undertale's many commentaries on role-playing games was defying We Buy Anything, as the various shopkeepers would not buy the player's junk since they didn't need it; you could only sell items to the one shopkeeper dumb enough to accept your stuff. Since Deltarune is closer to a traditional RPG and money is more useful, it drops this joke and lets you sell your stuff to any standard store. The game notices if you're playing through a second time after completing a chapter on any file by letting you skip the opening of the chapter and head straight to the Dark World by going to sleep in Kris's bed. In the original "SURVEY_PROGRAM" version, if you make it to the Dark World in less than 8 minutes, you get a Wrist Protector which lets you skip text by holding C. It also doesn't appear in the inventory. Starting with the Chapter 2 demo, the Wrist Protector is removed in favor of making text-skipping an inherent feature. Similarly to boss fights in Undertale, losing to a boss and retrying the fight will skip the intro cutscene and start the fight immediately. The boss fights against most non-recruitable bosses such as King and Rouxls Kaard give the same result whether they're defeated through violence or ACTing. In Berdly's case, violently defeating him (normally) slightly changes his physical state, but doesn't change the route and gameplay. The sole exception to this pattern so far is the first fight against Spamton on the normal route: defeating him violently locks the player out of his sidequest. The first time you get a Game Over, you get a few screens of dialogue. It's changed to a simple "want to continue?" yes/no question every time you die after that until you quit the game. Alternatively, you can mash buttons to skip the game over screen. Just like in Undertale, there are various points where the game autosaves (which is presumably deleted upon closing the game) so that if you die, you don't have too much to do again if it's been a while since you last saved. This is also useful if you're doing a no-save run. Each chapter uses its own set of save files; this means you can skip to a later chapter even if you haven't completed an earlier one, as well as play each chapter individually instead of starting from the beginning of the game. You can also continue from any save file you've completed the previous chapter on, allowing you to keep any items you've obtained and dialogue options you've triggered on that file. The superboss fights end with the player receiving an equippable item. Should the player's inventory be full however, the item will be stored in a chest near the boss arena so you can pick it up later (with some humorous dialogue in Spamton's case). If you seal the fountain of a Dark World without fighting its superboss, you can still collect their Shadow Crystal and weapon/armor from the hole to the left of Castle Town as long as you have defeated them in another save file. For both of the secret Egg rooms, the exit is to the south, but you move east and west to trigger the room, preventing you from accidentally leaving as soon as you enter. | |
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Are You Sure You Want to Do That? | |
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Are You Sure You Want to Do That?: After returning to the Light World from the Dark World, your Dark World inventory is represented as a "Ball of Junk". If you attempt to drop it, the game will warn you that you don't want to do that — and if you insist, your Dark World main inventorynote excluding storage and items currently equipped to a character will be wiped out. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one seems to notice how odd it is that their appearances transform whenever they enter the Dark World. Susie does, however, notice how she seemingly gained an ax out of nowhere. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Normal enemies will bail out of the battle when their HP reaches zero. This becomes important in the Snowgrave route, as you have to go out of your way to find a way to kill your enemies instead of scaring them away. | |
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Lethal Joke Item | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_da1c64ef | comment |
Lethal Joke Item: The Lancer Cookie's description mentions it only restores 5 HP, which is reduced to 1 HP in Chapter 2. This is the amount the cookie heals in the overworld, but in battle, the cookie heals 50 HP. | |
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Mana Potion | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_da91a25f | comment |
Mana Potion: TensionBits and TensionGems raise the party's Tension Meter when used, letting them use spells. | |
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Ship Tease | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: Noelle's crush on Susie transcends "tease" into "all but overt canon". Sadly for her, Susie seems to be Oblivious to Love. Beardly mentions in Chapter 2 that he has a crush on Susie. Noelle is furious. Whilst Noelle normally expresses that she and Kris are just childhood friends, there is one route where she expresses she may also be carrying a small torch for Kris too. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: This time, you don't need to dig into the game's code or mess with the save files to catch hints of Dr. W.D. Gaster's presence in the world. To begin with, an entity who's implied to be Gaster or someone related to him heralds the release of Chapter 1 and its opening act when the game is first loaded. The noise from Entry #17 plays when trying to make calls in the dark world, he's implied to have driven the Shadow Crystal holders insane with his revelations, and his theme song is incorporated in at least nine tracks of the soundtrack. A mysterious hill with a locked door to the south of Hometown makes a murmuring noise that's actually a slowed-down version of the noise from Entry #17. But by far the smoking gun for Gaster's likely involvement in the story is the presence of the site "deltarune.com" since December 2015 (when Undertale was still a very recent release), and until the actual game was announced, there was only one file on the website: a darkened image of lines of WingDings text (Gaster's signature writing style). | |
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Beyond Redemption | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_de62097f | comment |
In stark contrast to Undertale, this game makes the point that some people are too unreasonable to be dealt with peacefully, even if you try your best to be nice or spare them. For such people, the only way to pacify them is through force. This aesop sees use in Chapter 1's Final Boss fight, where Ralsei's attempts at peacefully resolving the conflict with King nearly gets the party killed, and King is only able to be subdued either through magic or an outright revolution (depending on the player's actions). | |
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Shoot the Medic First | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_df858e81 | comment |
Shoot the Medic First: Ralsei is almost guaranteed to die first during harder battles, such as superboss fights, which is a bit of a problem given that he heals the party and that his Pacify is the only way to end that boss fight if you're doing it the pacifist way. This is probably just a result of Ralsei's awful health and defenses that makes him statistically the most likely to go down first. | |
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Close-Contact Danger Benefit | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e1486887 | comment |
Close-Contact Danger Benefit: You earn Tension Points, which can be used for spells, when the SOUL comes close to bullets without actually touching them. | |
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When All Else Fails, Go Right | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e2ad09ba | comment |
When All Else Fails, Go Right: Each Dark World starts the player off in the West of the world, and has them travel East towards the Fountain. | |
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Holy Hand Grenade | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e42c07e6 | comment |
Element 1 (Elec/Holy): The unused Sky Mantle item is said to protect against Elec/Holy bullets. However, both the item and the element itself are currently unused. | |
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Art Evolution | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: The sprite animation in this game is more fluid, detailed, and dynamic compared to Undertale, which saved its most detailed stuff for very key moments. This is part of the reason for the game's lengthy development time. | |
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Interspecies Adoption | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e49c0cbd | comment |
Interspecies Adoption: Kris is a human who is adopted by the Dreemurr family. | |
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Mana | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e5455dac | comment |
Mana: Tension Pointsnote TP for short are collected by either grazing bullets or defending, and are stored in an orange meter as a percentage. TP can then be used on spells such as Pacify or Rude Buster, as well as certain ACTs. | |
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Nerf | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e545e190 | comment |
Nerf: Like Undertale, damaging enemies without depleting their health allows you to defeat them peacefully. However, instead of being put in an immediately spareable state, enemies get tired, requiring a spell to be taken out of combat. | |
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Combination Attack | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e69e12b2 | comment |
Combination Attack: Some ACTs have an upgraded version that's used with one or both other party members, but using them also uses up said party members' turns. Played straight with Susie's Red Buster, which deals massive damage. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_e6f18344 | comment |
The spare method for Queen's first fight at least makes more sense (loosening Berdly's wire to avoid him getting injured), but once she gets her Humongous Mecha, it's clear that you must fight. | |
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Artificial Insolence | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_eec07277 | comment |
Artificial Insolence: Until you defeat her and Lancer in a battle and she subsequently has a Heel Realization in the Card Castle, Susie will ignore any commands given to her and will blindly attack the enemy closest to her no matter what. Even after she's come around, she'll still refuse to equip her starting weapon if she already held the stronger ones, saying "I'm too good for that", and will refuse some armor point-blank because she dislikes how it looks. | |
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Anti-Grinding | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f11c3835 | comment |
Anti-Grinding: Monsters run away instead of dying when defeated in Deltarune (outside of a very specific alternate path, and even then they still technically don't give XP), so the party members can never receive XP, and their LV and base stats only go up upon sealing a Dark Fountain. Starting with Chapter 2, the heroes can get stat bonuses by fighting enemies, but this has its limits and also prevents the monster fought from being recruited into Castle Town. | |
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Boss Remix | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f1577797 | comment |
Boss Remix: Like Undertale this is the norm for boss fights rather than the exception. "Vs Lancer" is a remix of "Lancer". "Vs Susie" includes the motifs from "Susie" and "Imminent Death". "Chaos King" is a remix of "Card Castle", both of which use motifs from "Basement" and "Lancer". The former also has "The Legend" included in it. "Cyber Battle" is a remix of other tracks associated with Sweet Cap'n Cakes ("Almost to the Guys!", etc.) "It's Prounounced 'Rules'" is a remix of "Rouxls Kaard". "Smart Race" is a remix of "Berdly". "Attack of the Killer Queen" combines "Queen" with "Berdly"/"Smart Race". "Knock You Down" is mainly a remix of "Queen". "BIG SHOT" is a remix of "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A" (with several other noteworthy Undertale and Deltarune tracks mixed in), while "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A" is itself a boss remix of "Spamton". | |
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f25493f4 | comment |
Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Kris and Susie's home town of Hometown is a small community where everyone knows everyone else. Police Chief Undyne, in particular, seems rather upset that the town is so peaceful. | |
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9 | comment |
Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Kris can only have up to two extra party members. Lancer joins the three-member Delta Warriors in Chapter 1, but just slides to the side of an enemy-free path right up until he leaves. Noelle only joins the party after Susie and Ralsei leave in Chapter 2, and while she stays after the groups combine, she conveniently gets preoccupied at any point where the Delta Warriors could get into an encounter, right up until she gets separated from them for the rest of the chapter. | |
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Suck E. Cheese's | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f548c926 | comment |
Suck E. Cheese's: The local "Pezza" parlor seems to be this, complete with employees in mascot suits. | |
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1.0 | |
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Ambidextrous Sprite | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f5a22215 | comment |
Ambidextrous Sprite: Kris and Berdly are aversions of this trope when they're in the Dark World, with their respective cape and eyepiece only showing up on one of their side sprites. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Railroading | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f6f6adeb | comment |
Railroading: Discussed. As a contrast to Undertale remembering every choice and changing things based on player decisions, sometimes to a truly dramatic extent, Deltarune goes to great lengths to try and convince the player that everything they do does not matter at all. One of the central themes of Deltarune, as referenced by Arc Words, is that "your choices don't matter". In Chapter 1, regardless of whether you attacked everyone or spared everyone, the outcome is the same. Kris and Susie escape the Dark World, Kris pulls out the SOUL, and Susie has a Heel–Face Turn. Chapter 2 is a little less strict about the need to Follow the Plotted Line, but it still has every event play out largely the same, even though sparing or fighting enemies now affects the population of your town. | |
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Boss Warning Siren | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f763003b | comment |
Boss Warning Siren: "Gallery", a short, but tense theme, plays during the cutscenes immediately preceding the fights with King and Queen. | |
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Running Gag | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: The "smells like (something)" in-battle description returns from Undertale. Susie getting increasingly annoyed every time you find a new ribbon and try to equip it to her. Kris seems to have a thing for eating moss. Photorealistic .gif explosions are used instead of pixel art almost every time something explodes, with a stock explosion sound accompanying them. Whenever you encounter an enemy party where all three enemies are different from each other in each chapter, the battle flavor text will read "Smorgasbord (chapter # from Chapter 2 onward)". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Equipment-Based Progression | |
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Equipment-Based Progression: You can't level up, since enemies just run away after draining their HP. The main way to increase stats is via weapons and armor, though beating up enemies in Chapter 2 onwards can incite minor stat boosts at the cost of the enemy no longer being recruitable. | |
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We Buy Anything | |
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One of Undertale's many commentaries on role-playing games was defying We Buy Anything, as the various shopkeepers would not buy the player's junk since they didn't need it; you could only sell items to the one shopkeeper dumb enough to accept your stuff. Since Deltarune is closer to a traditional RPG and money is more useful, it drops this joke and lets you sell your stuff to any standard store. | |
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Everytown, America | |
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Everytown, America: Hometown is a small forest town that has a tight-knit community, with a church and a school. | |
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Human Pet | |
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Human Pet: One of the books in the library is a monster's guide for "How to care for humans". Upon inspection, Kris finds their mother borrowed it often when they were a young child, though they personally dislike the contents. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Among the various Easter eggs in Undertale that hinted at Gaster and Deltarune is a Sound Test of sorts where the player is thanked for the "feedback" of listening to Gaster's song for a few seconds. Years later, the Deltarune demo is presented as another survey and Gaster's Theme is not-so-subtly featured in both the morbidly humorous vessel setup as well as in various other places later on. The name for the Hotel track in Undertale was "Can You Really Call This A Hotel I Didn't Receive A Mint On My Pillow". Cue Queen's mansion, where returning to the private rooms after escaping will have a Swatchling tell Kris they put a mint under their electric cage, but not to mistake the mansion for a hotel for it. Early in Undertale, Sans teases the protagonist with a fake word search puzzle featuring a character named "Ice-E" on the side of the paper. Ice-E is never seen or mentioned again anywhere in Undertale, but turns out to be the mascot of a pizzeria in Deltarune's Hometown. And in Chapter 2, the nonsense word in the word search that almost matched the first row of the word search is revealed to be just one letter off from Ice-E's "catchphrase". | |
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Bigger on the Inside | |
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Bigger on the Inside: Dark Fountains made inside of rooms invoke this, creating Dark Worlds that are far more extensive than Hometown itself. | |
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Talking Is a Free Action | |
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Talking Is a Free Action: Downplayed. Talking to enemies through ACTs takes up that character's turn, and the boss fight monologues take several turns to listen to. However, characters are still able to say far more in a turn than they should be, considering that they're in active combat. | |
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Half-Baked Niceness | |
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Half-Baked Niceness: Near the end of chapter one, Kris and Ralsei try to convince Susie to be nice towards their enemies. She doesn't get it. Ralsei tells her to try telling the enemy something that she would want someone to tell her. Susie then tries to say things like "You are unbanned from free ham sandwich day," or "Please keep tackling the soda machine." Surprisingly, it actually works, and the enemies are able to be spared. Thankfully Susie's compliments do improve. | |
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