Huh...
I may have hyped myself up too much.
The majority of the writing of this chapter reminds me more of modern saturday morning cartoon shows (Adventure Time, Gumball, etc.) than of the first chapter and Undertale. It's not bad for what it is... just different, and for me unexpected.
I felt the first chapter killed it in terms of meshing whimsical and sometimes wholesome moments with an underlying sense of foreboding, but here they clearly just wanted to find a chapter theme that allows them to just blast you with one crazy idea after the other. I don't think it's gonna age as well, as the first chapter, especially with jokes about blue checkmarks and such.
Enough underhanded complaining now, let's get to what is awesome:
-The gameplay tweaks, just brilliant quality of life stuff, that makes the pacing of a fight feel buttery smooth
-The music, I mean duh, it's a Toby Fox game. The overworld songs all sadly didn't do much for me, but a lot of the little character themes are killer (the DJ robot tunes give me Toejam & Earl vibes)
-All the gameplay switchups, be it how one must dodge an enemy or some of the "arcade sections"
-The new dynamic Susie has, where she is weirdly nice and willing to show affection. I was a sucker for this with Prince Zuko, and I still am.
I don't say this about basically any game nowadays, but when the rest of the chapters drop, I will not hesitate to buy it at full price. Toby Fox is a real deal renaissance man, who keeps making games even though he has chronic hand pains. You may not like his games, but one cannot forego having respect for this man.
I may have hyped myself up too much.
The majority of the writing of this chapter reminds me more of modern saturday morning cartoon shows (Adventure Time, Gumball, etc.) than of the first chapter and Undertale. It's not bad for what it is... just different, and for me unexpected.
I felt the first chapter killed it in terms of meshing whimsical and sometimes wholesome moments with an underlying sense of foreboding, but here they clearly just wanted to find a chapter theme that allows them to just blast you with one crazy idea after the other. I don't think it's gonna age as well, as the first chapter, especially with jokes about blue checkmarks and such.
Enough underhanded complaining now, let's get to what is awesome:
-The gameplay tweaks, just brilliant quality of life stuff, that makes the pacing of a fight feel buttery smooth
-The music, I mean duh, it's a Toby Fox game. The overworld songs all sadly didn't do much for me, but a lot of the little character themes are killer (the DJ robot tunes give me Toejam & Earl vibes)
-All the gameplay switchups, be it how one must dodge an enemy or some of the "arcade sections"
-The new dynamic Susie has, where she is weirdly nice and willing to show affection. I was a sucker for this with Prince Zuko, and I still am.
I don't say this about basically any game nowadays, but when the rest of the chapters drop, I will not hesitate to buy it at full price. Toby Fox is a real deal renaissance man, who keeps making games even though he has chronic hand pains. You may not like his games, but one cannot forego having respect for this man.