>>712634929
Undertale was THE most transparently pandering game of the 2010s, it checked off every Tumblr brownie point box in the book
>8-bit Earthbound-inspired RPG with a dark undercurrent lurking under a pleasant facade
>soundtrack mogs the actual gameplay
>almost every fucking major character is quirky (read: obnoxious) and wholesome, and all of them occupy popular Tumblr archetypes (Undyne is the tsundere genki girl, Alphys is a fat useless retard, Papyrus is the goofball with a heart of gold, Mettaton is a flamboyant gay guy, Flowey is the comically evil prankster who's secretly damaged, etc.)
>Sans in and of himself is to Tumblr what Goku is to Mexicans; he's the unassuming gag character that's ACTUALLY the strongest guy in the setting and ALSO he's the secret final boss with the best track in the game but ALSO he's a depressed boy... that won't stop him from getting SERIOUS and telling you to BURN IN HELL
>epic fucking deep lore that's basically just flavor text for the actual narrative and barely ever actually comes into play, except for
>Genocide route, which goes all in on the perennially popular "what if this outwardly pleasant game or show... was actually evil as fuck" shit
>alt. timeline shit just thrown in for kicks, basically
The whole thing is just fucking slop, basically. It's a practice run for Deltarune, which is actually good and juggles fanservice without coming off as white girl pornography.
