>>713073048At the time it was miles ahead of anything else with games in terms of characters and shit like that.
Nowadays... things have changed a little. I certainly think it's again a little bit. But not that much.
There certainly are good games with stronger characters and depth to them nowadays. But not really in the context of this genre of indie games.
But at it's time, it was a massive deal considering how much games held back on that sort of thing back then. I think Delta has arguably done a lot better in a lot of ways, but then again I feel like it dragged on a little for ch1-3 for some characters. Ch 4 hits the right spot for me though. It feels like Gerson and pumpkin had enough time in the light to make it satisfying without making things drag on. The whole chapter flowed much much better than the earlier chapters.
Put it this way, there were no moments in ch 4 where I felt like I was getting a little tired of the way things were going. I don't know what it was in particular. I think it just took itself a little more seriously in some ways than previous chapters, which felt purely comedic for me. It felt like I was on an epic adventure in ch 4 and how I envisioned deltarune being more. The earlier chapters felt more like a satire of Toby's own work.