"Surprisingly it's the first full game that I wrote," he adds. "The story of how I wrote the game is also the story of how I developed the game since the system and the story are intertwined." This battle system informed how Fox wrote the story. "Once you do that, and you have to talk to the character, you have to interact with the character, in order to 'defeat' them, you end up having to put personality on every character and every character ends up becoming their own unique figure and then the game's story starts coming together."
So I started designing a game system where you could beat most, or all monsters just by talking to them," he tells me in a video chat. "I liked that you could talk to monsters and defeat them in a pacifist way. Designer Toby Fox says he was influenced by another game called Shin Megami Tensei.
Talking to other characters to help resolve conflict is central to Undertale. Some of them were beloved of other characters, and maintained upstanding reputations as community members. As it turns out, those so-called "monsters" I killed were creatures living their own rich lives. Then, just before I got to the end, the game slapped me with a dose of cold, hard reality.Ī skeleton monster named Sans - named for his in-game font Comic Sans - explained to me what atrocities I had committed in order to reach that point. The first time I played Undertale, I played it like every other game I had experienced up until that point. People are going to keep talking about Undertale, and memeing Undertale, because it's a great game, but also because it's so foundational to their internet experience as well." "This game came out while I was just starting college, and for many others, while they were in middle and high school.
"For a lot of zoomers (members of Gen Z) like myself, it's also something that's deeply nostalgic," Haasch adds. "It's got a fun, recognizable aesthetic, a chiptune-esque soundtrack that fits right in with TikTok's musical tastes, and a storied meme legacy that traces back to massive fandom engagement around its release." People are going to keep talking about 'Undertale,' and memeing 'Undertale,' because it's a great game, but also because it's so foundational to their internet experience as well
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