On my first playthrough, I never had to wait for the tower to crash to get through that section. The only time I had to do that was when the dam crashes to kill the massive amount of the owls. I can’t remember how I did it, but it wasn’t through killing them, and I don’t remember that much stealth. It was a while ago, so take the latter with a grain of salt.
i watched this video right after finishing the dlc and oh my god, it was cathartic. i hated those sections so much im just relieved to know others did too. i wasnt even scared, it was just so hard to navigate without having yknow.. the knowledge completing those sections give you
Gotta disagree in this, but loved the video anyways. In my playthrough I figured out the first section of the stealth (that the elks "die out" when the fire gets extinguished and just had to deal with the small stealth part of the second one. It isn't that hard and the only thing you actually had to do was kite the enemy back a bit and go around them, so I didn't feel like it was frustating or anything. Even though I get why you could get mad about it, overcoming the fear aspect of it was literally the main point of the DLC, since it was what the Stranger's inhabitants, except for the prisoner, ultimately failed to do.
Obvs the whole package doesn't totally work (at least not in the ways it wants to) but GOD those initial ending reveals/realizations were so legitimately good. Like there are countless fanworks that are better on-balance but can only WISH they had a peak that peak
It's weird because I had the exact opposite problems. (Spoilers btw). I really enjoyed the added stealth portions and only had significant trouble on the fireplace entrance. To me, the discovery and answers portion of the game is further greatened by the other skillful gameplay mechanics like thruster controls, platforming, and puzzles. The one owlless portion was the one that I couldn't figure out.
I figured out everything except for the Starlit Cove. That section was so frustrating that it ended two playthroughs about a year apart. I caved in, and watched the ending online instead. I ended up finding the lantern glitch way earlier than intended since I figured I'd be immortal if I had no light to blow out. Instead I just lost my neck.
You mentioned this was just a stepping stone. I do not possess the gaming prowess to enjoy the entirety of the game without lowering the difficulty, which I have learned is no longer an option. I eagerly await your next creation, which I hope will have lower difficulty options.
I was way too scared of the owls in the endless canyon so I solved it the owless way on my play through. I think I did the starlit cove owless as well.
as for the can only read 1 reel before the loop , cant you use the extra time the tower takes to fall to deactivate the ash twin project so you are not looped after the supernova yet still survive because the stranger gets out of the blast radius ?
honestly, i feel like eote is inherently flawed because they insist on making it so fucking dark. i'm not gonna have any sort of fun if i'm being forced to memorize the map to make sure im not just walking into a wall for 5 minutes. if you take away half of my sensorry input, i'm not gonna be having fun. the dlc's a 6/10. the only reason it's not a 3 or 4 is because you can't experience the story in isolation.
22:35 this is acc very good to point out here specifically, but im pretty convinced when making gaster's theme, toby was inspired by the main melody of poniko's daytime home theme from yume nikki. just to clarify, poniko is the girl that transforms into uboa, the likely main inspiration for gaster. this can explain why a similar melody pops up in such an old soundtrack based on yume nikki
Interesting non-distinction you bring between the author and the game. On one hand, the author does want you to be affected by the game they do want you to feel for it on the other hand, if you choose to be contrarian and not to be affected by it, not let it control you, you only further play into the author’s control, because you would’ve never of considered this option if the author did not have the capability in the first place
5:48 I don't comment on a lot of videos, but I just had to call attention to the bound copy of Umriss on the table. What a brilliant easter egg, Mister Cunningham. I applaud you!
About your Chara discussion. The true name of Chara, which is just a stupid gag about how Frisk is referenced in the code, ruins a lot of the thematic purposes of the fallen human. As you’re supposed to name them after yourself to get most out of it. For example the thing about moving onto the next world works better when the fallen human is called the same as you.
I played the EotE DLC with a friend who had already played through it, and I accidentally discovered the lantern distance glitch on my own while trying to flee an Owlk. My friend got super upset I wasn't playing "properly" and pushed me not to use the glitch, so I continued to be confused and afraid and the DLC took fucking forever to complete. Still kinda bitter about that.
That friend *loves* hide-and-run horror games like Aliens Isolation. Meanwhile it stresses and frustrates me. His "proper" way of playing soured my whole experience of the DLC.
i rewatch this video every month for 2 years now, and the raw emotional impact that this very video has on me is similar to undertale's biggest moments, not through the narrative but sheer execution, just... bravo, you've made the best video i have ever seen, it makes me cry and shiver every single time you really just made the video essay equivalent of undertale playthrough experience
I swear to god I heard his theme more clearly in the old versions of Power of NEO and Power of Spamton that Toby released in the 9th anniversary newsletter. I swear I heard it.
the problem with using LoD glitch too skip the other 2 stealth skips is you have too do it in that order. The whole game before that was basicly: yeah do the big puzzles in any order, and in the end use the combined knowledge too solve the omega puzzle
I just wanted to do a shout out to a youtuber that just started her channel. she is called beccabytes I believe, and she figured out the stealth sequences in the cliffside with the elevator on her own and it was pretty incredible
I think Gaster is a 4th wall breaking entity because he was shattered through his experiment His goal is to entertain the player and after finding you in undertale he finds another universe, inhabits the parallel version of the undertale character you play as and then creates dark worlds for you to adventure through before connecting the player into Kris
Hey, something similar happened to me. With 2(!) challenges because for the first they said they'd accidentally sent the work of the dev before me to the next dev instead of my work. They offered me starting a new pass the game challenge. So I did, made another video, never aired. Overall this was pretty confusing and disrespectful in my opinion. At some point they stopped responding to me when I asked about clarification. I have 2 prototypes and 2 videos that never aired. Was considering publishing them anyway but didn't want to start any drama. Then I saw your video with a similar experience and thought I'd share my experience with you.
I think you should start some drama dude, publishing our devlog segments this way probably got them more attention than they would have in the actual collab lol
I’m about to watch your Kris soul video, so I want to say something a little trollish before that. You mention that this all (I watched that videos intro) started because you joked about the save slots and whatnot, since there are three save slots that means three souls right? Wrong. There are six save slots, with more on the way. Each chapter has three save slots specific to itself, and given that chapter one had minute differences between the worlds of each slot, the logical assumption I came up with is that each slot is a different world from the other slots and we are connected to these separate worlds via multiple souls. The only caveat is that having higher DT, or maybe just souls, allows for higher reality alteration capabilities as well. Flowey was able to use savestates, or quicksaves so to speak. He could save at any time, not just at save points. He may have been able to do map layout alterations, (or even make an empty dark world), depending on where that void wherein you fight Omega Flowey takes place. Anyway, moving back a bit, isn’t it a bit weird to have multiple different worlds that are so alike, and more and more get conjoined to us with each chapter? Surely one of them should be something else, right? They’re getting overwritten by gaster. It doesn’t matter if they were deltarune universes or something else (such as an undertale universe, or an invader zim universe if we’re being random) before Gaster’s meddling, after he overwrites the universe for his great experiment it’s a deltarune universe. I don’t have an ending to this comment, lol ;p (shrugs).
I’m glad that I got to experience the endless canyon solution the intended way. Although the solution is a bit tedious, it was satisfying to see my plotting and strategizing work out lol
