Dark Souls and Undertale - Critique 

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I always play pacifist in every game so (despite not hearing much about the game before playing) I got the pacifist ending first try. I don't think there's too much of an issue telling people to do pacifist first, because most people aren't going to want to play the game twice with just some changed dialogue to get the pacifist ending.

@@Revacholiere And i played genocide so many times that i can basically beat Sans easily by memory alone.

Yeah I've had that same mindblow. I think the reason for that is because it's difficult to market. Or in other words difficult to share. And therefor difficult to spread. This channel will grow to great heights. Definitely. But only slowly.

I was thinking about doing that, but I try to explain myself before I go out and straight up shit on things. Without the critique of each game before it, it makes my argument have a lot less weight and it will come off as more negative than I want it to be. One of my most viewed videos is "Paper Mario is Dead', which has all of my actual opinions of the series, but since I went out hands swinging, it's became one of my most disliked video, since it immediately puts people on the defense. I don't regret making that video, since it's still my opinion, but I try to at least explain myself so I can slowly introduce my opinion without shutting everyone off.

To be honest, I don't blame you that you went out hands swinging in your "Paper Mario is Dead" video. Even though I like Super, I absolutely agree that Nintendo has completely ruined the Paper Mario series, the last "Paper Mario" game came out in 2004 and until then, Nintendo has only been making spin off games that nobody ever wanted. I once introduced my opinion of the Paper Mario series in some reviews and I got the same results as you did.

I don't really care about people hating my opinion, but I find it more to pull the rug out from underneath them.

It takes me a while to make these videos, but you can usually assume that it take like 3-6 weeks for me to make something. I'm kind of a casual fan of anime. I grew up watching Naruto, but I've gotten into Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan, Attack on Titan, Jojo's BIzarre Adventure.

The gameplay of Undertale is trash for me.

@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 no one asked

@@memutahar1 This place is called a "comment" section, it is meant for commentary, meaning, nobody needs to ask me shit, my opinion is free to give.

I appreciate it, cause this video took FOREVER

I was more just trying to replay each game twice to talk about how I enjoy Dark Souls more than Undertale, rather than going over all the endings.

The Genocide route, or whatever you want to call it, is tedious and hard. The amount of time between when random battles occur starts to get _soooo_ long, it's almost better to have a handheld, another console, book, TV, _anything_ else while you wait, like, five minuets for the next thing to kill. You really start to want to kill actual things at some point. Bwuh. Megalovania is still a sweet song though.

I've only played Dark Souls and I'm not really in a rush to play the others at the moment.

Never played Earthbound, but I might play it at some point

HyperCharge I personally like mother 3 just a little bit more

I heard good things about mother 3

I appreciate it! I'm planning on making another 'Critique' style video in the next 6 months or so, so stay tuned for that.

I really liked Superstar Saga and everything else was ok I guess

The only reason I hate bowsers inside story. three words: F*cking wiggler minigame

While it's true that they marketed the morality system up front in both the games tutorial and the marketing, it seems like the game also tries to constantly lure you away from sparing the monsters and baiting you into killing. It introduces the ability to fight and spare monsters in the tutorial, but on a first time playthrough, you're not really sure that's it possible until the very end. I mean, going into the game blind, it's easy to see how some players might feel uncomfortable with the simple act of not gaining EXP for fights. The act of sparing is nice, but the fact that their not getting stronger goes in complete opposition to the entire structure of a typical RPG. It's creates a sort of unnerving feeling that you'll eventually have to fight something while being extremely weak. This is later exacerbated by the unclear win conditions of certain boss fights. As your enemies become more and more threatening, sparing becomes more and more complex and as someone who doesn't know that's it's possible to spare everything, you start to become doubtful of the possibility of completing a passive play through. This is what the morality system banks on. I guess the point I was trying to make was that if you're told that it's possible by other players, it removes that feeling of doubt and the illusion is ruined. Instead, it then becomes a process of figuring out what works and looking up how to do certain things if you get stuck, which reflects really poorly on a game that's design to make you act on your own instincts. I mean, sure, the marketing does say that it's possible, but you don't know if that's actually true or not until you hear from someone else who's already beaten the game. As a player, you can't entirely trust the creators intentions because it's not really in their best interest to spoil the surprise, but other players don't really give a shit. That's why the cutscene with Sans at the end of the game is suppose to be a sort of dramatic reveal of the games true intentions. It's this sort of "eureka" moment where you realize that it's actually possible to spare the past enemies and boss fights that you might have ended up killing and I'm pretty sure that's what Toby Fox intended for that scene to accomplish. On the other hand, if you were already spoiled on the premise, it's more or less a scoreboard that shows how well you did.

I hate when people say this garbage, so many great indie games have been made by one person, Undertale is not the first, being made by one person doesn't excuse it of critique.

@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 still impressive tho

uhhhhh probably Pokemon

I thought you were going to say Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door xD

Uh... How is that ironic? You love Nintendo RPGs... so you love another RPG? Wha...?

Kouroshie Yoshi Not ironic at all but I hear ya

BUT MUH PACIFIST ENDING THAT'S LE BEST ENDING GUYS

Only like your characters to be Mary Sue's with no flaws huh?

I probably should have put a spoiler warning before this video, but I guess I figured most people played these games already. You can beat the game within a couple of hours, so it's not like it's a big investment. I skipped over a ton of dialogue that a lot of people really enjoy, so if you really like that kind of stuff, you should still check it out.

Lunatic+ is the worst way to play a Fire Emblem-game. You can only beat the first couple of chapters by doing exactly one specific string of actions which you look up on RU-vid. And after that you have to grind EXP till you're maxed out with all your warriors to even have a halfway decent experience. I can't recommend that mode to anyone.

-ew wtf-

also subscribing.

Yeah, I'm not too heavy into the lore at all, literally only played Dark Souls 1. That's kinda why I like Monster Hunter more, it's just a Dark Souls boss rush mode without the bullshit.

I spent 8 hours recording this and legit ruined my throat the next day, but don't worry, cause I drink a lot of acidic soda too