How Undertale Yellow (Nearly) Perfected Undertale 

I'm not watching this right now, i'm just here to boost starter engagement.

26:56 The "Someone called for help" is there as a flashforward reference to the Omega Flowey fight in the original Undertale. There, Clover is "answering the call" by offering their assistance to Frisk, along with the other souls

One thing you didnt mention that I really like is Flowey's reaction after the fight with AXIS. He's left stunned and speechless before asking Clover what the hell that was. Flowey in no timelines ever expected to see the justice beam.

Moray is nice… Ace is serious… Mooch is thief, prolly not a good trait for a lawmaker… And Ed gets hit by a train. Famous poem from famous poet ProDigital.

The part at the end of Pacifist where somebody calls for help is actually Frisk during the Omega Flowey fight calling out to Clover for help as he awakens to aid Frisk along with the other human souls to defeat Flowey which got me hyped when I came to the realization, I can imagine the reunion with Flowey being like ¨Hey... Clover! Nice to see ya again ol´pal! W-why the frowny face buddy? Heh heh, aren't cha happy to see your best and only friend Flowey again😅¨ and Clover is like ¨Bro, I have no idea what the heck you were on when I gave up my soul cause were going to have a long talk about all this madness going on, but right now we're going to have to stop you from killing this fellow yellow human kid with a blue and purple striped shirt here, plus we also get our freedom back so.... sorry buddy😐¨

Fun Fact (that might be wrong but i'm pretty sure is right): Vigorous Terrain wasn't actually supposed to have Flowey's theme in it, they accidentally used it cause it sounded cool

@23:27-.-This is actually a common misconception. Chujin was trying to make a serum that could turn normal monsters into boss monsters, The method of doing this was by first combining a boss monster soul with a human soul, and then synthesize the serum from the resulting soul. However, Chujin eventually realized that a boss monster cannot absorb a human soul if it's "corrupted", and so he instructs Ceroba to wait for a pure hearted human in order to use that soul with a boss monster to make the serum. The serum Ceroba injects into Kanako is an otherwise unrelated serum invented by Ceroba as a method of getting around the pure of heart limitation, and is _not_ the serum that Chujin wanted to make.

That is something I HATE about genocide. Marlet is not harder than sans because they made a difficult boss, but because they made Marlet really say "Random bullshit GO!!!!!!" and not make her fight at least a little bit balanced.

13:20 Sure, Undertale may have executed repetetive encounters poorly, but you cannot give Yellow the same bad outlook on that. Actually, I find it better that Yellow did it the same as Undertale becuase it's SUPPOSED to be like that. That's honestly what makes it truly FEEL like Undertale. For example booting up into a mini encounter when a overworld projectile hits you. I'm so happy they didn't do it like Deltarune because it isn't supposed to be like Deltarune, it's Undertale. Little things like that make me love the game even more.

Ceroba could not use ANY monster. She needed a boss monster. And other then kanako you only have asgore as far as we know.

I do find it interesting how Frisk's actions determine if Clover's sacrifice was in vain or not. Plus, if True Pacifist is met, not only did Clover's sacrifice make a difference in the end, but they supposedly come back to life along with the rest of the dead kid as the coffins at the end are empty.

15:45 fun fact, this motif was unintentional/subconscious. The person who created that song (I forget which one made it) cane up with it while idly wistling and didn't realize it was in there until it was pointed out to them.

What's crazy is the references within uty's music of it's own music. There's bits of Justice in the beginning of A Mother's Love, and from the main game near the middle of it is one of the main tracks from UnderTale during the asriel dreemurr bossfight !

TS underswap is another fangame that I think will be absolutely incredible when it drops The demo is already criminally good as well

jarvis, install undertale 2 on his computer, force him to beat the ignoramus route

In undertake the more a character moves the more they want to kill you that’s why papyrus doesn’t move

Honestly Axis and the Steamworks really grew on me the more i played the game, and i already really loved both. I may be biased towards robots but Axis is by far my favorite character in this game, funniest too.

7:34 This is a really great video but i wanted to mention theres *somewhat* a reason for this. The assumption is that characters who arent moving a lot in battle arent really putting their all into fighting you (Toriel doesn't really want to attack you and Papyrus doesnt really want to kill you just capture you aswell as its implied a few times in Undertale that Papyrus is incredibly strong but either he's holding back or doesnt know). I do agree that Yellow has the better animations but i iust wanted to kinda explain why theyre so sporadic in who moves or doesn't!

I would like to point out that if you get certain FUN numbers, different things will show up the pillars in the ruins. The pillars seem to depict how the whole Snowdin Attack. On the third pillar, it depicts a ballerina (the blue integrity soul), with a chunk missing where their head should be, and what looks like a splatter. Which heavily implies that AXIS BLEW THE HEAD OFF THAT KID

that ending martlet fight was hell for me, because i didnt realize you got s from the dash, and i didnt realize you could heal by acting in the second phase. so i did it without dashing or healing from anything other than healing items. its a miracle i beat her

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I'm going to be honest. I completed the genocide route in Undertale and the worst I felt was killing Toriel and Papyrus. However, with the way the battle sprites take on a damaged/sad look after they are below half health in Undertale Yellow, I abandoned it after Dalv due to feeling bad(And Dalv is one of the monsters I connected with the least). Also, something that makes Flowey even better in the neutral route is that the Undertale Yellow devs added voice lines from an old McDonald's commercial. "What would you like to do? Great!" These voice lines are from the very same McDonald's commercial that Flowey's iconic "That's a wonderful idea" comes from.

Spoilers btw The thing I like about yellow is that they actually make neutral worth it, with a unique bossfight not found in any other route.

7:35 about the movement of characters in Undertale, someone made a Long post on tumblr on how it could represent the monster’s willingness to fight. Undyne and Asriel move around a lot because they want to kill you. Toriel and Asgore don’t because they don’t really want to kill you. This also means that Papyrus is extremely powerful, with him not moving at all yet doing insane bone tricks.

Most normal enemies can actually be spared if you get them to low enough health, although it seems like some of the unique enemies in the game wont let you spare them if you get their health low. Undertale also had that feature but the enemies wont get a happy ending in the credits scene of true pacifist.

9:36 "Jesus Herobrine Christ" 💀

GOD I LOVE HEARING PEOPLE RAMBLE AND RANT ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE THINGS (especially when that favorite thing is my current hyperfixation lol) THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDOE AUGFJFHDJDMXNSHSD ITS SO GOOD. THANK YOU THANK YOU

Funny this about Dalv is that he is actually lore important and [SPOILER OBVIOUSLY] was the monster, that got attacked, thats the reason he is in the ruins and the reason to all his behavior. But this is optional lore and you can get that only replaying or rewatchin the game. AND THIS IS SOO COOL IT ADDS SO MUCH THE THE REPLAYABILLITY. Also if you fight flowey more than once, he will notice and point out that this is kinda creepy and not suppose to happen.

axis: so yeah i killed the blue soul sorry about that clover: pulls out a fucking blaster

Fun fact: at the fortune teller(of tiny fortunes) the fortune teller can see a “kid with stripes”. They apologise and say you don’t have to pay because it isn’t your future.

The "somebody calls for help" is i believe a reference to either thr neutral or pacifist endings of undertale with the yellow soul abilities

Zenith Martlet was so hard, I literally had to update to 1.1, restart my genocide run, save all my healing times that were over 30hp, get all the golden items so I could get the best armour in the game, Turn on easy mode and I still died a few times! (But I did manage to beat her that way).

The genocide route’s encounters are meant to take long and tedious ,not just to set the illusion that the room is empty,but to bore you. The entire point of the route is to make you stop and to make you feel unsatisfied,to making you feel terrible (Papyrus,Toriel,ETC),to the bullet hell that is Undyne and Sans,to the fact that Flowey,the soulless murderer,is scared of YOU of all people and tells you to go back. And just the lack of dialogue and content in Geno compared to Pacfist in general. Also the consequences that come wirh the run,losing your happy ending. It is supposed to scream “this isn’t how the story is supposed to go” I am not saying “oh murder in video game bad” because that is stupid and is not the message Toby is trying to send with it. It can still be played and enjoyed. While yes I do feel UTY’s way of doing it is more engaging,there is a reason undertale did it like this.

I will say, I think the Pacifist ending for me personally makes sense. Seeing as Clover had already been preparing themself to die, as they realized their fate was sealed about halfway into the game, they probably wanted to give Ceroba some kind of peace before they allowed her to take their soul. It would make sense considering they wanted to help those in the Underground.

For how well this video is put together, 500 views is criminal. RU-vid algorithm be SLEEPING. Good video (Im 30 seconds in)

i heavily disagree with your final statement on the pacifist route's ending but i do really agree with a lot of the rest of this video. lots of undertale fangames just kind of piggyback off of undertale's battle system and then just try to build a game off of it, but i feel like more fangames should really focus on building on the battle system itself to make it more compelling to play. DFC (don't forget connected) is a great example of this for pacifist, because they tried something like this which i feel could really work, being monster emotions. different monsters can feel different ways, changing how you should act around them. it's a cool concept, and while they don't necessarily explore it much, it is a nice way to mix things up and gives the player a bit more to memorize outside of a single pattern to make any of that monster happy. ironically, it helps to humanize them far more and makes them feel a lot less one-dimensional.

Amazing video about this game! I really enjoyed Undertale Yellow AND this video, although I do wish you went into more detail about the Aborted Pacifist Ending. I feel like the inevitability of Asgore killing Clover and taking their soul really solidifies the themes of the game and how strong he is when he wants to be, which is something a lot of Undertale fans don't understand. Remember, Flowey COULD NOT KILL HIM. EVER.

amazing video, i almost clicked off when i saw the views, assuming it would be low-quality, but this is as good as any youtuber with multiple hundreds of thousands of subscribers, can't wait to see you grow!

In terms of char building and overall meta narrative, yellow was lacking, though GOD was it good at fights, music and engaging plot. Reshaping undertale while keeping the same core elements is really impressive. It feels CANON and really fresh compared to the overused Sans battles and UT enviroment other AUs use, because it relies mostly on Undertale's *world building* which is a genius decision on their end (Flowey is an exception, but he was portrayed near perfectly). HUGE respect to the UT Yellow team. It brought out the feeling the original undertale gave me and I played trough it all in a single day 😭 It's a smooth-feeling prequel and would love to see similiar fangames developed in the future

My one and only critique of the game is a majority of the boss fights are survival (which is like the original), but some of the UT bosses had mechanics of sparing them other than survival.

easily the funniest and most entertaining game review I've watched. good stuff!

I saw Ceroba and instantly thought "someone's self-insert furry OC (affectionate)" and then the rest of the game confirmed it

...I mean, as much as I agree that Undertale's Overkill grinding is boring-I feel that was partially the point. Undertale's Overkill route works better as meta commentary of how people play games-proceeding, even when there is no point, just to 100% it. As Flowey says, "because I can, I have to," sorta ordeal.

I actually hope Toby Fox makes Undertale Yellow cannon by adding a character or two as a background npc in a new Deltarune chapter, like imagine seeing Martlet or Starlo just chilling in the surface town in Deltarune.

Really well edited video, love how snappy the jokes are

Bro literally sacrificed a whole ass MUG for this video. If that's not a good reason to sub I don't know what is.

9:58 GSUS KRIS-T YOU MADE ME FEAR FOR MY HEADSET FOR A MOMENT! XD (i have some headphones and earphones on which only one side works unless i twist and squish the cables actively)

Holy shit that neutral to vengeance ending is so narratively satisfying. In nuetral it really feels like Clover is betrayed or at least upset at the end when they see the souls. So to have a restart where they go back and finish their intended mission is so satisfying.

My gosh you got me with the left and right voice as my earphones were near broken and i have to put them in a specific place to hear them and your documentary of undertale yellow is incredibly amazing

And this is how I found the new Matthew Patrick in youtube, thank you prodigital, your ways of creating a content just reminds me of him a lot after his retirement, all I can really say is thank you partner. *Thank You!*

Great video, made me laugh and the editing is amazing! More people need to see this video!

Loved the video A very underrated channel Cant wait to see more of your stuff :D

this better get 20 bazillion gazillion views

Tip for those on genocide, the golden scarf (super secret rare op armor) reduces the damage you take to 9, instead of 11 with the delta rune patch. While this doesn’t seem like a lot, it really helps to make the fight a bit easier.

Answer the call, loved how they referenced frisk's call for help!

I remember playing the Undertale Yellow demo way back, so happy to see a major Undertale fangame finally reach completion!

Clover must have SOME determination for them to only have fractions of her health.

Dude are you really critisizing undertale for breaking the forth wall 'too much'? When Flowey and Chara, the heart of the game, were created as mirror of the player? When Undertale was created as a deconsturction of a normal rpg? When saving, loading, exp and leveling up are all diegatic to the game itself? This isn't forth wall breaking for the sake of forth wall breaking, this is the story of the game itself! it's like complaining that Monica breaks the forth wall too much in Doki Doki Literature Club. Also, yes, the genocide route in undertale is unsatisfying and fucking boring, that's on purpose. The genocide route is suppoused to be not fun, the game is doing anything in its power to stop you from playing it, it tastes your resolve and determination to achieve something purely for the sake of achieving it, with no other reward other than satisfying your curiosity and your desire for completion. You can argue that it sucks because a video game is a game first and a story later and it's supposed to be fun to play no matter what, but some games are actually stories first, pieces of art first, before they're games, such as the game underTALE that has the word 'tale' in its title. Undertale yellow not only made the genocide route more fun, it made it more satisfying because this is the only route where Clover survives AND manages to do what they came here to do-find and free the previous fallen children. This is completely different than undertale's genocide route. The game doesn't even give you consequences for it in other runs, as far as I'm aware. Undertale yellow is more fun to play and has better visuals, I agree, but undertale did not 'age badly', you just started to take for granted everything that made it great. Also you forgot to mention an important reason for why Ceroba experimented on Kanako. It wasn't just because she asked nicely- Kanako was the only boss monster in the entire underground (that we knew of) that was willing to be expirimanted on. Ceroba was a regular monster, Chjin died, Asgore would have never agreed to do this, no one knew where Toriel was, Asriel was dead and we never heard of any other boss monster in the game. It was either Kanako or no one and sure, the answer should have absolutely been "NO ONE" but don't act like Ceroba decided to inject her daughter with a suspicious blue liquid for shits and giggles.

the headset side switch part was a jumpscare for sure

The pacifist route ending is like that because it is technically a prequel the yellow soul has to die to help frisk in the flowey fight

Amazing video, love this game!

One thing i really want from an undertale game/fangame is an "Angry pacifist" or "Heartlest genocide" ending, the first one where you punch everyone until they become spareable, but dont actuallly kill anyone and the other one where you complete every enemy spare condition and then kill them.

As someone whose life was utterly ruined by Undertale (never left my brain ever, it occupies my every waking thought) playing Undertale yellow felt like I was back in 2019 playing the original game for the first time all over again :) the devs did SUCH an amazing job it’s insane

imagine if frisk fell after the genocide yellow route in yellow being told about asgore all game and just finding out that hes dead with a huge blast in the throne room like that would be so good we need that

Bruh, Pacifist is amazing, idk what you mean it is the best ending. Good vid don't get me wrong. I just really loved the ending. The music in Undertale yellow is consistently really really good, and while undertale has some songs that are impossible to top but undertale yellow has so so much good good music.

Bro didn't even get to mention all the secrets, small details, and mother [[Freaky]] FUN VALUE MECHANICS! Great video👍

7:34-7:51 There is a reason why some of the monsters don’t move and most do! Moving during battle supposed to represent their feeling of how much they want to harm the human “Frisk”. The more they move, the more they want to hurt you. The reason why some of the characters like Toriel and Papyrus don’t move is because that they really don’t want to hurt you or anyone at all. Like how Toriel doesn’t want to hurt Frisk but they will fight them to prevent them from leaving the ruins in order to protect them, and how Papyrus’s wants to be in the Royal Guards but doesn’t want to harm anyone (We know this because both sans and Undyne has told us that Papy is harmless and to nice to truly hurt anyone, as well as if you “lose” to Papyrus’s battle, instead of dying he’ll just leave you 1 HP and capture you in the shed). But there are some enemies that are moving slowly like sans in the Genocide Run, he slightly sways side to side in his battle because he actually doesn’t want to kill you because of his memories with Frisk in the Pacifist Timeline, but he will because YOU the PLAYER forced their hands to kill everyone.

I could not tell if the fish blob thing was from the og game or the fan game. Hats off to the developers!

5:42 Spoiler With the neutral route ending, that design choice makes a lot more sense. Enemies in yellow look more soft and harmless because they ARE harmless. Clover was so weak they kept dying at the original undertale path, to the point flowey got frustrated and quite literally threw you to the easy path Notice how all the enemies in yellow have way weaker stats than most of the monsters in undertale. Even zenith martlet has barely better stats than papyrus

Not sure about anyone else, but I _immediately_ lost all hope the moment Martlet went into phase two. Gave up on the spot and never looked back

What i think is genuinely hilarious is that Vigorous Terrain's motif was somehow entirely accidental lmao

The reason why when you get hit a boulder you enter battle mode is because when Undyne's spears hit you, you get bombarded by a spear/boulder attack that you have a chance to avoid taking damage from.

(WARNING LONG PARAGRAPH AHEAD) Im kinda late but for those of you who don't the in the true pacifist ending Clover stuff gets floated away down a river and eventually ends falling down into the "WaterFall" Area landing on a flower bed. In OG Undertale Frisk can buy Clover's hat and gun from Bratty and Catty in the alleyway. When asked about the items they respond that they found it near waterfall. I think this implies that the true ending is the canon ending to since if it wasn't catty and bratty would never have found clover items. Look this up for better details if you want.

what's neat as hell is that you actually mimicked the sound effect with the sound attack

Great video, keep it up.

this feels like a Noodle video all the way down to the catchphrases and I’m down for that

thank you for the zenith slander, i feel seen 🙏 i love most of the hard genocide fights in UT/DR and its fanprojects but zenith is just... something else i beat the fight eventually by spamming dash like my life depended on it (because it did) i know that having haphazard and clumsy attack patterns is in-character for them but like... really, this is the climax? (definitely LOOKED cool af tho, ill give it that) also yes, north star is the best character, we love our sheriff 'round these parts 💛💛💛💛💛

The audio switching to the left ear only at 9:58 was such a nice touch.

I find it funny that undertale yellow is like OPPOSITE of undertale. In undertale, genocide is tedious. But in undertale yellow, it is pacifist that is tedious. In undertale, the pacifist route is a HAPPY ending for frisk. But in undertale yellow, pacifist is a SAD ending for clover. FRISK and CLOVER despite appearing in the underground one after the other. Are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

13:36 yup saw that coming _and i 100% agree_

This is brutally underrated. Such an amazing video!!

9:58 Oh I see what you did there..

I'ma be honest, I legit didnt know there was a difference between Marlet one and Vengeance Marlet 1, where as Vengence Ceroba was the hardest fight in the game for me. Harder even then the last vengeance fight since dash spam got me through everything.

THIS IS GUN HAT *loud a55 gunshot.

9:57 dude the audio switching from one channel to another caught me so off guard, good job.

Bro that last part caught me off guard

Idk why the view count is low, but Im glad to see such a high quality video about one of my currently favorite games! Also, im glad im not the only one who enjoys Deltarune much more than Undertale 😅

Not to brag or anything but I've killed martlet on my first playthrough. It was tough but after taking a break and dying a couple more times I did beat her. And I didn't even got sans' final attack on regular Undertale.

It’s crazy how even the more monotonous sections are so expertly crafted

Fun fact, did you know that in the. Once when you fall down off the pulling the level that flowey rigged if you wait 5 minutes, the goatLady will throw down a rope

I agree with basically everything although for me the pacifist route was not very annoying. it's not really that hard to just flee the enemy you don't want to fight lol

For me all of the attacks from geno martlet are sightreadable but the moment she starts using the claws is when it becomes bullshit

It's funny that someone actually animated Anyways I Started Blasting And Revtrosity got someone to voice Clover saying it. Or was it Shyrenn voicing Clover?

34:18 I felt the opposite... I find this fight way easier than sans' as it took me only 1h (maybe 2? Idk) while sans' took me days (at least 5-7h if put together). I agree that sans' attacks are easier to learn but his fight has no checkpoint while this one has one. This fight just highly depends of the items you have (for the first part). I never tried any of these fights hitless (I have a life) but I do agree that this fight would be by far more difficult to do without getting hit than sans'. But I still found this fight more simple because you can both attack and heal every turn (as you attack during the enemy turn)

Deltarune: *exists* Undertale yellow: “wait, you exist?”

7:34 there’s a reason for this. The more monsters are moving in Undertale means the harder they’re trying. Take Toriel for example- they want you to live a happy life in Ruins, they don’t want to kill you, and they’re incredibly powerful, so they don’t move much. Same with Papyrus, he’s going for capture, not kill, stopping when he gets you to 1 HP. (Also there’s a million theories about papyrus being overpowered) Then you can take Undyne the Undying, in the genocide run they REALLY WANT TO KILL YOU because they’re saving monsterkind, and every limb is constantly moving tons. A final example is Omega Flowey, he literally cover the entire screen and everything is moving because he’s full of hatred and finally has the power to kill you, wanting to absolutely rip you to shreds.

Never played it, now I believe it's underrated

imagine the suffering people had to go through pre-act menu heal for the zenith genocide fight... im surprised i even beat it before they updated to add act menu heals

I didn't even notice the vigorous terrain/flowey connection O_o that's _wild._

27:15 the reason Clover didn't give up his soul originally is because it would be used by Ceroba to carry out Chujin's experiment. He gives it up afterwards because he knew it would go towards setting everyone free. Just wanted to clear that up.