Mastering Foreshadowing || DELTARUNE and UNDERTALE [Theory/Analysis] 

Regarding Susie’s healing magic, Toby said this prior to chapter 2’s release: “…a certain character will learn a certain type of spell that they aren’t really good at. Actually, they’re so bad at it there’s essentially no reason to have them use it at first. But the fact that they learned it and keep practicing it is really heartwarming.”

also remember that deltarune was conceived far before undertale and undertale was always meant to effectively be toby’s resume to get what he needed for deltarune

My favorite part of foreshadowing in UNDERTALE, which a lot of people don't seem to point out, is Asgore's buildup. You hear his name (in capital red letters) once from Toriel as something that's supposed to be the biggest threat for you in the monster world, but then nothing for a while. In the meantime you hear about "the king" (in yellow letters) from Papyrus and later Monster kid, and that he's apparently named Mr. Dreemurr and is super nice and lovable. And finally at the end of Waterfall, Undyne casually drops the reveal by saying, "King ASGORE Dreemurr..." Confronting you with the fact that the adorable king is also the person who wants you dead. And then all the subsequent information you learn about him contributes to slowly understanding the contradiction and how both can be true.

Also likely an obvious chekov's gun: the vessel

"a mage leaving the party" ....oh shit susie knows healing magic

"Chekhov, why do you have so many guns!? You don't have enough hands to shoot them all!" -Chekhov's Closest Companion.

I just realized that the “create a machine to thrash your own ass” might be its own checkov’s gun (or just foreshadowing) about the goner maker sequence at the beginning of chapter 1 (or i guess it’s technically the other way around, but i guess it still works) which i would take to imply that we’re going to have to fight our own creation somewhere down the line. (Or it could be a switcheroo and it’s instead going to be “the creation that *saves* your own ass”)

I like how you acknowledged that, while in theory possible, no one ever in their right mind would NOT make the Thrashing Machine a duck.

Speaking of the "His theme" melody, I'd like to mention all the foreahadowing of the twist that Flowey is Asriel. - Flowey greets you with the same 'Howdy!' as Asgore does. - When Monsters tell you the story of Chara and Asriel, it's mentioned how the first golden flowers grew on Goatbro's dust. - When reffering to Monsters as a whole, Flowey uses face of Toriel, AKA the Monster he spent the most time with. - "His theme" melody can be heard in "Finale" - During the post-omega battle monologue he quotes himself after being ressurected ('Mommy! Daddy! Somebody help!'), and after that he says 'See what good it does to you!', like he speaks from experience. - Alphys mentions in her notes that the flower she injected with Determination was specifically the first one to grow on Asriel's dust.

There are some things that I wish were discussed more in theorizing 1. [[It Burns! Ow! Stop! Help Me! It Burns!]] doesn't refer to the acid. The Japanese dub of the game has him say something along the lines of "IN THE PAST, I WAS JUST IN CHARGE OF SENDING EMAILS, NOW I'M IN CHARGE OF [[Wait! It's Too Bright! My Eyes Hurt! STOP!!!]]" 2. *THERE ARE MULTIPLE THORN RINGS.* If you beat up Spamton on his first encounter, he tells you you should have "DONE ALL THAT EARLIER! AND BEEN THE FIRST TO OWN MY [Commemorative Ring]", hinting at the Weird Route However, if you abort a Weird Route and beat him up, he instead says: ""IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN BEAT ME UP,. JUST BECAUSE YOU BOUGHT MY [Commemorative Ring]!. AT LEAST BUY [2]!" 3. The save files are ever-so-slightly different from eachother. While I'm not sure how important it'll be, it can be seen with Asriel's dresser, which has different dialogue depending on which save slot you're playing on

I've heard that Toby has said he likes the idea of someone having an ability that they gradually get better at, which is likely the point of Ultimate Heal

There's something *extremely important* that you forgot about during the Onionsan segment. It's a callback to what River Person said about "the old song coming from the sea", as well as possibly the Sound Test fun event, being that "it's not a 'new' song" and only a piece of it is heard.

The hospital seems like a candidate for a dark fountain. Rudolph is in the hospital, his daughter likes Susie, SUSIE KNOWS HEALING MAGIC. SUSIE BEEING ABLE/UNABLE TO HEAL RUDOLPH!? BONDING MOMENT? BIG TRAGEDY? WHO KNOWS! I'M EXCITED.

Secret Boss 3 will actually be Yoshi. Also, I find it funny Gaster mentions Deltarune "glowing brightly from our hope" and the glow shard's worth increases each chapter

the interesting thing about Noelle and Ralsei's rpg class comparisons Noelle is the holy themed cleric but learns offensive (ice) and debuffing (sleep) magic like a typical black mage while Ralsei is themed after a classical wizard but only knows healing magic is this important? no probably not its just an interesting thing to note

Third comment > The bunker feels like Chekovs Nuke

One other Chekhov's gun I'm surprised you didn't bring up was Ice-E, because he was a very minor character in Undertale only appearing in a word search but in Deltarune he's everywhere because he's a company mascot. It's also hinted at the Ice-E will have a major role in Deltarune's story as evidenced by Noelle's blog post. Also if you think about it the Ice-E;s Pezza in Hometown is pretty suspicious!

25:49 It's funny you mentioned that because at least two Knight-themed characters have attempted to open a Fountain onscreen (Kris and Berdly). Considering Susie's class title is Dark Knight....I meaaaaan liiiiike.... 🥚

Honestly based on the end of the video one weird thing in the game is even though Susie is clearly based on a barbarian class I believe she's actually described as a knight in the menu. I feel like that's less a Chekov's gun than potentially foreshadowing she may also eventually make a fountain (possibly in desperation near in the end of the story? Who knows!).

When I first saw the house in New Home I thought: my character was dead and that the whole game was playing back memories of my life, (as interpreted by these crazy monster characters) New Home was a vision of Frisk's actual home. The monsters show up and tell you the actual story, but it's just awesome how the feeling of "nostalgia" was so well crafted in the scene

Two guns that I’m surprised weren’t mentioned were Spamton NEO and the Eggs. Neo is a gun that’s already fired, and it was set up all the way back in Undertale when Mettaton Neo got killed in one hit. Everyone thought that was the end of it. But then in Deltarune, Spamton NEO came back as a real version of that fight. Just like how the puzzle comes back in a real form instead of when it backfired on Papyrus. And then there’s the eggs given by the mystery man, which are definitely being set up for something.

The Glowshard in Chapter 2 has the description that its value increases every chapter, the Dog Dollar you get from the toby secret death being a play on that because its value decreases every chapter It could be a possibility that the Glowshards have more importance, but for now it just seems like they're an item you keep around until the late game in order to sell for a lot.

It's also worth mentioning that Onion's song in Deltarune was actually foreshadowed as far back as UNDERTALE. One of Riverperson's quotes is "did you hear the old song coming from the sea?" Whatever's going on with Onion, it is clearly very, VERY important, and I cannot WAIT to see how that specific gun gets fired.

"When memory meets melody and makes something magnificent." Edgar Allen Poe has nothing on this one.

One thing that could possibly hold some relevance is the books upstairs. in the library, there is a running gag where one of the hometown residents tells you "how great the books upstairs are, starting with them blocking the doorway upstairs in chapter 1, and having them let you see a small portion of the books upstairs in chapter 2. This gag will probably lead to the monster letting us see all the books upstairs, with there either being some big reveal about a character or the dark world, or what I think it might be, a small area for you to put the book once you've gotten rid of the debt and rewarding Kris a single egg (that last part probably isn't true, but the rest of it might be!)

This is something I've commented on way to many theory videos, but I have a general time line of events I think works well for what we know. Based of the fact that Alphys states in Ch2 that there isn't school the day after, Asriel comes back 'next week' and Toby can't keep making excuses for Kris to miss school. Ch1: Thursday Ch2: Friday Ch3: Friday night/ early Saturday morning Ch4: Saturday (If we loose Toriel too the weird route it won't have as many implications if she doesn't have a class to teach for the remainder of the game. Like how Berdly is written to not be to important that his death derails everything.) Ch5: Sunday (The day church is held, making the perfect time for Rudy to die and advance Noelle's plot.) Ch6: Monday (The start of next week where Asreil comes home for the festival, which Kris has the day off school for.) Ch7: The Roaring and end of the game. (Would school faculty be stingy enough to make kids go to class in the apocalypse?) Does this conflict with anything? I don't think I missed anything but I want to hear your opinion! This video is great!

The graveyard, with the objects buried, and Father Alvin mentioning the item burial ritual again definitely makes me think that is going to be relevant at some point in the story again. Especially since there is the interesting question: what happens when an item infused with the essence of a monster is introduced into a Dark Fountain? Father Alvin, talks ominously of Gerson’s buried Hammer. / Gerson and his works is also brought up a lot in an of itself. Beyond that we also have Rudy, if his life is indeed to come to pass, I’m certain we might be seeing the ritual process… And Noelle in loss might throw caution to the wind to try and see him again. Fantastic video and takes, very illuminating discourse. Also +2 on being a Kris Knight truther. We just keep on getting W’s.

About the "Mage left the party!" Well, I personally think it could have been referring to Noelle. & the events of what happened in Chapter 2. (In the normal route she was only a party member for a bit, and in the weird route she leaves after she had been pushed too far to cast the Snowgrave spell) But you didn't bring up the mention of Torial who is speculated to be a party member in Chapter 3. Because you know...SHE WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM WHERE KRIS OPENED THE DARK FOUNTAIN!!! It's obvious that she would be a mage like character as well because of here knowing Fire Magic in Undertale. I have a few other Deltarune theories if you want to talk about them with me!

I think the pie will be a checkov’s gun. Like, Deltarune’s biggest cg is the duck, and it’s something that initially seems serious, is immediately played off for laughs, then has a role later. I think the pie cutscene in chapter 1 will be similar

You missed the biggest Chekhov's gun of all... Alvin's graveyard scene.

Hey so my mind got stuck on the idea of looking out for a party member that sucks in the future of Deltarune- with the whole Dragon Blazers connection. I noticed something interesting about the thing Susie says before that..."It's like when your sister gets cursed in Dragon Blazers 2.", is what was said specifically. "Sister". "Cursed". ...huh. I know we have a lot of pre-conceived notions on what happened to 'her', obviously, but...I intend to keep my eye on this. If we see her again in a sorry state, I'll feel super vindicated (and upset obviously). Or maybe I'll just be wrong, Idk. But that's what's FUN about this! You've introduced me to a really fun angle to take Deltarune theorizing into. It's really awesome how different "guns" can stick out to different people, leading them to different conclusions- I love that. Kudos!

you’ve heard of Toby Fox using musical leitmotifs, now get ready for his… narrative leitmotifs… really cool video!! very well thought-out and put together. genuinely thank you for defining Chekhov’s Gun through an example so I didn’t have to look it up halfway through

Can’t believe how underrated this video is

OMFG SOMEONE ELSE WHO THINKS YOU CAN PAY OFF THE LIBRARY DEBT!! I noticed this a while back. It's also worth noting that there are going to be 7 chapters, and you can get $10 in Chapter 2. If you get $10-$15 a chapter from here on out, you will get juuust enough by the end of the week - the exact amount of time Berdly gave you to repay the debt. ...But on the other hand, maybe the theory that this game begins on Thursday is accurate and we'll get like $55 before the fair. Maybe we can lug our TV and old games to Mettaton and pawn it off on him or something - he was waking for 'something entertaining' if you talk to him in Chapter 2. Personally, I think it's going to be related to Berdly. Notably, there is this weird hidden dialogue change if you give Berdly the plushie of himself - later in the chapter, he's slightly warmer to you in one dialogue in an insignificant way. This may imply that depending on your choices, you can get Berdly to like you more. This seems like it might connect, right? Like, Berdly doesn't seem like he has the authority to call the shots on your debt, he's just being a smug idiot who likes to harass you on this. So doing all this counterintuitive nonsense seems like it'd be purely to play along with Berdly and to sorta do something nice for him. And, obviously, it's also related to him because you won't be able to pay off your debt if he's dead. So... My theory is there is a whole "Get Berdly To Like You" mechanic. Maybe this will be like Final Fantasy 7 and result in an awkward Berdly Date once the town fair starts up. Heck, his sprites are already there and you can get him to join the party for one room - Maybe you can even recruit him!

I just wanna say I feel kris is not THE knight but A knight.

“Go back and look at that fern. Stanley, this fern will be very important later in the story. Make sure you study it closely and remember it carefully.” - Stanely Parable Narrator

Regarding the Ultimate Healing, I can totally imagine a future secret boss weapon buffing it. And with Light Crystals I find them very interesting because Malius has an option to craft a Twisted Sword fusing something called a "pure crystal" and the goddamn Thorn Ring, and I think Light and purity as concepts are not too far apart.

15:00 -- as an aside, most libraries will call the book a loss and just accept payment as you "buy" the book at a larger price than the cost of the book if you keep it too long.

This is honestly one of the best theory video i've seen, doesn't seek for too much detail and just goes for the throat, the controller being the secret boss makes too much sense to not be the secret boss

regarding the trashing machine and how we assemble it, I thought it'd be important to point out that it could be a "tutorial" of sorts on how the vessel from the begining of the game will come back later in the game like in ch1 you'd think building it was all, but in ch2 it showed up again unexpectedly and for the vessel, building it in ch1 was it for now, but if you compare it to the trashing machine you can see a similarity (also it's worth noting that both the vessel and the blueprints were discarded at the end of their original appearance - we don't know where the vessel is but it's safe to assume it will be back) a similar thing can be said about what happens with berdly's injuries in ch2 - if he gets injured in the dark world (like getting his hand zapped in the queen fight, or getting ... yanno, Frozen, in snowgrave), that has a (not 1-to-1 but) clear consequence in the light world, which also is some sort of foreshadowing i feel (maybe even the idea many people have that if injuries transfer, then the healing could too, so rudy could be brought to the dark world and healed, and he would also be healed when he returned)

Chekhovs gun more like floweys flamethrowers

10:20 "We will burn that bridge when we get to it" Ah... i see you have also read that one Tumblr post. Amazing first video

Im pretty sure the dragon book is just a furry joke and it confuses me how so few people seem to pick up on it "Why would Asriel never return this book?!" Uhhhh it has a lewd-posing dragon on the cover. I have a few theories

I heard gun and I am intrigued maybe we can end up finding an actual gun like Asgore's police gun in future chapters in the flowerstore from when he was still a cop.

The thing about Rudy’s illness is that I’m not sure whether the trope will be played straight or subverted. On one hand, Rudy passing away of illness would be a moment of emotional destruction for Noelle. On the other hand, we *are* playing a game by Toby ‘Grandmaster of 4D Chess’ Fox. So basically I’m really curious to see what will happen to Rudy in future chapters.

The thing about Ralsei being the mage that leaves the party is crazy to me, my jaw dropped a little when the picture of Ralsei's robes came up and it clicked like "Oh shit that could totally happen!" Awesome theory, it's crazy how people are STILL coming up with new and interesting takes that make sense. This whole video is really well put together, you've earned yourself a fan today!

Forget a gun, "Suzie knows healing magic" is a goddamn Chekhov's rocket launcher.

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Berdley’s actually more a dragoon than a Paladin, his elemental attacks are based on wind magic, he weilds a lance-the usual Final Fantasy Weapon for Dragoons, and his actions in chapter 2 mirror the most famous dragoon in game history: Kain Highwind from FFIV, who thinks he’s doing right working for the empire, but discovers late his failure to see who is truly righteous.

There's one that's more meta and I think wasn't really intentional on Toby's part, but, in the "SURVEY_PROGRAM" demo for Chapter 1, the door to the computer lab was a single door. But, when Chapter 2 came out, it was retroactively changed to be double-doors. And that ONE small change put a HUGE GLOWING TARGET on every pair of double-doors in town as to what will be a potential Dark World location. The one that sticks out the most to me are the barred doors on the upper floor of Flower King, they're almost the EXACT SAME dimensions as the new computer lab doors, if I were a betting man I'd go all-in on that prediction.

Awesome vid! I feel like the purpose of Susie learning healing magic is to symbolise her becoming more vulnerable and showing her softer side, since the only other spell she knows is rude/red buster, a big attack. Susie is scared of being vulnerable with others and showing weakness which is why she’s so aggressive, so by letting Ralsei teach her healing magic it shows her character development. I feel like when you get really into theorizing you tend to forget that not everything has to fit into the overarching plot/lore, UTDR is very character focused. Imo it’s probably nothing to worry about, but it’d be really nice to see Susie getting better at healing magic as she opens up to her friends more. Also, when I first played the game, my thought was that Asriel didn’t want to return the book out of embarrassment because the dragon is dressed “immodestly” lol, and both Asriel and Toriel are religious and a little uptight. I could be wrong but that’s my reading. The glowshard thing is really interesting, now that you mention it I’ve never really considered if they’ll be important later and the contrast with the shadow crystals is very interesting considering how the game is setting up the conflicting light and dark motifs as a huge thing. On one hand it would feel a little meanspirited to hide major lore behind something so easy to miss, but maybe it’ll be something special for us completionists. ALSO am I the only one who thinks the thrash machine is a very direct parallel to the goner vessel? You have a sequence where you create something, it’s destroyed/discarded before you can use it and it seems like it won’t matter going forward… so to me this implies the vessel will have a lot of significance in later chapters. But I guess that kind of goes without saying anyways. Lol sorry for the essay in your comments I get excited

absolutely love the SUSIE KNOWS HEALING MAGIC bit ❤

Theres also something very minimal in chapter 2 which i dont see very much talked about. I like to call this one, Chekhov's Joke. In chapter 2, Queen throws cages to kris ralse and susie and misses completely. She however states that it wasnt a miss, but a tactical calibration. Then says she only has 4 cages left. Then, when you reach her mansion, noelle is captured via cage because she is distracted, leaving her with 3 cages left. Then she throws the cages towards kris susie and berdly, who unlike noelle, are fully alert expecting something to happen, yet they are captured and the cages dont miss. This is because the 3 remaining cages were previously calibrated. It wasnt a miss, it was a tactical calibration.

Kris being the Knight seems too obvious to me, not to mention that the end of chapter 2 seems to be their first time creating a Dark World, on account of the timing. Right before they leave the computer lab dark world, Queen explains how the Knight makes dark worlds, and the first thing Kris does when in control is create a dark world.

One thing I just thought of (haven't finished the video, so might have been mentioned after the secret boss section) hinges the possibility that the game that Asriel was making was Undertale in some form, based on the description of a final boss that resembles God of Hyperdeath Asriel from the True Pacifist route. Furthermore, a personal hunch that I've had since Chapter 2 dropped is that while Toby might be trying to misdirect by having Toriel call the cops with the assumption being that Undyne would show up and fall into the dark world, and I suspect that Undyne would call up her old boss Asgore to send him over since this is his estranged family after all. What could come of this is unclear, but what if we get Undertale design Toriel and Asgore with certain parts of the Chapter 3 Dark World resembling the Underground while we explore the specifics of why Toriel divorced Asgore in Deltarune and possibly if they could reconcile (not necessarily remarry or anything, just be friends and/or be on a talking basis so Asgore can visit his children in their home, though on the topic of Chekov's Gun and Asgore's dialogue at the store, maybe on a Chapter 3 weird route one consequence could be their relationship rekindle beyond friendship to romance, with potential negative consequences in later chapters if assuming that the weird route is completely a bad route)? Also I would really like to see Toriel and Asgore's reactions to Ralsei, the potential lore or even just fluff there is juicy. EDIT: Formatting and typos

My money is on that if we do keep gaining money as the chapters go by the moment we get enough the interest will increase, so we will have to acquire the book at some point and since the next chapter is in Kris's house it might be the perfect time to get it. Also I'm betting books will be Toriels weapon in chapter 3 so it will be like how we can take Noelle's watch from her and still have it in the light world

ive never actually seen someone beat the mettaton chamber puzzle before holy shit

In the sweepstakes on Noelle’s page, she talks about the “cross shaped maze” where you have to go every direction, and then up, makes me think of this one game I played where it talked about something similar to that as apart of its lore (I won’t say what game because it’s kinda spoilers), but then it turned out it was just talking about the D pad of your controller. Not sure if it’ll be related to anything like that, but it would be pretty interesting if it did!

"I wish i could forget to relive that moment" oh how many times i had that thought after playing undertale

The last one is good, I can easily think of a future event in which those 2 hp save the day

Very good essay. I also love how many of these are set up to throw you off, like the Asgore and Mr. Dreemurr misdirection, or the Alphys barrier conversation. And right next to those you have masterpiece gags/hints like the fractal joke/quantum physics book, Grillby timestop, or Toriel's kitchen, and the contrast/contradictions between the library books and the waterfall signs. And some were even removed, like the funeral rites book and Falling Down, which return to Flowey and the Amalgamates, and later Gerson's hammer! So good. Edit: And don't get me started on all the cool details like Gerson calling forward to Sans' menu manipulation by asserting his dominion of the game rules to make himself impossible to kill. Gerson is such a good character. And also foreshadowed with Burguerpants later

I just realized that the random puzzle machine being mettaton’s body could legit just be him present in that scene spying on you for alphys . We know papyrus buys mtt brand stuff so it could also just be in mettatons likeness. Either that or he is just the hardware for the puzzle.

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Genuinely this is one of my favorite UT/DR videos. Keep up the good work!

A shiver is sent down my spine anytime Toby hints anything in the game. He’s taking advantage of the chapter based storytelling to buildup stuff. What’s makes me scared, is something it’s hard to tell if it’s to something important, to a joke, or something else entirely. The dog is plotting, he can’t wait to bamboozle us all.

Asriel's thing in the drawer that changes in each save file is most likely the chapter 3 secret boss

Adding on to the connection to the ocean, the original image for the vessel maker background was found and it turned out to be an edited picture of the ocean

This is really good! I can't wait to see which ones you got right.

I'm forever team "Papyrus is the knight" but you do you, king :>

I have two things that I think will be significant that I don’t see many people talk about. The pie. When Kris rips their Soul out in Chapter 2, they go through several extremely purposeful actions. So I don’t think in Chapter 1 they just wanted a snack. Toriel’s pie has healing powers. Maybe they lose health when separate from their Soul. Maybe whatever they were doing got them hurt. The first zone we drop in. With the bubble piles and the dark eyes. Ralsei says that treating people with kindness makes a difference. I think that enemies we fail to recruit go there, and they WILL show up again

on the idea of items in the house that could be forgotten or abandoned ,etc, and something struck me as odd, why does Kris have an old bird cage? did they use to have a pet, and if not where did they get it from? The cage has been there since before we took control it seems so the idea that its full purpose was to contain the soul is a little odd. Also If anything in the house could have an interesting effect if brought to a darkworld its the object that was shown to be able to restrain the Soul(imagine mid chapter 3 Kris just removes the soul throws it in the cage walks away and the rest of the Fun gang stumbles across it and are shocked to see "kris's" soul by itself.

hey btw theres also a dnd class called a Dark knight. they're described as knights without leaders which fits into how kris occasionally fights back against the players control. just a fun fact :3

This is one of the best and most original theories I've seen in a WHILE.

Sometimes, the youtube algorithm does a good thing and shows me an interesting channel that's just gotten started. Video got me to think about things from an angle I hadn't considered before. Intrigued to see where you go from here 👍

Susie *learns* Healing Magic. This is the first time we've heard of a monster *LEARNING* a new type of magic.

Here before this hits [big]

Something to point out is that there is one instance checkoffs gun that toby doesn’t use. That is a human absorbing a boss monster soul that’s never used despite being brought up in water fall and you can’t even reset and go get Toriel soul after learning that knowledge

Very interesting topic! Keep it up! (Also very cool persona)

This is a great video you pointed a lot of stuff i haven't thought about very much

Such a nice start for a channel, hoping for you to grow really well on youtube, loved your first video

Mentioning both HalfBreadChaos and MollyStars? I love you already The editing and delivery are also ON POINT mah friend

The Giga Queen fight is honestly such a great example of this because practically everything else about it was a chekov's gun in THIS chapter, on top of the thrash machine being shown as one last chapter. And I mean practically EVERYTHING. Queen's mech in her palace, the Punchout minigame, every individual component from the characters you befriended-- right down to the Thrash mech's arms (Susie helping you be strong enough to use the controls) and legs (Ralsei giving you a boost to reach the controls). It's such a fun story moment and fantastic boss fight for so many reasons.

Im alwyas worried about "its like when your sister has bad stats in dragon blazers" line, like is someone going to be debilitated? And yo i never even thought of the debt being relevant, christ

18:29 Dont forget that the River Person in Undertale can also say "Tra la la. Did you ever hear the old song coming from the sea?" That might be related to all the ocean stuff ^^

This video is really well made and informative, hope the algorithm picks it up (mainly commenting for that to happen lol but also wanted to show my appreciation for the vid)

you cooked hard with the transition at 2:40. i was immersed

I bet the piano will be important. maybe kris will play the piano at some point in the game? I mean we already know they're good at it thanks to the spamton sweepstakes, but they can't play it when they're under our control... I think kris playing the piano will be part of the ending sequence. I'm dying to know what was the dream that inspired Toby so much to make 2 videogames out of (he said the dream was gonna be deltarunes ending. Thinking about it too much will drive me insane)

The algorithm showed me this twice in one day. Great vid I watched it both times

Good video, and an absolutely hilarious early April Fool's joke at the end to top it all off!

THIS IS YOUR FIRST VIDEO?? I thought you would've had a bunch since you seem so expierenced here.. You sir, have gained a subscriber. Keep up the great work and I can't wait for your next video!

“A mage leaving the party” I would like to remind you SUSIE KNOWS HEALING MAGIC

For the Glow Shard, there is one per chapter, the same number as the Shadow Crystals. One theme of the game is balance. Tip the scale one way or the other by creating or sealing dark fountains, and Darkners cease to remain animate (in addition to the Roaring). Perhaps the creation of a dark fountain also creates both, a crystal and a shard. Perhaps a light fountain could be created during the Roaring in a future chapter creating a pocket where the Titans cannot reach. Beings of darkness can't be seen in the light.

I love just how many examples are being pointed out in the comments. Deltarune/Undertale (or just Toby) have set my expectations for narrative so dam high.

Wait, this was your first video!? Damn well done, you've already augured quite a viewership off of one video already. I genuinely didn't notice until I looked at your channel to see what else you've uploaded. I hope this channel grows, this is a promising start

Glad to not be the only one who saw Susie learning healing magic as a joke and immediately reenacted that Two and a Half Men meme when my brain started processing the implications

Oh my god someone else who uses the double saying of “we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it” Absolutely incredible

You got some really good theories. A lot of the ones I hear are reaching but I didn't even know about the secret way to collect money

Excellent video!

I have to say, this was wonderful, but I am conflicted, of all the things, because this is how I learn Asriel 'likes' dragons