Undertale, LISA, and Their Earthbound Connection 

What disappoints me is how underrated LISA is despite how amazing the games were. Don't get me wrong, Undertale was great, but LISA was an outstanding game. It gave me more feels and laughs than Undertale ever did, and I found the characters were easier to develop empathy for. I'm surprised that it didn't blow up in popularity like UT.

I'm sick of Lisa only being brought up just to compare it to undertale.

I hate how pretty much no one gives shit about Lisa.. Top comments, video itself - everybody just talk about how amazing Undertale is... Don't get me wrong, Undertale is really good game, but Lisa deserves more attention.

For those of you interested in LISA, prepare your feels. Also it deserves way more attention that what it's getting.

"Earthbound isn't a technological marvel" GEORGE BRO GO READ THE CODE FOR THE DIALOG ENGINE. That shit's insane. Also I love you.

I absolutely adore Undertale, but I like Lisa more. The game was just so powerful an experience. Also, I think Lisa subverts the expectations even more, because people expect a game to be fair, where as Lisa feels as if the game and the entire world within it hates you.

Dude you seriously just blew off LISA ignoring every one of its merits.

Wow he totally just made the video 60% Undertale.

Earthbound talk: 0:04 - 2:02 LISA talk: 2:03 - 3:53 Undertale talk: 3:54 - 8:47 This is unfair to the comparisons of the games. As you can see Undertale got *way* more time in the video than LISA and Earthbound and it wasn't a comparison, it was more appraisal. I love Undertale but I felt it was unjust to just look a LISA and not bring up its major selling points and just be like "It's so happy and cheery and great." Here's the thing, while Earthbound was a major inspiration for LISA, LISA is a whole different beast. It's supposed to be hard, annoying, and to put you into terrible situations. While Undertale and Earthbound are extremely similar and Undertale is *VERY* inspired by Earthbound, LISA is not supposed to be Earthbound. LISA is its own beast and hard, mean, disturbing, and doesn't like you, and that's why it's not Earthbound. It doesn't hold your hand and even if it did, after they're done holding it, they chop it right off. That's why so many people love LISA and you can't just say it's "unpolished" and "unfair" and then go praise Undertale. Sorry for ranting just thought this was unfair :/.

I thought this video would talk more about the connections that the two games took inspiration from Earthbound or pull similarities between the three games. To have the majority of it be Undertale praise is extremely disappointing.

...well that was a disappointingly bias review

this video should've been titled "let me tell you why undertale is the best game ever"

I don't think this guy has ever played Earthbound. Just based on his complaints about LISA. Earthbound was plagued with grinding and backtracking, difficulty spikes etc.

Lisa certainly differs both from EB and UT in that while both those games have some dark stuff, it's all in the minority and overall experiences are fairly cheery and positive. Lisa on the other hand is just kind of depressing and even all the humor in it is pretty dark. Not that it's really a bad thing and I actually kinda prefer Lisa to Undertale. Even if the moment to moment gameplay of UT is better.

"Supremely light difficulty level"? Look, maybe I just suck horribly at JRPGs but Earthbound really kicks my ass until about 2/3rds of the way through.

It's kind of odd how I somehow prefer Lisa to Undertale. Don't get me wrong, Undertale blew me away, it met its hype and then some and I loved every minute of it. Maybe it's the hipster in me that gravitates to harsh, unflinching and emotionally brutal stories that take a serious chance (and I have a fondness for black humour). I liked it a lot in the same way I liked Deadly Premonition and Nier, I came in not expecting much in terms of gameplay and was really pleasantly surprised in both the story and how the gameplay synced up with the story.

despite its flaws, I still feel Lisa seems a bit unappreciated for how long it's been out. it may not have been the under tale of 2014, but it still deserves some merit for dealing with dark issues like drug addiction and domestic abuse, but still play out to be fun and comedic in a non-distasteful way.

Lisa The Painful deserves more love.

I've beaten Undertale 5 times now, and I just can't describe here due to spoilers how incredible the experience has been. The way this game handles decision making and depicting the consequences of those choices across subsequent playthroughs, the way this game handles multiple endings, the way this game gets so "meta" is absolutely excellent. A neutral run in this game felt more like Psycho Mantis than Psycho Mantis. A pacifist run felt more like an anti-war game than actual anti-war games. A genocide run felt more like psychological horror than some psychological horror games.

>Has LISA in the title >Literally forgets about it and praises Undertale instead, leaving LISA in a sort of "meh" state *autistic Joy mutant screams*

3:34-3:42 Uh... all of that's intentional. Did you think the title "LISA: The Painful" meant nothing? Items are supposed to be hard to purchase in bulk because it's the apocalypse. You have limited resources, and so you have to pay careful attention to how you use what little you can get. The hard bosses are there to beat you down. They aren't even just hard to beat, they can also do... let's say permanent damage to your party which is something meant to make the bosses strike fear directly to the player. Lastly, NO DUH THERE'S UNFAIR SITUATIONS. LISA's world hates you. Dealing with the terrible results of unfair situations and making painful choices is an integral part of the experience in LISA. You're not supposed to be able to come out of it all unscathed because life just isn't fair, especially when the world's gone to hell. LISA would be nowhere near as impactful without the pain and suffering. I know and understand that LISA might not be for everyone, but how does anyone play through LISA and miss the point by such a huge distance?

LISA does have a few possible direct EarthBound references, though. Mike's truck is called the Devil's Machine, much like the device holding Giygas in EarthBound. Yado is the name of the inn in Tazmily in MOTHER 3. in

I loved Undertale but i still think Lisa did a better job.

Terry Hintz > Any Character in Undertale + Earthbound

I really love all of those games, but expecting them to have similar tone could get you disappointed, and in some ways can be a disservice to them! I think their differences in tone are more interesting than their similarities. In some ways, their resemblances to earthbound are really just skin-deep. (by the way, im not saying bunnyhop is doing this mistake, he clearly understands the games are different in the video, Im just discussing how exactly they're different here) (Also, spoilers about each of the three games here in their own paragraphs, skip em if you didn't play em. (You really should play all of em ) ) *Earthbound* is earnestly innocent. Its a game clearly made for kids, with a story from a kid's perspective. You are gonna save the world, you are taking a few first timid steps into the world of adults, making friends along the way. The villain trying to take over the world is your next-door neighbor kid. Its all this somehow small-scale adventure that still has a world-saving scale. It reminds you of playing pretend outside as a kid. Its basically that, really. Its got a few occasional spooky moments, and gets very spooky in its last moments, but those last moments is really the only time it completely steps out of the bounds of its own tone. Its not even that bad there, just raises the stakes for an intense final combat scene. Its not a game that really makes you uncomfortable at any point, except maybe that combat finale. It subverts expectations a little bit, but is very gentle with it in general. I don't think the words "kill" and "death" even appear at any point in that game. *Mother 3* has a more of an edge than Earthbound does. It feels like a game developed in part for the folks who played Earthbound a few years before, and grew up a little since. Its still very similar in its tone and humor, but there is a clear shift happening. *Undertale* is a grim game using innocent visuals subversively. Its not meant to be for kids, its visuals call back to old games, and hopefully to make you fight and kill enemies without thinking too much about it until the very end, when it puts it in your face and dares you to play again the "right" way. I mean it straight up starts with a cute little flower turning into a spooky monster screaming about killing. Since that's at the very start of the game, its not trying to "trick" you exactly, its just supposed to be a contrast. I'm sure kids still love it, but they are not the target audience: people who played JRPGS and other games as kids and who grew up since are the real target. The game's theme seems more like a direct critique of games as a medium, that its odd how gameplay tropes can get you to act without thinking, making presumptions about what the game expects from you. Kind of like spec ops: the line here, but maybe in a more general sense. Like, when you play a turn based RPG, your moral fibre goes on autopilot during combat: you expect random encounters to just be a source of experience points, a resource. It seems to just be saying, combat in games sometimes turn into this mindless exercise that has no relation to the actual game world, and its a bizarre trend we should question more. Its playing with that idea, and making it into a self-imposed difficulty level of sorts. *Lisa* is a very grim game. Its really damn dark. The humor in it comes through more like finding islands of fun and interesting characters amidst a world of despair. Its not trying to be a game for kids at all, that has nothing to do with its goal. The player isn't innocent, and the game's goal in some ways is trying to protect a little girls' innocence, and failing at it completely at every turn. The games' first section is covered in bloody corpses, which I first thought felt a little bit...childish, like in those early violent newgrounds flash games kind of way, but it did make a good job of making its tone very clear, so no one is completely sucker-punched when the actual adult themes come up later. The game's themes are about sacrifice and how some situations have no possible good outcomes, how sometimes there is just no way to prevent people from getting hurt. Sometimes, life just sucks, and you just have to make an impossible choice, and someone is gonna hate you either way. Lisa revels in death as a game mechanic, where Undertale does the opposite. Lisa treats people as a resource you spend, treats death like an inherent part of your game. You don't choose if someone dies or not, you more often just have the horrible task of choosing who dies. In Lisa, you CAN'T save everyone, and that's arguably the game's point. If you played Undertale, I don't need to point out how really damn different that is. In some ways those two games are complete opposites, like arguing against one another.

So... we're NOT going to talk about LISA The Joyful? No, anybody?

Yeah, a lot of the mechanics in the LISA games are unfair, but that's kind of the point. You're supposed to have fun, but you're also supposed to be, you know, in pain.

I feel that story wise, Lisa has the best story. Gameplay wise its Undertale and for Atmosphere, Earthbound. Each 10/10

Christ, man. If you're gonna make a review, please don't let it be bias towards one of the games. You completely blew over Lisa and Earthbound to rant about how

Undertale might get all the hype but I feel like Lisa didn't get much justice from this. It is a hard game but dark and difficult for good reason. That's the world of Olathe. Lisa needs more love, it's a very unique beast. Feel the joyyyyy

Um, I totally disagree with everything this man said about Earthbound just being weird for weird's sake. I have absolutely no nostalgia for Earthbound or any of the 3 Mother games, just played em recently. There was very much an adventure feel about it and if you can't just say it's weird, you should rather say that you don't get its humor. I laughed hysterically MANY times while playing Earthbound and Mother 3 because I get the humor. It wasn't weird at all for me. Just my two cents. :)

>Gary the Hot Soup. Your argument is invalid.

IDK HOW YOU JUST DISCOUNTED LISA AND PRAISED UNDERTALE SO MUCH IN THE SAME VIDEO BUT OK

The moral of the video 'Undertale is 100% perfect, it has no flaws ONCE SO EVER'... I think Undertale is a great game, but it's not perfect. Neither is Earthbound, Lisa, OFF, Spongebob: Attack of Bikini Bottom, Half Life 6.2, or a Mario x Sonic fan fiction. Nothing is perfect. Pointing out no flaws in Undertale is a bit scummy. Wait you found no flaws? You're lying. While there may be little, you must at least point out one. You pointed out so much for Lisa, but none for Undertale. Lisa is at least equally brilliant as Undertale, even though I find Lisa a little bit better IMO.

Pretty great, but I wish you would have given LISA a more in depth look rather than just a passing mention. This video should have really been 'Undertale and it's Earthbound Connection' because honestly story wise LISA is nothing like Mother. Even if you didn't enjoy it and spent several more minutes arguing why it was shit compared to Undertale, I think just rushing through it like it's a foot note was much more inflammatory to LISA fans than disagreeing with them. Especially since the title implied LISA and Undertale would have been talked about equally as much. Perhaps you could go back and do an analysis of LISA itself later? I'd love to hear a new perspective on my personal sleeper hit of 2014.

I've played both undertale and lisa.... and calling undertale more polished than lisa is quite unfair IMO. yes, undertale is very good. However, this review is very biased against earthbound and especially lisa. Lisa is SUPPOSED to be difficult. Ding along even stated that the choices are supposed to not be easy for the player to make, he wanted them to feel as painful as Brad did. It works, and as for the backtracking... It felt a lot more draining in undertale because at least Brad could ride a bike and Frisk moves sooo slow, even compared to brad when walking... oh let's not forget how more emotional LISA's soundtrack was throughout the entire games, yes there were funny parts... However, undertale's themes were more associated with chip tunes. .. Both worked for their games but I honestly felt a lot more engaged with brad and his struggle, rather than frisk and their escape... This has nothing to do with any of the specific endings as 1 theme in each game stood out to me, scaring me.... 1 is a major spoiler, the other... is just disturbing.. and appears in the most horrible of places. that being blood for sex and so cold. overall, I'm quite balanced on these games... and I feel like those biased opinions aren't giving Lisa much of a chance.

*praises undertale's music* *does not mention the LISA soundtrack.*

super bias. atleast give the other two games more attention.

The comment section has more bait and buzzwords than a bee farm.

Lisa has much more replayability and I like the characters more. Also the ending was just crushing and the dark subjects the game has were handled very well. I love how the story is very dark and sad but everything around the story is just batshit crazy and funny. Some moments are just so absurd and so memorable that I want to replay it every now and then. Something I don't feel for Undertale. Undertale and Lisa are very different games and its hard to compare them. Either way I think both are good fun games with a lot of heart.

LISA was amazing, and one of the most unique & thought-provoking RPGs I've played in recent memory. It alternates fantastically between being darkly hilarious, shockingly disturbing & emotionally devastating. It takes a lot of cues from Earthbound, but also blends in Fist of the North Star's themes of martial arts & grim post-apocalyptic world, and brings to mind Nier/Last of Us in terms of its morally questionable characters and decisions. Haven't played Undertale yet, but if it's even half as good as LISA I'm keen as hell :)

LISA in my opinion has to be the best on the list.

Earthbound is the type of coffee agent cooper would drink Undertale Is an oreo milkshake with pcp at the bottom. LISA is just coffee grounds, that taste really good!

I'm going to admit something, LISA is unfair, and that's one of the things Ding uses to sell the game. But we need to see that it's Dingalings first full game (yes Undertale is Toby's first game too, but Game Maker is better than RPG Maker and gives more options for designing the game), his first game was a Yume Nikki type of game (LISA: The First), but it was like one or two hours long, so for me The Painful is his first full game. The bosses are unfair, unless you got an strategy (most of the times at least), at the first boss (where you get the bicycle) if you have firebombs, you can beat it with a bit of work, with the hair guys, the same, use fire attacks on the hair, then go for the guys, and the only really unfair situation I can remember (the first roulette play) it let's you savescum if you want to, it really let's you, if you choose the exit and die option, you can load the save and try again without getting any party members killed. Also, the story, it's simple, yes, it's like the princess kidnapped story situation, but instead of running to you the princess kicks you in the balls and then runs further from you. Maybe I'm just rambling nonsenses because I like LISA a lot, but in my opinion, it's unfair a lot less that it seems, and it shouldn't make you not buy the game because you're afraid that it isn't fun, if you see the Steam forums and let's plays, the only people that ended not liking the game was the people that choosed Pain Mode, that mode is truly unfair if you don't know what to do, as save points literally explode after saving, so limited saves. It also haves more bosses, so expect a lot more of your party member to get killed. Although The Joyful has really unfair bosses too... Maybe Dingaling has a really problem when balancing games... Also Undertale... I haven't played it yet, I only know that if I hear one more person saying it's perfect, I'm going to die of repetitiveness. But it looks fun and original, I'll admit it.

Sooo... How about that one dude who gave Undertale a 65/100 on Metacritic because he got assmad that he killed Toriel lol.

Several months after playing both and in the end I have to say that LISA probably had more of an impact on me than Undertale did. I enjoyed Undertale a lot but after a while the gut punches in the story wore off, while most of the story in Lisa actually got more dark and stuck with me the longer I thought about it. The game is actually a lot more like earthbound than you would expect, it just mixes the oddness of the EB flavor with the perverted degeneracy of olathe. I love both games and will probably replay both a lot but Lisa is gonna be the game that sticks to my mind longer.

YOU CAN IGNORE THE GREATER DOG?! EVERY FUCKING DAY SOMETHING NEW

I would be really, really interested in seeing you do a critical close-up on Undertale.

You missed. The point of Lisa. Nearly entirely

All fanboys are annoying, no exception. BUT say the game sucks (or ignore and hate the game) because of the fanbase is unfair, stupid and immature. C´mon guys, This game is not a hipster trash or tumblr garbage (WHY PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THAT??!) Undertale is a honest FUN Game! i know is irritant to hear the fanboys, but FUCK this game deserve the atencion. Please! give a chance

I don't want to play Undertale because of its garbage fanbase that attack and berate other games while saying that Undertale is the best game of all time. I'd be talking about Metroid Prime music and an Undertale fan cuts me off, says the game and its music are garbage, then they post Undertale music and tell me how amazing it is. Why would I want to play a game that creates fans like that?

I actually had a few problems with Undertale's nonviolence system. Mostly that the ambiguity of the battle system makes it very easy to interpret the enemies as deranged, totally unsympathetic psychopaths as they try to murder you while spouting puns or attempting to flirt with an eight year old child. Then there's the fact that every enemy in the game but Snowdrake and Shyren has an endless supply of identically-named identical clones ready to attack you until you scare them off by killing too many of them. That and Undyne was insufferable. The game literally broke its own narrative and supplied Undyne with information it was physically impossible for her to possess just so the game could give her a moment to guilt-trip you. "Self-defense? HA! You didn't kill them because you HAD to. You did it because it was EASY." That line makes literally no sense unless you accept that she somehow knows about your time-traveling powers. If she doesn't know about this (and she doesn't, only Flowey and to a lesser extent Sans know) then this is totally nonsensical and it paints her as a deranged, totally unlikable lunatic who is willing to believe literally anything about anyone if it allows her to follow her king and still sleep at night. This woman could convince herself to murder an *infant* her perception of reality is so malleable.

Real title: Talk about Earthbound, mention Lisa in passing, then rant about Undertale

Lisa is better than Undertale by miles. Praise Austin Jorgensen.

I love Undertale to death, but WOW you're SUPER biased against the other two games for no reason. The other two games deserve just as much praise if not more...

I just hope more people start to like LISA

LISA is pretty darn awesome. Although it takes some getting used to, once you are in you are in for a treat!

What bunnyhop said is very true; if you're on the fence, just play the demo. I was on the opposite side of the fence when the game came out too. thinking "it looks like a meme turned into a game" and "the gameplay is probably completely childish and easy" Once i played the demo, i immediately bought the game for my boyfriend. why him and not myself? i had already been spoiled by the internet on a ton so i grabbed it for him since he was very busy and wouldnt have seen it. He's loving it, and im loving watching him go through it. Do yourself a favor and separate single player games from their fan-bases. play the demo.

>people complain about the shitty fanbase as a reason to not play a game I don't mind if people don't want to play a game I like. To each their own; really. I can respect that. But if that's how you think, I guess that means MGS, Bethesda games, Souls games, Nintendo games, SMT/Persona games, etc. are all not worth playing because their fanbases are crap. (Then again, Bethesda games are already crap.)

So basically, LISA is a horrible game with slow mechanics and gameplay and a lot of backtracking and is very sad, and Undertale is a game that is absolutely perfect in every way, and has absolutely no flaws at all? I love both of them but like... damn man. Undertale has it's own flaws and it's not very deep, LISA has superior writing and actual meaning, despite the sometimes unenjoyable gameplay. They are, for the most part, equal, and I don't understand why people just ignore LISA and turn towards Undertale only. the into to LISA is sets the mood wonderfully, and is powerful, highlighting the tragedy of abuse, while Undertale starts with a fucking monologue. it's upsetting how much LISA is swept under the rug.

Undertale never lived up to expectations that earthbound set for me

Someone killed a goat seeing that you're level 5... I did the same the first time :(

Played both games this year, Undertale came out around the time I finished LISA's DLC. They both had strong and weak points, yet both were extremely enjoyable as a whole.

When I look at criticisms of Undertale, I think they're missing something here: The things that are frustrating in this game have a point; the things that look like they are flaws, like the monotony of grinding needed for the genocide route, the difficulty in general, the spike in difficulty against bosses in said route, the tiny inventory space, etc, they all have a purpose. A payoff that developer intended to accomplish. Has this game been hyped to much? I think so. But I still love this game. And its kind of refreshing that something like this has captured the attention of so many people and that it has a chance to stand against the AAA-shlock that's been permeating the industry for the last 4 years.

So he doesn't recommend Lisa and EB. He pretty much says "Don't play them they are awful." But then for UT he goes "There is a demo. It's freeeeeeeeeeeeeesee." And then he dares to put a link for LISA after saying all that about it.

I came here years later to bitch about you doing Lisa dirty... But scrolling through this comments section, I'm glad to see that message had already been signed, sealed and delivered. Many, many times.

I've been waiting months for somebody to make a video about this. I love you.

This if the first video I've ever seen you do and I have to say great job on the analysis.

Man, a dad that would bring home R.A.D... That's a pretty rad dad.

Lisa was better! >:|

i like these essay videos of yours a lot

been waiting for this video for a while!

This video was a little too Undertale... over half of the video was spent talking about it. I mean for the video to appropriately talk about the drawing connections between the three titles, maybe actually spend time talking about the base game. Give a polished short review of each of them before haphazardly confessing you love for Undertale. Also a lot of the "negatives" mentioned for Earthbound and Lisa were their selling point. To praise Undertale for its humor, but say Earthbound was weird for the sake of weird is really showing your bias. I mean you can play a mini game called Thunder Snail and date a skeleton. Earthbound's "weird" serves the very same purpose Undertale's does its how the two titles develop character. Lisa the Painful was supposed to be painful. Having people die and stay dead was its innovation, and for the few that could handle the games brutality they could really grow to appreciate the gravity of the game. Lastly if your going to talk about the positives and negative of Earthbound and Lisa maybe do the same for Undertale. They were all neatly crafted experiences but they all had their faults and strengths.

only video he's done that involves LISA and it's to compare it to fucking Undertale

Just wanted to say thanks - wouldn't have found Undertale without this video, and missing it would have been a tragedy.

This channel is one of those subscriptions I've never come to regret. Bunnyhop, your content is always of such high quality and your insight is refreshing. Thank you for doing what you do. Now, excuse me while I go buy Undertale.

Undertale, LISA, and Their Earthbound Connection is the title. How this actually breaks down however is that there's 4 minutes giving a cursory glance to LISA and Mother and the rest is just masturbatory opinions about Undertale

Well, this was a disappointing video. I came here expecting a legitimate discussion, only to find another Undertale fanbrat obsessing over his favorite game, and calling Earthbound and Lisa garbage. This bias, this... toxicity, is why I grew to hate Undertale fan-base as much as I did back then. Now, seeing as this video is a few years old, I hope you've looked through your comments and had a chance to reflect on your foolish behavior. If anyone wants an actual opinion of Lisa, just go watch Nitro Rad's review of it.

By the way, "Pacifist runs" aren't a new or revolutionary thing. You people are giving this game way too much credit for something that was accomplished all the way back in Ultima 4. Pacifist runs have been a thing since 30 years ago.

This game doesn't deserve much of the praise it gets. There's really only one way to play, pacifism, you are punished for playing any other way. The combat is pretty boring considering you have only one move, no strategy, and even pacifism is reduced to "Ok, which one do I need to press to get him to spare me?" The characters are really flat, I think only two of them are actually dynamic. It really relies on it's humor, which isn't a bad thing but without it, it would be a very tedious but easy bullet hell. Also, Toby Fox is not a writer and it really shows. It's a good game, don't get me wrong, but it's not the "10/10" everyone keeps screaming. It's a cute little 10 hour experience that is very much worth $10.

Sorry but the creator did not "almost" create an engine as fas as I can tell, they used an underlying engine: Gamemaker. Also you couldn't say you were just a tiny bit biased towards Undertale vs Lisa?

Just want to say I love your take on gaming reviews and how you are able to so clearly articulate the feelings some games draw out of you. For example your discussion on Transistor was awesome! Keep up the great work!

Great stuff again, Bunnyhop.

Excellent video.

My man talked about Earthbound in like 1 minute, and just said in 4 minutes about LISA being a sad game and pretty easy.

YEEEES, these games *need* more publicity!

Epic analysis bro! I loved it when you spent more time on Undertale and brushed over the other two games! It was epic! You fucking hack.

"quiet reminder" this, is what I am most grateful for.

The way I look at it is this, Undertale - tumblr LISA - 4chan Earthbound - ...Myspace?

Been seeing Undertale memes all over the place and I had no idea what it was until this video. That "Skele-ton" pun has sold me on the game. Wait, what ever happened to "Citizens of Earth"? Wasn't that meant to be an Earthbound inspired game too?

Came here for the topic of the video, but was more than happy to see another person remembers playing Robotic Alchemic Drive. I looked for a copy of that for years and never found one in any store. Living in an age of online shopping has changed that, but man was it completely overlooked. (I get why, but I always felt the control of the robots was pretty novel.)

Kinda surprised it took you this long to do something on LISA honestly considering the way the game deals with its thematics.

Oh yes, I'm glad LISA gets awareness as well!

8:21 Wait, ignoring works on that boss as well!? o.o

Slightly off topic, it was a real treat to see footage from R.A.D. in this video. That was such a neat game.

That rant at the beginning of the Undertale review was the reason I finally decided to try it.

I loved Undertale, but I'll freely admit that it is by no means a perfect game. (SPOILERS BELOW THE BREAK) It hinges on the fact that it has a response to everything the player might try, up to and including reloading and restarting. Yet although it tries its best, it can't account for every possible thing that the player tries. If you kill Toriel after Genociding all monsters in the ruins, or strike a killing blow after getting her to stop attacking, it causes Toriel to denounce you with her final breath. But if you kill her under any other circumstances, she merely laments that she could not protect you. The game doesn't note how many times you tried acting, sparing, or fleeing before finally resorting to violence. And in the dialogue with Flowey at the end of the ruins, he never says anything to the effect of "You sure took your time. I was beginning to think you were a lost cause. But in the end, you finally realized that I was right." Or, take Sans' judgement of the player in the endgame. A player can defeat every opponent by whittling down their HP and sparing them (a strict "technical pacifist" run), or they can defeat them solely through ACTing (a strict "true pacifist" run); so long as you avoid outright killing, Sans will review your conduct equally favorably. This and several other binary conditions break down the otherwise immersive and organic atmosphere that Undertale weaves. If there is a sequel, I hope that Toby takes extra care to ensure that every possible form of in-game conduct is accounted for.

Ever since I've watch Rick & Morty I've heard the term Cronenberg used to refer to a being quite often. Odd.

Hell yes. RAD. Love that game. I'm surprised to see it pop up in a video like this. It's one of the crazy little "hidden gems" that seems to have actually stayed hidden over the years...

Super Bunnyhop, has just become one of those new subscriptions I'm so glad I picked up and am enjoying everything they've produced as I dig through their archive.