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Remember your Gbatemp 2015 Game of The Year everyone? It just turned 1 year old today!

Ah Undertale. Easily one of the biggest shocks to grace everyone's gaming pallet of last year. It dared to do some things simply, differently, and exponentially. Undertale just had this magnetic draw to it with everything that it did in writing and character creation that had us all latching on to it when it released.

And who could really blame you for doing so? A game that gave you the option to kill everyone or not a single entity. A game with a Dog Knight that stretched all over the screen and had one of the most memorizing songs I've ever heard in gaming. A game with two brothers that aren't Mario and Luigi but made themselves just as iconic through silly puns and bone-dry humor. (I'm so sorry, how could you not make that joke?)

Undertale was truly special for a number of reasons, but I think the word that truly describes what made it phenomenal is what I've echoed so many times already in this writing. Simplicity.

Undertale dared to show us that simplicity at its finest can make a game fantastic. Undertale was by no means graphically intensive and it was obviously inspired by so many other games to make it what it turned out to be. But what it turned out to be was a rock-solid story driven experience that played with your emotions, played at your humor, played with your mind and made you question every decision.

The impact Undertale had last year made a small little indie title a colossal titan in name. Every gaming outlet had it on its GOTY battles or were writing pieces on it. The Undertale fandom took the game and ran with it as far as they could, much to the ire of the rest of the internet. Even within our own community there was a clear divide between the ones that made the game their everything and those that couldn't handle the intensity of the fandom.

Despite what you might think of it, many of us today stand by the greatness of Undertale and what it delivered. You can read our official review here, see our heated Game of The Year discussion here, and find the official steam page for the game here.

Undertale pushed boundaries and became a big name for itself by doing what games are supposed to do better than what newer games were doing around it.

Entertain you.

And that's why we celebrate its release a whole year later, and celebrate the power of the indie community. Because in the end, we all just want experiences we can enjoy. And boy do we enjoy Undertale.

 

[Deleted-379826]

Ness is Sans.

Like legit confirmed not a scam.

 

[Foxi4]

The only two things this sh*tty Game Maker game has generated so far is a brand-new cringey fandom and a whole lot of really weird hentai. The world was a better place before Undertale came along.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Shame the game was trash.

;O;

Seriously though, the game itself is...ok. The gameplay is meh and the story is meh, the only thing I really liked was some of the music and that's it. And yeah, I played through all the endings, still thought the story was just average at best. Of course, if you ever say anything bad you get a couple hundred children running at you with knives crying their eyes out cuz "YOU DON'T GET IT ". The fanbase is what makes me dislike the game the most, they're easily the most cancerous of fanbases to spawn from some "ok" indie game.

I don't think the game deserves the insane praise people give it. If it were me giving the review, I'd probably put it at a 6/10 at best and that's it.

 

[x65943]

Shame the game was trash.

;O;

Seriously though, the game itself is...ok. The gameplay is meh and the story is meh, the only thing I really liked was some of the music and that's it. And yeah, I played through all the endings, still thought the story was just average at best. Of course, if you ever say anything bad you get a couple hundred children running at you with knives crying their eyes out cuz "YOU DON'T GET IT ". The fanbase is what makes me dislike the game the most, they're easily the most cancerous of fanbases to spawn from some "ok" indie game.

I don't think the game deserves the insane praise people give it. If it were me giving the review, I'd probably put it at a 6/10 at best and that's it.

I'm really surprised you the think the gameplay and story are meh - yet you played through all the endings. I liked the gameplay and story and only got 2 hours into it.

I liked it, but it couldn't keep my attention. It seems you had the opposite experience.

 

[Foxi4]

Shame the game was trash.

;O;

Seriously though, the game itself is...ok. The gameplay is meh and the story is meh, the only thing I really liked was some of the music and that's it. And yeah, I played through all the endings, still thought the story was just average at best. Of course, if you ever say anything bad you get a couple hundred children running at you with knives crying their eyes out cuz "YOU DON'T GET IT ". The fanbase is what makes me dislike the game the most, they're easily the most cancerous of fanbases to spawn from some "ok" indie game.

I don't think the game deserves the insane praise people give it. If it were me giving the review, I'd probably put it at a 6/10 at best and that's it.

It's the Earthbound Effect - everyone praises it, but nobody *really* gives a sh*t. On a scale of flacid to boner, this game isn't even a twitch to me.

 

[Wander's Hat]

While I do agree that the stuff that Undertale has used isn't necessarily new or original, the game made up for it with so much charm that I couldn't not enjoy it. The article pretty much sums up my feelings on Undertale.
It was also fun discussing the story and lore of Undertale with friends who've also played the game. Ah, t'was such a happy time then. If anything, I'm glad Undertale has made my grumpy ass happy for the remainder of 2015.

It gave birth to some of the most cringy fanart of any franchise.

Is it bad if I can say that I've seen cringier than what the Hellish depths of the Undertale fandom has churned out?
A giant Sans shitting himself in an overflowing diaper causing Snowdin Town's air to be flooded with a stinky aroma can't compare to the Shrek shit I've seen.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I'm really surprised you the think the gameplay and story are meh - yet you played through all the endings. I liked the gameplay and story and only got 2 hours into it.

I liked it, but it couldn't keep my attention. It seems you had the opposite experience.

I don't mind drudging through a little trash in hopes of finding something good, at least to verify that the game sort of lives up to it's overinflated expectations. But alas, nothing good really came from it, so I wasted like 8-9 hours of my life.

 

[DinohScene]

Boyfriend played it, was impressed by it until the fandom exploded.
That ruined it for me.

 

[osm70]

never played any of these two, however, undertale its based on the concept around earthbound, since Megalovania its a Song that was used on the Earthbound Earthbound Halloween Hack also the arth its based heavily on the earthbound concepts.

http://undertale.wikia.com/wiki/MEGALOVANIA

Well, the music is the same, becasue the creator of Undertale made that hack.

 

[DinohScene]

It gave birth to some of the most cringy fanart of any franchise.

The game itself is OK, not a game for me.

I disagree, MLP still holds the crown for that

 

[osm70]

I disagree, MLP still holds the crown for that

Heh. I guess I am the worst person ever.

 

[Catastrophic]

I thought Undertale was great. Fandom is pretty shitty, but I really liked what Toby did with the game.

I disagree, MLP still holds the crown for that

*cough* Sonic *cough*

 

[Zyteus]

I love Undertale, but the fanbase is cancerous.

 

[DinohScene]

*cough* Sonic *cough*

Even Sonic got ponified or however you want to call it.
Idk, Sonic and MLP is the upper most level of cringe but when one gets ponified, MLP sinks another parsec into the abyss.

 

[VinsCool]

I thought Undertale was great. Fandom is pretty shitty, but I really liked what Toby did with the game.


*cough* Sonic *cough*

Oh boy. Sonic OCs

 

[ThatWorld Of 3ds]

FNAF is better than undertale

 

[VinsCool]

FNAF is better than undertale

Not really no.

 

[ThatWorld Of 3ds]

Not really no.

A. It's better by 1%, and B. because I wanted to see some butthurt UT fans go like " NUUUUuUUUUu UT is KArwaiii andoi loke SANNES "

 

[Pluupy]

I hate the damn fan community. Five Nights at Freddies 2.0, worse because they think the game is "perfect".

Sometimes I feel like people these days don't understand moderation and don't think critically enough.

I wanted to like this game. I love the Mother series and I am extremely psyched for Mother 4. When Undertale finished it's project I thought it was cool because of the mother style.

Boy oh boy.

You just can't go anywhere on the internet without some moron spewing "teh undertale maymays". At first I was able to brush them off, but good fucking god you can't even talk about fonts without someone talking about undertale. People need to calm the fuck down. The game wasn't revolutionary. It's not really "notable" or "game of the year". If anything, it was "neat".

 

[Yil]

One thing that convinced me not to hate the entire population. I fantasised about genocide but never killed anyone in my run beside post-omega flowey, even Jerry the drug dealer.