If people liked the writing and not the gameplay then they should buy a book. The other games had excellent writing, excellent settings, excellent sound, excellent graphics and, most importantly, excellent gameplay. Video games are a multifaceted medium and a Game of the Year should tick all the boxes in all departments. Undertale is just another "pseudo-retro" game that's designed to tickle your retro sensibilities - I'm sick and tired of this style. I'll go on a little tangent here because I think I know why people like it - they like it because it's so "retro". Pixelated graphics do not make a video game good, I can't wait till we finally get over this hurdle as gamers, because guess what? Big studios noticed this trend and are now releasing their own pixelated garbage, not because it's a form of artistic expression, but because they know their audience is a bunch of suckers that will gobble this sort of thing up no questions asked. I genuinely fear that this trend will be detrimental to aesthetics in video games. Retro games were pixelated due to technical limitations, not because the artists wanted them to look that way. Praising this style is the equivalent of wearing a moth-ridden and raggedy outfit bought in Goodwill and thinking that it's stylish - it's not, you're just wearing clothes that belong in a different decade. They're not "yours", this "style" doesn't belong to you, you're just appropriating it like a hipster because you've convinced yourself that it means something when it doesn't. To put it bluntly, it's fake. The only thing I see is that your shirt has a hole or two and I suspect that you have moth eggs in your pockets, so I won't invite you to my house - I like my *actual* clothes too much to risk contamination. The same applies to other "pseudo-retro" ideas like the lack of or really simplistic animation, outdated control schemes, distinct lack of modern features etc. - artificially making your product outdated in any aspect does not make it "good", "nostalgic" or "a throwback", it makes it crippled by design, and that doesn't sit well with me.