Hey! So I'm considerably new to Livejournal and I'm mostly here because I've always wanted to do a screencap adventure and after reading through a few on here, I quickly realised that LJ was probably one of the easiest places to do one. GREAT!
I'm starting with Undertale as I've got a new(ish) laptop as my old one was a piece of rubbish and was dying a slow death, and because of that thought AH I CAN REPLAY IT FROM THE BEGINNING AWESOME. I would be surprised if you haven't heard of Undertale before as it literally exploded in some sort of Homestuck-level kind of insanity. I feel like a lot of people are put off from Undertale because of the fans, but it really is a great game. While I don't feel like it will be one of those games that stick with you after years and years and years, it is just all around decent and everything about it is pretty neat. The characters, the story, the way it deals with classic RPG tropes (must kill everything in the area! oh wait no I can just hug this monster instead) are all done really nicely.
The music is also brilliant. I love the music so much in this game.
As a QUICK HEADS UP though, this will include MAJOR SPOILERS and I wouldn't read through this if you haven't played through at least once before as I will probably be referencing a few post-game bits. I will try and put up spoiler warnings though for major parts, so even if you haven't played before, hopefully I won't ruin too much for you early on, haha. Seeing as Undertale isn't a new game though, I'm kind of assuming that most people have either played through it before, or at least watched some sort of "Let's Play Undertale" on Youtube.
I mean I watched the Genocide ending that way, because lol I'm never doing that route ever. If you're coming here for a Genocide playthrough you are gonna be disappointed~
getting ff7 flashbacks all of a sudden. will we get human/monster babies like terra?? I kind of wish we did.
WAR
WAR NEVER CHANGES
also I kind of like how goofy the monsters look on the left hand side, with their one eyes and huge eyebrows. Or are they also meant to be eyes as well? IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
look at the human's eyes third to the left oh my god hahahaha
its always with the sealing, no one ever kills the monsters - whats that all about
201X MY FAVOURITE YEAR!
As you can see I was a bit of a doof with the screen shots and ended up having little flashes come up to the side like HERES A PREVIEW OF THAT SCREENSHOT YOU JUST TOOK don't worry I ended up realising how to get rid of it
none of this is ever explained much. like why is our little protag out on their own in the mountains anyway? do they have any family? any relatives? we'll never know OR WILL WE? i might have just missed it at some point on why the MC is just scampering around the wildness.
looks like a fun place to play, nope no hazards here
oh
shit
fml
also that looks like a really painful way to land, how come you didn't break anything that way
i promise it's not terrible screencaps like this throughout
well looks like we're stuck
or dead? that still looks like a PRETTY HIGH FALL TO ME
basic controls, I like it when they're nice and simple like this.
ok you CAN do this, but you'll get a "hidden ending" and well basically I don't have time for that nonsense. If you want to see what the difference is on the ending in HARD MODE then here you go! You might want to skip ahead to 1:03, as before then is just the dialogue with Toriel.
anyway lets get back to naming our little character
yup sounds good to mee
the text kind of wiggles a lot and then the screen goes white
and then jumps to here! lucky that we fell into a bunch of flowers, flowers would never hurt me
I also like as well that our gender is ambiguous - I had assumed that I was a girl in my whole playthrough, not that it was ever stated, but it was only afterwards when I saw some fan videos and art where the MC was portrayed as a boy it kind of hit me as pretty neat that you could be either. It's just nice that the protag's gender was pretty unimportant to the story as a whole, as with so many RPGs you had to know the main protags gender just so we can have love interests and what not.
It doesn't matter here though as we will flirt with anything/anyone
i'm glad I've got my TRUSTY STICK AND BANDAGE EQUIPPED! nothing can harm me now
but really your weapon isn't all that important unless you want to go genocide route. I felt bad just watching the genocide route, so I wouldn't be able to do it for real. I get way too attatched to fictional characters
well cant hang around here all day
nope doesnt look ominous
Woohoo tutorial time! Also put some lights on in here, you're a flower not a mushroom
This kind of reminds me a little of FF tutorial screens where they have a black screen and then a chocobo or a moogle run on like HEY LET ME EXPLAIN THINGS.
fun fact about Flowey, first playthough you do he introduces himself as Flowey the Flower and is like omg you mustve woken up here so scared and confused and is like I'll be your friend and help you out! :D Pretty standard introductory mascot.
But anyway, when I played through this on my new laptop, I had to do some more updates so I closed after the tutorial and came back to it. Second time Flowey says something along the lines of "Hi I'm Flowey, but don't bother looking all surprised, we both know you've been here before" which was just so passive aggressive and then this is all he says after that.
It's just the :D face with this line that makes it. So passive aggressive Flowey!
Also additional fun fact - the "Don't you have anything better to do?" line is used again in the 'hard mode' ending. Ha ha ha. I enjoy callbacks like that
I also enjoy the way Undertale does fights, its pretty cool. Way better than the usual fare.
grinding up LV is my FAVOURITE THING
of course!
I kind of was too quick, but when he winks a star shoots out and turns into...
these little white things!
HMMMM
ok!!!
oh whoops wrong way
i love flowey's faces
I like to imagine flowey as someone working in retail
I'M SORRY SENPAI
oh noes no flowey im too scared of them
Flowey you're gonna be no good in retail if you snap this quick
see how it's changed from 'pellets' to 'bullets?'
hahahahaha i think my game glitched up a little here. RUN. INTO. THE friendliness pellets
flowey just pauses here a minute like : )
all throughout there was flowey's little upbeat tune playing but every time you miss the pellets (bullets) it gets more and more distorted until you get to this point and the music just stops.
yeah flowey is totally going to be a cute loveable mascot right?? oh
here its still quiet except flowey now has this scratchy kind of noise when he talks and creeper font
I missed it here but he says Die. in like a ridiculously large font. But not in caps, which makes me think while he's saying this really loudly, he's not shouting and I'm just imagining him saying this in a really monotomous way.
missed it AGAIN great screenshotting self but a flare comes out from the right hand side and basically just makes Flowey do a little cartwheel off the screen haha
Toriel is really great. I love Toriel. I think everyone does. I don't know how you can NOT love Toriel? It just genuinely don't think its possible.
making my daily rounds
getting groceries, checking for human bodies, you know whatever
get a life toriel
hmm
toriel's mouth does move when she talks, so shes not just standing there like :) the whole time
we are like a little baby compared to all the monsters. Toriel is like twice the size of me here.
wait for mee
another nice little thing toriel does, is she'll walk off a little bit then stop and turn around to make sure you're catching up. its VERY CUTE.
why are there ruins underground anyway??
if the monsters and humans fought above ground and then the monsters got banished here, surely they wouldn't even HAVE ruins here, wouldn't everything still be fairly new below ground?
well whatever
hahaha ive played for so long on this and ive hardly done the intro yet
literally i spent so long trying to sort out my steam screenshots which I couldn't get to work and then with that and reloading a few times, it really racked up the time
GOOD BYE SAVE POINT
also it really bugged me that i couldnt read the sign. you can't climb up the vines or anything TRUST ME I TRIED
still not really sure why toriel just didn't ask for my name
MC is standard mute protagonist though. We never see them talk, but we know that they do. Does Toriel ever find out what my name is? I'm NOT SURE
why does this place have a ruins full of puzzles???
I DON'T GET IT UNDERTALE
oh RPGS, when will you ever explain puzzle dungeons
i want to press this button
toriel just walks out in disgust
stepping on the other buttons does nothing as the puzzle has already been solved, which i found out pretty quickly. GREAT STUFF
reminds me of this weird childrens book we had when i was younger about this dude who had to choose to a road out of three different ones and one of them had bees or something in, idk but I felt like the moral of the story was ALWAYS CHOOSE THE MIDDLE ROAD
the moral mightve been "be nice to people" or something and then they'll help you not die but really whenver i do games or read books or watch a film or whatever, its always the middle road that's the correct answer
but yeah i really went off onto a tangent there
NEXT PUZZLE HIT ME WITH IT GO
YESS SWITCHES IM SO PUMPED
way to be a buzzkill toriel
k bye
*NEW SKILL ACQUIRED*
except i had to get off of the path to get here!! >:D "wow. youre a real anarchist" "nobody... tells me what... to.. do"
FINE
HMMM
look how cute toriel is guys come on, how can you not love this goat moomin
IS IT???
so polite
ok cool
SUCCESS
DO YOU SEE WHAT IT MEANS NOW BY "STAY ON THE PATH?" Yes all the puzzles are this easy. But Toriel is still compelled to do them for us anyway
HMMM
which switch was it again
toriel just getting more and more concerned about you
ugh but i dont want to mom
>( COME AT ME BRO
WITH MY FISTS???
hahaha imagine if all fights could be resolved like this. actually that would be pretty neat
MOM PUNCH
im scared
aaaaaa
help me
"MICKY GIVE US THE MONEY YOU OWE OR ELSE >(" "hey uh um well uh do you have any favourite books....???"
BADUM-TSH
Toriel at the Ruins Comedy Club, here every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
MC is just in a constant state of "..." throughout the whole thing, so you never know what theyre thinking. Which works especially well depending how you play the game. : )
a little pause here, toriel probably still a bit concerned as she's not sure you can even talk yet
the music is as goofy as you would expect it to be
what are you hiding underneath those cotton layers gurl : )
hahahahahaha naww
y wont u talk to me dummy
we dont HAVE TO FIGHT
aaaaaa
so you can see it a little bit here, but the heart grows legs and runs off the screen
here it kind of reminds me a little bit of the pearl leg meme though
how did this meme even start
Toriel showing even more concern as you literally just walked up to the dummy and then ran away from it. I CAN'T DEAL
Toriel trying to make you feel like that wasn't the most stupidest/weirdest thing to do in this situation
I WAS SCARED OK DONT JUDGE ME
ha ha ha ha ha ah ha hahahahaha
CLINGY MUM ACTIVATE
Toriel reminds me a lot of Pearl now I think about it. Except Toriel has way more chill than Pearl. Pearl has no chill. But great, if Toriel wasn't already over protective enough, she's gonna try even harder now!!
I don't know if this affects any further dialogue or not though aaaaas...
... I reset! Have to go through all avaliable options.
sharing an intimate moment
tried to do item but WE DONT HAVE ANY SO
hard to tell properly here, but I fought the dummy, the green bar is its health bar
I WON!
I could see Toriel being all flustered seeing someone punch a punching bag like "nO JUST TALK TO IT!! PLEASE! :("
oh nice, i didn't notice before that the dummy actually disappears if you fight it
I like that the "do we...?" has the elipsis there, because its a bit hesitant, as if Toriel isn't quite sure about us yet. It's a nice little detail. Because at this point, it's still uncertain what route we're is going to go down.
BUT ANYWAY ENOUGH OF THAT, LETS RELOAD
naww
And seeing this after I've done the fight one, it almost sounds like she is relieved here. But it can also be read as just a mum encouraging her child, because that's essentially what Toriel is. I still can't remember if our family are ever mention or what
goodbye my lover goodbye my friend
why is that in my head
Toriel being coy here. Stop being so cute Toriel
contrary to what these screenshots are saying, she's not creepily walking backwards while watching your face, but doing the same thing of walking ahead and checking that you are following.
ALSO HAVE YOU TAKEN A NOTE OF THE PATTERN ON THE GROUND well it isnt important
ahh random fight!
huh the froggit marks are a little similar to the marks on the doors in the ruins. hmmm
sorry my frog puns are terrible im going to stop there
awwwwww
the reason you only hear a little bit of the battle scene is because Toriel literally cuts in
literally a death glare from this woman and everyone just slinks off like ok ok im sorry i didnt mean to it wont happen again
WHAT COULD IT MEAN??
look at how cute this is
BLESS
she tried to let you solve it for all of like 2 seconds
such a pearl goat mom
WHATEVER
IM MY OWN BOSS
B)
seriously though Toriel, these spikes can't hurt anyone
i mean toriel you'v done everything so far but all right
no no don't make me!!!!
come baaack
imagine like a mash up between mission impossible and tense music playing in the background here
im too lazy to try and find the actual track for this one
this room is FRIGGIN LONG
SERIOUSLY
I'm not exaggerating here, I was taking these pretty sparingly
HMMM
THIS PILLAR LOOKS SUSPICIOUS TO ME WHAT DO YOU THINK GUYS
hello
MC is all I FOUND YOU!!
Or maybe they aren't and just stare at Toriel while she just tries not to look at you. Or doesn't notice you. Who knows
oh what a surprise!!
you got me good Toriel damn
also thats a very convienient pillar you have seeing as you only have one in this entire room
I liked this test, because nothing was ever going to happen to us, but it was just about how we would deal with being on our own and not having any support in a sudden situation, but without any actual danger. Mum test! Of course we were fine, but Toriel is still worried anyway and is just like well done! But please don't leave this room, OK, just wait for me to come back, I'll be back soon all right
please listen to me i know whats best for you
*CELL PHONE ACQUIRED*
"if you need me call me, no matter where you are"
im always good mum
wait no come back
will we see our goat mom ever again?? why are the ruins purple?? will there be anymore puzzles? click here to find out!