My first thought was “Why doesn’t he put tht bouquet in his hand-holes. What if he just put a group of flowers in there? Why doesn’t he accessorize his abnormal hands?”
The first thing you see after starting the game is a question: “Would you like Special Powers?” with ‘Normal’ and ‘Yes’ as your options.
The way I think about it, the game would be geared towards you choosing the “Special Power Mode” first, because hey, that sounds fun, right?
But no matter what you do in ‘Special Power Mode’, you always get a bad ending. The game’s ‘Flowey’, probably some sort of super villain, constantly teases you, saying that you’ll never be like one of the greats. One of the great Superheros, that is, but you never meet another superhero-type character in the game.
So, once ‘Special Power Mode’ is complete, you decide to try ‘Citizen Mode’ and, just like you thought, it’s completely boring in every way. You have to act as normal as possible or you will ‘die’. It would be very ambiguous how you ‘die’/get a game over in ‘Citizen Mode’.
You hear about a Superhero from some NPCs while in this mode and they appear to idolize this hero, but you never see what he looks like.
Eventually you find your Citizen character walking to his car one afternoon and are grabbed from behind. You hear the Supervillian taunting with his usual words, but it couldn’t be about your Citizen character, right?
A Superhero comes into view, the same sprite of the ‘Special Powers Mode’ character. They look a lot alike, don’t they? I’m sure you would’ve noticed that before and thought that the Citizen was just the secret identity of the Superhero, but that’s been proven incorrect as you played Citizen Mode, and now you’re here, seeing the two apparent twins meet.
Citizen and Hero, the Frisk and Chara of this game, though I suppose neither of them are really evil like Chara, so maybe that part goes to Supervillian.
There’s one more detail that I left out, though. In ‘Special Powers mode’, there’s a hostage situation with Supervillian that decides if you get a Good-Bad ending (rescuing the hostage) or a Bad-Bad ending (causing Supervillian to kill the hostage). What’s odd, though, is that the hostage looks like any other NPC in ‘Special Powers Mode’, which of course should alert the player, since all of the NPCs, just like in Undertale, seem to have so much character to them…
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So I just thought of this while laying in bed at 8am, but now I’m hyper-excited about it. This is a lot of Undertale writing for someone who’s never played the game, though, huh? Anyway, I’m not a game maker and there’s even a pretty obvious twist to Citizen that I didn’t mention, but there you go: Hero Relations.
I just made that title up on the spot, actually. Do you get it? Because it would be shortened to ‘HR’, as in Human Resources, a normal job that people can have? Ah, but maybe putting a twist in the title is too much…
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EDIT: Again, it would also be a game that you should play blind like with Undertale itself. I already known the most of Undertale’s story, so I don’t see any reason to play it for real. (Oh wait that’s my exact reason for not bothering with any of the Star Wars movies, ahahahaha… *groans*)
Also, this only goes over the basic story bits, not any NPC or friend characters, so I don’t care if anyone wants to add to this story with those types of characters to fill out this pretty empty world!
either they would have to absorb all the material in the food and add it to their bodies, till the physical matter concentration got too high (too dense) and they have trouble controlling their bodies, or it would not be all absorbed and they would throw it up, or it would build up leaving them filled with food they cannot digest or excrete, which would rot and generally be horrible having their insides used as a compost bin.
For some reason all this talk about different foods is reminding me of Saturno the Demon Eater. Except the ‘demon food’ is really just other demons and instead of energy it transforms them. But when demons eat human food they just get fat and don’t change.
Hmmm… I really haven’t read that webcomic in a while… see ya!
I was looking through old Pokemon in my Heart Eevee ROM Hack Wedlocke save and I found this Paras here, predicting the future or something.
“Oh man a rose is waiting for the water bus, better kill it with my shovel!” Macaron joked.
“Kill Flowey!” Robo shouted from Macaron’s walkie-talkie as Macaron did just that.
“Look, I’ve never played the game, but I’m pretty sure that’s a daisy and not a rose,” Macaron said.
“He gets an alternate form with thorny tentacles,” Robo said like that explained it completely.
“I feel like shouting about killing should be against your programming,” Macaron mumbled to himself as he continued his chores.
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Note: I’ve never played Undertale. I don’t know why I’ve decided that Robo is an indie game nerd.