In other words, kind monsters were turned evil, and evil. Fighting is wholly unnecessary: negotiate your way out of danger using the unique battle system.

The premise of Underfell was that characters were first and foremost created as an aesthetic design about what an alternate universe would look like if the characters' moralities were reversed. Undertale is a traditional role-playing game where no one has to get hurt. Likewise, I bet that if the game didn't have as strong characters or 'feels', but had the most unique, interesting and engaging combat system to ever grace RPGs as well as clever puzzles and a vast world to explore, it wouldn't have done nearly as well at all. Underfell is an aesthetic AU created by an unknown author(s) that was put up on a blog, abandoned, and then taken up by the Underfell fanbase. Digital download of the game, the games soundtrack, your name in the credits, and the UnderTale sticker sheet Less. I think even if Undertale didn't have the super clever and unique bullet hell mechanic™ (or even Acting/Sparing) and was just a standard RPG made with RPG Maker, it would have done almost just as well. Mostly the gameplay doesn't even matter, as long as the players feel a certain way. I've noticed that a lot of games that give the player 'Feels' get very popular. The Genocide Route (and Neutral, if you killed) made people feel bad and in a way also very smart ( 'Aha! So killing everyone ISN'T the best way to go about things!'). In a world where even the most kid-friendly fodder of video games encourages killing your enemies, seeing them as nothing but obstacles, along comes this.

All that just because they care so much about the characters, which also seem to care about the player. The Pacifist Route made people feel very happy and sad at the same time, resulting in a huge conflict of emotions. I think it's mainly because it made people feel things.

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