SPOILERS AHEAD

So despite it’s popularity, I’ve never played with Undertale, and it really is an entreating game.

spoiler

After I’ve realized that killing Papyrus did have some major consequences, I decided to spare 0 mercy on the king wishing to go for the asshole route, and after “defeating” Flowey and sparing the king on a reload, I was greeted by a punishment by said flower.

I did a save reset to make a more pacifist run (do I get any difference if I kill zero enemies, or is that too hard of a challenge?), but contrary to the first run, I didn’t encounter with Flowey after falling into the Ruins. Does this mean that my save is still corrupted by Flowey?

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 months ago

      To elaborate, and because the game doesn’t really explain this - there are three “types” of endings.

      Obviously, spoilers.

      Pacifist, where you do not kill a single enemy(yes, that includes chumps),

      Genocide, where you kill literally every single enemy, including grinding encounters in every area until “nobody showed up” or whatever it says(this is meant to be an unenjoyable experience outside of two mildly interesting unique fights, and boy does it succeed)

      And “mixed”, which is anything between the two.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    4 months ago

    When you restart just make sure to turn off Steam save backups, delete all your files, and redownload.

    If you kill anyone in any playthrough, it remembers that and locks you out of True Pacifist.

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      Thanks for the info! I eventually did the neutral run twice it seems, but it was still worthwile. It’s fascinating how most of the songs are instantly recognizable due to every 3rd gaming essay youtuber using an Undertale song.

        • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          Ahh sorry for the incredibly late reply.

          SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT

          Well on my first run, I basically killed all the ememies I’ve encountered, and I have only realized not too long before my judgment by Sans that I actually killed people like Papyrus, so I just went on with it as a mixed run. It was a fun playthrough and honestly fighting against the mentally insane Flowey and seeing his character degradation was intruiging.

          On my second run, just as most people I actually was a total pacifist but I didn’t get thr true pacifist ending, because I hadn’t done any side quests and such.

          I got saddened and wanted to do a true genocide route cause it seemed fun, but I didn’t want to painstakingly clear out EVERY room, so I just watched a playthrough of it, and seeing how even Flowey slowly starts to realize that YOU are even more batshit insane and starting to fear from you sounded so so so soo amazing.

          How was yours? I assume you finished the game when it was new back in the day, right?