What was so good about UNDERTALE, anyway? (A mildly deranged retrospective)

In which I attempt to compress 7 years of shower thoughts into something resembling a video essay about a game that drove me insane once. Digressions about “metafiction“, “suspension of disbelief“, and “themes“ ensue. Patreon: Discord: Credit to Novaphyer’s uncommentated playthrough for most Undertale footage in the video: FULL SOURCES LIST: SOUNDTRACK: Sound of One Hand Clapping - 0:00 Sunset Breakfast (Tunic OST) - 0:04 Amphibious Assault (Tunic OST) - 0:52 Good For Health, Bad For Imagination (OMORI OST) - 1:38 Portabellohead (Crypt of the Necrodancer OST) - 2:15 Something (OMORI OST) - 3:04 Let’s Get Together Now (OMORI OST) - 3:11 Skies of Skaia (Homestuck OST) - 3:52 Farewell (Celeste OST) - 5:20 Last Surprise (Persona 5 OST) - 7:12 Snowdin Town (Undertale OST) - 9:23 River’s End (Outer Wilds OST) - 10:09 Hotel (Undertale OST) - 11:17 A Walk in the Woods (Inscryption OST) - 12:03 Sburban Countdown (Homestuck OST) - 13:04 Your Best Friend (Undertale OST) - 13:24 Undertale (Undertale OST) - 13:54 Laurence, the First Vicar (Bloodborne OST) - 15:57 Sunset Breakfast (Tunic OST) - 18:44 I Think My Dad Shops Here (OMORI OST) - 20:16 Abstract Map (VLDC 9 OST) - 20:37 Daybreak (Stray OST) - 21:32 Reconciliation (Everhood OST) - 24:47 SAVE (Encore) (DM Dokuro) - 28:40