LogFAQs > #932297092

Undertale is so cool conceptually and has really fantastic moments but I'm still not sure its main gimmick really works. Like people stress so much that you should just "play naturally" and most of the game's coolest "gotcha" moments come from killing some people and sparing others... but like, why would anyone ever play that way?

It's pretty obvious from the get-go (even marketing aside, which flat out says you don't have to kill anyone) that killing isn't the "best" way to play, so I'm at a loss at to why anyone would land somewhere in the middle - perhaps Toriel aside since, funny enough, she's really the only relatively obscure spare in the game. The only way I see it working is if someone has zero game awareness and ignores the mercy mechanic entirely but doesn't grind quite enough to end up on Genocide, then replays the game sparing everyone, but that's a pretty particular scenario for what's supposed to be the game's main hook.

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