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I have not played octopath but i have played undertale. TBH, if you asked me before this topic I could not even tell you what type of game octopath was, what platform it came out for, or when it released. Can i see Undertale being the better game? Yes. But can I see octopath being better based on playing Undertale? Also yes.

The difference in like L-block and something like draven/undertale is that people didn't come in to the board and brag about their rallied character/game the whole time. Like who is bragging about Lblock. Sure some people were upset, but eventually most people got on board.

I have talked in length before about the undertale fandom and fandoms in general. Undertale's in particular has a very hard time grasping that their game, for like a very small section of time, was very popular and now it's just kind of a game that people acknowledge sometimes and a lot of the times it's not even the game but the fandom. While it still has some reaching influence (Sans got a cameo in smash but at the same time Joker got in as a character so you know), it's doesn't have the staying power of established franchises or other games dubbed as "GOAT" in years past.

Another is that the Undertale community also can't seem to come to terms that their push for the game to get people to play it contributed its polarization. It would be one thing if they were like "Hey, this game is neat and different maybe you'd like it... i do." But it was "you have to play this game, it changed my life, it made me a better person, I was so moved, you'll love it. Visit my tumbler for more" type stuff that was going on.

TL:DR - Undertale's Age relative to the type of game it is, lack of people caring about it on this site, weak contest strength without a rally, etc probably contributed to its loss more than any anti-voting as only a small subset of voters who frequent this board probably care enough about that rally to begin with to have any anti-vote intentions and I'd guess a lot of them actually wanted Undertale to win a match because they had it winning at least 1 round.