{"id":20574,"date":"2024-10-31T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=20574"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:42:29","slug":"steph-really-loves-deltarune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/10\/31\/steph-really-loves-deltarune\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph (Really) Loves Deltarune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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6 years ago (exactly), Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, logged onto Twitter-dot-com and gave half of his fans a heart attack by posting strange Tweets like a total weirdo. The next day, he sent out links to a \u201csurvey program.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Players made their own character, gave it a personality and name, and then they were told that their \u201ccreation would be discarded.\u201d They were told that they cannot choose who they are in this world and then immediately given a new character to play as while they were being awoken by a familiar face – Toriel (Undertale\u2019s beloved mother goat monster).<\/span><\/p>\n

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I remember all of this like it was yesterday. Except I didn\u2019t play the survey program first hand because I watched Jacksepticeye play it. But I remember the tweets. And I remember being sad that I couldn\u2019t play it because my only computer was struggling to even turn on. I did end up playing both chapters of Deltarune on a labor day weekend just a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the survey program, players take the role of a character named Kris. They have an unsurprisingly familiar look to Undertale\u2019s antagonist, Chara, and a similar name to Undertale\u2019s protagonist, Frisk. Players explore the house before getting in the car with Toriel and heading to school, traveling through \u201cHometown\u201d and recognizing all of the familiar faces and noticing the new ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After a precious little hug and kiss from Toriel, Kris goes to class and has to find a partner for a project. We meet Noelle, a sweet reindeer that used to be close friends with Kris, and Berdly, a dorky and ridiculous blue bird that may or may not be one of my favorite characters. Soon enough, Susie, a tattered, purple\u2026 dinosaur? walks in. She is described as the most intimidating person in school and a bully.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Susie and Kris are paired together for their school project and are also ordered to go to the storage closet to get more chalk since the teacher, Alphy\u2019s (another character from Undertale), can\u2019t find her\u2019s. Kris catches Susie <\/span>eating<\/span><\/i> the chalk and their life is threatened over this discovery. They make their way to the storage closet but it\u2019s insanely dark, but the two hesitantly go in. The floor below them falls and they enter the first Dark World of Deltarune!<\/span><\/p>\n

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There, they meet Ralsei, the prince of dark that scarily resembles Kris\u2019 brother, Asriel (another character from Undertale), and he tells Kris and Susie that they are the heroes of the prophecy and they need to restore balance amidst the Dark World and Light World by sealing \u201cDark Fountains.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dark Worlds in Deltarune are sort of these imagination lands that are based on a real location. Chapter 1\u2019s dark world is based off of the unused classroom\/storage room. There\u2019s a location titled \u201cCard Kingdom\u201d that is based off of a deck of playing cards. There are multiple other locations and characters based off of items in the unused classroom like chess pieces or (my favorite) an old doll that turns into a shopkeeper in the Dark World named Seam (pronounced Shawm). In Chapter 2, the Dark World is based in a library computer room so there are plenty of references to viruses, spam emails, pop up ads, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sorry that first description part is so densely packed, the beginning of Deltarune is honestly a lot. Now imagine how 10-year-old me felt seeing all of this for the first time. I was <\/span>geeking<\/span><\/i> out.<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually won\u2019t describe the plot of Deltarune anymore in this blog, I thought it would be nice to just introduce it because it\u2019s literally <\/span>free to play<\/span><\/i>. So if you liked the initial description, there\u2019s no excuse for you to not play it now. It\u2019s great, it\u2019ll take over your mind, and the next installments should be coming soon! If you\u2019re just now getting into it, you won’t have to wait as long as <\/span>I<\/span><\/i> have for another chapter. It\u2019s been a lonely 3 years\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

In my previous blog, I talked about how I found Undertale and how much I loved that as a kid. I can\u2019t remember the total impact it had on me because I was so young (I\u2019m lying, I do remember but I won\u2019t tell you\u2026). Since Deltarune was released when I was actually conscious, I remember it <\/span>all<\/span><\/i>. I was there when it was released and I\u2019m still here waiting for Chapters 3 and 4 to come out.<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite character is Kris, the non-binary, mostly silent protagonist that\u2019s the only human in Hometown. I kind of see my younger self in Kris. Back then, I was (and might still be\u2026) a total weirdo like Kris but that\u2019s what most people <\/span>love<\/span><\/i> about their character. Now that I think about it, there\u2019s not a single character that I <\/span>don\u2019t<\/span><\/i> like. Each one has their own unique qualities and personality with both good and bad traits. Even the antagonists are so easy to love because Toby Fox makes incredibly characters. Especially Queen, the antagonist in Chapter 2, she\u2019s definitely my favorite antagonist in any game <\/span>ever<\/span><\/i> because she\u2019s so funny (and other reasons I won\u2019t spoil).<\/span><\/p>\n

Music made by Toby Fox is literally one of a kind. There are countless tracks from both games that send me back into my favorite memories the second I hear them. Some tracks make me feel like I\u2019m walking in the middle of an empty road in a striped sweater in the midst of autumn. Others make me feel like I\u2019m battling monsters in an imaginary, colorful world. Last year, I had a lot of trouble falling to sleep. I was also smack dab in the middle of my most intense Deltarune hyperfixation. So, I made a playlist of the most relaxing songs from Deltarune and I listened to it every single night for about 2 months straight\u2026 I still have the playlist but I don\u2019t want to listen to it again because it\u2019ll feel like I\u2019m sleeping in my room back at home again and that might make me sad. The happiest track I know is probably \u201cSchool,\u201d the most chill and catchy is \u201cHip Shop,\u201d and my absolute <\/span>favorite<\/span><\/i> is \u201cYou Can Always Come Home.\u201d Honestly, it\u2019s just a different version of \u201cHome\u201d from Undertale but that\u2019s what makes it so special to me. Like it still gives me those memories and the nostalgic feeling I get when I listen to Undertale music but with the association of Deltarune.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was writing this, I got so overwhelmed with my emotions that I just went \u201cOh man, I love Deltarune.\u201d Also, there\u2019s a strange amount of references in my life that relate to the word \u201cDelta.\u201d My dog that I love with my entire heart and more is named Delta (and we didn\u2019t name her we rescued her), I live in the Mississippi Delta (I think), and my favorite game is Deltarune. I wonder what that means, if anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow (October 31) is the 6th year anniversary of the initial release of Chapter 1 and that is quite strange to think about. So happy birthday to Deltarune!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 years ago (exactly), Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, logged onto Twitter-dot-com and gave half of his fans a heart attack by posting strange Tweets like a total weirdo. The next day, he sent out links to a \u201csurvey program.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 Players made their own character, gave it a personality and name, and then they … Continue reading “Steph (Really) Loves Deltarune”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20597,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions\/20597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}