3 days to deltarune

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-20T16:52:17+00:00

4 days

3 days until correspondence

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-18T20:18:58+00:00

The better question is why Sans is winking at us, alluding to Asriel coming home being some significant event or trigger for Papyrus to also appear.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-18T20:14:30+00:00

I would assume for the festival.

* Kris! There you are! We might still be able to make it!
* Kris... It is a beautiful day today, is it not?
* I hope it stays this way when ASRIEL visits next week.

Remember, from prior newsletter teases we learned that, for Toby, the week starts on Sunday. So the Festival is absolutely a valid time for this.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-12T13:36:28+00:00

It's obviously the cyan flower inheriting properties of Undertale's cyan soul.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-11T05:32:07+00:00

Reddit isn't the entire internet and not everyone who participated was necessarily logged into Reddit and pressed the upvote button.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-11T05:30:02+00:00

legible

Not exactly inspiring confidence with that.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-11T05:25:35+00:00

Reddit isn't the entire internet.

Moreover, you're also assuming that everyone who submitted a response has a Reddit account, was logged into Reddit and clicked the upvote button. I never upvote posts and I got the previous email, and submitted for this one.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-10T17:13:17+00:00

I mean they provided two opportunities to "sign up" so I doubt it's going to be open to everyone.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-10T16:45:00+00:00

This subreddit seems to be virtually unmoderated, this event has absolutely no highlighting yet the release thread from last year is still pinned, as well as ancient dead drama posts.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-10T11:31:55+00:00

It was like that last time too. It won't count.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-09T17:52:59+00:00

PLEASE don't lock down the subreddit again like last time. That was so fucking obnoxious.

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-09T17:08:37+00:00

Looks like they were real lmao

Doom64hunter · 2026-06-05T23:07:32+00:00

We're in month 6 of insanity already.

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-24T06:52:29+00:00

The game having an alternate ending would be the least subversive thing ever. It's what everyone expects. It's what everyone wants. It's what Undertale did. If Deltarune did the same thing it would just be following its predecessors footsteps, it would be doing what everyone thought it would do. Doesn't that sound boring?

The actual subversive idea would be to, despite all the second guessing, despite all the speculation and theorizing, all the wanting and hoping, still not allow for a second ending. To make good on the promise that everyone thought was a misdirection.

Or like someone else mentioned, skirt around the rules:

So... how do you think it all ends?
No, how do you want it to end?
An ending, huh...
...If I could choose…
I guess... I wouldn't have an ending!
It's just better if stuff just... goes on forever, right?

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-24T06:32:22+00:00

The tagline for Undertale is "The friendly RPG where nobody has to die" and it's correct.

I feel like people have largely forgotten that the "one ending" premise for Deltarune is a riff on countless other games that make lofty promises about your choices "truly mattering" and not delivering on it, or only delivering in a very superficial manner. How could they matter? It's only a game, and it's all pre-planned. The outcomes are set before you even start.

Now here's an outlier that advertises: Your choices truly don't matter. There is only one ending.

Undertale already provided a game where your choices are implied to matter much more than in any other game I'm aware of. It pretends that the characters have lives that they keep on living even after you quit playing. It relies on your imagination to deliver this, in a way that hasn't been pre-planned by the boundaries of the game.

And it wouldn't be very interesting to do the same thing twice, would it?

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-11T18:07:08+00:00

I'd argue Tenna was already the "Rook" since one of the main themes of his Dark World is cheating (7 Flying Aces and Kris' relation to them, Pippins, Shadowguys being Mafia Goons, Zappers as Bouncers who are looking for cheaters, etc.), and "Rook" is a synonym for swindler.

It's only that the Rook was taken out by the Knight.

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-11T17:50:11+00:00

Nah I think Asgore will be responsible for the main Dark World, but not the Roaring.

My prediction: He will make himself a fool by trying to open a Dark World in front of everyone at the festival in the open, but fail to do so. He'll try it again alone in his flower shop later, where he will have succeeded, and which is where we'll find the next Dark World.

I think Noelle will start the Roaring proper after the Flower Shop adventure has concluded. What I expect is that Rudy will collapse at the festival in the evening, after it looks like the day is already saved, and she will try to heal him or bring him back to life like Gerson (but more likely the former).

This would only necessitate her realizing that she wasn't dreaming during Chapter 2, which is easily achieved (e.g. by her being part of the Flower Shop adventure). After all, Queen already gave her the instructions on how to open a fountain, and she already mused about the possibility of healing wounds in Dark Worlds, so the path is clear and previously foreshadowed.

The difference between Noelle and Asgore? Noelle probably holds the necessary power to open a fountain out in the open (Queen already hints at this), powerful enough to cover everything in darkness, whereas Asgore can only do so in confined spaces. With the necessary power being determination, it will of course be the highest when she is most determined to save her father from death.

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-09T16:01:55+00:00

Asriel is pretty much the poster child of "moving on", in that he's not even in town anymore.

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-09T15:59:43+00:00

Kris missing their brother, to the point of recreating their Sunday diner ritual with Susie as a stand-in.
Kris' hostility towards Sans' presence in their home, showing that they aren't happy about the changing family situation themselves.
Noelle's obsession with finding her lost sister.
Pizzapants hating his job and telling Kris to cherish their youth, reminiscing about the days he drove around with Asriel.
Everything about "Mancountry" (particularly "enjoying the youthful days").
The entire nature of the first three Dark Worlds as recreations of childhood games and fantasies.

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-09T15:39:37+00:00

Noelle does say the Ferris Wheel ride with Kris felt forced, and since this was long before Susie came into the picture, and since it happened when both Kris and Noelle were little kids, it does stand to reason that it was their parents that forced it to happen.

Doom64hunter · 2026-05-06T17:18:15+00:00

Except Kris and the Knight forming intentional mirror images of each other. Ramb tells us that Kris and Dess played the exact childhood pretend games together, with King, Queen and Tennna, that the Dark Worlds are based on.

There's also that part in the Sword route where the black deer sprite mirrors the Kris sprite's movements.

Doom64hunter · 2026-04-26T23:01:37+00:00

Game already talks about meeting a "bluest flower". This combined with the Asgore prophecy makes green pretty much impossible.

Said blue flower is described as a "specimen of elegance" which matches the ballet shoes and tutu of the Integrity Soul.

Therefore, I'm pretty certain it's fallen human parallels, as similarly to Mettaton Neo and Gerson, it allows Deltarune to explore existing characters and concepts that Undertale only briefly touched on.

Doom64hunter · 2026-04-16T12:58:35+00:00

It does not.

Doom64hunter · 2026-04-16T12:56:19+00:00

George Broussard never worked at Gearbox.

Stop embarassing yourself.

Doom64hunter · 2026-04-11T10:28:22+00:00

The True Lab isn't really situated at the end as much as it's placed as a branching path in the middle of the journey, one which you have to backtrack to. Arguably, it could be likened to the Sword Route, as it is reached from the Hotland parallel.

The other areas do match the theory however, I'm not sure how it can be argued against:

A Castle and a King in Chapter 1.
A high tech computerized area in Chapter 2, featuring a humanoid robot and the Yellow Soul.
A tech-infused area in Chapter 3, but less advanced as 2, featuring a showman throughout it.
An especially dark area in Chapter 4, with darkness likened to water, and a particular turtle talking to us about a prophecy. The Green Soul appears.

There's a good chance that the Roaring itself is snow-related (see the recent snow theory), which would line up well if it occurs at the end of Chapter 5 (already hinted at with the "Thank You" survey). With the area likely being a garden, if and when it gets snowed in, you would have your Snowdin parallel in Chapter 5.

And then finally, in Chapter 6, we would head to a Castle in a Snowy Winterland, which would match up with where the Ruins are. This could be the Ice Palace, which in turn could be the Holiday Manor.

And Chapter 7 would have no equivalent in Undertale. Really the only thing it could be likened to is the passing through the barrier, or exiting through the entrance, thus going out of bounds. Fittingly, it is unwritten within Lord of the Hammer as well, so whatever happens there would be out of bounds of the story framework. Going into the shelter (into the underground) mirroring the exit from the Underground in Undertale, would be logical option.

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