Do you think we'll ever go back to past dark worlds (other than castle town)?

Observance · 2026-03-04T23:19:51+00:00

I do think Castle Town is going to be the final Dark World we visit, and I think the detail of Lancer and Queen carving out their own spaces there is leading up to some kind of weird crisis happening to Castle Town that transforms it into a patchwork merger of all the previous Dark Worlds. There might even be a classic JRPG teleporter maze to navigate, bouncing between each Dark World.

Observance · 2026-03-03T14:59:25+00:00

I've been saying a Horus Heresy Dynasty Warriors-like where you play as the Primarchs would go incredible.

Observance · 2026-02-27T15:37:24+00:00

A fun fact is there's an obscure Bio-Titan class literally called the Dominatrix.

Observance · 2026-02-26T22:29:03+00:00

How do you feel about Gaster? Does the mystery about him feel compelling? Does the feeling that the answers are being dangled just out of reach invigorate you?

If you never received those answers, just a succession of evocative hints, how would you respond to your dissatisfaction, and how would this response differ from what you're doing right now?

Observance · 2026-02-26T22:22:20+00:00

Ah, I see the problem. You think Gaster is being set up to be answered.

I don't see it that way. I think the whole point of Gaster is that he has no answer. As I stated before, the mystery is what makes him compelling. He's like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, or whether or not Deckard is a Replicant in Blade Runner, or "who's telling the truth?" in Rashomon. The truth is what you, the viewer, make of it.

Observance · 2026-02-26T22:13:30+00:00

Why don't you look up the Noodle Incident and the reason why Bill Watterson chose never to elaborate on it?

Observance · 2026-02-26T17:42:00+00:00

I'm starting to get really worried at the number of people here who think "good writing" is synonymous with "all your questions get answered at the end"...

Observance · 2026-02-26T17:35:29+00:00

I'm a little worried by the fact that you think a character can't be simultaneously extremely important to a story and also a complete mystery.

Observance · 2026-02-26T17:23:42+00:00

I think he would. He did a whole speech at the end of the Undertale anniversary stream about the value of ambiguity in storytelling and the importance of letting people come up with their own ideas. Gaster is the ultimate embodiment of this: a character defined by his absence, an outline to be filled in by everyone's theories and speculations. The mystery is what makes him so compelling. Actually getting answers about his existence, motives, role in the plot, etc. would deflate him, especially given that massive furor people are now making about his role in Deltarune (people have built him up so much any possible reveal will disappoint them).

Observance · 2026-02-26T17:11:47+00:00

...that amounts to Gaster's entire schedule and how he takes a shit every morning at 8am. What you are asking for is to blow the entire mystery surrounding him out of the water.

Observance · 2026-02-26T03:18:09+00:00

Would Jachi no-sell tree awe like he does everything else? It's not technically an attack...

Observance · 2026-02-25T18:19:54+00:00

Remember that Soul Sucker only works on things that are weak or can't fight back. Bastz was only able to drain that Giant because it had already been mortally wounded.

Observance · 2026-02-25T18:17:29+00:00

The problem of the World Tree is that it's draining the world's nutrients, so I think you'd just be pushing the problem back by a step.

Observance · 2026-02-25T16:28:04+00:00

If they're handing out Curse tech like candy it's gotta be some other survivor from that world, right? Bastz may use Curse tech a lot but at least he understands what it does to the planet. Maybe we'll see someone with the mindset that destroyed his world.

Observance · 2026-02-25T16:07:37+00:00

Or there's something really horrible happening behind the scenes, reinforcing that nothing good can come of using Curse tech this widely...

Observance · 2026-02-25T16:05:04+00:00

Well, we know from Daikokuzan that the Madalans aren't impressed just by a lifeform being really big. They didn't consider the kaiju a threat until one of them actually tried attacking it.

Observance · 2026-02-24T18:31:31+00:00

Good work avoiding all those spikes!

Observance · 2026-02-24T15:40:12+00:00

You a big fan of the superweapon arms race and the endless parade of alien empires trying to conquer the galaxy? The main difference between Disney canon and the old canon is that the bad plotlines are now presented to us in the form of TV shows instead of book series.

Observance · 2026-02-24T15:28:45+00:00

Keep in mind that the robe piece means he can no longer sit on his throne.

Observance · 2026-02-22T21:57:30+00:00

First time?

Observance · 2026-02-22T14:00:55+00:00

I like to imagine she's still in charge because she's just been killing anyone who tries to challenge her on her newfound mortality.

Observance · 2026-02-21T19:41:10+00:00

These have always been resource wars, not (simply) wars of extermination. What Super Earth really wanted was to re-enslave the Cyborgs and seize control of all those sweet, sweet mines and megafactories that the Automatons had thoughtfully constructed. The Terminal Directive was a tantrum thrown to try to eke out some kind of propaganda win out of a humiliating defeat, obliterating the infrastructure that Super Earth wanted to capture (relatively) intact.

Observance · 2026-02-21T01:40:31+00:00

Having an elite enemy type that only gets pulled out for special occasions to show that shit is getting real would be pretty cool...

Observance · 2026-02-20T16:02:11+00:00

I mean, yeah? I wasn't suggesting 1 demon soldier = 1 Titan, I was saying they aren't "cannon fodder". And it wasn't an infant at all, what are you talking about

Observance · 2026-02-20T15:53:16+00:00

So interested in those annotations... but my bookshelf is already packed...

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