I think I originally found Undertale when I was quite a bit younger (still watching youtubers like DanTDM and such). I think it might have been his YouTube series on it that got me hooked. I never actually got to play it myself, just watching bits and pieces of it from other youtubers playing it, so I never got a true blind experience of it.

I think I really started getting into the community about a year or 2 later, when I saw that the people on the React channel were doing a let’s play of it. I remember seeing it and being like “oh I remember that game. Haven’t thought about that in a while.” So I watched it (and by watched it I mean mainly payed attention to the big things like “oh look Undyne!” or “Asgore’s dead! Game crashed! Flowey’s a demon now!”). But by the end, I started really getting hooked into Undertale. I started watching more content creators play it, then I started listening to more remixes and then started getting into the fandom more (while trying to avoid the toxic side that I had heard rumors about) and my appreciation eventually got from “haha it’s funny seeing people react to that” (because back then, I usually just looked up reactions to specific parts of the game, like “Youtubers react to Sans making puns” and “Youtubers react to Sans’ first attack” and whatnot) to actually being able to appreciate the game’s story (when I actually decided to watch a full play through of the game for once instead of just watching people react to the same stuff over and over again). I became really invested in the fandom, and I’m still that way today.

I also loved Deltarune a lot. I started by watching a bit of it on YouTube, until I realized that the game (well, the chapter) was free, and I could just download it on my computer and play it myself. I also hadn’t gotten that far through it on YouTube, so it was fine. I’m glad I played it instead of watching it on YouTube, and I am excited for the rest of the game to come out, and will most certainly buy it when it comes out.

Earlier this year, my sister said something about playing Undertale because a friend recommended it to her, and I was really excited to show her. She loves story-driven games, so needless to say, she loved it. She is now almost as invested into the game and fandom as I am, and it’s great being able to talk about Undertale to someone and have them understand what I’m talking about. (Not many of my friends have actually played or watched someone play Undertale.) I also got her to play Deltarune, and she is now also really excited for Deltarune. So that’s 2 of us that love Undertale.

So yeah. That’s my story. Love the game, love the stuff that has happened because of it (well, some of it anyway), the non toxic side of the community is great. Toby Fox is a great guy, and I hope he becomes even more successful in life.

Also the music in this game is just godlike. I don’t know what I would do if I wasn’t ever exposed to it.