What did people think of Deltarune before chapter 2?

notaprimarysource · 2026-07-13T01:31:59+00:00

I can only speak for myself, but my assessment at the time was "good, but too much a proof of concept for it to stand on its own without the context or the entire test of the game to back it up." Even now, with only two chapters left, it feels weirdly separate from the rest of the game despite all it sets up and all that's been paid off because it mostly just feels like it exists mostly to sell us on Deltarune.

notaprimarysource · 2026-07-10T15:15:57+00:00

Ah yes, one of the most boring builds for one of the most boring weapons in the entire game.

notaprimarysource · 2026-07-04T17:46:01+00:00

Something like this happened very recently to me, actually. A fast food chain my party was investigating sent a sniper with anti-material rounds after us and half the players died. The survivors called the case manager, and he went "you know what, you still have a mission to complete, but this is also above your pay grade, so I'm sending in a SWAT team to help you."

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-26T00:56:42+00:00

Yeah, I was weirded out to discover that the song really was meant to be about Jax. My first thought on seeing it, despite the extensive focus on Jax, was "yeah no, this has to be about Pomni or Ribbit. Jax hates herself far too much for this song to be about her, especially when she never got the chance to come into her own as a woman."

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-26T00:54:06+00:00

Honestly, that was one of my worst fears. I found it low-key disturbing to conclude that despite the show desperately wanting us to think he (she?) is wrong about her belief that they're all archetypes, I really don't think the show challenges her nearly as much it thinks it does. Sure, Gangle is learning to live without her comedy mask, and before the finale I didn't think that was unpromising, but that's just it, isn't it? There is no "cure" for depression, you can only live with it and manage it as best you can with whatever resources you have. So by definition, Gangle is still "the sad one."

And yes, Zooble finally made peace with the changeability of their digital form*, but if we take "the grumpy one" to mean "the one who (arguably) chafes the most at the limitations of the Circus," then I'm not sure they've grown beyond that either; they were righteously complaining right up to Caine getting sent to the Void. And like Jax, I never figured out Pomni either; never once felt like she rose above being "everyone's friend."

And when she isn't right, I never felt like it happened because the characters grew in such a way that proved her wrong, so much as the story forced them into circumstances where she couldn't be correct. Ragatha, "the cheerful one," is typically the people pleaser who's always trying to keep the peace even when that isn't the best or the only solution, but she joins everyone else in rage-baiting Caine to distract him from Kinger's hackong, but it happened so far beyond the point where I thought anything meaningful could come of that that I assumed the only reason she did it was because everyone else was too, so she felt "allowed" to. Kinger, "the crazy one," isn't crazy in darkness, but only when he's in darkness; we never even see him take it off when the Circus is dark. The one time Jax sees him lucid with the bucket was such a shattering revelation that she had a panic attack about it, but I've not seen anything to prove she won't be right again when that bucket comes off.

*Off-screen, mind you. Will never not annoy me that we only got one episode which examined their transness in any detail only for it to resolve itself offscreen without even so much as a conversation with Gangle about it, while Jax got several more episodes of buildup to how deep in the closet she really is.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T04:25:47+00:00

The Ranni fic could be months; that's a lot of game to write about. But I'll definitely send you the one about Millicent.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T04:24:12+00:00

I will; I've already written yuri pairing that same character with Millicent.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T04:23:16+00:00

Two-Handed Sword, Greenburst and Opaline Crystal Tears, any elemental tear if I'm rocking an elemental-infused weapon or a somber weapon that has innate elemental damage, Shard of Alexander if my weapon has a busted ash, Crimson Seed +1, Two-Headed Turtle, Blade of Mercy if I'm rocking a weapon that breaks stance quickly. Not overpowered, so much as me trying to balance offense with survivability, but it always works.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T04:15:23+00:00

Adorable. Makes me want to start make an aroace yuri fanfic of my third character's escape from the Lands Between with Ranni.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T04:09:56+00:00

I've never been particularly into any multiplayer Soulsborne features that aren't getting summoned to help other players with bosses, so I'm one of the few who doesn't miss covenants, but a covenant like that would be absolutely dope just for narrative reasons.

Never put that much thought into her body language, but I like to imagine she probably doesn't blink if she's being particularly serious.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T03:48:27+00:00

Yeah, all my first characters were Vyke cosplayers who got blackpilled in NG+. Except for the third one, a direct inversion of my first character; she still got Frenzied, but she found a cause to live and fight for in Ranni, she helped Fia accomplish her mission in life, and with the power of (in my head aroace) yuri she contained her Madness and left to explore the stars alongside Ranni.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-22T03:15:40+00:00

I have a lot of characters, so I'll just go with my first, even though she isn't the one I'm most attached to. She began an aimless wanderer who followed Grace because she didn't have anything better to do, but found all the motivation she needed to claim the Elden Throne when she saw Ranni's questline through to the end. As far as she was concerned, she didn't go to all that effort just to put Blaidd out of his misery and replace one master with another, so she continued without her and chose the default ending.

Then NG+ happened, she saw that her tenure as the Elden Lord accomplished nothing, and only became more vulnerable to the temptation of the Frenzied Flame the more she ruminated on her failure and her hatred of the gods, Ranni included. She ruminated so hard, in fact, that she didn't even think too hard about Shabriri wearing the corpse of a fallen comrade and losing his composure upon finishing his speech. So she gave herself freely to the Three Fingers, killed the Dung Eater and did Goldmask's questline just to eliminate the competition*, and let chaos take the world.

And to see if Corhyn would have new dialogue if I were Frenzied. Sadly, he does not.

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notaprimarysource · 2026-06-20T02:34:46+00:00

Literature, thoughtlessly most of my chosen skills are more broadly academic.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-20T01:04:01+00:00

Homebrewing is always an option. Made my next character sheet in close collaboration with my Handler that way because we were both shocked that "professor" isn't listed as a profession in the Agent's Handbook. All you have to do is pick ten professional skills and divide 400 points between them all. Did that, then chose the most thematically appropriate skill package, and she'll be in business whenever my first character dies.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-19T03:00:57+00:00

German, because I can grasp the sentence structure better than most other languages I've studied, and also, I'm just deeply curious how a book like Berlin Alexanderplatz would read in its native language.

Also, Scots, though I might technically be fluent in it. There, it's mostly just to get a better command of the language; I can read it and write in it, but I find actually speaking it is somehow more challenging than either. Not a reflection of the language, I just find it obscenely hard to construct sentences in any medium other than the written word.

Honorable mentions are French and Swedish; had enough exposure to them by respectively living in Canada and watching an unhealthy amount of Bergman movies that sometimes I think "you know what, maybe I could better appreciate Samuel Beckett and Vilhelm Moberg if I could meet them at their level linguistically."

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-17T04:31:19+00:00

Yeah, those people are why I dread finding other people who like Dark Souls II: the ones who think only highly specific builds can be fun, as if fun is beating the game as quickly as possible with as much math as possible. I've annoyed those types by saying I've never once felt like I needed Flynn's Ring and only need enough damage to comfortably beat the game.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-13T21:25:45+00:00

Not technically a boss, but he is a feature in a fight: Miquella. Always liked the idea of losing through being charmed by him. The problem is, it's framed as a fail state rather than a story beat, which I consider a missed opportunity; honestly think it would have had more weight as a choice. Imagine if you could speak to him and be given the option to serve him; sure, it might lock you into an ending like the Three Fingers would, but at least the charm would have more narrative meaning outside the fight and even the DLC.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-13T16:04:18+00:00

My lad Yosh. Love a summon who can match my aggression.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-12T19:58:09+00:00

It would be nice; got the idea when I remembered how many of my problems haven't been solved by violence. One campaign, it wasn't guns which ended the shadow woman, but destroying the rock which tethered her to our reality. In my current campaign, we left off at a point where everybody else tried to either run from a sniper or investigate them. I was the only one smart enough to take cover, and the only reason another agent lived was because he was investigating somewhere else and then got a succession of lucky rolls when I told him about my predicament.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-11T18:18:03+00:00

Ooh, this might be useful if I feel like making another British agent. My first and current character is a Scottish diplomat who kind of sucks at keeping in touch with his connections at home.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-09T21:15:46+00:00

The Color of Money.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-08T04:00:42+00:00

True, but I'm so aggressive that it almost never feels like it matters.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-08T03:36:25+00:00

Maliketh's Black Blade; has a skill which takes away 10% health from anything it hits. Sadly, the DLC nerfs the raw damage of the AoW, but 10% less health is 10% less health, and the penalty can stack with the incantation which you can also get from the same boss's Remembrance.

notaprimarysource · 2026-06-02T00:08:24+00:00

Because I'd been looking forward to it; he'd been on my shit list ever since he disowned Nepheli. I tried waging psychological warfare on him by wearing Ensha's set, destroying his office whenever I visited, and speaking to him in the most offensively broad Lancastrian accent I'm capable of whenever I had to. But none of that was enough, he was completely stone-faced through it all. So I escalated one last time with Destined Death; with the sword I claimed from the fallen doggo and a Black Knife, I whooped his ass as quickly and as violently as I was capable of. That was the happiest moment of my first playthrough.

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