Undertale Screencappery! Part 1

Jun 04, 2016 21:16

Hey! So I'm considerably new to Livejournal and I'm mostly here because I've always wanted to do a screencap adventure and after reading through a few on here, I quickly realised that LJ was probably one of the easiest places to do one. GREAT!

I'm starting with Undertale as I've got a new(ish) laptop as my old one was a piece of rubbish and was dying a slow death, and because of that thought AH I CAN REPLAY IT FROM THE BEGINNING AWESOME. I would be surprised if you haven't heard of Undertale before as it literally exploded in some sort of Homestuck-level kind of insanity. I feel like a lot of people are put off from Undertale because of the fans, but it really is a great game. While I don't feel like it will be one of those games that stick with you after years and years and years, it is just all around decent and everything about it is pretty neat. The characters, the story, the way it deals with classic RPG tropes (must kill everything in the area! oh wait no I can just hug this monster instead) are all done really nicely.

The music is also brilliant. I love the music so much in this game.

As a QUICK HEADS UP though, this will include MAJOR SPOILERS and I wouldn't read through this if you haven't played through at least once before as I will probably be referencing a few post-game bits. I will try and put up spoiler warnings though for major parts, so even if you haven't played before, hopefully I won't ruin too much for you early on, haha. Seeing as Undertale isn't a new game though, I'm kind of assuming that most people have either played through it before, or at least watched some sort of "Let's Play Undertale" on Youtube.

I mean I watched the Genocide ending that way, because lol I'm never doing that route ever. If you're coming here for a Genocide playthrough you are gonna be disappointed~





getting ff7 flashbacks all of a sudden. will we get human/monster babies like terra?? I kind of wish we did.



WAR

WAR NEVER CHANGES

also I kind of like how goofy the monsters look on the left hand side, with their one eyes and huge eyebrows. Or are they also meant
to be eyes as well? IMPORTANT QUESTIONS



look at the human's eyes third  to the left oh my god hahahaha



its always with the sealing, no one ever kills the monsters - whats that all about





201X MY FAVOURITE YEAR!

As you can see I was a bit of a doof with the screen shots and ended up having little flashes come up to the side like HERES A PREVIEW OF THAT SCREENSHOT YOU JUST TOOK don't worry I ended up realising how to get rid of it



none of this is ever explained much. like why is our little protag out on their own in the mountains anyway? do they have
any family? any relatives? we'll never know OR WILL WE? i might have just missed it at some point on why the MC is just
scampering around the wildness.



looks like a fun place to play, nope no hazards here



oh



shit



fml

also that looks like a really painful way to land, how come you didn't break anything that way





i promise it's not terrible screencaps like this throughout



well looks like we're stuck

or dead? that still looks like a PRETTY HIGH FALL TO ME



basic controls, I like it when they're nice and simple like this.

[SPOILER ALERT!]





ha ha ha ha hahaha ha

ok you CAN do this, but you'll get a "hidden ending" and well basically I don't have time for that nonsense. If you want to see what the difference is on the ending in HARD MODE then here you go! You might want to skip ahead to 1:03, as before then is just the dialogue with Toriel.




anyway lets get back to naming our little character



yup sounds good to mee



the text kind of wiggles a lot and then the screen goes white



and then jumps to here! lucky that we fell into a bunch of flowers, flowers would never hurt me

I also like as well that our gender is ambiguous - I had assumed that I was a girl in my whole playthrough, not that it was ever stated, but it was only afterwards when I saw some fan videos and art where the MC was portrayed as a boy it kind of hit me as pretty neat that you could be either. It's just nice that the protag's gender was pretty unimportant to the story as a whole, as with so many RPGs you had to know the main protags gender just so we can have love interests and what not.

It doesn't matter here though as we will flirt with anything/anyone



[more spoilers click if ye DARE]
Undertale ALREADY being like lol your name is "torra" huh yeah ok *snicker*

i'm glad I've got my TRUSTY STICK AND BANDAGE EQUIPPED! nothing can harm me now

but really your weapon isn't all that important unless you want to go genocide route. I felt bad just watching the genocide route, so I wouldn't be able to do it for real. I get way too attatched to fictional characters



well cant hang around here all day







nope doesnt look ominous



Woohoo tutorial time! Also put some lights on in here, you're a flower not a mushroom

This kind of reminds me a little of FF tutorial screens where they have a black screen and then a chocobo or a moogle run on like HEY LET ME EXPLAIN THINGS.



fun fact about Flowey, first playthough you do he introduces himself as Flowey the Flower and is like omg you mustve woken up here so scared and confused and is like I'll be your friend and help you out! :D Pretty standard introductory mascot.

But anyway, when I played through this on my new laptop, I had to do some more updates so I closed after the tutorial and came back to it. Second time Flowey says something along the lines of "Hi I'm Flowey, but don't bother looking all surprised, we both know you've been here before" which was just so passive aggressive and then this is all he says after that.

It's just the :D face with this line that makes it. So passive aggressive Flowey!

Also additional fun fact - the "Don't you have anything better to do?" line is used again in the 'hard mode' ending. Ha ha ha. I enjoy callbacks like that





I also enjoy the way Undertale does fights, its pretty cool. Way better than the usual fare.



grinding up LV is my FAVOURITE THING



of course!







I kind of was too quick, but when he winks a star shoots out and turns into...



these little white things!



HMMMM





ok!!!



oh whoops wrong way



i love flowey's faces

I like to imagine flowey as someone working in retail



I'M SORRY SENPAI





oh noes no flowey im too scared of them



Flowey you're gonna be no good in retail if you snap this quick



see how it's changed from 'pellets' to 'bullets?'



hahahahaha i think my game glitched up a little here. RUN. INTO. THE friendliness pellets



flowey just pauses here a minute like : )

all throughout there was flowey's little upbeat tune playing but every time you miss the pellets (bullets) it gets more and more distorted until you get to this point and the music just stops.

this one is actually a piano tutorial, but it captures the distorted parts really well. I would skip to around 0:30



yeah flowey is totally going to be a cute loveable mascot right?? oh



here its still quiet except flowey now has this scratchy kind of noise when he talks and creeper font





I missed it here but he says Die. in like a ridiculously large font. But not in caps, which makes me think while he's saying this really loudly, he's not shouting and I'm just imagining him saying this in a really monotomous way.

Die.



oh shit





the bullets slowly closing in

great now im getting the urge to watch star wars



huh



missed it AGAIN great screenshotting self but a flare comes out from the right hand side and basically just makes Flowey do a little cartwheel off the screen haha



hello



that's me!!

(it's you!)

also here is the music that plays at this point. its just pretty chilled out but also kind of sad at the same time





Toriel is really great. I love Toriel. I think everyone does. I don't know how you can NOT love Toriel? It just genuinely don't think its possible.



making my daily rounds

getting groceries, checking for human bodies, you know whatever

get a life toriel



hmm



toriel's mouth does move when she talks, so shes not just standing there like :) the whole time





we are like a little baby compared to all the monsters. Toriel is like twice the size of me here.



wait for mee









another nice little thing toriel does, is she'll walk off a little bit then stop and turn around to make sure you're catching up. its VERY CUTE.



why are there ruins underground anyway??

if the monsters and humans fought above ground and then the monsters got banished here, surely they wouldn't even HAVE ruins here, wouldn't everything still be fairly new below ground?

well whatever





hahaha ive played for so long on this and ive hardly done the intro yet

literally i spent so long trying to sort out my steam screenshots which I couldn't get to work and then with that and reloading a few times, it really racked up the time





GOOD BYE SAVE POINT

also it really bugged me that i couldnt read the sign. you can't climb up the vines or anything TRUST ME I TRIED



still not really sure why toriel just didn't ask for my name

MC is standard mute protagonist though. We never see them talk, but we know that they do. Does Toriel ever find out what my name is? I'm NOT SURE

also HERE is the music for the ruins! I really like this one. It's kind of upbeat and relaxed, but still with that kind of dungeony feel?. i really like the piano intro with it as well. Feel free to take a listen to it while reading along, I'll most likely be putting up the extended versions from now on.











WOOHOO MY FAVOURITE KIND OF RUINS



well ok thats one way of putting it i guess



why does this place have a ruins full of puzzles???

I DON'T GET IT UNDERTALE

oh RPGS, when will you ever explain puzzle dungeons







i want to press this button



toriel just walks out in disgust



stepping on the other buttons does nothing as the puzzle has already been solved, which i found out pretty quickly. GREAT STUFF



reminds me of this weird childrens book we had when i was younger about this dude who had to choose to a road out of three different ones and one of them had bees or something in, idk but I felt like the moral of the story was ALWAYS CHOOSE THE MIDDLE ROAD

the moral mightve been "be nice to people" or something and then they'll help you not die but really whenver i do games or read books or watch a film or whatever, its always the middle road that's the correct answer

but yeah i really went off onto a tangent there



NEXT PUZZLE HIT ME WITH IT GO



YESS SWITCHES IM SO PUMPED



way to be a buzzkill toriel



k bye



*NEW SKILL ACQUIRED*



except i had to get off of the path to get here!! >:D
"wow. youre a real anarchist"
"nobody... tells me what... to.. do"



FINE



HMMM



look how cute toriel is guys come on, how can you not love this goat moomin



IS IT???



so polite



ok cool



SUCCESS







DO YOU SEE WHAT IT MEANS NOW BY "STAY ON THE PATH?" Yes all the puzzles are this easy. But Toriel is still compelled to do them for us anyway



HMMM



which switch was it again







toriel just getting more and more concerned about you



ugh but i dont want to mom









>( COME AT ME BRO









WITH MY FISTS???

hahaha imagine if all fights could be resolved like this. actually that would be pretty neat



MOM PUNCH







im scared



aaaaaa



help me





"MICKY GIVE US THE MONEY YOU OWE OR ELSE >("
"hey uh um well uh do you have any favourite books....???"









BADUM-TSH

Toriel at the Ruins Comedy Club, here every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday



MC is just in a constant state of "..." throughout the whole thing, so you never know what theyre thinking. Which works especially well depending how you play the game. : )





a little pause here, toriel probably still a bit concerned as she's not sure you can even talk yet





FIGHT TIME



Dummy!

the music is as goofy as you would expect it to be







what are you hiding underneath those cotton layers gurl : )



hahahahahaha naww



y wont u talk to me dummy





we dont HAVE TO FIGHT





aaaaaa



so you can see it a little bit here, but the heart grows legs and runs off the screen

here it kind of reminds me a little bit of the pearl leg meme though



how did this meme even start



Toriel showing even more concern as you literally just walked up to the dummy and then ran away from it. I CAN'T DEAL





Toriel trying to make you feel like that wasn't the most stupidest/weirdest thing to do in this situation





I WAS SCARED OK DONT JUDGE ME



ha ha ha ha ha ah ha hahahahaha



CLINGY MUM ACTIVATE

Toriel reminds me a lot of Pearl now I think about it. Except Toriel has way more chill than Pearl. Pearl has no chill. But great, if Toriel wasn't already over protective enough, she's gonna try even harder now!!

I don't know if this affects any further dialogue or not though aaaaas...



... I reset! Have to go through all avaliable options.



sharing an intimate moment



tried to do item but WE DONT HAVE ANY SO



hard to tell properly here, but I fought the dummy, the green bar is its health bar



I WON!



I could see Toriel being all flustered seeing someone punch a punching bag like "nO JUST TALK TO IT!! PLEASE! :("

oh nice, i didn't notice before that the dummy actually disappears if you fight it



I like that the "do we...?" has the elipsis there, because its a bit hesitant, as if Toriel isn't quite sure about us yet. It's a nice little detail. Because at this point, it's still uncertain what route we're is going to go down.



BUT ANYWAY ENOUGH OF THAT, LETS RELOAD











naww





And seeing this after I've done the fight one, it almost sounds like she is relieved here. But it can also be read as just a mum encouraging her child, because that's essentially what Toriel is. I still can't remember if our family are ever mention or what



goodbye my lover
goodbye my friend

why is that in my head





Toriel being coy here. Stop being so cute Toriel







contrary to what these screenshots are saying, she's not creepily walking backwards while watching your face, but doing the same thing of walking ahead and checking that you are following.

ALSO HAVE YOU TAKEN A NOTE OF THE PATTERN ON THE GROUND well it isnt important







ahh random fight!



huh the froggit marks are a little similar to the marks on the doors in the ruins. hmmm

the music is a little bit different from the usual battle theme





checking out the frogs

nice legs

sorry my frog puns are terrible im going to stop there



awwwwww



the reason you only hear a little bit of the battle scene is because Toriel literally cuts in





literally a death glare from this woman and everyone just slinks off like ok ok im sorry i didnt mean to it wont happen again









WHAT COULD IT MEAN??











look at how cute this is



















BLESS

she tried to let you solve it for all of like 2 seconds

such a pearl goat mom





WHATEVER



IM MY OWN BOSS





B)



seriously though Toriel, these spikes can't hurt anyone



i mean toriel you'v done everything so far but all right







no no don't make me!!!!





come baaack



imagine like a mash up between mission impossible and tense music playing in the background here

im too lazy to try and find the actual track for this one












this room is FRIGGIN LONG













SERIOUSLY

I'm not exaggerating here, I was taking these pretty sparingly







HMMM

THIS PILLAR LOOKS SUSPICIOUS TO ME WHAT DO YOU THINK GUYS



hello



MC is all I FOUND YOU!!

Or maybe they aren't and just stare at Toriel while she just tries not to look at you. Or doesn't notice you. Who knows



oh what a surprise!!







you got me good Toriel damn

also thats a very convienient pillar you have seeing as you only have one in this entire room











I liked this test, because nothing was ever going to happen to us, but it was just about how we would deal with being on our own and not having any support in a sudden situation, but without any actual danger. Mum test! Of course we were fine, but Toriel is still worried anyway and is just like well done! But please don't leave this room, OK, just wait for me to come back, I'll be back soon all right

please listen to me i know whats best for you



*CELL PHONE ACQUIRED*



"if you need me call me,
no matter where you are"



im always good mum



wait no come back

will we see our goat mom ever again?? why are the ruins purple?? will there be anymore puzzles? click here to find out!

puzzles, lets hope this works, screencaps, undertale, im pretty tired, first entry, undertale-caps

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