Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37748092-20191224015507/@comment-39385741-20200126161705

When I was ten, I saw my friend play Undertale. He was in the place where Undyne chases you and throws spears at you. (It was my first time seeing the game. It was also my first minor spoiler) I also remember that sometime later he told me about the Dog Residue Gold Farming trick. I absentmindedly said, "Cool!" then started thinking about infinite 1-up tricks in Super Mario games. (I was really into Mario back then. It was also around the time when I made my username for my Fandom account)

January came, and I went to my friend's birthday party. It was Undertale themed. At the time, the only thing I knew about Undertale was Sans. One of the decorations was a banner with alll the main characters from Undertale (and Monster Kid and Muffet) on it. We decided to do a game where I would try to guess the names of the characters.

Undyne:

"Aquaman"

Alphys:

"Yellow Barney the Dinosaur"

I really liked speedrunning (Beating video games as fast as you can) at the time. (I mean, I didn't do it, but I still watched people do it, so that gives me some credit, right? No? Fine) So I went to Speedrun.com and watched a speedrun of Undertale. (First major spoiler) I didn't intend on playing the game, so I didn't care about spoilers. When whoever was speedrunning the game got past Greater Dog, I needed to do my chores or whatever so I stopped watching.

My birthday came along, and I thought Undertale might be fun (That ended up being an understatement), so I put it on my birthday list. But then my brother decided to be annoying, and bought the game, so he could own it, not let me play it, and not let me buy the game for myself because we already had it. So he played the game, and I watched him play the game (Second major spoiler) for a bit, but after he got past the Ruins I realized that Undertale actually had a story, and I stopped watching him play because of spoilers. I still saw little parts of the game whenever I accidentally walked into the room with the TV in it wiithout closing my eyes, (Yes, I was that desperate to not have any parts of the game spoiled for me) and using those little parts of the game that I saw, I began guessing what the story in Undertale was about. I assumed Undertale was simple, and just like any other game, (I was definately wrong about that) and that's what made my guesses wrong.

...

Nah, that's a dumb excuse. Undertale isn't the type of game you can predict. It has an amazing story, and it's not like any other games.

Is that a better excuse?

Anyway, when my brother beat the game, my mom forced him to let me play it. I know I said he was annoying, but he actually helped me complete Pacifist. He made sure I gave Undyne the water, he told me to hang out with Undyne, he was the one that told me to do pacifist it the first place!

After I beat Undertale, I cried. I cried because it was an amazing ending. I cried because I didn't want it to end.

The next day, I came back to Undertale. And of all people, Flowey was there. He told me not to reset. He told me that everyone was happy, and that resetting would ruin it. So I didn't reset.

A week later, I came back again. I wanted to play Undertale again. I apologized to Flowey in my mind, then I reset.

"You've probably heard this a hundred times now, haven't you?"

I've done way too many Undertale playthroughs.

And none of them have ever been Genocide.