Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-4383275-20160805031057

Tabbender wrote:

I'm pretty sure some of them use PSI. Living beings does, that's for sure.

Yes, as do some undead enemies, but all their bodies contain organic matter, so no pun intended, but that doesn't matter.

Tabbender wrote:

Why are you talking about the speed of the ennemies ? What matters is the speed of their attacks. Lightnings and lasers, for example. As for Frisk's speed, you can actually determine it when the Mad Dummy throw his knife at you. That doesn't matter much in a fictional world like EarthBound's or Undertale's if the physics of such worlds are not explicitly defined or, for that matter, realistic. Look at Star Wars, for instance: the "lasers" travel about three feet per minute!

And not only was that Frisk's soul and not the actual Frisk, but the knife was technically a SOUL attack as well and may not have been real either. Regardless, "faster than a knife" and "occasionally faster than lightning" is a very vague measurement and leaves a lot of room for overlap. That was the whole point of comparing grounded, definitive statistics.

Tabbender wrote:

Toby's tweets make it clear that he don't like his own rom hack. Of course he didn't do a reference to it in Undertale. That means nothing. The developer of the original Street Fighter himself said it was a bad game, vowing to make a sequel so good it would make it "look like a knockoff."

Tabbender wrote:

Mother characters don't have determination Have you forgotten about "courage?" It's virtually identical to Determination in most respects, even the name and concept.

Tabbender wrote: the monsters trapped underground aren't a thing either Why should they be? The entire plot of Undertale would take place after EarthBound and before Mother 3. After all, EarthBound took place in 199X, with Chara falling into the underground in 201X and the The War taking place "many years" before that, making it possible that it happened after 199X. A century later, the events of Undertale occurred, with the events of Mother 3 taking place "more than a century later" (i.e. after Undertale).

Note: this may also explain some of the physical discrepancies between Ness and Sans. Despite their similar style and all the connecting traits we've discussed, Sans does have a deeper voice than Ness did and seems slightly more physically mature. Then again, we don't know exactly when Ness became Sans, so this may be a moot point.