Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37345491-20190406164451/@comment-38557913-20190604171034

All you have to do to see if he's overated is take him out of the story. The only somewhat big change is during genocide, and it's supposed to be anti-climactic anyways. However, if you take, for example, Chara out of the story, you have no consequenses, you have no narrator, you have no guidence, and you have no resets. If you take Asriel out, the story of undertale completely falls apart, and Flowey, the primary antagonist of undertale, can't do anything, making undertale a very mediocre game. If you take Undyne out of the game, you have no challenge during genocide whatsoever, and while it does make genocide boring, it also makes people with a lot of time on their hands more curious, and with no challenge at all, they'll ruin their true pacifist route. Even if you take Papyrus out of the game, you never get the chance to befriend Undyne, (which is a key part of the true pacifist route) you loose the second biggest mascot in undertale, you loose the way Flowey would manipulate his way into getting the souls, and you can't get the pacifist route because you need to befriend Papyrus. If you take away Gaster, you take away the biggest mystery in all of undertale, one of the biggest mysteries in gaming as a whole, and a possible (yet not confirmed) teaser for deltarune.