Talk:Neutral Route/@comment-27057609-20151009192605

Is there not a difference between No Mercy and Genocide?

Genocide is dubbed as such because it involves farming specific areas until you've killed all monsters therein. The counter which dictates how many encounters are there literally must reach zero.

No Mercy, to what I understand, is never backing down from a fight, and also choosing to kill when given the option.

I'm also curious to know because my first run of the game was "No Mercy." I did not hunt any monsters down, but I did strike them all down. I still fought Final Flowey, no one took the throne, and Sans told me to go to hell, but it did not appear to be a Genocide ending. Is this because it was my first playthrough?