Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26313538-20160202004639

I have a question: which one is considered better?

And no, I don't mean it in terms of how you feel whilst attempting the route or the ending, just how easy it is. And after contrasting them, I didn't want to believe it but it seems that Genocide is easier. Sure, you have to walk around, killing monsters, but you gain more "EXP" and it becomes easier to do high damage to monsters as you "LVL" up. You get to skip most puzzles and most bosses can be killed in one hit. While in pacifist, you have to do every puzzle, you're stuck with "LVL" 1, you have 20 HP, and you have to find some way to spare a boss if you don't have a wiki page open through your entire gameplay.

If it's easier, then...why do we tend to do the Pacifist route first? 