Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4504826-20160419213858/@comment-31981697-20190122200030

TheHumanAmbassador wrote: Well, here's New Home, finally.

So, here, you'll actually be learning some story!

The story you're told starts off the same-A human fell, cried for help, and Asriel brought the human over to the castle. But eventually, the timeline begins to split apart.

*But one fateful day.. the human betrayed us. Using their toy, they dashed to the prince, and swept at him. Our prince was killed. By the hands of the human.

*Asgore could not take this. The one hope of the humans, the sign that humans could be good, was but a lie. The humans once again simply took everything away from us. He and the guard went out, and killed this human, capture their SOUL. Then, he declared, that any human to fall must also die. With enough SOULs, we can shatter the barrier forever.

Then it converges again. Asgore will let them go.. (If this reminds you of Inverted Fate, where the monsters discover Chara's plan, and become more wary of humanity, good for you. I'm sure you can figure out where a lot of the changes came from now.)

Looking at the calendar actually shows the current year, NOT 201X.

Next is Judgement Hall, which.. actually remains quite the same, unless you killed Sans, in which case nobody will be there.. (At least in Neutral.) Then, you finally make it to Asgore's castle, where you can find an odd anomaly-It appears that the name on Chara's coffin is.. missing? Well, that's a strange one. And wait, wasn't Chara supposed to be friends with Asriel? Why would they murder him? And the calendar-It wasn't old from 201X? And if Asgore took Chara's SOUL, shouldn't he already have seven? Did something happen to it? Is it true that Gaster used it for the CORE?

Well, no time to ponder-Because it's time to reach Asgore, who uses attacks similar to how a Touhou boss would. (Also, "coincidentally", how a boss would attack in Hard Mode.) Eating the Snail Pie in front of him does not lower his ATK or DEF (Maybe the king just likes Cinnamon-Butterscotch?)

After killing Asgore, Flowey absorbs the six human SOULs, just like normal. The Neutral Route fight doesn't change much, actually, other than being harder.

And there's the end of Neutral-Now let's discuss endings-To save time and space, I'll only talk about the one that has actually changed.

Toriel is exiled from being queen if even one monster was killed. (Excluding Asgore) Wow, sure seems like monsters don't trust humans as much as normal.. Wait, it seems like this was the case throughout the entire adventure as well.. The innkeeper not being generous, Toriel never having Sans make that promise, Undyne being even more determined to strike you down... This is all a running theme, isn't it? Clearly, everything is coming from just one change.. But what exactly happened to cause all of this? We can trace things back to the murder of Asriel, but then, why did Chara act so out-of-character?

Well, we still have two more routes to take. Maybe we'll find some answers then. Dude this is hard mode, not some story change mode.