Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27997069-20160317174518/@comment-27620479-20160325143515

Lunasmeow wrote: For the first point, let's be realistic. The maker of the game can't possibly control what every single person is feeling when they start the game. Also, unless you had spoilers that told you that there were mercy and permadeath mechanics, even expecting it to be "atypical" you'd still expect to kill monsters and level up, as evidenced by the huge surprise that "exp" was actually "execution points" and "lv" was "level of violence" from the players who weren't spoiled.

By saying "Except I started the game because it wasn't typical. More specifically because it is possible to avoid killing." You show that you had foreknowledge, because that is the only way to know that it is possible to avoid killing. As such you are not a valid person to use for how the game is supposed to be seen/felt/experienced. You came in with knowledge, rather than without it. That alone changes the results, and makes you an invalid control for the test. Science. Yes, I expected to do that. It is how the game is advertised. You can't expect people to buy something they have absolutely no knowledge.

It is not much of an advantage, given that Toriel and a Froggit tell you to try and do it. I tried, and failed. I killed a Vegetoid, because at that point Devour did just that. This nasty little detail was later removed. Then I accidentally killed Toriel, as anyone going in blind is likely to do. I thought I screwed up with my fake hit actually damaging Undyne, and when Asgore destroyed the Mercy option. I was also genuinely surprised that Flowey actually told me the truth, and LV is in fact LOVE.

Also, I had a friend sit down and play the demo, without telling them anything about the game. They went through it, killing everyone in their path, but didn't go out of their way to destroy everything, because going in blind, you wouldn't know that is possible.

It is strange, that you mention science. Scientific method only validates a theory up to the point it can be documented and the results confirmed through repetition. I found the lack of narration accidentally, so I believe it was there before I knew it. It was there the next time too. I believe it still is, someone go check that for me.

Also, I don't remember the original theory states that going in with the level of knowledge everyone should have after watching either of the trailers is excluded from being part of the theory. Although I'm fine with that, because that also makes the theory untrue, by creating Charas who are not part of it.