Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-31536324-20180717195152

"No seriously. Why does the HUD exist? You may not care about such question, but I do. I won't accept your belief that the HUD is here "just because." That's no answer for me, that's an answer for creationists. And the question does serve a purpose. See, if the HUD is not natural, if there's no natural logical process by which it could have been created, then we must assume that it has been constructed artificially. And that's already moving us somewhere."

Yes, that somewhere is Fanon, not Canon. I believe in what can be proven, not baseless assumptions. The idea that the HUD, and everything connected to it, is a naturally accuring phenomenon and principle of the world of Undertale, is something that can be proven, simply by the fact that that is how it is treated and presented in world. Never once is it even implied to be an artificial construct of any sort.

One-Shot embraces the Player's connection to the world, but it never does the same with the idea of the world itself being a game. That is where this comparison fails.

Your comparison with the Matrix also fails based on the text wall above. The Matrix, our world, is presented and treated as an artificial construct, a fake world, within the world of The Matrix. (Am I the only one who thinks they copped out of a great twist of Zion being a backup Matrix?) The world of Undertale, the HUD and everything connected to it, is NEVER, I repeat, NEVER EVER ONCE implied, hinted, insituated, or proposed as such within the world itself.

It does the exact same thing as One-Shot, it embraces the connection between the Player and itself, but never the idea that it itself is a game.

Hell, the Froggit example doesn't even go all the way with it!