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Jakyl25 posted...

Had the genocide ending with the original Fallen Human. Definitely was not worth all the trouble with Sans.

Did you wait in the darkness?

Regardless, that's part of the point. Genocide is a direct examination of the player. Very few people will ever find it without doing a Pacifist run first and getting the good ending, which means that to even start a Genocide run you have to go against Flowey's wishes and erase the miracle happy ending everyone managed to achieve. The game world constantly tells you not to go the Genocide route, both literally and through things like towns being evacuated and the music changing. Papyrus asks you to stop, Undyne gets an anime powerup to try and stop you, Sans puts you through hell to get you stop. The game refuses to reward you for all that needless bloodshed. You're not given you a big dramatic ending - after finishing off the last two living creatures, control is taken from you and the game abruptly ends. Why should the player expect anything different? Literally no one else in the game wanted them to do this. And the only reason the player did it in the first place is because of curiosity. Sans explicitly lays this out for you.

i know your type. you're, uh, very determined, aren't you? you'll never give up, even if there's, uh... absolutely NO benefit to persevering whatsoever. if i can make that clear. no matter what, you'll just keep going. not out of any desire for good or evil... but just because you think you can. and because you "can"... ... you "have to".

I think that's what makes Genocide as impactful as it is. It's the purest expression of player choice I've ever seen in a game.

Also, after doing Genocide, you can no longer get a true Pacifist ending. The game remembers.

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