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Well, before I get to the actual thing, here's the recap and the summary of what happened during my Undertale playthrough during the past year-and-a-half.

UNDERTALE - The Playthrough Summary

Back in 2015, I tried the demo after BGE's incident. I did the ruins twice, killing and sparing enemies randomly the first time until I got to Toriel and couldn't spare her (or so I thought), so the second time I tried to spare her and succeeded.

In 2018, I tackled the whole game and, knowing that I could spare everyone (in theory), I decided to try Pacifist first. Since I didn't really know anything about how the game unfolded beyond the Ruins, I thought a Pacifist -> Neutral -> Genocide playthrough would be the way to go. At least I knew (for some reason) that I had to leave Genocide for later.

So I did pacifist, not touching the "Fight" menu even once, for the whole playthrough, save for the battle against Asgore and then against Omega Flowey. I named the fallen human "Lily" as well, as I thought it was a cute name for a pacific and friendly girl (since Frisk was a girl in my eyes).

After that, you people told me there was pretty much no reason to do Neutral now that I had done Pacifist, so I jumped straight to Genocide. I named the fallen human... Um *checks* Darn it, I don't remember; I remember wanting to name "them" after a poisonous plant due to its killing nature, so I eventually came up with the perfect gender-neutral name, but I don't remember it anymore (do you?). Anyway, this time around, not only did I not touch the "Spare" option even once, but I also had the audacity of removing the "yellow names" option for the entire playthrough, since I knew I didn't need them. And boy, I was tempted to use it at times, but crazygamer told me to "stay determined", and so I did.

So I destroyed the world and went back to Pacifist again, since I wanted to accomplish the "Soulless" ending now that I had done Genocide. I did watch the ending beforehand on YouTube, but accomplishing it on my own was still a big challenge on and of itself due to the implications - it was scary enough to make me try to experience it on my own rather than just watching it; not because I wanted to be scared (since I hate horror), but because I'm a completionist at heart and that way I felt like I really 100% the game on my own. This time, knowing about Frisk's gender neutrality, I decided to try a neutral name for a passive-aggresive child that hurt nobody but responded with rude replies So I named them "Rudy"! (This is where my topic purged.) Remember Rudy, guys? Well, Rudy went on its way, saying rude things, but never hurting anybody (I think I never used the "Fight" option, yet again), until they eventually took full possession of Frisk's body at the end Or so I comprehended at the time (more on that on the review).

After that, I thought: "Well, ironically, the only thing that's left for me to do is Neutral", so I did my first Neutral playthrough, naming myself "Normie" (you know, 'cause it's a "normal" person? Heh), killing and sparing monsters at random, and doing what I thought I would've done since the beginning: Kill Toriel, then proceed to experiment different outcomes with the rest of the cast. So I spared Papyrus, killed Undyne, had a lot of interesting phone conversations with Papyrus that I didn't think I'd miss beforehand, spared Muffet (iirc), defeated Mettaton, spared Asgore, and... spared Flowey. After that, he showed up and told me something like: "Is killing really a good thing to do? Try to come back here without killing anyone." I tried battling Asgore once again and see if anything changed if I killed him instead, but Flowey just showed up again saying a different dialogue. I repeated the process like 7 times until he said: "Why do you keep coming back here? Don't you have anything BETTER to do?"

So I ironically did my first "Not-True" Reset, and Flowey showed up at the beginning saying: "Remember, don't kill anyone, okay?" That was a surprise for me. Anyway, I did Neutral again, this time inverting the spare-kill ratio, and spared Toriel, killed Papyrus, spared Undyne (which never wanted to interact with me afterwards), killed Muffet (iirc), utterly destroyed Mettaton this time, watched Sans creepily reminding me about killing his brother, and finally... killed Asgore; but I didn't know that killing him after a Neutral ending had already occurred would result in the same thing as before: "Don't you have anything BETTER to do?" "Man, I wanted to see what happened if I killed Flowey! Ugh".

So before giving up, I realized I never entered Sans's secret room! So... what did I do? A final Pacifist playthrough, where I wanted to accomplish two things: 1._Spare every single monster so they showed up yellowed in the credits, and 2._Enter Sans's room. Both things were nice extra challenges that I overlooked before, so it didn't drag on as much as it could otherwise have. This time, I tried attacking monsters until I could spare them, which is something I actually didn't know I could do, but hey, it's more practical; I also found out I couldn't hurt anyone in the True Lab. So, I entered Sans's room, laughed my butt off in the process, then entered Sans's back door. After that, I did the rest of the run, saving Papyrus's date for the end before Asgore, then he immediately made me go to Undyne's house, then Undyne gave me her letter to Alphys right after the date ("Oh wow, neat, I didn't know we could already do this!", I thought), and finally had my date with Alphys before getting to the endgame. Y'know, I had forgotten about the whole Neutral-path thingy already activating certain switches on the story, so I didn't have to battle Flowey and everything became pleasantly much shorter. Normie ascended to being a peaceful human, and I did have the full yellow credits, but I was still corrupted, so "THE END" still showed in red. Darn...

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(continuing on the next post...)

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