How To Make Undertale Fullscreen

Undertale is what happens when a designer goes out of the norm and manages to disinfect himself from all the vices that the videogame industry has been taking for so long. Yes, there are elements of RPG, pure arcade, mini-games, history with moral decisions , but nothing is solved as we are accustomed. Maybe that's his magic.

But let's recompose ourselves a bit. Undertale is the story of the fall through the rabbit hole. To the underworld where the monsters inhabit , exiled by the man in an ancestral war. We, in the skin of a child to be baptized, will have to find a way to escape from this place. Classic, right? You will not need much time to realize that nothing is as it seems, and that the inclusion of cliches and recognizable elements are only there to be destroyed.

This is demonstrated, for example, the combat system, which in addition to the classic options to fight or use an object is added that of interacting with enemies, so that we can forgive them and not end them. However, if we do not we will not get EXP, and we already know how important this is in a role-playing game, right?

They will, however, attack, but not in a bout of statistics, but in one where we will see our heart (our life) and almost as if a shoot'em up of the branch of the bullet hell is about we will have to dodge its attacks And sometimes even his tears. Because, as we have said before, nothing is what it seems in Undertale's world.

What gets the title impeccably is to fight against the habits of an RPG as if that were its main objective. The constant routine of fighting and looking at a few numbers is replaced by this almost mini - game mechanic , always different, always funny that you will not see practically repeated throughout the adventure, let alone a few final bosses that are the icing on the originality and pure fun.

This premise is repeated in the exploration , always with different puzzles , without daring more than in its final part, probably the least inspired of all, to bore you with a mechanic that you have already surpassed. Therefore, Undertale looks for nothing the constant surprise of the player who must be being in a completely strange world, populated by even stranger monsters and a couple of skeletons as secondary, Sans and Papyrus, who could perfectly well get the prize for best Characters of the year.

It's a shame not to be able to talk and delve into the issues that Undertale wants to deal with or how it does it. Only to mention in passing the surprises he keeps and the ways he has to break the fourth wall to points that rival against the most consecrated examples that you remember in a show of visceral programming. In fact, sometimes he has so much tension to force the latest surprise, twist the gag to the unsuspected, that this could be more repetitive than the title.

But as we say, the surprises never end, and if you come from the generation of games like The Stanley Parable and the whole experimental branch, Undertale may be the best work of the year in that aspect, because also do not forget to have fun with mechanics and Not just with the narrative, to the point that any external information you read about him and not being in the game, is almost a spoiler in itself.

And that's why we can not say anything else, unless you jump into the rabbit hole or do not do it. Choose what you choose, do not prejudge it and try at least to play the demo that accompanies the game, because as you have read (or not) throughout this analysis, what matters least of all is its graphic aspect; Those images that make you frown and think about a little worked title. But it is that, until that, has its meaning.