Playing some Undertale!

Author: Samuel Jin
For this week I have played the game Undertale and managed to finish it to provide information about the game. Undertale is a popular RPG game that challenges the conventional format of typical RPG's. RPG games, known as role playing games, are usually games where people choose a character, slay enemies and then gain skills and experience to become more powerful. They can take routes on what skills to level up and dedicate their entire time on one specific aspect of the game. However Undertale juxtaposes this notion of RPG games, as it more than just a game where players level up and become stronger. Normal RPG's encourage players to slay enemies, but Undertale has an optionf for the player to spare their enemies. Every enemy you slay in Undertale and every experience you earn all cause detrimental consequences to the player. The game critises the player for thinking that Undertale is simply a 'game' where they can do whatever they like. Whether you kill every enemy, or spare all the enemies including the wonderfully designed main enemies, the game remembers every action you commit. The storyline adapts to the choices the player makes throughout the game and never forgets. If you kill an enemy, the enemies become stronger as they gain a hatred towards the character , however if you do not kill any enemies then due to a lack of skills and health the game becomes harder. But, suppose if you kill an enemy and restart the game to remove all your data and start with no kills, the game remembers that you have tried to run away from the consequences of killing an enemy and will punish you at the very start of the new save file that you have created. The game with its diverse storyline that adapts to the player's actions, drives the players to gain the foundations of a conscience to not kill whatever they want. Players that ignore their conscience and slay all the enemies, will be met with a game that intentionally crashes itself, and the hardest enemies in RPG history. A hidden mechanic to the game is that if you were to finish the game multiple times, killing every enemy-the game will not let you play and will consequently force the player to remove all the files of the game manually.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Another similar game to Undertale

Image
Author: Samuel Jin After I have played Undertale, I have been very interested in games that adapt to the player's decisions. These kinds of games make it so every player experiences a different storyline depending on their choices throughout the game. Another similar game to Undertale, that changes its storyline continuously is 'Life is Strange.' This game is cut into 5 episodes that the player can play. When I finished all 5 episodes, rather than just a game-Life is Strange was an experience that changes the perspective of how you view life around you. The game is about a character named Max that goes to an art school. Max realises that there have been suspicious events around the school and one of the most unusual events is the awakening of her ability to rewind time. With the new power she has achieved, she thought that she was a hero that can save her friends from these unusual events. But as the players go throughout the story, they realise that Max is also a v
Read more

Vlog for Video Games at an Internet Cafe!

Image
For our final blog post we have created a vlog about video games. Specifically in the vlog, we travel to Eastwood so that we can experience what an Internet PC Gaming Cafe is like. With a whole bunch of gamers around, and a vast amount of games with fast Internet speeds; it was an experience that was remarkable for gamers such as us. Roles for blog: Samuel Jin: Blog posts and vlog production Tiancheng Huang: Script writing for vlog and blog posts. Robert Zheng: Music selection, script writing and blog posts.
Read more

Let's play some sports!!--Need for Speed

Image
Author: Zefeng Zheng Need for Speed is the second sport game I want to introduce, or we can call it as a street racing game. The game is created by Electronic Arts and currently developed by Ghose Games. Need for Speed is one of the most successful video game franchises at all time, selling 150 million copies of games. In the game, the players control a race car in a variety races, the goal being to win the race. In the career mode, the player needs to win the race in order to unlock the new vehicles. The more races you win, the more luxury vehicles you will unlock and they will bring you a totally different feeling when you hear the growl from the engine. What's interest in this game is that you can both play as a racer and police. Street racing of course is an illegal match, so the police will launch their special vehicle to chase them. To chase or to be chased is your choice, but remember to finish the task in the limited time.
Read more