Given Deltarune‘s previous lack of a murder-filled ending, the Snowgrave Route came as a complete shock to many as you subject these characters to sheer horror by your own hand. It sees Kris manipulate and force new party member Noelle to freeze every foe in your path, leading her to kill mutual classmate Berdly by encasing them in a fatal all-out ice attack called Snowgrave. The Snowgrave Route takes this gameplay loop to horrifying ends. In Deltarune, you the player control protagonist Kris and their friends in battle to act, use magic, heal, converse with or spare your foe, most often in a non-violent manner to end the encounter.

The alternate route - now dubbed the “Snowgrave Route” unofficially - was found by fans of the game and spread through Twitter as others began to find this path for themselves.

Though it doesn’t change the ending like Undertale‘s “no mercy” route - where you kill every character you get into combat with - Deltarune‘s alternate route is just as devastating… with a much lower body count. Much like Undertale before it, Deltarune Chapter 2 features an alternate route based on choices you make. Note: Spoilers ahead for Deltarune Chapter 2. It’s something… a lot more complicated than that. In Fox’s two chapters of Deltarune since, the game has built upon Undertale’s foundation masterfully, from the greater detailed sprite work to the evolution of the bullet-hell turn-based combat system.Īnd yet, having finished Deltarune Chapter 2 myself now, it’s not the music or the jokes or the visuals that have stuck with me the most. Undertale drew fans in with its charming characters, a stellar soundtrack, and its clever subversion of typical RPG tropes. While Fox is vague about how the two games relate to one another, Deltarune is a spiritual successor to Undertale and will thus garner comparisons. Though not a sequel or a prequel - that we know of anyway - Deltarune features characters, gameplay mechanics, and concepts familiar to fans of the original.

Mere days after Undertale‘s sixth anniversary, the second chapter of Fox’s latest project dropped to the delight of fans.

Last Friday’s release of Deltarune Chapter 2 came as a surprise to many. The developer of Undertale and Deltarune has never shied away from pulling a fast one on his audience and if Deltarune Chapter 2 is any indication, he isn’t stopping now. Things are never what they seem with Toby Fox.

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