Recent reviews by NorthyDreams

Utterly fantastic game with an excellent gameplay loop that makes you want to try again and again and again and figure out what works for each character. Fantastic game, great community and modding support. I'd give it labor of love, but it just went gold.

One of the best action games on the market, hands down. The flexible difficulty system makes the game endlessly replayable and extremely tailorable to your desired playstyle. If you like dash-dancing around and stabbing everything in sight but having to be precise and avoid dangers, turn up the trap damage. If you prefer something more relaxed? Turn that off, and maybe up the number of enemies so you have something more to hack to pieces. This game has it all, regardless of what you're looking for.

There are few things that can leave an impression on the human heart quite as much as a well told story. This game, in its moderate length, tells an intricate, complex, and perhaps most importantly, video game specific story (one that could not be told in any other medium) that in this player's opinion is nothing less than the very best story ever told. Don't be put off by the community, because it is, in many ways, no different than the fandom for something like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. UnderTale is nothing short of one of the greatest games ever made. And no, this is not a bandwagon opinion. Few things have been able to touch so many hearts, so many -- for lack of a better word -- souls, as this game has. You, yes you, the person reading this review -- not your neighbor, not your friend -- YOU would be doing yourself a disservice by not first doing a playthrough of this game and then a followup investigation into what certain things really meant (Preferably while listening to the countless hours of fan created and original soundtrack that is quite possibly the best OST in the entire history of games). Every single frame, every little animation, every sound byte and every bit of conversation that happens in this game happens for a reason and putting the pieces of that together is half the fun of the 13 hour long game that I played one time three years ago...

That I still obsess over and love with all my heart and soul to this very day.

I would have paid a thousand dollars for the experience I got from this -- and I only played it once. In fifty years, I hope this game is still talked about as a pinnacle of storytelling in games. Thank you for reading.