Should I have done the genocide route before the pacifist one?

[Daddy Gibby]

Apparently at the end of true pacifist, you are asked not to reset so that the monsters can get a happy ending. I originally wanted to do genocide after getting pacifist so i could see everything, but would it be better to do genocide then true pacifist? or would that impact things too much? Should i just not do genocide at all?

[DJukor]

If you do genocide run first you lock yourself out of a "true" true pacifist ending.
Seeing as you kinda have to do something drastic just to reset from a genocide run.
Personally doing the genocide run would make me feel like sit so i avoid it.

[Terra]

Half of Genocide's punch comes from doing it after True Pacifist.

It's absolutely intended for Genocide to be the very last thing you see from the game, if you ever see it at all, having not heeded the warning.

[Hotel Security]

Should I have done the genocide route before the pacifist one?

No, because I feel the Pacifist runs parallel to your first run...it makes a lot more sense after the neutral run to kill no one in the second run and see all the stuff you missed, including the "true ending." There are also extra plot revelations in Pacifist that will be implied on Genocide so it's better if you know that stuff.

If you do genocide run first you lock yourself out of a "true" true pacifist ending.

People say this all the time and it's overblown. The Pacifist ending after Genocide is basically identical to the normal one except a character makes an different expression at the end. It's not a different ending at all. It's the same one with a few pixels changed.

It's absolutely intended for Genocide to be the very last thing you see from the game,

I felt the same. I think Genocide assumes you know the full lore of the game that you learn on the Pacifist run. Plus the Genocide final boss is a nice "ultimate end" to the three runs.

Should i just not do genocide at all?

You should absolutely do Genocide. For one, it's a very quick run through the game even with you farming kills and it has a completely different feel from the other runs. And getting through it is a legit challenge with some sweet bossfights...easily the best ones in the game.

[jslopes25]

I think you should do true pacifist first, it changes all the others so you could just do everything then genocide. So you can enjoy the hole game

[RebirthOfJack]

Originally posted by Hotel Security:

Should I have done the genocide route before the pacifist one?

No, because I feel the Pacifist runs parallel to your first run...it makes a lot more sense after the neutral run to kill no one in the second run and see all the stuff you missed, including the "true ending." There are also extra plot revelations in Pacifist that will be implied on Genocide so it's better if you know that stuff.

If you do genocide run first you lock yourself out of a "true" true pacifist ending.

People say this all the time and it's overblown. The Pacifist ending after Genocide is basically identical to the normal one except a character makes an different expression at the end. It's not a different ending at all. It's the same one with a few pixels changed.

It's absolutely intended for Genocide to be the very last thing you see from the game,

I felt the same. I think Genocide assumes you know the full lore of the game that you learn on the Pacifist run. Plus the Genocide final boss is a nice "ultimate end" to the three runs.

Should i just not do genocide at all?

You should absolutely do Genocide. For one, it's a very quick run through the game even with you farming kills and it has a completely different feel from the other runs. And getting through it is a legit challenge with some sweet bossfights...easily the best ones in the game.

While the change is small, the implications behind it are gigantic, so i undestand why most consider the true pacifist ending locked after doing the Genocide run.