What games that actually inspired Undertale?

[Zaycool97]

I know Nintendo's Earthbound/Mother series is one of the major inspirations to this game since Toby Fox is a huge fan of that series. But, are there anymore games that inspired Undertale?

[ryedork]

I'd say Undertale is Earthbound-esque.
But it's nowhere near the same game.

[RAGLOKO]

Earth bound, with the battle system being inspired by both the mario and luigi series, and Touhou project.

[Zaycool97]

Originally posted by RAGLOKO:

Earth bound, with the battle system being inspired by both the mario and luigi series, and Touhou project.

I can tell cause in Mario & Luigi series, you can dodge the enemies' attacks just like in Undertale where you can dodged their attacks, but in a bullet-hell type way.

[SylveonLover]

What about Cave Story? Asriel Dreemurr is very like those bunnie creatures.

[SandDollar11]

Toby Fox used alot of his music from the webcomic Homestuck to inspire most of the Undertale soundtrack...not really a game, but Toby Fox did work with Andrew Hussie in making the Homestuck soundtrack.

[JRokujuushi]

There's a certain scene with Mettaton that's very inspired by Final Fantasy 6, especially with the music.

[ditt_25]

Lots of obvious small references. Offhand

Earthbound/Mother series shoudl be fairly obvious. Striped shirt kid. Very humourous and lighthearted and nonstandard setting for genre in case of Earthbound.

Mother 3 would add significae to the Golden Flowers. Plus one of the possible postcards that came with the official Toriel plush was a very blatant and very emotional Mother 3 reference.
Oh, and the line Toriel gives if you call her mom.

Breath of Fire 2 (Aaron, very obvioius given his quotes too)

Final Fantasy 6 (a certain obvious MTT scene and maybe [but probably not] Undyne suplexing Boulders although FF6 meme was trains)

Mario RPGs and bullet hells for the defensive system probably.

Cave Story for the name of the game, a very likely inspiration for Asriel's race (ESPECIALLY given the parallels to a specific character ), the importance of flowers in both stories, and an outwardly lighthearted and simplistic appearance hiding a slightly more complex story.

Live-A-Live because Megalovania.

Shin Megami Tensei (i.e the series Persona spun off from) was possibly some inspiration for the Act/Mercy system (demon negotiation) and the morality system.

[Mrrp]

Originally posted by An Idiot:

Originally posted by owen:

it has inspiration from touhou i guess, with bullet hell in it

Lots of games are bullet hells. Dumbass.

Erm... It was also most likely touhou because http://78.media.tumblr.com/13aff7a9dd22cd75949010764ff13b92/tumblr_nvqzy1co5q1qj0qsdo2_1280.png.

[(Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr]

Earthbound/Mother series, Shin Megami Tensei, Final Fantasy, Cave Story, Live A Live, Moon: RPG Remix Adventure, and Chrono Trigger

[Smithsiblings4]

Originally posted by Zaycool97:

I know Nintendo's Earthbound/Mother series is one of the major inspirations to this game since Toby Fox is a huge fan of that series. But, are there anymore games that inspired Undertale?

I dont know about games specifically, but I think that supernatural might have influenced certain parts of the game:

1. In the later seasons of supernatural they mention the power and value of human souls

2. sans can make something fly in one specific direction by holding his hand that way (which is a power that only demons have in supernatural) and his eyes can turn all black (another demon trait)

bonus fact. almost everything in supernatural is a monster other than few human main characters and background characters, in undertale everything other than frisk is a monster (unless genocidal maniacs count)

[Ragdollintothewall]

Persona, the idea of befriending monsters was a big influence

[lian]

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DATE WITH LEGS
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[Exarch_Alpha]

FF6 was a clear referce from the opera part.

Everything else was unique - SPECIALLY combat.

[Kreb]

Sorry for my english,but I see for youtube Undertale is inspired with : mother/Earthbound and the mario RPG saga (Super mario RPG,Mario and luigi...)

[Neosonic97]

The four that were most notably mentioned were Earthbound, Cave Story, Touhou Project and Shin Megami Tensei. I'm not too sure on Cave Story, but I can see the influences of the other three.

SMT for the whole 'conversing with your foes' mechanic, which is a staple in the mainline series, Earthbound because duh, the bullet-hell esque dodging system is akin to a Touhou Project game (And certain enemies rip a bunch of patterns straight out of Touhou [In fact, Asriel's first phase only has one attack that wasn't ripped straight from a Touhou game). Here are comparisons to Touhou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGQZ6msuZc
Toby Fox has even stated that ZUN (the guy behind Touhou Project) was one of his biggest inspirations. Here's Toby talking about it on his twitter account shortly after meeting the man himself: https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/999209960536850433