When did the game truly 'get' you?

[Stew]

Going into this, I expected a ton more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ than what was included within the game. Sure, there were a few times where the game wouldn't start and stuff, but I knew what the game was up to. Especially after Undertale's end of the neutral run with its apparent failure to load the intro sequence and placing you in a completely blank room before Flowey deletes your save file seriously making me believe that something was wrong with my game, I went into this promising myself I wouldn't actually be tricked by any of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

That failed.

I made it all the way to the third core file with the challenge of answering questions. On the third (I think?) one, one of my steam friends appeared to messaging me, laughing at my previous response to a question with '♥♥♥♥ hooker' (because ♥♥♥♥ it) and asking if I'd been hacked. My frenzied attempts to check my steam dashboard, and not appearing to be recieving messages there, really freaked me out, which made me miss an important phrase in the game needed to answer a question. It was then I facepalmed and realised I'd been had. and some how the game had managed to post fake messages under my friend's name to trip me up.

Pretty amazing 4th wall break, though, I have to admit. Who knew you could even do those sorts of things? I'm still trying to work out how it could have been done.

Anyway, I just wanted to know at what point the game truly tricked you. Was it the same point, earlier, or later?

[imazombrie]

That was the same moment for me. But before that even happened, I was getting facebook message audio sounds but not actually receiving messages because I was talking to my girlfriend on Facebook. The game said to not be distracted, that was when I realized the Pony Island was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with me. I even went so far to "reply" to my friend's Steam "messages" and I ended up telling my friend he needs to play it too.

[Boolus]

Asmodeus.

[Lo-fi Longcat]

Asmodeus

[Majorlag]

I kinda saw through that one pretty quickly. The friend it chose to impersonate was someone who hasn't messaged me in years. And when I thought about it for a second, Valve would never allow a game to interact directly with the Steam messaging. Think of the abuse!

The crash did get me though. I should have seen that coming after seeing the same gag in Undertale and I Wanna Be The Guy years before that, but I bought it. I even force quit the game and restarted it. I was only suspicious when it crashed in exactly the same spot.

So yeah, well done on those.

[Igƞis]

Asmodeus

[Exophase]

I don't even have any Steam friends so the pop-up didn't get me at all. And I'm running on Linux so the fake Windows crash was more than a little obvious.