Deltarune



Deltarune is a Western RPG created by Toby Fox whose demo/first chapter was released without announcement on October 31, 2018, with the second chapter dropping on September 17, 2021. It's a Spin-Off/Sequel/Prequel/Alternate Universe/What Have You to Undertale, though Fox announced it as a game for those who had completed Undertale first.

You play as Kris, the (apparently) only human resident of Hometown, a sunny suburban town populated by monsters. While searching some school material along with Susie, the resident bully of the school, they both fall within a mysterious closet into what can only be defined as a "Dark World". There, Kris and Susie meet the Prince of Darkness, Ralsei, who claims that the three of them together are the Delta Warriors, beings destined to travel across the Dark World to stop the flow of darkness into the Light World (Kris and Susie's world).

The game is a role-playing game like Undertale: Combat is performed similar to most standard turn-based role-playing games, choosing from a set of actions such as "Attack" or "Mercy". While the goal of the game is implicitly to avoid fights and spare monsters, this is made difficult in that Susie, who is not initially controlled by the player, tends to prefer to attack rather than have mercy, so special actions must be taken to keep her cool.


 * Adaptational Personality Adjustment: Deltarune has this for some of the canonical Undertale characters:
 * Alphys is a lot less nervous as Kris's teacher, compared to her original Nervous Wreck personality; while she lacks authority, she's a Reasonable Authority Figure when Kris disappears with Susie in Chapter One, reassuring them that they aren't in trouble for playing hooky. Chapter Two has her inquire on Kris falling asleep in class after Berdly reads A Tale of Two Cities, asking if everything is okay at home with Asriel in college and with the Dremurrs's Internet out.
 * Undyne as the new police chief doesn't even know who Alphys is in Chapter One, when before they had Unresolved Sexual Tension. Chapter Two, however, has an optional quest where you can deliver chocolates on her behalf to Alphys, as an apology for knocking her off her bike. Undyne, being Undyne, she says the apology is to the bike and she doesn't have feelings for the fish monster.
 * Unlike his Large Ham Attention Whore personality as a game show host, Mettaton is a Shrinking Violet recluse that refuses to answer his front door. He still calls you "Darling," though, if you call on him.
 * While Asriel is off-screen owing to being at college, we can see he's not the same Asriel and it's not just him being 18 instead of 8. . He's a gamer, who plays with the off-brand one and lets Kris have the brand one, and draws NSFW art on the computer which makes Kris blush. Residents around Hometown talk about how he's a paragon, with Burgerpants saying that Asriel inspired him to save up for college as well.
 * Alternate Universe: Apparently to Undertale. Several characters from that game appear, but with wildly divergent development.
 * For starters, Asriel is in college (not to mention alive).
 * If Undyne's dialogue is anything to go by, she and Alphys have never even met.
 * Speaking of Alphys, not only is she not wracked with the guilt that comes with accidentally creating the Amalgams, she views the much darker Mew Mew: Kissy Cutie 2 as an improvement over the first (a complete inversion of her Undertale counterpart, who despises 2 and prefers the lighthearted original).
 * Likewise, Catty and Bratty, best friends in Undertale thanks to their shared love of Mettaton, absolutely despise each other in Deltarune because Mettaton never became a celebrity.
 * All Just a Dream:
 * Implied for most of Chapter 1:.
 * Arc Words: Your choices don't matter.
 * Proceed.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy:
 * Bonus Boss: in Chapter 1 and . Defeating them through ACTing or fighting will net you a powerful piece of equipment depending on the methods used.  - but good luck surviving their myriad of attacks.
 * Collectible Cloney Babies: Alphys collects merchandise from the Kissy Kissy Mew anime franchise. In the Switch version, you can even get into an optional boss battle with one at the Dog Shrine.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Most of the Darkeners in Chapter 1 are quite friendly, only attacking you because their Jerkass tyrant of a King demanded it of them.
 * Elite Mook: The Rudinn Ranger and Head Hathy.
 * Hidden Villain: In Chapter Two, the Queen's Butlers make reference to a figure called the Knight, in an optional room, that . The Knight inspired Queen to use Noelle to open a fountain..
 * Jerkass: The King. He's willing to use his own son as a hostage to get the Delta Warriors to surrender. While he does show some signs of genuine concern for Lancer later on, he adamantly refuses to change his outlook on the Lightners.
 * King Mook:
 * Mind Screw:
 * Role-Playing Game: As with Undertale, Deltarune is a subversion of RPGs as a whole, though it starts with more "standard" tropes, such as a party composed of two or three characters.
 * Parental Substitute: Considering the King of Spades is a vicious tyrant, it comes as no surprise that his son Lancer views Rouxls Kaard as his "Lesser Dad". Mind you, Kaard doesn't think very highly of Lancer, but he's still leagues better than the King.
 * Playable Epilogue: After Kris and Susie return to their world in each chapter, the player can have Kris walk around the city. The ending cutscene only plays once they goes to bed.
 * Wham! Shot: Tends to end chapters with these:
 * At the end of Chapter 1, Ralsei removes his hat. . Susie reacts with appropriate shock, and later references that.
 * Chapter 1 ends with Kris ripping out their soul, locking it in a birdcage, and looking to the audience with a Slasher Smile.
 * In Chapter 2, the party manages to convince Berdly on the Main Route that . They agree to a plan where he helps rescue Noelle and escorts her to safety while they tackle Queen..
 * Chapter 2 has Ralsei reveal that.
 * Chapter 2 ends with.
 * Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: This seems to be Rouxls Kaard's schtick, as are puzzles so easy a preschooler could solve them.
 * You Are in Command Now: Kaard was only promoted to Duke of Puzzles because the King had fired and imprisoned everyone else.
 * Zero Effort Boss: Rouxls Kaard's puzzles are incredibly easy to solve. You'd have more difficulty fighting a single Rudinn than solving one of Rouxls's puzzles. He claims to have a better puzzle, but refuses to show it to the heroes (given how ridiculously easy the first two were, that's probably for the best).
 * He poses much more of a challenge in Chapter 2;
 * Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: This seems to be Rouxls Kaard's schtick, as are puzzles so easy a preschooler could solve them.
 * You Are in Command Now: Kaard was only promoted to Duke of Puzzles because the King had fired and imprisoned everyone else.
 * Zero Effort Boss: Rouxls Kaard's puzzles are incredibly easy to solve. You'd have more difficulty fighting a single Rudinn than solving one of Rouxls's puzzles. He claims to have a better puzzle, but refuses to show it to the heroes (given how ridiculously easy the first two were, that's probably for the best).
 * He poses much more of a challenge in Chapter 2;