I felt uplifted and motivated by the track Ruins, I was comforted by Home, and I felt positively chilly listening to Snowy. From the opening menu onwards, I was stunned by how the music was so naturally entwined with each stage of the game. The first thing that grabbed me was the soundtrack. I couldn’t imagine a better escape! Bullet hell combat in Undertale. Our aim is to escape this underworld, and we are led through a series of realms in which there are puzzles to solve and different characters to meet. The game felt like a perfect cure: we play as a human child who falls through a magical barrier out of our own world into one of magic and monsters. I have always been a huge video game fan, but since Covid-19, my appetite for escapism has skyrocketed, as it has for many of us. Edge was analysing the games that defined the last generation, and Undertale was named. Undertale was released in 2015, but I heard about it only recently through the December 2020 edition of Edge, a video game magazine. Yet as soon as I was duped by a chaotic, evil sunflower, I began to fall in love with this game. Essentially, you and the computer take it in turns to choose actions during combat, and if you or the monster decide to fight, this activates an onslaught of bullets which you must avoid. Initially, I didn’t want to play Undertale : despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews, I was put off by its retro aesthetic, and by the fact that one of the main aspects of the gameplay is a turn-based ‘bullet hell’. Safe to say, this is one of the best video game opening scenes that I have played (or rather, been played by) in a long time. The sunflower’s face distorts into a nightmarish vision, and I scream out loud as my newly born character dies before my eyes. It then tells me it will share its LOVE with me, and as I move towards it with a childlike naïveté, I realise that I have been played. As I click happily through the dialogue, the sunflower tells me that I am in a place where everyone shares ‘LOVE’. I warily approach the sunflower, and as it beams at me I feel at ease. ASIA CHOUDHRY reviews the 2015 video game Undertale.
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