#maybe if i finish my secret santa gift tomorrow early i'll hold another undertale yellow stream where i start the neutral route

[clownkiwi]

tldr: this game is amazing from a visual and auditory standpoint!!! i really love the animation and details they put into this game, it was clearly a work of love and passion.

but the 2nd half of the pacifist run kinda rubs me off the wrong way... (explanation down below, warning!!! there will be spoilers)

like i said, i really enjoyed what the first half had to offer in my first stream & even first half of the second stream!!! i knew this was a prequel, i was ready to see what happened to the sixth human before they became a soul. i knew clover wasnt gonna live. i dont have a problem with the ending, or even the beginning. the intro really subverted my expectations, and i really loved the monster encounter bosses i ran into in the ruins & snowdin

and i was SO ready for cowboy times in the dunes!!! the dunes was a totally new place, i wanted to see how this game would diverge from undertale!!!!

and the first half of the dunes was really great!!! i loved the monster encounters, i loved the different obstacles set in your way (like the sandstorm or the mines)

thats where my problems are starting to lie though.... the monster encounters were becoming fewer and fewer as i went through the dunes, save for the mid boss or boss encounters. and those are great and fun and different, truly. but by the time i made it to the wild east, things were slowing down...

and like. i liked the feisty five & starlo, i understand why people love him. but the only encounters i ever had during that time that wasnt related to the test was the shooting portion, that time i fought the feisty four and starlo himself. i figured i wouldve had like a small fight with the bandit that was running out besides that train section, or there wouldve been more monster encounters between the oasis valley & the wild east. but there really werent as much as i remembered!!!

and then steamworks. i mostly liked steamworks. again, very different from hotland and very different area, and i was so excited to see all the new bots to encounter!!!

besides axis & gardener, there were only like. three different robot enemies. and they were very sparse. i thought i wouldve run into them more oftenly since its a shut down facility full of malfunctioning robots like axis & gardener, but i guess they didnt make as much robots in the robot factory???

and then came tonights stream. i was prepared for it to be the final stream for the pacifist route. i didnt expect how quickly things would pass by???

like, between axis & ceroba, there were no encounters. no obstacles. i expected like some stronger enemy variations to appear in hotlands or even the new home capital city, but there were nothing!!!

at least in undertale's pacifist route, they added stronger monster variants at the core & even that one section before meeting asgore where all the monsters would congratulate & encourage you for asgore's encounter. but here??? nothing!! there weren't many encounters in the way between wild east & oasis valley. in hotland, i didnt expect there to be Too Many monster encounters, but in new home??? i expected. something before the final encounter with ceroba. but nothing!!! maybe i had to explore it more, but the game wanted me to follow and find ceroba. so there were just. areas and Areas And Areas And Areas with nothing but saves & plot!!!

like, you couldnt add in One Extra Monster Encounter??? Maybe Even Two In Between Axis & Ceroba??? Really???

maybe i gotta play through the neutral & revenge routes to get more encounters out of this game, i'm scrolling through the wiki & i found out that there Were more monster encounters i missed!! either because they have a very high encounter rate, were straight up secret extra bosses, or could only appear in the other routes. but ig i expected there to be more varied monster encounters in the second half of the pacifist route.

the monster encounters in the dark ruins & snowdin were That Good and Memorable, ig i expected there'd be more in the dunes & steamworks. but ig there wasnt??? and that kinda disappointed me

hm, i think the more i sit down and stew on this, i think undertale yellow is starting to lose me...