062: Undertale

Left Behind Game Club: A Video Game Podcast

We go on some weird dates in Undertale.

Developer: Toby Fox | Publisher: Toby Fox | Release Date: September 15, 2015

Jacob and Travis question their morality, flirt with mommies, go down to bullet hell and discover who’s the better person (it’s not Jacob).

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Player: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

Special Guest: Travis Colenutt (@TravisColenutt)

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Additional music this week:

• Cold open music: Undertale OST 001 – Once Upon a Time by Toby Fox
• Credits music: Hopes and Dreams / Save the World (Undertale) – GaMetal Remix by GaMetal

Show Notes (spoilers):

• 1:40 Two warnings before we start the show (aka reverse marketing)
• 2:45 The setup of Undertale
• 3:45 Meeting Flowey and how the game’s battle system works
• 5:40 Meeting Toriel and the game’s overworld
• 12:50 Your final Undertale spoiler warning
• 13:00 Jacob is a bad man; an introduction to the game’s morality system
• 16:15 Shout-outs to our friends at Video Game Rations (check out their new Undertale podcast & website)
• 17:20 We talked about the 93 different permutations of the game’s ending (Undertale’s endings in a flowchart)
• 19:30 Is Jacob more of a Sans or Papyrus (shout-out Inspector Gadget)?
• 24:45 The Papyrus fight
• 28:25 Jacob and Travis’ date with Papyrus (shout-out to Mass Effect)
• 34:00 Jacob = Mettaton + Papyrus & Travis = Alphys + Sans
• 34:35 Undyne and the Monster Child (and “Toby says no”)
• 37:20 The music of Undertale
• 38:20 The enemy variety in Undertale
• 42:05 Dating Undyne
• 44:50 The Hotlands, Mettaton and Alphys
• 50:45 The Mettaton-Alphys twist
• 51:40 Alphys is like a 2007-era Facebook user
• 53:00 Cool, but what is it like to play Undertale?
• 54:40 The Mettaton fight
• 58:40 Asgore
• 59:20 Explaining the game’s initial story
• 1:02:20 The final Sans interaction and the LV/EXP revelation
• 1:04:50 The Asgore fight
• 1:06:40 Explaining the differences between weapons
• 1:09:15 Photoshop Flowey aka Omega Flowey, God Flowey or Flowey X
• 1:12:00 Jacob deleted his Switch save… thank you Flowey’s Time Machine
• 1:15:30 Going back to romance Alphys
• 1:17:50 Deep lore about Flowey and determination
• 1:20:30 Back to the True Pacifist ending
• 1:26:00 The Genocide ending (shoutout to Nitro Rad’s Undertale Story Explainer)
• 1:29:00 The choice that gave Jacob legitimate goosebumps, the consequences of this choice and Sans
• 1:32:40 Jumping into YouTube videos (like Game Theory’s Who is W.D. Gaster?)
• 1:34:10 Jacob brings it back to Professional Wrestling with Kenny Omega’s Wrestle Kingdom 13 en trance (Kenny’s Quest)
• 1:35:55 Our final thoughts and Deltarune