SPOILERS AHEAD
Deltarune was such a special game for me, Toby fox always managed to capture lightning in a bottle time and time again; be it the music, the characters, the story, or even the game play. Deltarune would have been my top three favorite games of all time. I like Detarune on its surface, and I LOVE when its gets dark and scary. Chapter three was my favorite chapter because I loved the characters and the tragedy of them, and I loved the darkness underneath. Even if Chapter three wasn't a very lore focused chapter, it was still a great play and will always stick with me.
However,
After playing chapter 4 I was never more hyped and excited for a game's release ever! After playing chapter 5 I can safely say that I have never been more disappointed.
Chapter five of Deltarune had a lot of things it was building up to: The Festival, the Bunker, Who or what is the Knight, How will Side B Continue, How will Toby top his musical masterpieces from the previous chapters. and many many many more things, and I have to say I was let down on pretty much every one of those. Now, obviously the game doesn't end at chapter 5 so some, even most of these things can't be delivered in a single chapter and if they were then the story would have suffered for it.
But almost NONE of these where delivered.
The festival had almost NO significance and was exclusively optional cutscenes, not ONE minigame not ONE change from interactions you have had in the past relating to the festival. There was not even a visual cutscene for the Ferris wheel which was one of the MOST TALKED ABOUT EVENTS IN THE GAME OTHER THAN THE ROARING. The only thing of significance that happened was after the end of the light world sections which DOES NOT EVEN TAKE PLACE IN OR BECAUSE OF THE FESTIVAL.
The dark world was beyond disappointing. When it was revealed it was gonna be Japan themed I was a little disappointed but thought "Toby can take over saturated and frankly dry concepts and make them fresh, he had done it before he can certainly do it again!" he did not.
The dark world was supposed to be a callback to chapter 1's dark world... and the first third WAS just the chapter 1 dark world but pink. In this dark world we are introduced to seven flowers that are like the human souls from undertale +flowey. we are first introduced to flowery who while had voice acted voice lines, that's about the only memorable or interesting trait about him, he acts as a Mary-sue parody while also being mildly endearing at some points. Through the chapter we are introduced to six other major flower characters which for a rundown are.
Aqua: your quirky "go commit crimes" millennial comic character
Purple/Seth: Birdly but worse (and you cant even kill them when you get fed up with them)
Yellow: Pretty much the fandom Flanderization of Papyrus where he is just completely stupid and incompetent, but has the decency to try and kill himself (although the game unfortunately doesn't let you let him go through)
Green: Not much of a character besides chill dude that everyone likes. she is the least terrible
Orange: I honestly forget they exist whenever I try to remember this chapter, if you remove her from the game nothing changes
Blue: its the "love always wins" character trope and that's it, this is the flower that gets the least screen time but also doesn't really have anything going for him to justify more
And yes the ALL have gimmick fights, and yes you HAVE to do stuff for them or else they just heal forever and eventually kill you, That's actually a habit that Toby has that becomes increasingly worse, Where you cannot kill the most annoying characters. and I get that this isn't undertale but I really hate putting up with all these insufferable freaks and being nice all the time and having them walk all over me. No I don want to give a stranger the deed to my house to make them feel better. Fortunately at the end of this chapter Asgore (who has managed to keep these flowers alive for 20 years when they were only supposed to live one day) will no longer be able to care for them since he is kidnapped so maybe all the flowers will die by chapter 6, this would curb my anger having to interact with this chumps
The final boss is flowery and all the other flowers and of course you can't fight him because he is actually really weak but your party members learned to heal just so you can't shove his arms down his throat, and heal him whenever he gets low. Fortunately he is (hopefully) Mortally wounded by the Knight since flowery can't survive a real fight
Only the final boss track was memorable in a good way, there is another track I remember because of the pure hatred it awakens in me whenever I think of it but we will get to that later. But I was really disappointing in this ost and it will be the first Toby Fox Album I will not go out of my way to listen to.
THE SECRET BOSS
now at this point in the chapter I am going "man I have been miserable this whole chapter, but I love the secret bosses so maybe this one will fix everything, Maybe the soundtrack will blow everything out o the water, maybe it will be an interesting character!
It was quite the opposite
the second I SAW mew mew I sighed. I never cared about the mad dummy as a character, and the secret boss fight for the Nintendo switch with the character never really interested me, frankly I didn't think they where interesting enough to be the second character in undertale with TWO boss fights (the other being flowey). I will tell you mew mew DOES NOT DESERVE ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD, That insufferable little anal gland does not deserve that hate I feel towards her strictly because she does not deserve a thought to be made about her. She is incredibly unlikable so naturally you cant beat her into a pulp because annoying characters can't die in this game, her theme is TERRIBLE! Every vocaloid song sounds exactly the same, I hate vocoliod and I HATE HATE HATE vocoloid fans cause they always talk about how cool the vocoloid character is but never say why, and also almost every one I have met was also really racist for some reason?
anyway this was the first secret boss I was bored to fight, I hated mew mew on a conceptual level, I really don't like sailor moon type characters but this one was exceptionally bad. Her attack patterns are boring and have wayy too much going on in them, then there is a stupid dating section with all this garabge I DONT WANT TO DATE YOU I WANT TO CUT YOU INTO SMALL PIECES AND BURY THEM IN TOBY FOX'S BACKYARD OVER THE COURSE OF EIGHT YEARS! This fight uses Muffet's purple soul mode which was famously unpopular and expands it slightly but not really.
Of course once you finish fighting this fop (real word btw) you don't even get an item noooooo, you get access to this secret room where the flowers from earlier say it's their "secret room" where they will give you weapons and armor based on them for these stupid pink coins which are hidden around the chapter.
At this point when I got here I was so sick of every character in this chapter and the dark world that I didn't even bother looking through the items, I don't need them, I don't want your trash! I HATE the soil your roots inhabit!
and then I fight the boss and oh no Asgore didn't care about them either, maybe they should try not to be so full of themselves next time, Oh no flowery got cut in half! uh oh looks like he might survive! lets call the Knight back over so they can get a few more licks in just to make sure he dies, then all the other flowers can mourn them as they starve to death since they wont get watered!!!!!!!
When chapter 4 came out I had nothing but hype and excitement, but after chapter 5 came out I was more disappointing then ever before, not just cause it was a terrible chapter, but because it now will always be a part of deltarune forever. and honestly I don't care about the game anymore. I don't care if chapter 6 re next year or in a thousand,
