Undertale

Undertale (stylized as UNDERTALE) is a role-playing game developed and published by indie developer Toby Fox.

Why It Fills You With DETERMINATION

 * 1) The game has a unique concept where you can choose to spare enemies instead of killing them, which is actually heavily encouraged. The game is even referred to as "the friendly RPG where nobody has to die."
 * 2) The combat system also has you dodging enemy attacks in a manner reminiscent of top-down shooters.
 * 3) Decent plot, which is affected by the choices you make and whether you kill some enemies, all enemies, or none at all. The three possible routes you can take are referred to as Neutral, True Pacifist, and Genocide respectively.
 * 4) * While those three routes are the most popular, there are also many other endings as well. If you kill every boss monster but spare the normal ones, you get a different ending. If you kill every monster but spare the boss ones, you get a different ending. If you kill everyone except Jerry you get a different ending. Unlike other RPGs, you're actions matter and have consequences, so even though the game is pretty short, it's infinitely re-playable, and that's not even getting into the secret special FUN value events.
 * 5) * Like Spec Ops: The Line, the game does a good job in calling out the players' actions regarding the route they're going for, especially the Genocide route.
 * 6) Awesome character designs.
 * 7) The game is famous for its incredibly good morals.
 * 8) In the pacifist route, the main protagonist Frisk, despite her/his lack of characterization, is a prime example of a role model.
 * 9) Excellent soundtrack. This is only natural, as Toby Fox has composed for other projects, such as his EarthBound Halloween Hack (which the song MEGALOVANIA was originally composed for) and Homestuck.
 * 10) * The soundtrack makes great use of leitmotifs, several tracks of the game share the same melody which helps enhance moments of the game, for example: the True Pacifist final boss' theme being a remix of the tutorial. It's just so thematically brilliant!
 * 11) It has numerous memorable and endearing characters, and the game allows the player to spend time with and get to know and grow attached to them. Examples include Toriel, Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys, Mettaton, Flowey, and more. Even the narrator of the game is a character with many layers.
 * 12) * Undyne, Sans, and Papyrus both provide a good amount of humor, especially since you can call them in most of the game's areas and have them provide backstory or a funny comment.
 * 13) * The characters aren't just funny memes, but they are also complex. They have lives, desires, and ambitions. Again, the game allows the player to spend time with and get to know and grow attached to them. They're not just bosses to fight, but characters you care about, which makes it so when you get curious and attempt a Genocide Route, their deaths become all the more impactful. Heck, their last moments in the Genocide Route are arguably them at their best! Papyrus still believing in the player, Undyne the Undying defying death to strike you down, and of course, Sans literally using karmic retribution to penance the player for all the sins they've committed up to that point.
 * 14) The PS4 and Vita versions include a "Dog Shrine" where you can donate in-game money to earn Trophies and add cosmetic decorations. In the Nintendo Switch version, the shrine(now ruined) is where you have access to the door that leads to Mad Mew Mew.
 * 15) The story goes into serious issues like anxiety, depression of losing a loved one, and more.
 * 16) There is a lot of secrets and Easter eggs throughout the game, especially the "Sans's room" secret where you encounter Sans in the judgment hall, and if you reload multiple times, he will give you a key to his room.
 * 17) Speaking of which, there are even physical Easter eggs. Inside, the plushies contain objects in theme with the characters (Sans has blood, Temmie has Temmie Flakes, Napstablook has a ghost sandwich, and Toriel has a white heart) which is not only a cool concept but also creative and clever.
 * 18) Really emotional moments.
 * 19) The Nintendo Switch version adds a secret mini-boss called "Mad Mew Mew", it comes with Nintendo Switch controls too.
 * 20) The subplot regarding the secret character Dr. Wing Dings Gaster (W.D. Gaster for short) is one of the darkest and most complex aspects of the universe of Undertale.
 * 21) *Dr. W.D. Gaster used to be king Asgore's royal scientist and is attributed to inventing the powerful Core in Hotland. There are a variety of different stories explaining what happened to him, but in the end the truth is very ambiguous and far from precise, but all we know is that he disappeared from the main dimension and timeline where Undertale takes place. All hints depicting his existence can be found from messing with reality and encounter out of this world individuals known as 'Gaster Followers' whose physical appearances are characterized by a pale gray tone and resemblance to other characters and questionable actions they've done.
 * 22) *Gaster's story is often summarized as a man who either got desintegrated and his body was scattered around the universe as evinced by a Gaster Follower who claims to be holding "a piece of him", or a man who was transported out of his reality thanks to a failed experiment. This is implied by many, many subtle references in Deltarune, a parallel universe to Undertale in which Gaster's character and/or actions play a much bigger role.
 * 23) **The scattered around pieces is referenced multiple times throughout both games and in multiple shapes and thoughts, with the first example that comes to mind being Gaster's Theme, a leitmotif that repeats itself in an enormous variety of tracks and areas from both games. Backed up by the closest thing to direct encounters with him, these being the Mystery Man from a super-secret room who shares the same audio track as the previously mentioned Follower (audio that is in fact a sped up version of Gaster's Theme), and the redacted individual who speaks in Wing Dings from a secret room whose exit always redirects you to the only room where you can listen to the complete Gaster's Theme.
 * 24) *The dilemma of Gaster coming from another world is further supported with the characters of Jevil and Spamton from Deltarune, who are written from the same concept but with a slightly different execution of a person that met a man who changed their life. Both Jevil and Spamton share the role of secret bosses in their chapters (keep in mind they share a unique leitmotif in their songs) and very few people remember or knew them well enough to tell their story and explain how mad and out of this world their dialogues and looks are.
 * 25) *Gaster's subplot is pushed to the background and never mentioned publicly as a part of the game, or better yet, the universe of Undertale unless the player goes on the quest to discover who he is and what happened to him, going as far as the end of the world, or multiple worlds, to get a hint of the man that was sucked out of his world, scattered across time and space and ultimately forgotten by the people he knew (with that one exception).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It's shorter than most other RPGs, such as Final Fantasy, Tales, or Mario & Luigi, though this is intentional as Toby Fox wanted to make the game feel like a movie.
 * 2) Movement speed in the overworld is rather slow, and a run feature is only available via debug mode.
 * 3) The Genocide Route is tedious as you need to run in circles for very long just to kill all the monsters in an area.

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Trivia

 * Sans has become an internet meme due to his difficult battle, his personality and his theme song, Megalovania.
 * Sans would also appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a Mii costume.
 * Similar with Cuphead, this include a song, which in this case is Megalovania.
 * In each console version of the game, there is something different in the room under Papyrus' sink.
 * The PlayStation versions has the Dog Shrine.
 * The Nintendo Switch has the boss fight vs. Mad Mew Mew.
 * The Xbox versions has the Dog Casino.