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Ork of Fiction posted:That stuff was novel, but not what made it popular so much as it speaking to a time and a place in a way that nothing before really has be able to do with any authenticity. I've called it the Clerks of video games before, and I stick by it. It's an exemplary freshman work from an independent artist that captured something human about its audience as well as its subjects. The Clerks comparison is totally accurate in so far as speaking to a specific time and place, but it's a lot more insular than Clerks IMO and probably won't have as lasting a legacy. You can still show Clerks to most people and they'll be entertained by it, but Undertale is so fanatically in-joke-y that it's hard to explain any of the jokes or even the general concept of it unless you specifically come from the background those jokes and that concept came out of. Saving, doing a thing and then reloading to see what happens if you do the opposite of that thing isn't something normal people do when they play a normal videogame, and whatever gotcha value it has is lost on them. Slowbeef did a stream where his wife played the game and she hated it exactly because of all the things like that.
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