But here, enemy attacks are actually short action sequences.
The battle screen resembles the NES Dragon Quest games, with a minimalist black background and a first-person view of a flat plane. Instead of the usual sequence where an enemy makes and attack and either hits or misses you, you actually have to physically dodge attacks. The amazing parts of fights, though, is actually what happens when the enemy attacks you. Though it features a timing-based hit system similar to Shadow Hearts or Legend of Dragoon, playing Undertale in this way makes it functionally identical to almost every other JRPG on the market, albeit a modest-looking, well-crafted one. Killing them nets you experience and will eventually increase your level, which in turn makes killing monsters easier and you more resilient. Much like the aforementioned JRPG feedback cycle, you fight in random encounters against monsters using weapons you find or buy along the way. You play as a child who fell into a realm of monsters sealed away from the human world, and your goal is to find your way out. Though strategy is involved in the battles themselves, pure numbers are often prioritized, leading to the practice of level grinding to be able to progress.Ībove: Sometimes you’ll have to get up close and personal with monsters. Defeating enemies gain you experience, which increases your level and makes you more powerful, paving the way to let you get further in the game and survive in more difficult areas. Japanese role-playing games, for instance, use a feedback loop that treat battles as a stepping stone towards progress. If you want someone to feel like they’re doing well, you reward them somehow. As certain types of feedback became codified in certain types of games, genre conventions were born, establishing a baseline for how these games are designed. Games live and die based on the feedback they give - and don’t give - the player. It’s partially the fault of feedback designed into the game to manipulate the player into doing certain things. You can see everything there is to see in a game, morally questionable or no. After all, it’s just a game, right? You can do what you want. Sometimes games are like this, too, but it’s hard to care as much about pretend consequences. In life, you live with the consequences of your actions.
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