Games have taught us to fight, to follow orders and get the job done, because if we do, we’ll be rewarded in some way. Fewer games have taught us to reflect on what we’re doing, and why. We can reflect on our own, of course — that’s a lot of […]
Undertale
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Trigger Warning: This article contains descriptions of suicide attempts and depressive episodes. This article contains spoilers for Undertale’s Neutral and True Pacifist Route. — There’s a kid sitting on the roof of a house. They’re only two stories up, but they think they’re high enough. They’ve been up there for […]
I set the controller down and looked at my computer screen. Up to this point in Undertale, there had been hints that the character –the one I named Chara–was referred to with neutral pronouns. But I didn’t think it would carry. And yet, here we were. A direct character interaction. […]
Undertale. Whoa. I started playing only for the same reason a professor reads a book before assigning it: You need to know before you teach, and something about preparation. I’d heard and read that Undertale (tobyfox) is one of the more popular Steam games right now, and rightly so: It’s pretty much a […]