My Honest Thoughts on Deltarune Chapter 5.
>!I completed it on the the day it released, but I have yet to get the egg or fight the secret boss, but I have watched walkthroughs of the secret boss and the weird route content. !<
>!Deltarune Chapter 5 was honestly a huge letdown, and I don't think I've ever been more disappointed by a piece of upcoming media I was looking forward to in my life. !<
>!The festival was very underwhelming. The comedic and silly tone of the chapter was very jarring after the darker tonal shift that the end of chapter 3 and chapter 4 established. It was really hard for me to actually care about the flower people and it's just too many new characters at once and I don't like their designs or how they were written. Ralsei's character arc and growth was executed so poorly and he felt flanderized. Carol was just written out of the chapter entirely when I was anticipating her to play a huge role in the festival and Susie and Noelle would have to deal with her trying to separate them and stand up against her. There were quite a few scenes that felt like they were written by a fanfiction writer like the hot spring moment with Kris and Ralsei for example. Asgore hardly got to do much of anything in this chapter, and we don't get to learn much at all about what exactly it was that he felt responsible for. We didn't get to learn anything about what Kris, Carol, and possibly also Asgore are conspiring. The only interesting things that happen in this chapter are that Asgore is abducted by the Knight, they get another shelter code, and the weird route content. There's probably more issues that I'm not remembering, but those are the big ones. !<
>!I know this is really negative, but I will say that the platforming mechanic was kind of cool, and Flowery's introduction sequence that was produced by an actual Japanese studio was a huge surprise and shock and was really cool, but too bad I didn't really like him that much as a character.!<