important psa for anyone intending on playing Undertale

lustfuldemoness:

whowasphoone:

sinbpd:

If you have any psychotic symptoms or problems with paranoia, please be very very careful when playing this game.

it affects different parts of your desktop at one point and also brings up things from deleted save files on occasion.

it’s an amazing game, but playing it can easily lead to panic attacks or psychotic episodes. if you don’t want to play it but want to know what happens, there are a variety of play throughs of the different routes on YouTube.

please stay safe and take care of yourselves!

theres also jumpscares and deliberate gaslighting that breaks the fourth wall a bit please spread this stuff more, literally like no one is talking about this and i nearly walked into a situation that would have been very bad for me

This post is really really grossly unrepresentative of the actual content and it’s also SUPER vague, which is really really unhelpful, so

Yes, the game remembers what you have done in previous save files and calls your actions to attention. That includes killing major bosses, dying to bosses, seeing particular lines of dialogue, etc. It will not lie to you about what it claims you have done. Your actions, whether they were on your current save file or not, are remembered and called to attention by some characters, but the game doesn’t try to question your sanity or memory. 

The game does not “affect different parts of your desktop” at any point, I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean. The game force-closes its own window at certain points. That is all this game is capable of doing. The demo changed the game’s manual when you got certain endings, but that functionality is no longer present in Game Maker. There is, however, “glitch horror” within the game itself, wherein the game intentionally acts as if it has encountered an error. These are rare and only occur in the very late-game.

There is one major jumpscare in the game and it is present at the absolute conclusion of the very worst ending of the game. If you do not go for that ending (and I should emphasize you cannot get that ending by mistake), you will not see that jumpscare. Otherwise there are minor “unexpected” occurrences, which do not contain a loud noise or sudden, flashing image.

There’s also a hefty amount of body horror in the late-game of various runs. The best ending, and the neutral ending, both contain this. One boss has photorealistic eyes on its body. Several late-game encounters in a hidden area contain unnerving enemies, with story elements of body horror behind them

And finally, this game has a few potential epilepsy-inducing points: an early puzzle wherein tiles very rapidly change colors (you can close your eyes for this, it is a cutscene that’s played for laughs), and the final boss, which contains a background of “flowing” images, which change color rapidly.