Then Flowey, Undertale’s chaotic evil, fourth wall-breaking flower, tore into me for having the gall to abuse the power of the save state.
Dialogue had changed to reflect that I’d seen her die. So I restarted without saving, as I would in any other game when I needed a do-over.
But I made a mistake: I accidentally killed a monster in the beginning. For my first playthrough I took a pacifist approach, being as kind and merciful as possible as I searched for a way back to the surface. As a lone human fallen into an underground world that serves as a prison for monsters, I had my journey laid out for me, as most RPG protagonists do.
