i knew from the first sentence this would be my kind of thread >:D

i played this route right after True Pacifist, personally -- i played the game in the typical "neutral first, pacifist second, kill-everyone third" [sorry i don't want to refer to it as 'genocide' because i thought toby told us to not call it that -- or did he go back on that? wondered about this specific point for a couple years now] so what interests me is that you went into this route knowing it would suck. i went into the route not knowing what to expect at all in terms of difficulty or tedium [outside of the reputation of the Sans fight -- i didn't even know about Undyne]

what kept me going, personally, was a deep desire to see how the world would change from my actions and how far the story was willing to go. in that regard i was immensely satisfied [aside from, admittedly, wanting way more from mettaton], even if the interactions themselves made me feel bad for what i was doing, lmao. it was such a hideously complicated set of emotions but i still loved it, if that make sense at all.

i uh... wasn't able to actually beat sans, though. yet another game where i stopped at the final boss because i'm not good enough at videos game, i only watched what i didn't get to play myself a few weeks ago. kinda held off in case i wanted to give sans a try again, but i can't do that any more without replaying the entire route because i lost the hard drive the save was on.

unlike True Pacifist, which is an ending i like experiencing over & over again [like a good movie], i have had no desire to return to the kill-everyone route since my initial playthrough. like, i still love the route, and it isn't necessarily about not wanting to experience the grinding again. if i were to guess, i probably feel that way because i want to avoid the guilt of... killing everyone again, lmfao

but it's so fascinating that the promise of the hard boss fight really gets people picking up this entire-ass route. in a way, it even got me, because i wanted to know what kind of dialogue came before & after such a fight -- i knew sans' character, i knew he wasn't going to fight even if pushed, so shit had to get real and i wanted to know the deets. i'm such a nosy fuck about fictional characters