i've been wanting to boot up undertale yellow for a while cause i've like. heard all sorts of good things about the game and it has cute critters and it's. VERY undertale that game. its just.
i sort of have an allergy to prequels? and its not a spoilers thing. i LOVE spoilers, i look things up all the time before i engage with them because i kind of just enjoy experiencing stuff more than i care about being surprised or whatever.
i think i do this thing where when i think about a prequel i get stuck thinking about how how in the grand scheme of things a prequel is like. "meaningless" because of the way it's pretty much guaranteed to like. lead up to the start of the actual game? but without any real impact of its own besides like. what the writing has done to steer the narrative inline with how the story has to end to lead into the actual story?
i hate that i feel this way about that cause like... WOW it just feels like im just mad about spoilers with extra steps but i dunno! like. when i think about undertale in the future, even if yellow was an official product or something like. it's not like i'd be seeing marlet or starlow or ceroba you know? like the yellow soul isn't going to jump out and say "wow how are my friends doing," and its not really like i want that from a story either. like its just as bad when the prequel is too busy pointing out WHOA ITS THE THING FROM THE ORIGINAL THING!!! like. it's probably important for a new story or game to explore new stories or new concepts or whatever its just it feels bad when i KNOW that those new ideas are like. meaningless? like they are either fated to die, die off screen, or just, mysteriously not come up. i know you can just rationalize it as "they were just doing something else, what to you want," but. i dunno for some reason i cant trick myself on this specific dumb thing
