Stardust Reverie Collection

i love media that can so effortlessly shift in tone without losing its identity at all. sonic adventure 2 starts with a joyous skateboard ride through san francisco and ends with a monster. thinking about them next to each other it’s unbelievable that this is the same game and yet it undeniably IS. undertale in any of its routes has strong contenders for the most emotional and memorable final bosses in video games and all for completely different reasons and every single one of them fits the game like a glove. let alone the routes themselves, the way the game invites you to be touched by a heartfelt story about grief and moving on, or break the narrative and deflie its corpse, puppeting it and making it dance in dust, with nobody to grieve for it in the end but yourself. deltarune’s snowgrave route is probably the shining example of this, being something so incredibly jarring and yet so very true to everything deltarune is that it completely sticks the landing with invoking the nostalgic fear of that “creepypasta” feeling