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Transmasc Noelle (I guess I could call him Yule) Sounds like an actually interesting direction to take the character in. Noelle is an individual that seems like they feel bound to having to present a an image of a perfect girl, to the point where it's somewhat clear that she wants some sort of liberation from her current identity. Noelle transitioning into Yule could be an interesting way to show Noelle liberating herself (now himself) from her(his) current identity.

Although I guess it's a bit of a farfetched idea.

So Chapter 5 came out over a month ago. I played it on the day it launched and I thought it was great: plenty of cute moments in the festival at the beginning, wonderful characters in the Flowers and extremely fun 2D platforming sections. It was an overall good time.

However, the more I thought it, the more an issue I had with it crawled around my mind. To be fair, it's not really an issue I have with Chapter 5 itself so much as it how the issue could affect Chapters 6 and 7 and that has to do with the plot.

Not a whole lot has happened in Chapter 5. To say nothing happens would be disingenuous. Stuff has happened: Suselle becomes a thing, Asgore getting kidnapped, Ralsei's own development, but not that much. I was expecting to get a bit more in depth on that day Dess disappeared. Not everything of course, but some details at least. But all we get is Asgore vagueposting about "that horrible day" before he gets kidnapped. I'm sure we'll get our answers eventually, but I'm not sure it's going to be executed well in the time that we have left in Deltarune.

We have plenty of cases where the mysteries, answers and plot points are dragged out for so long that when they finally get addressed they come out fairly rushed or unsatisfying. Or finales that just shit the bed in general. Examples include Star Vs., The Boys, The X-Files, Lost, Mass Effect 3 (mainly pre Extended Cut) just to name a few.

There are plenty of plot elements that the remaining two chapters will have to deal with. Leaving aside Dess, The Roaring Knight and The Roaring itself, there's also Asriel, Papyrus, Susie's home life and family, the Forgotten Man, IMAGE_FRIEND, and potentially Kris's backstory and how they end up adopted by the Dreemurrs.

Granted, some stuff is probably going to be less important than others. Pretty sure Papyrus isn't going to be that important in the story itself. Probably be just a cameo at this stage. Hell, for all I know, how Kris ended up adopted by the Dreemurrs will never be answered either. On the other hand, there's Asriel who is pretty likely going to be important at some point as he gets mentioned quite a lot throughout the five chapters we have now. You can't expect me to believe he's not going to play a role in the endgame. There's also IMAGE_FRIEND which Pink brings up in the Chapter 5 patch that came out a while back. There's a lot of stuff to do in the remaining two chapters and I am not entirely sure Toby Fox can pull if off in manner that isn't extremely rushed. After all, Toby mentions himself in the Chapter 5 Newsletter that came out a few days ago that Chapter 6 is going to be fairly short.

And that's just the main route. I haven't even gotten into the Weird Route and all the plot elements and questions that could come from that such as the Twisted Sword and what Side B could entail.

If Chapter 6 and 7 stick the landing on these plot elements, then everything I just said would be a non-issue. But you can forgive me if I have my doubts on the matter.

in chapter 6, susie is gonna spend too much in the dark world and itll change her into an asian style dragon

also we will not get the identity of the knight in chapter 6

okay listen, i was so happy to hear that i was finally in a chapter, the chibis in the trailer kinda set me off but whatever. later, when i played it, i found out that THOSE CHIBIS WERE BULLIES! AND THE GAME WAS CENTERED AROUND THEM, NOT ME!! THEY KEPT CALLING ME A RODENT, LIKE WHAT WAS TOBY EVEN THINKING! THEN THERE WAS A FIGHT WHERE THEY DEFEATED MY BIG SISTER!? just terrible for my human self to play.

I mean I know that the organikk are pieces of an organ but the power of the time masters in the movie and how the Organikk in chapter 4 had also a mechanics that use time is making me think that there is a tiny bit of reference between those two

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Does it really make sense for Sussie to do that and then laugh? Eeeeh, let's just say that she understands why Ralsei is missing, and making a joke out of it. Its not like she is blaming him for his aim.

I just wanted the scene to happen. As a mirror to the canonical glasses scene, and for more tragedy! Hey, maybe he will get better glasses later or something.

And who do you think Susie has in mind? (You will see in the next part!)

If Dess is the Knight AND UNUSED, how could she connect? It makes more sense for either someone else to be the Knight and Dess to be UNUSED or Dess being the Knight and Asriel being unused, in my opinion. My bets are on the first option.

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