9/9

I'm just gonna add this here to address whole "That's just what normal stories do!" arguments. --- There's usually arcs and set-up that get presented and directly engaged/payed off through the story, usually being able to stand on its own terms and not even needed to be presented as mysterious. And the massive payoffs around the later are usually mentally to recontextualized what was already sufficiently experienced and known rather just starting to lighty tap into certain things that's been held off for hours. The problem is that Deltarune doesn't have sufficient enough scenarios to stand on its one terms for so much of the game, so the point when lack of information is built into the core of Deltarune. At this point, it effectively neutered any character from "justifying" any agency to even ask questions. It usually does much of nothing with the concept of withholding information Itself. Which is usually what most other stories do revolving around mysteries and lack of information. Undertale was able to do just fine because it sufficiently supplemented the journey itself with so much more information and isolated experiences that stand on their own terms without needing future information, and have immediate significance within their own contexts. The later info drop in New Home serves as the perfect recontextualization- it was neither expected nor needed, but it enhanced your understanding of what was already established, and this fact was used directly after, with you literally facing off against Asgore with this new information. Also, Deltarune doing this partly from the perspective of some people does not count, in case someone wants to say that Deltarune also does this. The point is that Deltarune disproportionately relies on set-up and not enough on individualizing the moment-to-moment micro set-ups and payoffs in arcs and scenarios within their own isolated context, which is not done in a vacuum, unlike most gags in the Dark Worlds. That's really all.

This is just an observation I've noticed when the discourse kept showing up. This high-ground of validity and objectively the aggressors preceive to have is a sham. In reality they're actually all retarded and too tranced in their circle jerk to really know nor care about it.