Post #1918677
2026-04-16 02:10 UTC
it keeps coming back to my arch nemesis: aesthetics. Deltarune and Digital Circus rely so much on nostalgic aesthetics, lumped it with lore and mystery, that they feel ripe for the toxicity I describe.
Celeste has a certain level of nostalgia but then quickly breaks from it. Disco Elysium goes full avante-garde with its presentation at the earliest convenience.
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@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems 2026-04-16 20:39
I'm just haunted by Jacksepticeye (popular youtuber), who really loved Undertale, utterly hating the experience of playing Deltarune, where he outright said "I don't want to see all this stuff, I just want to get to the LORE" while skipping through everything that might have been interesting to him.