Imagine expecting the guy who wrote an mpreg Homestuck song to have writing that's 100% serious all the time when his games have never been that.
I know it's probably because I'm older than the average vocal Deltarune fan, but it's so funny how opposite I feel about Deltarune when I see takes like this.
I actually prefer the lighthearted parts over the darker parts. I am so, so burnt out on the barrage of self-serious writing flooding the media landscape at the moment. Not everything has to be some deep humorless mysterybox about trauma 100% of the time. I mean, yeah, the game obviously has some pretty serious story elements but if it was only that it would be god awful. The humor balances it out.
If anything, the world needs this 2010s tumblr ass silliness at the moment and I find it to be a breath of fresh air against how performatively mature and dark a lot of writing for stuff is at the moment.
I will never not find it funny when someone goes on a hate-bender about how the thing they're a fan of personally betrayed them because it wasn't quite what they expected.
Flashbacks to the My Little Pony fandom and how some people would write entire novels complaining about how this or that episode permanently ruined the show's core / the worldbuilding / their favorite character.
It's wild but that's nerd culture for you. It's pretty funny that people seem to think the story should cater to their exact desires as if they're ordering a cheeseburger when the writer has been pretty clear from the start that the whole thing is story he's had in his head for a over a decade and is pretty much just doing what he wants because he can