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.
Berdley is roleplaying in what he perceives as a dream world and then get come uppance for it by being controlled by Queen and you have to save him. Queen is pretty much always in control of Noelle after she gets captured.
Berdley also creates the mecha used to fight giga queen, so he is also key in saving Noelle as much as aiding in her capture.
The Susie and lancer fight against Kris and ralsei in chapter 1 can be lost and doesnt result in a game over. Susie attacking lancer is her realizing how her violence affects others and herself.