Hey! Are you a DeltaRune fan with Opinions on what December "Dess" Holiday is/was like?

Do you have a strong image of what she looked like in your mind? Do you ramble about her in posts, Discord servers, or your friends' DMs? Do you have the time and level of brainrot to fill out a 5-section survey with your thoughts about her?

If so, I have something for you:

I was inspired earlier this week to put together a survey for people to share their takes on Dess, partly out of pure curiosity and wanting to learn about more people's versions of her, partly out of an interest in having some data to draw current trends from, and partly to look back on once chapters 5+ are out and see how our 2025 takes will age. If the length is intimidating, know that most of the questions are optional so you can skip any you don't have clear opinions on (also though it's a google form you don't have to log in to your google account to access it)

If you have any questions while or after taking the survey, you can send me an ask and I'll try to answer it promptly. Feel free to post the link to the form elsewhere; I'd love to get as many responses as possible!

I find any insistence that gaster encounter in deltarune would be "too confusing for casual fans" a little silly because like. even the most casual fan, the fan who's never seen even a single pixel of undertale, who boots up deltarune will immediately be confronted by the gonermaker sequence right. and they'll probably also see the same very distinct text show up on death screens/the knight fight/the chapter four credits and like. wonder who this mysterious voice is. so then if the Guy From Voice shows up and says Hi I'm Guy From Voice then I think the casual player is gonna be like ohhh okay it's Guy From Voice

like if the writing of this purely hypothetical gaster encounter did lean very heavily on the assumption that everyone playing already knows him because he is Gaster from Undertale then yeah that probably would confuse some people! but also why would that be what you assume would happen

I did not even know people were saying this what? This would be like saying Dess encounter would be too confusing for people who didn't pick up on all the hints she's gone missing

you'll never believe what some people say about dessknight

I find any insistence that gaster encounter in deltarune would be "too confusing for casual fans" a little silly because like. even the most casual fan, the fan who's never seen even a single pixel of undertale, who boots up deltarune will immediately be confronted by the gonermaker sequence right. and they'll probably also see the same very distinct text show up on death screens/the knight fight/the chapter four credits and like. wonder who this mysterious voice is. so then if the Guy From Voice shows up and says Hi I'm Guy From Voice then I think the casual player is gonna be like ohhh okay it's Guy From Voice

like if the writing of this purely hypothetical gaster encounter did lean very heavily on the assumption that everyone playing already knows him because he is Gaster from Undertale then yeah that probably would confuse some people! but also why would that be what you assume would happen

and I also don't think that it is even a bad thing for a game to cater specifically to its most obsessive audience. and I don't think that that is what deltarune is going for, but like

I think it's fine if an artist wants to cater to specifically the audience of people who are already really invested in their things instead of trying to make things for every possible person who might ever be interested in picking it up

i'm sure it's fine

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