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makerofmadness · 5 months

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I swear I have something I've found something

From "the making of" (with the earthbound Halloween hack)

you know how sometimes people will take their old bad fanworks and remake it into something like actually good and also probably an original work? I've done that a few times. Anyway:

Can you see what I'm getting at here?

"Varik is almost dead, and yet he can't stop moving because you keep pushing those buttons."

#I love it when you can just like SEE the improvement from a work and its themes and concepts. With your own two eyeballs.#undertale #deltarune #utdr #kris dreemurr #susie deltarune #papyrus #frisk #varik #earthbound halloween hack #Toby fox #The hack like definitely wasn't that good execution wise and was definitely Edgy but like I love that Toby reused and refined so many #Of the concepts for Undertale and Deltarune. Particularly in the Genocide Route of Undertale. Like look at the hack and read the making of.#You'll probably notice like several parallels and it's just. I love seeing it it reminds me of how I got a lot of my own OCs-

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euclicide · 10 months

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thinkin abt off:hh

#off #off game #off fangame #off spinoff #earthbound #earthbound fangame #earthbound halloween hack #ebhh #off halloween hack #varik #varik offhh #varik brandish #brandish game #my art #artwork #artist #art

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krizste · 7 months

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#my art #fanart #kris #varik #kris deltarune #varik thh

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snowf14me · 3 months

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Various guys appeared!

Deltarune: Halloween Hack by @delusionsofvoid

#deltarune #undertale #earthbound halloween hack #undertale halloween hack #brandish #pixel art #varik #asriel #asriel dreemurr #dess holiday

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jugularbeat · 2 years

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Deltarune/Brandish similarities

!!OBVIOUS SPOILERS FOR UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE AND THE BRANDISH SERIES!!

Making this post because HOT DAMN there are a lot of similarities when you look at them side by side.

But why Brandish? Because 1. It’s mentioned in the UNDERTALE artbook that Toby was inspired by Brandish about the whole ‘falling into a hole and going underground business’. There are also other parallels here, such as the first area of the game being named the Ruins (that’s the only thing specific to UT as far as I’m aware). And 2. The protagonist of Radiation’s Earthbound Halloween hack is Varik, which is the localized name of Ares, who is from Brandish.

Other than pointing at the stuff that inspired UT/DR’s creation, this post also serves as potential theoryfuel for whatever may occur in deltarune’s future. With that being said, let’s begin.

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First, let’s get the obvious out of the way: Kris is based off Varik/Ares.

Both have a weird shadow above their face, use a sword and shield in-game, have a red-ish cloth thing around their neck, have exposed forearms and fell into a darker place along with some chick who wants to kick their ass. Another thing to note about the eyes is that, because of the game’s weird turning mechanic, we never see Ares/Varik’s face in-game, even in cutscenes. But Kris is, albeit rarely, sometimes portrayed with their eyes, right? Well, those eyes are red, same as Dark Ares’ eye color. (sidenote: Dark Ares uses ice magic in one of his attacks...) Another interesting tidbit is that Ares/Varik is sometimes portrayed with brown hair in official content and cutscenes, or blue hair in-game. Both hair colors were incorporated in Kris’ light world and dark world designs, respectively.

But wait, there’s more! Even beyond physical similarities, the few personality traits that Ares/Varik displays add up with Kris’ behavior. In the first Brandish game, at the end, there’s a choice to save your bounty hunter mage rival, Dela Denon/Alexis, or kill her. While you can choose whatever, in the later games, she’s still alive, so it can be argued that the option to save her is canon. Ares/Varik also saves her regardless of what you do in Brandish 2... So both Kris and Ares/Varik end up saving/defending the chick who wants to beat their ass in the end.

Another thing about these playable characters’ hidden personalities is the miniscule amount of trickery they engage in. It’s common knowledge at this point that Kris is a fan of pranks, but Ares/Varik also enjoys a good trick or two, as evidenced by his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it smile after giving Dela Denon/Alexis a broken sword instead of the Planet Buster.

Besides that are even more similarities in other parts of the games. For starters, both games start with a cutscene about the darker world. There’s also this.

About that cutscene, by the by, there are two interesting tidbits from Brandish’s cutscene that were pretty obviously a source of inspiration for some of deltarune’s plot points.

In the center of the kingdom, piercing the sky itself,

stood a tall, majestic tower which symbolized this land.

I don’t think I need to explain what this inspired.

Doomed to an eternity of darkness…

Same as before. In that cutscene, there’s also a heavy focus on ‘the’ titles. The Protector, the Dragon, the King, a similar pattern to the Knight. In Brandish, the eyes of the King and army are also obscured similar to the heroes of prophecy in Deltarune’s opening cutscene, but the Dragon’s eyes are exposed. The only other exposed eyes in a stylized cutscene like that in Deltarune are the Titans.

From Brandish 2: The Planet Buster, after Bundevia falls (i think)

So Bundevia shares Vittovia’s fate…

You sure bring calamity wherever you go.

That last line is very interesting, since it’s reminiscent of how every fountain the deltawarriors visit is eventually sealed, excluding the grand fountain. (Speculation Warning) I wonder if future chapters will touch on the morality of opening a fountain, beyond how it can end the world, since you’ll have to seal the fountain eventually and the way you got to that point will be kinda messed up either way. You’re taking many Darkners from their homes to castle town while separating them from their friends who chose to stay if you decide to recruit anyone, or you’re beating everyone up so you can sever the connection between that dark world and the light world/destroy their home. Toby has a record of utilizing game mechanics that one might not expect to matter too much. We already saw how Undertale deconstructed many RPG tropes, but it’s also noticeable in Toby’s earlier works like the Halloween hack, where you have to press the B button to continue, and where running away from the desperate survivors is treated as the ethically better choice. (even though there’s nothing that really highlights that as an option)

Wait, so you’re King Bedorrer? But you’re just a feeble old man!

In this scene before fighting God Bedorrer, Dela Denon/Alexis underestimates him by calling him a ‘feeble old man’ and later says:

You sure talk the talk, but to me you’re just a shut-in hermit living in a smelly old cave!

The King later calls her a strumpet, turns into a monster and fucks her shit up. But anyways, this may or may not be a possible clue as to who deltarune’s final boss may be: someone who we/the characters might not expect? But speaking of turning into a monsters, both King Bedorrer and King Berebus turn into a beast, Berebus, less willingly.

Berebus, unable to control the Dragon’s furry-filled power, was cursed. It

transformed him into a wretched beast… one that matched his evil nature.

Possibly a hint for the Titan Ralsei theory??

Misc.: Both games have a sound test room and dimensional boxes. And I can’t believe I got this far without mentioning the shop screen similarities.

(accidentally added the Seam pic at the beginning, would’ve made for an interesting introduction lol)

Lastly, there are some fascinating pieces of dialogue in Brandish that I wanted to highlight.

The labyrinth layout is so complicated that when you tried to examine it closely, you got dizzy and decided not to look at it anymore.

Inspiration for the description of Ralsei’s manual?

That town, the rocks, this whole world is just an illusion. This place is nothing more than a nightmare. You’re in it, and so am I. There’s no way out. See look at this. My feet have turned to stone.

We all saw what happened to Rouxls Kaard and Lancer in Chapter 2.

“How many seasons have passed since this, our land, was swallowed by the earth? There is no one left that can answer that now. Our beloved land, along with the cursed King, will spend eternity forever in darkness. We wait. We wait for the one that will free us, free us from our cursed fate…”

Seems important, doesn’t it? [SOURCE]

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If you got this far, thanks for reading! Feel free to add anything I missed or even got wrong.

#deltarune #deltarune speculation #deltarune theory #brandish #falcom #varik #ares toraernos #dela denon #kris deltarune #kris dreemurr #ralsei #susie deltarune

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juls-art · 2 years

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Commission for @palavenmoons of their turians; Cilea, Varik, and Garek.

#commission work #palavenmoons #turians #cilea #garek #varik #mass effect #fanart #thank you for commissioning me!

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grosezero · 9 months

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#VARIK #Earthbound halloween hack

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squiddo01 · 6 months

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Doing something a bit different this time

so i made a group of ocs (varik isnt an oc, hes from brandish and the earthbound halloween hack), and i plan to use them in the future for something, however i might as well show you them now