Susie the anti-hero.

Technically Deltarune is the one and only game in the Winter Jackpot that isn't new. The only reason why it is part of the block was because I bought the full game which included chapters 3 and 4. Not like I played chapter 3 or 4 this go around. I was still on chapter 1. Either way, it's still a fun game!

I jump in having left in Castle Town with Ralsei. I believe last we left off, Susie just ditched us as I guess she'll find her own way home... yeah we'll see how that works out. Just like in Undertale, a dummy has been prepared for us to fight. Ralsei teaches me the mechanics of an in game battle including fighting, magic... if I even can use magic. I think my game somehow got softlocked here. I can't do a fucking thing suddenly and all my buttons have gone dead! Lovely! But suddenly out of nowhere I regain control again and I can cast the magic. Next up is acting. Like giving Ralsei a big ol' hug! How sweet? And then the dummy. And now it's time to spare it! HAH! NO JUST KIDDING! THIS FUCKER IS GOING DOWN! But Ralsei stops me before I can slash it away so the battle just ends... oof. Oh and then my game freezes again! But then I realize it wasn't actually my game freezing. It was my fucking controller disconnecting. Fuck I hate it when it does that. Hardwired to my computer and everything and the Switch pro controller decides it doesn't want to be connected anymore and does the little flashy lights whenever I press a button. Disconnecting and reconnecting the controller seemed to fix it. We reach the great door which is conveniently open for us. Ralsei desperately wants me not to fight... but I might have other plans. On the other side is the worlds most trippiest forest looking area good grief did we take some drugs on the way through the door? Seems like a little Lancer anticipated our arrival. Hence the friendly signs left in the path for us! We run into a Rudinn for a battle. Not very difficult to take care of and eventually it runs off. No experience gained but I did score some cash! Eventually we do run into Lancer himself. Being the oh so great, power, brave one that he is... just allowed himself to get pummeled by Susie yeah this guy is a piece of soggy fucking cake. Headed down is a tree that contains a couple pieces of candy that absolutely do not in any way shape or form heal me and I should absolutely not take them... I take them. I run into a couple of Lancer's troops... some more Rudinn's oooh so scary. After that oh so scary fight, I meet with a guy named topchef who got done working on a cake.

As good as the cake looks, it looks like it's been devoured. Perhaps by a certain Susie? After another fight with a Rudinn and a Hathy who is really only a support enemy, I find another tree with more dark candy and come face to face with a puzzle. I must work fast against the clock as I have to press down all the lit up tiles to lower down the spikes blocking my path. After that leads me to the maze of death!... you know I really do not think Lancer knows how to be a villain. I do find a chest with a white ribbon inside which powers up my defense. After accidentally giving it to Ralsei, I snatch it out of his hands and give it to myself instead. At the end of the maze which really isn't a maze, Lancer throws 3 Hathy's my way... remember when I said Hathy's are only support enemies? They don't do shit and it's the easiest battle win in the world! There's another light tile puzzle I come across. This one however I can't complete because it requires 3 people to conquer. If only we can find Susie-we found Susie. After convincing her to... kind of stay with us... we're able to complete the puzzle and the door ahead opens-where did this smiling circle dude come from? Well we took care of it and we meet up with this dude who offers to sell us a tutorial... buying a tutorial? Yeah no thanks. Not for 50 bones. Not for 20... okay maybe for one single bone... I don't even think it's worth that much. These tutorial dudes suck at giving tutorials. It's like they read a walkthrough for 2 minutes and are trying to remember what they read. Moving on. I reach the shop and buy a spookysword, darkburger, and dark candy and make my way onward! Kris is the only one who can wield the sword. We meet with Lancer again... shocker. Susie has had enough with how playful Lancer is that she teaches him what it's like to actually be scary. While it might shake up Lancer a bit, it actually more so helps him understand how to actually look... just a tad bit more threatening. Unexpected but... sure. Then it's time for a battle against some Jigsawry's. Not much of a threat. I mean it's puzzle pieces for crying out loud. Time for another light tile puzzle. A bit of a different one this time.

The puzzle instructions are fucked with but I think I still understand how this works. Susie on the other hand is so fucking impatient and is like... "let's jump the spiked fence!" and to that I say... yeah okay and have fun having a bleeding ass too. Just as I suspected, you move the heavy boxes on top of both tiles until the gate opens up. At the top of the next area is a puzzle which looks like I can't quite solve yet. I need to give out the order of 4 rooms in a Card Castle. I don't know whether I've been there or not. Either way I head back down and face a very checkerboard type corridor with specific tiles that flash at certain intervals. If I happen to be standing on a tile that is lit up, I will be brought back to where I was prior. So I got to be careful. And once again... is anyone shocked? We meet with Lancer again. Who has taken his lessons... uh... well that's that really. Though if you want to be a true villain? I wouldn't worry so much about trying to contain a bunch of blood in a bucket. Who the fuck cares if the mess leaves... well a mess? Oh yeah speaking of the bucket... Lancer decides that we should have a team name! Oooh this is cool! I think I'll name us... oh... wait... I don't get a say? Aww dammit! I mean I do get a choice... kind of. Based on the 3 piece of paper in the bucket. Ralsei had the neat paper which is what I chose. Naturally he wants us named "The Legendary Heroes: The Hearld of Fun and Friendship"... I don't think Ralsei understands what "Badass" means. Not like Susie's "The Fun Gang" name is any better. Our time away from Lancer is short as per usual. I think he just really enjoys being with us. And sends out his most threatening foe to fight us... a poker chip... wow... so threat-is that a crown? And it's bigger now... oh shit we might have a problem here. And holy fuck it's stomps are DEADLY. Wow... of course as this fucker is low on health, it heals itself... and that is supposed to be fair? Trying to fight it wasn't doing me any good. It kept healing itself... so what do I do? Well I found out I was taking this all wrong. I'm actually supposed to bow down to it. And by doing so, its crown loosens a little with each bow down I do. All while we loosen its crown, Susie keeps attacking K. Round. Ah? Get it? K. Round?

Eventually the crown is knocked off K. Round's head and big guy becomes smol guy again. Of course Susie does what Susie do and takes all the credit. All for Ralsei to be like... "No... fuck you... you didn't do anything. If anything you made shit worse." But Susie was so convinced that all enemies must be slashed down... I mean I don't blame her but I guess in some cases... you need to find other ways to take care of enemies without slashing them away... oh and also don't be eating other peoples cakes. Surprisingly this actually helps convince Susie. She wants to change her ways. She wants to go from being a little annoyance... to just a pure fucking villain in general fucking dammit.

But maybe Susie will get so sick of hanging with crazy Lancer that she'll come crying back to us. I got a gut feeling.