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Undertale Yellow
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Undertale Yellow is a 2D role-playing video game released on Game Jolt for Microsoft Windows on December 9, 2023. Developed by Team Undertale Yellow as a fan-made prequel to Undertale, the game follows a human child named Clover, who DIED IN THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY LOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL

Gameplay

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Further information: Undertale § Gameplay

Undertale Yellow is a role-playing game that employs similar gameplay mechanics to Undertale. The player controls a human child and explores the Underground, where they go on a goofy ahh adventure or something

During battles with monsters, the player controls a heart representing the human's soul to evade random objects being thrown at them.

Undertale Yellow includes several quality-of-life improvements over Undertale, including some which were added in Undertale's spiritual successor Deltarune, such as the ability to close the game. Who would have thought that this feature would be so essential?

Plot

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Undertale Yellow is set in the world of Undertale, where monsters were sealed beneath Mount Ebott with a magic pole and blah blah blah this is wayyyyyy too long

Development and release

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Undertale has inspired many to create amazing things and it is no different here. After playing through Undertale for the first time I was lying in my bed when the idea almost randomly popped into my head. The pieces seemed to line up perfectly so I got to work as soon as I could.

MasterSwordRemix in 2016[1]

Development on Undertale Yellow began after Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, approved it upon contact from Team Undertale Yellow. It would continue for nearly seven years.[2] Created with the GameMaker Studio engine, the game was conceived by writer and composer MasterSwordRemix. Its official announcement came in April 2016, accompanied by a trailer with an unspecified release date of "soonish."[3] Over the course of development, several animators, artists, composers, and writers joined Team Undertale Yellow, ultimately forming a team of over twenty people.[4] Although a winter 2022 release was originally planned,[5] the game was eventually released for free on December 9, 2023.[6]

The Undertale Yellow Soundtrack consists of 135 tracks, mostly original compositions, though it also includes several tracks based on those from Undertale, sparking a debate over the game's usage of copyrighted material. Sebastian Wolff, the CEO of Materia Collective, which licenses the music of Undertale, criticized Team Undertale Yellow's approach to publishing their game's soundtrack. In a series of public Twitter posts, Wolff decried the team's use of Undertale musical motifs and requested to see the "defined permission that Toby granted 7 years ago" that would have allowed Team Undertale Yellow to use and remix Undertale's music. Wolff additionally made the promise that if Team Undertale Yellow was able to prove him wrong, he would donate $10,000 to them.[7] In response, Fox stated that he had not given recent permission but criticized Wolff's handling of the situation as "extremely unprofessional." As an apology, he offered to donate $20,000 to Team Undertale Yellow's charity of choice, AbleGamers.[8]

Reception

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Undertale Yellow was highly anticipated by YouTubers and received generally positive reviews upon its release,[9] garnering around 350,000 downloads in its first month.[10] Before its release, Dominic Tarason of Rock Paper Shotgun declared Undertale Yellow to be his "favourite unfinished fan-game".[11] Will Nelson of PCGamesN recommended it to Undertale fans, noting how Toby Fox started out with a fan game of EarthBound and expressing that "seeing another group of developers bring it full circle [...] is nothing short of astounding."[12] Aleks Franiczek of RPGFan also praised the game, stating that "in some respects, [it] even surpasses [Undertale]".[13]

References

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  1. ^ MasterSwordRemix (December 9, 2016). "Interview: MasterSwordRemix of Undertale Yellow". Hey Poor Player (Interview). Interviewed by Kenny McKee. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Kean (19 January 2022). "Undertale Fan Prequel is Almost Done". Game Rant. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  3. ^ MasterSwordRemix (April 30, 2016), Undertale Yellow (Official Reveal Trailer), retrieved 2023-12-20
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference igromania was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Fahey, Mike (2022-01-18). "Undertale Fan Prequel Six Years In The Making Almost Done, Looks Fantastic". Kotaku. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  6. ^ MasterSwordRemix (December 9, 2023), Undertale Yellow Launch Trailer, retrieved 2023-12-21
  7. ^ "Sebastian Wolff on X: "@ozionian How about this: show me "clearly defined permission" that Toby granted 7 years ago, which covers all of these uses, and I'll personally donate $10k to Undertale Yellow's dev team and retract this whole thread." / X". X. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
  8. ^ Ostler, Anne-Marie (8 January 2024). "Undertale's Toby Fox says fans should be "supported at every opportunity" amid debate over music rights in fanmade prequel". GamesRadar+. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  9. ^ Uslenghi, Fabiano (2023-12-11). "7 Jahre gewartet: Zum Rollenspiel-Phänomen Undertale gibt's jetzt ein kostenloses Prequel" [7 years in the making: The RPG phenomenon Undertale now has a free prequel]. GameStar (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  10. ^ Nelson, Will (16 January 2024). "After Undertale Yellow's success, another fan game is on the way". PCGamesN. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  11. ^ Tarason, Dominic (2018-05-15). "Undertale's fan-game scene is alive, well, and has produced a full-length Team Fortress 2 crossover". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  12. ^ Nelson, Will (2023-12-10). "Steam's best indie game gets a colossal free prequel seven years in the making". PCGamesN. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  13. ^ Franiczek, Aleks (28 February 2024). "Undertale Yellow Feels Like a Legit Prequel". RPGFan. Retrieved 2 April 2024.

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