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.
There is a massive rift in the Deltarune player base, between people who liked Undertale, find Deltarune fun and play a new chapter when it comes out, and those who obsess over the lore and theories. I'm in the second camp, I think about Deltarune all the time, but I see a lot of people so far divorced from the actual main story of the game. Like, people were disappointed because chapter 5 was about Asgore, which was already foreshadowed in chapter 4, instead of the obscure lore, like ROOTS, Friend and Gaster. It's a bit like fnaf in my opinion, the gap in knowledge and interest between the average player and the fans is so massive that the fans dont actually make sense to the average plager.
If chapter 5 was about Dess trying to bring about the prophecy because she got killed by the Tale of Hell, AKA Friend, the average person would have no fucking clue what's going on, because the game up till now has been another Kris, Susie and Ralsei.