Will the sun shatter and this world die? Or will Niko place the sun on its pedestal and become a part of this strange, unfamiliar world forever?Ī choice must be made. While the sun still exists, Niko cannot go home. Without Niko, the sun will not glow, and the world die. And the light of that sun is bound to Niko. In the end, it is revealed that the nature of this world is one that is tied to the sun in Niko’s hands. The absolute total of its pieces, added together. I’ll leave the details vague, but in time, you come to understand that the voice of world is indeed the voice of the world.

The game knows that it’s a game, a program on your machine, and it seems to regard you with a sort of disdain for coming here. This is the deepest reflection of the metanarrative of the game, which joins into the actual narrative. Creating files in your documents, changing your wallpaper, and otherwise requiring you to interact with things outside the world in order to progress. It seems deeply aware of the fact that this world is a program, and manipulates your machine. Only replacing the sun will save this worldĪlong the way, you interact with what can only be called ‘the voice of the world.’ You first hear it speak to you through a system message at the beginning of the game ,and it continues to interfere with the game in odd ways. The original sun of this world shattered a long time ago, and now, this new world is bathed in a deep darkness and decay as it slowly dies. As the God of this world, you guide Niko through three distinct areas, holding the ‘sun,’ which is basically a giant lightbulb that glows in Niko’s hands. So …įor those of you who decided caring about spoilers was for chumps, I’ll give you the quick rundown on OneShot.

If you’re seeing this part of the post, either you’ve played the game or decided you don’t care about spoilers. If you like exploration and talking, get a tickle at the idea of perhaps the most meta of meta games I’ve played and the lack of combat isn’t a dealbreaker for you, I recommend you pick up this game. While UNDERTALE played with the idea of meta narratives in this way, at a certain point it flinched away, unwilling or unable to push further on. The game’s greatest strength is its self-awareness as a game and how much it pushes the envelope on what that can mean. There is no combat, and so instead by and the large the game is about interacting with the world and engaging with meta content which may remind players of the UNDERTALE demo. It is built in RPGmaker with a few extra moving parts, and using the engine as a mechanism to build a game built around exploration and interaction with the world. And that’s pretty much all I can tell you about the story right now. You play as the God of this world, and it is your job to help them. The main character is Niko, a child from another world who is stranded here and wants to get home. But be careful! After all, you only have One Shot. OneShot is a charming game about trying to help a child stranded in a foreign world get home, and save that world in the process.

It’ll include my initial thoughts The second, the content, will be put under a cut and will include spoilers, to make it easy to skip. A largely spoiler-free segment which is safe to read. This review will be partitioned into two pieces. This post is gonna be an experiment, to see how we handle branching out to topics that aren’t really related to Undertale at all.

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