Top 10 Reasons Undertale is Awesome

The Top Ten

1 It was all made by basically one guy, give or take the small funding team surrounding him

2 It is easily a more enjoyable experience than at least 80 if not 90 percent of AAA games

3 Some of the best (not to mention cutest) videogame characters in the past three decades

4 Both of the Pacifist/Genocide final boss battles

5 It pretty much gave us a whole new Earthbound game when no one else (cough, cough, Nintendo, cough) would

6 A storyline that's surprisingly deeper than about 95 percent of its competition as far as gaming is concerned

7 The good side of the fanbase

8 One of the first videogame morality systems to actually have a legitimately strong and powerful lesson to teach players

9 One of the most unique battle systems in RPG history

10 Easily one of the top 10 greatest videogame soundtracks of all time and proud of it

The Contenders

11 The Pacifist Ending

12 The Sans and Undyne boss fights in the Genocide Run

13 For once, a game that actually makes you feel deeply bad for killing its characters

14 Contrary to popular belief, it actually deserved to be labeled GOTY 2015

15 It's the type of storytelling experience that Telltale Games wishes it was capable of creating

16 The characters' facial expressions

17 The plot twists; oh, the plot twists

18 A fandom so bad it's actually good

19 Only costs ten dollars

20 The first indie game to be requested for console ports by Nintendo themselves less than a year after its initial release

21 Some of the best LGBT characters in all of gaming

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