- Aug 15, 2023
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I don't try to fight genocide hate much but thats just an incorrect statement.Yeah, that's the idea. As of version... 7.2+ I believe? Might be a bit later than that, not sure. But anyways, as of somewhere near that version, the Genocide route was made to be impossible without cheating. And then it was also made so you couldn't get it your first run and you get forcibly booted off somewhere around 2 - 1 or 2 - 2 if you tried. Because the dev got butthurt that people liked it more than the mercy route.
Make hateable characters and give the players a way to kill them, and the players will kill them. Shocker. Who could have guessed.
Not the dev, apparently.
The reason Genocide was made inaccessible on the first run was because it was fucking with the cycle of gameplay that was supposed to happen.
Logically there is no reason for the player character, or Kazuya, to go out of his way to murder every demon as he goes, killing the ones that get in his way is one thing, but lingering in an area to ensure they're gone is a very meta thing to do.
Alan wanted for at least a neutral ending to have been obtained prior to Genocide, so that the player would have a better understanding of the timeline of events and therefore people wouldn't be really fuck all confused by what happens at the end of Genocide.
Even with all the other endings, Genocide still drops a lot of confusing lore drops that aren't easily understandable until you do EX4.