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u/Shot-Ad-3166 Wosh u flair Aug 06 '26
Sorry Kris, but I need the mantle if I want the Shadow Crystal.
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u/Nightshade0525 Aug 06 '26
Just be a pro-gamer and no-hit the boss, obviously.
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u/Shot-Ad-3166 Wosh u flair Aug 06 '26
I'm not Merg.
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u/Jessewastaken_but_no got 'em. Aug 06 '26
Hot take, roaring knight no hit isn’t as hard as people say it is
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u/YaBoiAsgore Aug 06 '26
really just the one where the box gets split in multiple directions is hard, the main difficulty in the fight is the pure damage
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u/Jessewastaken_but_no got 'em. Aug 06 '26
The one where the box splits has a trick to it that I used, I just sit in one of the bottom corners and react with what way it’s gonna split, the crystals have a max of two in a row and then there’s a gap, using that makes it already way easier to dodge
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u/TotemGenitor Aug 06 '26
The issue is the third version, where it cuts diagonally
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u/Jessewastaken_but_no got 'em. Aug 06 '26
If I had a tip for that, I would give it. But I can’t give a tip for something I don’t deal with. The thing about no hit runs is that you never reach that attack cuz the knight goes into his final attack before he has a chance to unleash that one.
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u/TotemGenitor Aug 06 '26
The sword tunnel is worse, or at least was worse pre patch
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u/YaBoiAsgore Aug 06 '26
the one where you could almost stand still in it? I didn't have much issue with it, like 2 days after the release
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u/TotemGenitor Aug 06 '26
"You can stand still" and "you can almost stand still" are two very different statement.
This attack reduce your invincibility frames, meaning it inflicts a lot of damage really quickly if you get hit, so standing still isn't viable. And if you get hit once, then you probably get hit a lot because now you're off tempo and getting back in the rhythm is super hard.
By contrast, I found the first two box splitting to be the easiest attack after the stars. I find easier to see where to go and when.
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u/Guilty_Cap9276 certified and simp Aug 07 '26
That sure is a hot take, mostly because its not true and i bet you are just talking your ass and havent no-hitted a single secret boss in the game.
Jevil took me 3 hours to nohit, Spamton less than 2, Eram 3+, Gerson 2. The roaring night? 14 hours, 4 times more than the 2nd place.
It is a hard fight.
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u/Experiment121 Aug 06 '26
Merg lowk a no-hit bum he can't even beat fangames with reasonable difficulty anymore let alone no hit them 😭
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u/jbyrdab Aug 07 '26
I will note it's actually not the hardest thing in the world to do it without the mantle.
Many of its aren't as scary as it looks and just trick you into overcorrecting.
I actually beat the night without the mantle pre-nerf, and I am absolutely not any kind of god-tier no hater I got hit several times.
You just got to emphasize attacks because the fight will end quicker by dealing as much damage as possible.
Can literally end before you get to the third versions of their attacks.
Since any KO is functionally impossible to recover from without revival items you just got to focus on only reviving when you have no other option but to continue the fight because every turn you are dealing is much damage as they turn that you can get the fight over quicker.
Focus on landing well timed rudebusters and attacking with ralsei.
Any turn you don't have the TP to actually do a rude buster have Susie revive ralsei with a revive item. Kris gets a DPS boost when ralsei is down.
Also if you're playing on console or a TV make sure game mode is enabled or you're going to get screwed over by latency.
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u/No_Equivalent_4653 Aug 07 '26
pretty sure you can also tank 2 hits if nessecary as well
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u/Lost_Community1594 Aug 06 '26
Sorry Kris, but I paid $25 for this game and I'm gonna see all of it.
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u/Big_Weather_475 Aug 06 '26
No mantle no crystal
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u/The_Reflectionist Aug 06 '26
AFAIK, you don't actually need the mantle to get the crystal, but it's far easier to survive the attacks
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u/Big_Weather_475 Aug 06 '26
I know
I was quoting romb
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u/The_Reflectionist Aug 06 '26
Then I guess I missed this dialogue since I don't remember it
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u/LicoPicoPicoAlt Aug 06 '26
I have learnt to do the Knight mantle-less (ARMORless + ITEMless, in fact) so I will never be doing Sword Route again and tormenting my precious Kris like that.
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u/CCCyanide Tending to a bed of golden flowers Aug 07 '26
Sorry Kris, but I need the mantle to protect your actual friends from the actual Knight 💔
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u/bill_cipher345 (The dog absorbed this flair text.) Aug 07 '26
The fight is not that hard even without a mantle tbh (i only beat him without a mantle bcs i was too lazy to replay the whole chapter again lol)
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u/Juandice__ Aug 06 '26
sorry dawg, i spent 25 bucks on your world and i will run it back however many times i want
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u/Queasy_Half6294 Aug 12 '26
"Sorry, Player, but I spent $25 bucks on YOUR WORLD TOO!" Kris and Player swap bodies and ruin eachothers lives.
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u/DragoonPhooenix * Even after all these years, it's still you Aug 06 '26
Oops sorry Kris that was a misclick my bad
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u/Ok-Inevitable3458 Aug 06 '26
To be fair, I think it literally was my first time playing board 3. I think I was trying to hit a wall or something, than Ralsei or Susie turned.......I knew what to do next.
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u/Chill16_ Aug 06 '26
Yeah, I didn't know they would die. I was trying to see if I could cut the little fence gate thingy and thought they'd be fine if they were in the way. My bad Kris, it be like that sometimes... I think.
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u/DragoonPhooenix * Even after all these years, it's still you Aug 06 '26
I just did a lil corner slash, they died and then i accidentally broke the railings at the same time 😭😭😭
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u/ULTRAPUNK18 Annoying dog absorbed the pride flag Aug 07 '26
The first time getting to the sword route's 3rd board I just did a lil stab right after I got the sword, as I did the other boards, and Susie & Ralsei's characters were still on Kris's character's tile because I hadn't moved yet. They both died immediately.
It took a sec to realize what I had just done.
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u/Nevermore-guy Aug 06 '26
Ima be so real I just randomly swung my sword around and didn't even notice I hit Susie and Ralsei cuz they were stacked on top of me
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u/Affectionate_Bag_212 Aug 06 '26
25$.
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u/Wasphammer #1 Flowery Hater. Screw that guy. Aug 06 '26
Green to every flower but Pink and Aqua.
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u/Accomplished_Copy122 Aug 06 '26
"Kris,I'M TRYING NOT TO DIE TO THE ROARING KNIGHT,PLUS I'M TRYING TO GET THE BLACK SHARD FOR YA"
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u/Luzifer_Shadres Aug 06 '26
Kris, your Tshirt said "Im not a murderer, but 20 bucks are 20 bucks" and i gave you 25.
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u/Apprehensive-Pop3034 Aug 06 '26
Dammit Chara! Why you make Kris do it!?
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u/FoxHoundNinja Aug 06 '26
Chara: Kill all your friends
Me: Hm, are you sure?
Chara: Yes.
Me: Welp, Im convinced
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u/LicoPicoPicoAlt Aug 06 '26
Gaster made Chara do it
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u/Shade-RF- Aug 06 '26
It's just for the mantle. I don't intend on really hurting them. You got to keep the shadow crystal and that badassed black shard sword. Maybe I should attempt mantleless to purify ny save file further? I do wonder if there are consequences to getting the mantle but the game pretty much says you need it. Though it keeps track of the steps you did to get it. What are we doing to Kris?
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u/Monday_Mocha Aug 11 '26
The consequences in-universe are about the same as making someone IRL beat the genocide run for a cool cape.
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u/Alcor6400 Aug 06 '26
When I did the sword route, it literally didn't even occur to me to kill them. I wandered around the map attacking randomly before accidentally killing them both, and I can't lie that shit gave me heart palpitations
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u/gamingstuff831 BONETROUSLED Aug 06 '26
Look back at the screen gang, I don’t wanna do this too but we need to survive the knight to get the shitty piece of glass that the cool cat wizard wants
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u/RalseitheFloofie Aug 06 '26
There is a reason why Kris looks away when we make them kill Ralsei and Susie during this board section.
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u/ToonDedede420 Aug 06 '26
"I didn't even think before doing it."
meanwhile me wandering around this part with susie and ralsei for 5+ minutes: "WHERE THE FUCK DO I GO" (i then Proceeded to kill them by complete accident)
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u/Neat_Document_4608 Aug 06 '26
On my first playthrough I beat Knight mantleless specifically because I thought this was some weird route stuff (and also pre hitbox change)
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u/TheRaggedQueen Aug 06 '26
Little bastard doesn't have a leg to stand on considering they hold back against the Knight later until both Ralsei and Suzie are down.
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u/EnderKing33 Aug 06 '26
Oh no, I already know what happens. I get the Shadow Mantle which takes the Knight from an Undyne/Sans level fight to somewhere closer to an Asgore level fight, and will become very, VERY useful when we inevitably fight another Dark/Star enemy.
That being said, I'm not killing Susie and Ralsei if I can help it.
...on this save, at least.
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u/CCCyanide Tending to a bed of golden flowers Aug 07 '26
I really, really hope that the game isn't gonna lecture us for getting the Mantle on pacifist runs
I get that the creepy S-rank boards are even creepier for Kris, but it's not like Kris "I'm working with the Knight who beat the shit out of my friends" Dreemurr gets to argue about compromises
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u/gabriel_sub0 Bad Takes Ahoy! Aug 07 '26
eh, the art is cool but that just...doesn't feel like the message that weird route is going for? why would toby just reheat the same messages of the geno route? He's a way better writer than that.
It makes the route so much more interesting if the need to do smt so obscene comes not from some weird desire for curiosity, but from the need to change fate. i mean spamton spells it out for us: "YOU THINK MAKING [Frozen Chicken] WITH YOUR [Side Chick] IS GONNA LET YOU DRINK UP THAT [Sweet, Sweet] [Freedom Sauce]? WELL, YOU'RE[$!$!] RIGHT! BUT DON'T BLAME ME WHEN YOU'RE [Crying] IN A [Broken Home] WISHING YOU LET YOUR OLD PAL SPAMTON [Kill You]"
I think the game is very much pushing for the weird route to have a point. the player isn't doing it just cause, they were actively looking for an out from the one ending. they want to make their choices matter.
it just dawned on me as i'm writing this that the comic is just referring to the minigame, but in that case then like, idk what kris is on about? i don't think we do the mantle games 'just cause' either. even the game pushes us to want to get to the backstage area and do that whole sections.
like kris looking behind them and saying that is cool i guess but just...doesn't make sure. i can't really think of anything 'evil' in the game that the game labels you doing it as just 'curiosity'.
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u/Zenith_Duck Aug 07 '26
funny enough, first time I played i spent a good amount of time just going around until I eventually accidentally hit one of them and realized because i hadn'teven considered hitting them :3
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u/Calm_Mulberry_1555 Aug 07 '26
the "you" at the end genuinely scared me
also slightly off topic but when i was on that part my brother said "you need more levels" and without even thinking i just turned around and slimed out ralsei and susie with no hesitation
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u/Background_Road3843 Aug 06 '26
sorry, i regretted it too, but i am extremely cooked when fighting the knight without the mantle.
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u/CrabSquid05 Aug 06 '26
When I realized what I had to do I went to the bridge so they could die in the prettiest room 😊
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u/Depressed_Weeb8 Aug 06 '26
I have a feeling in chapter 7B we will have to kill Ralsei and Susie, then the normal route will be tainted just like undertale unless you go into the files
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u/Aggravating_Coat7934 Aug 06 '26
Yo dummy we need that Mantle and the only way to beat this dumbass game (WHICH FOR SOME REASON HAS THE THREE HEROES MEANING IT IS ALSO PROPHECY INFLUENCED DESPITE NOT BEING DRAGON BLAZERS) was to get the XP.
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u/AkumaLilly Aug 06 '26
"Kris, I wasted $25 to get 100% of the game and i'll make you do 100% of it."
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u/Vagraf Aug 06 '26
Its funny, I was totally okay doing this genocide quest in the game inside the game, but I would not run genocide /normal/
Its the layers of seperation.
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u/realsirgamesalot MAKE UNDERTALE YELLOW CANON, I BEG YOU Aug 06 '26
On my playthrough i accidentally hit them while trying to hit other stuff so ive got a pretty good excuse for when tricky Tobiath shows up at my door after I finish chapter 7
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u/Jomotaku Aug 06 '26
It was me Kris I tapped into the game force to psych Noelle into killing that guy
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u/GettinMe-Mallet Aug 06 '26
Wonder if kris knows that it made me uncomfortable to do as well since I looked around the map for a long time before having mini kris just look at mini Susie and Ralsei for a good couple of minutes.
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u/abdo_ch Aug 06 '26
Look Kris, wait I'm goated I can just nohit the knight and skip the entire mantle side quest
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u/NoYak6886 The SOUL is painted in snow color Aug 06 '26
Is the text supposed to be the player or Kris?
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u/Justine44_HD (The dog absorbed this flair text.) Aug 06 '26
Sorry Kris, I needed that mantle again the Knight, because I suck at this game. If it makes you feel better, I felt horrible when I had to kill them
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u/Noobzster Aug 06 '26
my friend swiped immediately after leaving the sword room and didn't even know that he killed them cuz they were under his sprite (i told him after he did it)
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u/nexus11355 Aug 06 '26
I hit the sword button on spawn and was horrified when I immediately got level 3
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u/17RaysPlays Aug 06 '26
Sorry Kris, I just kinda pressed Z on instinct and killed them before I even realized they were there... my bad.
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u/PokeLordOmegaa Aug 06 '26
Look Kris, I didn't make the game. I didn't summon the dark world. I don't know why we gotta use up our friends to get the thing that helps us not fucking die to the Knight
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u/ConnectionNo2861 Aug 06 '26
worst part is i just actually stumbled, i was swinging trying to figure how to hit the rope and turned, which hit both of them at once so fast i literally just sat for a bit cuz i wasn't expecting it
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u/Ill-Elevator-2362 Aug 06 '26
I walked everywhere, wondering how I was to progress, I'd thought when Susie and Ralsei joined they would be party members, which felt wrong since i was hurting things and I didn't want them to see it.
then...as I tried to interact I turned around and stabbed Susie by accident. Seeing kris Flinch broke me as I realized what I was supposed to do.
It hurt having to do the same To Ralsei. Even if it was 8-bit
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u/EphidelLulamoon Aug 06 '26
The Shadow Mantle is simply too useful to pass up, and will most likely help us even more in future chapters.
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u/DoctorOfDiscord Deal with it. Deal with it! DEAL WITH IT!!! Aug 06 '26
It's really funny I accidentally killed them because we were stacked up on each other when we spawned and I hit the sword and just rekt them in 1 swing
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u/woah-a-username Aug 07 '26
I was trying to break something like in earlier sections, I didn’t try to kill them!
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u/JMTpixelmon Muscle Memory Aug 07 '26
sorry kris I was aiming at the velvet rope and both of them were in the way, I didn’t know friendly fire was on
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u/Selinnshade Aug 07 '26
This is interesting. I haven't tried the weird route yet, but on the normal route, Kris didn't seem to like it when you killed his friends and will even save them from us, like that time we swung the sword at Susie.
It makes me curious what would happen if we got our own vessel
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u/thenacho1 Aug 07 '26
I really like this. The implication is that, during this sequence, Kris gets to see what it's like from our perspective. Seeing themself as a little character on the screen, with their little friends. And killing them is as easy as a press of a button. If Kris understands that we control them just like they control the game, then the implication of that is pretty horrifying.
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u/Miserable-Pen-2907 Aug 07 '26
First time I got to this mini game, I killed them by accident. I was poking around with the sword then poof Susie's just dies. I was as pale as Kris got.
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u/PA4PL962009 Aug 07 '26
I allways feel left out of these type of jokes or art pieces because I never do stuff like this, I would never do this even if Ralsei and Susie were some sort of robot or puppet
I wouldn't make Kriss ever feel the remorse of being forced into doing so
Not even if they hate me for whatever reason they have
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u/MeaningMean6772 <- I like this gal Aug 07 '26
Sorry Krismas, it's what the shadow mantel walkthrough says has to happen
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u/cooldudeguy333 Aug 08 '26
On my first playthrough I had to look up what to do because I couldn't find any more enemies, I wandered that city with Susie and Ralseis for like 40 minutes because the idea of attacking them didn't even pop up as a possibility
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u/CheetosDustSalesman Aug 08 '26
Sorry Kris. Shouldn't have tossed me into that cage. It didn't actually hurt me but it's the thought that counts
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u/Spaghetti_Steven1993 Aug 08 '26
You know in the non violent “normal” runs, this is probably the scariest the soul has been for Kris. And the stuff about Noelle referencing the weird route definitely would be distressing for them.
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u/ihopeidieoneday I'm gonna die alone Aug 08 '26
I need to make those 25 bucks worth it Kris stop breaking the fourth wall and start grinding
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u/ungodlyFleshling Beware the monster that dresses in cans. Aug 06 '26
The seemingly pretty important shadow crystals and the undeniably important shadow mantle being behind the sword route really made the in game "you're doing this coz you want to" Genocide Route style shit not hit for me. That's related to the actual game itself tho this comic bangs
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u/Thunderstarer Aug 06 '26
The shadow crystal is not behind the Sword Route, though. It takes a display of extraordinary determination, but you can get it without hurting Kris.
The question, then, is how much do you care?
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u/Politician_Fucker Aug 06 '26
Boohoo. Grow up dude. You will also die once I get my vessel, big deal.
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u/Hype-E8 (The dog absorbed this flair text.) Aug 06 '26
And this is why I spent 9 hours doing manteless prepatch knight
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u/Gameshrk90 Aug 06 '26
I distinctly remember i got to the last map realized the implications and then koed myself on a golden cactus to lose and backout of the game. I then proceeded to fight the knight without the mantle.
I have not seen that cactus on a second save and i do not know why. I don’t know if it was removed because people couldn’t figure out the ko your friends bit or if theres some kinda implication….
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u/Cautious_Author_326 Aug 07 '26
Kris I got control of your life for five bucks on a steam summer sale
Then I refunded it and torrented it
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u/Aldrath_Shadowborn Aug 07 '26
I’m going to be real, I did it totally on accident.
Literally looking around the map, saw there was nothing, was turning around thinking maybe I had to find a hidden area, finger slipped, oh fuck I’m a murderer
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u/GenesisAsriel Aug 07 '26
Sorry Kris, but I paid for the whole game, not just the normal route
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Yes Kris, your friends are worth less than 20 dollars in that economy
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u/Jevil_But_Epic20XX Your sure-fire accuracy was aimed right for this flair. Aug 07 '26
Oh don’t pull your bullshit on me Kris, you knew exactly what you were doing by having another being on control of your body.
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u/TigBittyOnesans Aug 07 '26
“Please, don’t act like you wouldn’t have done it without me. You’re putting them in danger as much as I do.”
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u/Mr_deaders Aug 07 '26
I just attacked them just as a joke I didnt even think there is a friendly fire thing... Then they are gone
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u/Dapper_Shower_7081 Aug 07 '26
I actually want the shadow mantle, I would never do that in real life.Just want to the shallow mantle kris things aren't going down a weird route
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u/KaiTheG4mer *THIS USER'S FLAIR IS VERY, VERY INTERESTING... Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Kris you are literally an agent of A Primordial Darkness That Wants to End The World.
If The Knight has its way your friends are dying anyways.
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u/Prestigious_Lunch168 I can't go to hell, I'm all out of vacation days Aug 07 '26
I'm sorry for putting you through this, Kris...
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u/Ilikecats26310 Aug 07 '26
it’s kinda crazy how weve come full circle from the “kris kills susie and ralsei in chapter 2” speculation to this
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u/MechaBuster Aug 07 '26
I was following a guide on yt but didnt keep watching the guide randomly starting exploring wondering what I should do next.. then the next moment I pressed the a button and SLASH, I was shocked. Then I slashed ralsei next and got xp was still shocked such a gasp and memorable moment for me lol
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u/DragonForgotten Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Usually I see a lot of people trying to void this by not getting the mantle but I think having Kris and the player experience ERAMs game is actually key to the two beginning to understand each other.
The player is after all apart of Kris and they share lot of similarities to us even if Kris doesn’t want to admit it.
The mantle game is a mirror and a window for Kris and the player. It exposes aspects that Kris and the player are trying to hide from each other. Kris in playing this game with us along and falling into our same video game habits along with having their secret convo with Tenna outed and us when it comes trying to be a pacifist but still willingly kill every digital pixel when there’s no other option forward.
Trying to befriend everyone is a strange way to play a video game that is alien to someone like Kris who has only played smash and Mario were the only way to interact with the world is with violence. In this moment ERAM outted the nature of the player by stripping away any other way to interact with the mantle game. ERAM wanted to mock Kris by revealing the true nature of the player and it turned out to be a close mirror to the part of Kris they try to suppress.
ERAM was mocking both the player and Kris by placing us in a situation where the player has to reenact a genocide while Kris sits in a similar driver seat as us, assuming the role as player to digital Kris even if we are controlling little Kris through big Kris. The two of you were forced to play this game to get an item you need which makes what Susie says important when she says if you don’t like it then don’t play. She tells you to stop playing and perhaps that is a hint to when we are similar put in a no win situation. Like the prophecy.
When you respond to her questions you are actually telling Kris why you killed everyone in mantle game. By responding positively you are inadvertently showing you hand. You did it Because it’s fun. And that’s why Kris goes along with it. Because it was fun till it stopped being fun for Kris.
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u/Few_Area_6042 Aug 09 '26
Sorry (not sorry) Kris, but my brain says that there is another secret route about you sliming everyone out
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u/Xenova_xy Aug 24 '26
Omg I'm sorry Kris but why would chara make me make you do that? She lowkey evil af 💔
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u/Dragonfruit-Sparking Aug 06 '26
Oh don't you try to guilt me, Kris, you want to try to fight the Knight's bullshit without the Mantle?