Subject: PLAY HYPOTHESIS: Toby Fox is SHIGESATO ITOI?!?! (UNDERTALE)
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Posted on: 2019-07-18 03:07:00 UTC

Hello, Internet, welcome to Play Hypothesis! Today we're going to be discussing a fan favorite, the UNDERTALE series! But this isn't any ordinary theory about the games, oh no. Instead of drawing the connections between W.D. Gaster and the strange world of DELTARUNE and digging into the game's code to forge some kind of connection, we're going to be talking about the creator of these games, Toby Fox!

Now, let me summarize this guy's history, because I feel there's something fishy here. The story of Toby Fox is that he started off with an EarthBound ROM hack called the "Halloween Hack." From there, he went on to compose music for popular webcomic Homestuck. At some point in his life, he had a dream. A dream about an ending to a game. He woke up and realized, "I have to make that game." So he started work on an RPG that... never got finished. Eventually, he created an RPG based on a different idea. This RPG was UNDERTALE. Now, UNDERTALE isn't the game with the ending that Toby had a vision of. That game will be DELTARUNE, once the full release comes out.

Toby Fox claims that his games are heavily inspired by the MOTHER series, which is a series of three games, MOTHER, MOTHER 2, and MOTHER 3, created by Shigesato Itoi. These games each folllow a child with psychic powers defeating bad guys with he power of psychedelic backgrounds in order to stop the forces of evil. Ever heard of it? No? Well, that's perfectly normal! The series is mostly unheard of outside of Japan, except for the U.S. localization of MOTHER 2 as EarthBound. Sound familiar? It should; Toby Fox got his start with the EarthBound Halloween Hack! And it's easy to see the inspiration that UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE have in MOTHER 3, from the quirky tone, to elements of the battle system, to the very font that the games share, even the way your level, or LOVE in UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE, is written on the save file images for each game is the same! ...wait a minute. There's something fishy going on here. These two games are much too similar to ever have come from two different creators. "But NatKat!" I hear you ask. "Maybe Itoi and Toby are just similar people!" And to that I say, "If there's a rabbit hole, go down it!" In this 17-part series, I'll be proving to you that Toby Fox and Shigesato Itoi are the same person!

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