10 Times Video Games Knew What You Were Thinking (And Rewarded It)

8. Eating The Spider Pastry - Undertale

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Undertale, originally billing itself as "the friendly RPG where no one has to die", naturally gives the player a lot of options for solving problems without violence. Some you might not even know about because Toby Fox is an insane person.

For instance, in keeping with the theme of Undertale that EVERYTHING is important, if you bought a spider pastry from the bake sale, and keep it all the way up to the Spider girl boss fight, you might note her reason for being mad at you was because you didn't want to buy her ridiculously overpriced baked goods. But...what if you ate the spider pastry you got earlier? Surely not.

Well if you managed to hold onto it for this long, eating it actually ends the fight, showing that you DO in fact care about the spider lady's cause. The game is full of tiny details like that, especially in its combat; clever little ways of getting out of a fight without having to throw a single punch.

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