But to play Undertale is to find a game that seems to have spawned from the same line of thinking as that oft-misquoted conclusion: “If only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances. Outwardly, there would seem to be little to connect those two facts. Toby Fox was almost two-and-a-half years old in March 1994, the month Edge’s infamous Doom review was published.