As a person who did not enjoy the gameplay in chapter 5, I don't like the type of response to critisim that goes something like "y'all just forgot that deltarune is a videogame". I'm happy that many people found the new gameply mechanics fun, but that doesn't mean that the game can't be critiqued on that basis now.
Videogames are a vast medium. Saying that "you just want deltarune to be a vn at this point" is not some gotcha, 'cause it still would be a videogame, story-driven videogames are a thing. So what is the problem for me? For me, deltarune has always been an RPG-maker style game, the main gameplay of which was fights, a few puzzles and mini games here and there and bits of story all along the way. And, yes, I thought of it as a story-driven game, why wouldn't I?
However, in chapter 4 we were intoduced to a new type of challenge: climbing, which was adding a platformer-like aspect to the game. And I did not like it! Because I don't like platformers! And when I play deltarune I don't expect to play something I don't like, because, well, I wouldn't have picked up this game in the first place then lmao. Can you imagine my face when I realized what the gameplay in chapter 5 is? Fights are still there, but the puzzles are basically thrown away for the new platforming mechanic. So the gameplay felt like a chore for 80% of the time for me.
From another angle, the problem still stands for me. There are just so many games that do this type of gameplay better. To my surprise, I liked Celeste (despite my dislike of the genre), because of the gradual rise of difficulty, the introduction of the new mechanics and fun combinations of them later in the game. Part of the charm is that the levels are made this way that you will have to try over and over until you beat the level. That sense of accomplishment and skill progression was the reason why I found the game to be fun. And! For the same reason I like (boss) fights in deltarune. You try over and over again until you win.
However, deltarune, due to the way how the game functions, can't give me that. So we have very mid dificulty platforming, that takes a few tries to beat, and instead of satisfaction I just thought that yay hope that something interesting will happen now. The game doesn't have the runtime for the platforming to develop and become fun (like celeste and other games of the genre do). So, yeah, it just feels like playing a very long tutorial that doesn't build up to anything bigger than that. Basically, what I'm saying is that if I want to play this type of game, I'd play another game that focuses on this mechanic.
So, yeah, I know that deltarune is a videogame, I just thought that it's a different type of a videogame. And, I believe, rightfully so.
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