Yoshiro Kimura's new game Stray Children is a spiritual successor to Moon: Remix RPG, but it has more than a little in common with Undertale
If you’re enjoying Moon: Remix RPG Adventure’s newly released Switch port, you probably have Undertale creator Toby Fox to thank. In a recen
There is no 'Undertale' without 'moon,' the so-called "anti-RPG" that took the many tropes of the JRPG and turned them on their head.
Putting all these interviews here to emphasize the importance of Moon Remix RPG Adventure's in inspiring Toby Fox, and how Undertale in turn inspired one of its devs, Yoshiro Kimura, to take a chance and make a game like Moon again
i just think thats beautiful to find out that a little known game you made when you were in your 20s inspired a kid (who was like probably fucking 7 years old when it came out) who grew up to make one of the most beloved games ever made
Undertale / Deltarune fans should check out Stray Children
If you know anything about Toby Fox's inspirations, you know he wears his inspirations on his sleeve. One of those inspirations is Moon: Remix RPG. The people who made that, are pretty much making an Undertale-Like* directly because of Toby himself. The trailer for that game, releasing Oct 30th, is what I've embedded here.
*a game where combat is turn based, you can talk to enemies or beat them up, and dodge their attacks.
There's a bit of history between Toby Fox and Yoshiro Kimura now, if you want to learn more about that I've put it beneath the read more.
Before I get into Moon specifically, I want to get into what I call the "Big Six" inspirations. (Image Source)
(you don't need to read this right now for this post to make sense)
This is from the 5th anniversary, and lists some of the inspirations for Undertale. The main 6 are so prominent that they're present in pretty much all of Toby's works, including Deltarune.
The Mother series impacts the writing all the time, to the point that some of Lancer's lines are just directly from the games. "I'm a tough boy, treat me like one of your items" is just a line from the Escape Mouse item in Earthbound.
Dodging enemy attacks? Everyone say thank you to the Touhou series. Fun Events in Undertale and that secret gumball 1225 room in Deltarune? That's directly inspired by Yume Nikki. (Kris Image Source)
Brandish is through the entire series at this point. The style of shops are directly from the game. The Chapter 1 closet fall of Deltarune used the intro of Brandish (where the two main characters fall into The RUINS and must defeat the King Of The Monsters to escape) as reference. You ever wondered why GLACEIR is misspelled in the Chapters3+4 soundtrack? Also Brandish. Susie's signature attack is called "Rude Buster" because Brandish has a sword called "Planet Buster" and Toby likes referencing things from Brandish.
Why Toriel is white? That's right: Cave Story
But I'm not here to talk about them, I just wanted to emphasize how important to the series all of these are. Moon is no exception. Deconstruction of the genre? LOVE? Sparing enemies? You know, the entire crux of the game? That's all Moon, baby.
(Other games do quite a bit of deconstruction too but this one goes the whole mile)
I'm not going to go over the game's specifics here, if you want that Dorked ( @megaderping ) has both an amazing video about it and her own playthrough uploaded on YouTube. But to sum up: It's an "anti-RPG" where you save monsters from the "Hero" of the game you fall into to gather Love.
But how is Toby involved with this? To put it simply, Toby is the first domino on why Moon: Remix RPG ever came out in English. (Interview)
But it's not just that, Undertale is even why Stray Children exists at all. In fact it's the first RPG he's made since Moon 20+ years ago (Interview 2)
So what we have here is the next RPG from one of the most important inspirations for Undertale, because Undertale directly inspired the person who made that inspiration in the first place to try and make another RPG.
This isn't just a game that you might like because it's similar, this is a game made as a direct response to the inspiration two artists kept giving each other. I think that's beautiful, and I'm eagerly looking forward to it.
