One really cool thing that I never see anyone talk about in this fight is the way your health is displayed. When you first start taking hits, your health bar plummets, but as you take more and more damage, the bar shrinks more slowly. This means that at the start of the fight, you feel hopeless in the face of such strong attacks, and then the tension ramps up as you cling to those last few pixels even though you actually have a pretty good chunk of health left. It sort of builds Determination into the fight as you struggle to stay alive.

My favorite part of this is that, when Flowey cheats and has your soul surrounded at 1 HP, you can annoy him by running it into the pellets over and over in the middle of his speech. It catches him so off guard that he briefly reverts to his normal Flowey face to tell you to knock it off.

You neglected to mention how his reaction to taking damage changes. Initially it’s a sarcastic “ow”, but when he loses his defense, each subsequent hit has him realize what happened before being just howls of pain. Really makes the final phase all the more cathartic.

Flowey referencing the atomic bombs is such an uncalled-for and dark joke. And that fits PERFECTLY with him.

Flowey's face wasn't floating in the sky before absorbing the souls, if I interpreted what you said correctly He was showing his face on the TV screen while in the darkness, and the souls appeared to do the little battle start animation just like your soul does

The main reason i like Photoshop, omega flowey is the finale theme

his voice is absolutely TERRIFYING. it sounds like "OW!",but as you keep hitting him,it gets more terrifying.

Fun fact! Those "big spiked plant balls with mouths on them" are called dentata in the code. A denata is... well it's a certain other "mouth looking" body part but with teeth. Yeah, those are way worse than just mouths.

The most fascinatingly disgusting thing about this is that it genuinely looks like a pile of flesh taken over by a flower. There are 4 eyes and 2 mouthes, similar to the 6 souls, and as you said, it looks like the tubes are clogged with flesh. It’s just 6 children’s flesh struggling to breathe. It’s so beautifully horrifying

Fun fact or not: those tubes in the back when you said they look fleshy. Yeah that is because some of those tubes are not tubes. THEY'RE WORMS

I like to think that all the buck wild elements like bombs and flamethrowers are Flowey's idea of what's badass and scary and cool. Much like the true pacifist final boss, but an empty, warped and soulless version instead of fully realised. Both are essentially a little boy's fantasies.

I have something to say about the fight, namely an attack and a line of dialogue. First of, the finger gun. You may think it's just another creepy attack, but what if there's a reason behind it? Asriel died in 201X. There is a good chance he was shot with a gun. (Edit:to be clear, it's not the yellow soul attack. It's the attack where a bunch of hands shoot out smiling flowers that is present at 6:06 . I just think the fact he does the finger gun combined with what I say later might be a reference to him getting shot. Not saying it definitely is, but it might) Second, the line "Mommy, daddy, somebody help". While he is obviously mocking us, I think there's another reason. The first thing he did after waking up as a flower was call for help "Mom, Dad, somebody help me!". But nobody came. Nobody could help him. So why would anyone help us? What Flowey wants us to understand is that we played the game the "wrong way". We either didn't kill enough, or didn't kill at all. Like he did in the village. And he got punished. He didn't get a happy ending for being kind, so nobody can get it. And if they try, he'll show them what the world will do to them

When you showed the zoomed-in body parts of Photoshop Flowey, I realized that actually every time I look at this battle, I never look at Flowey. Its design is so uncomfortable that I just focus on the red soul and dodge the attacks. This captures the mood of the fight quite well - it doesn't matter who your enemy is and how much stronger and more terrible he is than you, you just need to have the will to live - your Determination.

something that not many people have noticed is how flowey's hit sounds change over the fight. in the beginning you do completely negligible damage, which is reflected by his mocking "ohh! ooh! ;p" noises (which are ronald mcdonald btw). however, when finale (best song in the ost) kicks in and you start completely whalloping the scallywag, he starts actually screaming in agony/fear/anger. its a really nice way to show your progress through the fight

I always found Photoshop Flowey so bizzare. His attacks are just terrifying. As his theme suggests "Your Best Nightmare" it truly shows how he literally wants you to die when he starts to attack. And adding some realistic stuff into him just makes him look like some sort of monster. The TV always showing a horrifying face of a man screaming is even more uncannier. Seeing let's players horrified of what Flowey turned himself it just shows that Omega Flowey is truly a great boss.

one thing ive noticed in this fight, when flowey mocks you saying "mom dad help, see what good it does you" he is referring to himself when he was turned into a flower

Something I don't see discussed enough(partly because it doesn't seem to be as widely noticed as it should be) is the fact that everything the SOULs do during the fight proper was actually faked by Flowey. The entire Finale segment was just Flowey tricking Frisk into thinking they had a chance before he rips it away yet again. First of all, there's a very scripted nature to the way the SOULs supposedly rebel that indicates that Flowey knew it was happening and did nothing to stop it despite being more than capable of it. They appear on his TV screen, which he has control over, clearly announcing themselves, the "petal" tubes gradually go dark and stop pulsating as a visual indicator of how many SOULs, and the TV even switches to whichever SOUL will show up next during the healing phases. When Frisk dies, Flowey, despite being more than capable of reloading back to the true start of the fight, as he does when "defeated", deliberately treats these as a checkpoint. He even taunts them with "Do you even realize what will happen if you defeat me?", which indicates that he has a plan for if this happens, not to mention "Are you letting me kill you on purpose?"...which, given Flowey has a bit of thing for projection... yeah. The format of the SOUL phases is also odd, as the SOULs have no reason to attack Frisk, and even less to offer them a way out built into their attack in the form of the ACT button. During the Finale segment, despite his defense supposedly having been at zero from the start, the damage being done to Flowey increases. Flowey not only sits there and takes it when we know he can reload, he even actively seems to take the fight less seriously, starting out with easier attacks and stopping with his mid-attack SAVE file abuse even once he seemingly remembers "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be fighting for my life here". Even the music suggests who is really in control, through the use of Flowey's own leitmotif both during the SOUL phases and the Finale segment. Additionally, the SOULs, which, being human SOULs, do not have innate magical abilities, attacking and healing using bullets based on items that they possessed when they were alive(notably, the only way Flowey knows them, because Frisk is the first human he's encountered since his death.). The words used by the purple SOUL can also all be tied into Flowey's backstory, notably including dreams and dreamer(Dreemurr) as separate healing words. It is odd that these items, which many of them discarded or lost well before their deaths, would be the means their literal SOULs use to attack. Almost like it might actually be the guy who can do much more extreme things with his bullets than this impersonating them. Then there's Flowey's own reaction to the SOULs breaking free the "second" time. If the SOULs had actively been rebelling, he shouldn't have been so confused and surprised by their disobedience here. He was clearly aware of it happening, as previously mentioned. He also is notably confident that nobody will help Frisk when they call for help, despite the SOULs supposedly having responded to Frisk doing exactly that, describing them as being alone. Heck, the moment he sees something weird, Frisk being suddenly healed instead of dying in one hit, he tries to reset, despite not having done this throughout the fight when stuff that he should be finding much weirder is happening. Most explicitly, there's the SAVE files themselves. Flowey retains the ability to use the SAVE files belonging to the six humans throughout the fight, including when he resets after his initial "defeat". However, right before the SOULs appear at the end, he suddenly loses access to those SAVEs, repeatedly trying and failing to load them. This indicates that the SOULs did not break free during the fight itself, or else Flowey would have been unable to reload to avoid defeat. The SOULs were still obeying him up until this point. Throughout the fight, Flowey is merely toying with Frisk. He could do his reset into one-shot combo infinitely if he wanted, at any time, but his goal isn't simply to kill them over and over. He chooses to give Frisk these little rays of hope solely because he wants the pleasure of crushing that hope. Because at his core, Flowey is motivated by curiosity and the belief that he is exempt from the consequences of his actions, and he wants to see Frisk's reaction, he wants to see their spirit broken. Him toying with Frisk is the only reason he resets when they die at all, because he wants the pleasure of tormenting them until they give up entirely, and that doesn't just mean physically.

Fun little fact, Omega Flowey's music falls under the genre Breakcore. A type of music where chaos is the main focus. It's made to be fast paced and crowded, the percussion is always the most present thing on this music genre.

In the art book, the back tubes of photoshop flowey are stated to actually be worms. Making his appearance more icky and messed up on closer inspection.

I played Undertale for my first time when I was 9, and I just absolutely loved it. It was the best and most difficult game I had played yet and I never really experienced anything like it. Everything changed when I got to Photoshop Flowey. As he slowly crept down into the screen with the creepy music playing I already felt super uncomfortable, And when he finally revealed what he looked like I was literally shocked. I didn't even move my soul. So I died, and when it said "This is all just a bad dream" I let out an audible sigh of relief. Than when it started laughing I just turned off the game. *I didn't play it again for 2 years* Fast forward to today and I think Photoshop Flowey is the best final boss ever created. I would also like to say this is a great video and it encapsulates why Flowey is horrifying perfectly.

Photoshop Flowey to this day holds the spot as my favorite video game character design, I love your dissection of him and his fight. Something I don't see many people talk about is probably my absolute favorite part of his design, though. He's made to almost resemble a mechanical-botanical "Biblically-accurate angel" - a seraphim specifically. It's especially noticeable in his earliest concept art, where he has arms shooting out of the tubes and mouths/eyes lining the middle vines. It's interesting, because he (Asriel) is named after the angel of death, Azrael. Azrael is described as having "4,000 wings and a body formed by as many eyes and tongues as there are living human beings" the wings being replaced with the plant life (just compare the cacti arms to seraphim wings) and the latter was included abundantly in Toby's concept art. If Asriel's form with 7 souls is the "God of Hyperdeath," then it makes sense for his form with 6 souls to be the "Angel of [Hyper]Death," ergo the appearance of Photoshop Flowey resembling Azrael/seraphims! Everything about this character and his design was thought out, I love it.

Another thing to add about the music specifically, the genre that the song would fall under is a genre called 'Breakcore' which is fitting given that he's breaking the core elements of the game throughout the battle

another reason why this boss is brilliant and fits perfectly to the neutral route is the fact that you have to both act and attack to beat him, the two options used in the neutral route.

Tbh finale is the most underated song in undertale

I have a feeling all of the war-themed attacks (such as bombs) could be Flowey using you, as a human,'s own things against you. Asriel states that Chara hated humanity, and one of those reasons could have been how they wage war on each other, which Chara could have told Asriel about. Hence, Flowey uses the very nuke-shaped bombs that killed many in the fight as a scare/"this is what YOU'RE like!" tactic against the player.

7:28 the thing I like most about his use of friendliness pallets is that the player's immidiate conotation to this attacks is "an unavoidable attacks". In other parts of the game, every time he uses them is a time where you are on a single HP, with no way for you to escape the attack on your own. But now in this fight you are on your own, and he uses this attack not once, not twice but many times

I honestly think the ending where you spare flowey is absolutely brilliant because of another reason: once you win, he will remark how this doesn't seem to be a very good ending, and gives you clues on how to get the Pacifist ending, in which you befriend everyone. However, in doing so, you cause everyone to gather in the throne room, which gives Flowey the amount of souls he needs to become Asriel again. I like to think that Flowey had planned this all along (his dialogue after pacifist Toriel also implies that) and the "happy ending" he had given you hints for was actually just a way to become more powerful

I would like to point out how in deltarune, the only enemies capable of overcoming the battle box and using the whole screen are the shadow crystal holders, all being extremely powerful beings. In undertale, the only characters that do this are omega flowey and asriel dreemur showing how powerful they are. Also sans is able to stretch it in his last attack but idk if that counts.

I think the reason of what makes this fight so terrifying is how JARRING Omega Flowey is compared to the rest of the game. Like Dead Hand or Lavender Town, this "thing" pops up out of nowhere and scares the ever-loving shit out of you.

This might be interesting to you, and a little bit of history about how Photoshop Flowey even came to be, design-wise. When I first played Undertale, I actually recognized the bizarre style immediately as being Everdraed, a formerly proflic photoshopper, artist, and video editor/animator who would contribute a lot to Somethingawful back in the day (I'm old ok). Sure enough, when you get to the credits, he's credited there as the "Photoshop Flowey Battle co-design". Everdraed also made the trailer for the game. Everdraed's steam review of the game is still there and briefly mentions that he was so "super impressed by the [early] demo" that he reached out to Toby directly and asked if there was anything he could do to help out. I'm sure Toby either already knew of Everdraed from the SA forums, or checked out his stuff then, and agreed there was something Everdraed could do. And that's how Photoshop Flowey came to be.

[Read edit at bottom] In case you were curious, part of the reason "Your Best Nightmare" sounds so chaotic is due to the use of a breakbeat. Essentially, it takes a drum loop and speeds it up to an insane bpm, and often chops up the music. It creates the very quick and stimulating effect where there's not much downtime or empty space, and for this particular fight it helps keep you on edge by subtlety telling you "it's not over yet" without ever having to say anything. Edit: The next person to repeat what the first reply said I will find your spiritual ancestors and beat them with my own fists. Y'all need to chill out, breakcore is the only genre of this style of music I'm familiar with. I just wanted to give an explanation that made sense to me, oh my god. It's really not that deep. I don't care about your "ermm actually ☝️🤓" behavior over how it's actually a different style, the point I'm making still stands. Can you people just shut up and move on from this stupid comment already?

finally someone is talking in-depth about omega floweys design. ive been OBSESSED with they're design since ive ever since i first saw them. the face in the tv has to be my favorite thing about them. its disturbing and uncanny. it doesn't fit in the best way possible. i also love how chaotic the fight itself is. flowey doesn't hold back, and doesn't take frisks' shit. the noise they make when they get hurt is so strange as well. the "aw!" and "eh!" sounds so disgusting in the best way. the endings are also beautifully done. the sprite of destroyed flowey with no music is so depressing and amazing. omega flowey has to be my favorite boss in gaming history, and i dont think that will change anytime soon.

11:12 im crying on how the egg simply dodged your soul

What also made this fight my favorire is how the music and the fight are planned, it might be hard to explain but the music plays a role here, it is always in sync between phases since there's no menu and you're always fighting.

1:22 it's even more dark that flowey immediately destroys the soul. which would've been your escape to the underground. furthermore, this is his father.

certified domo moment

A nice detail I wanted to add is that flowey wasnt using his true power till the very end of the fight, he was just playing with you to make you feel completely hopeless, and everytime you die your game crashes cause you really died, you no longer have the power to save and comeback, and when you open the game to try again its because FLOWEY reset just to get to kill us again

I almost played through Undertale in one sitting when I got it originally. The neutral route, I mean. I played it until it was like 1 AM and the sun had been down for a while outside. I came to this battle, and once Flowey was revealed from the shadows and started laughing, I quite literally just closed my laptop and went "well that's enough game for today." I finished the game the next day, natch.

Great video. You basically just put everyones thoughts on this fight into words, and did a damn good job at it :)

13:14 You forgot to mention the Easter egg where if you keep running into the pellets he starts to get annoyed He’ll say, “Could…. Could you stop that?” With an angry flowey face

I've always adored Flowey's expressions. The way they stretch and contort according to what he's saying is so interesting. I could grin as wide as he does in 'I knew you had it in you'. The kind of imperfect blankness of his 'dead' face, like a pencil mark not full erased is also interesting.

When I first got into this fanbase, some people thought it was weird I significantly preferred this fight over the Sans fight. This perfectly explains why I felt that way.

what I really like about the Omega Flowey boss fight is that his transformation is visually striking and sets the stage for an epic battle It's a memorable underrated fight from the game

I like how the ninja star attacks LOOK impossible. But actually they’re actually really easy too avoid, like flowey trying his damn hardest to make an impossible attack but you can still find a way though. Also it gives you an absolutely PHENOMENAL ego boost when you dodge it for the first time

4:02 i think it's pretty much just a description of the pain the human souls are in, they're being forced to attack you against their will. i guess the screen has the same meaning you said tho

It's a shame how photoshop flowey has been almost completely forgotten by the fandom. Before the AU stuff took over, animations for photoshop flowey (or Omega Flowey as he was called by the fandom at the time) were EVERYWHERE, it feels like there were way more animations about PF than about Sans

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this already but I also want to mention that the weird vertical mouth, four eyes, and some other aspects of this design can also be seen in Gyftrot in the Snowy area.

I love how you can see how just mish mashed his form is. On the mouth you can literally see the black background added onto the picture in photoshop. ITS SO COOL

Honestly, Finale slaps really hard. Also, funny how Flowey is the final boss of both Pacifist and Netural and only time we dont fight him is in Genocide and even then, he is the last person we kill.

This truly is a domo video

[I'd like to apologize in advance if I say something nonsensical since English isn't my first language] I was gonna defend Flowey by stating how much the fight is like a "revenge" or vent for everything he went through, but a lot of people here in the comments have done it already so imma just say how much I love finale because it perfectly displays both our and his feelings. I don't know how exactly to describe it but the song gives me a feeling of hope and anxiousness, an uncertainty of what will happen, and that rings true both for Flowey as it does for us because even though the souls are helping us, we don't really know what he's capable of doing after "losing". I also really like the subtle use of 'his theme' in the bg of the song because as @suitov said, deep down, buried beneath layers upon layers of leaves and earth, Flowey is still Asriel, and in a way, it's all just a little boy's fantasy gone wrong. And when you've said at the end that "flowey is not a good person", I believe he's just a confused child with a 2D perception of the world. When he was Asriel, he believed everyone could be a good person and was willing to die at the hand of humans instead of fighting; while being Flowey, he believes fighting is the only option and there's no such a thing as kindness for the sake of being kind. By the end where you spare him, that concept is challenged, bringing him back to the notion that "everyone can be a good person", even though he doesn't want to believe it since it lead to so much suffering. This thus leads us to the pacifist ending, and upon talking to asriel in the ruins, we learn that HE has learned that the world is not so black-and-white, and ask us to not kill and not get killed. And even when he turns back to Flowey, he pleads us to just let the game be and let everyone be happy, because if we keep coming back, that'll eventually lead to a genocide (and he says that from experience). Thanks for listening to my autistic rant he's literally my favorite character 👍

That drop in the finale makes me feel so much energy, I just want to get up and dance, I feel like I could take on god and become one, truly a masterpiece

The reason why I get so excited about Deltarune is because I know that there will be a callback to this boss fight. Toby was 100% lying when he said they aren’t connected.

if you look in the games files and find the "mouth" of flowey, you'll realise what it really is.

A nice detail about this fight, is that when Flowey challenges to ''Call for help'' right after you ''defeat'' him, he actually looks nervous when you actually do so. For a brief moment, even if short, Flowey doesn't discard the possibility his house of cards will fall, almost having a ''Wait no, I didn't screw up didn't I?'' Moment.

A detail I wanna mention about the music that I haven't seen brought up a lot: Your Best Nightmare truly is the sound form of a night terror. As someone who experienced those often as a kid (for totally unrelated reasons) I think it matters to point out that his battle theme feels like the audio form of your literal worst actual nightmares. The dread. The panic. The sheer consistency and persistence of it. He's truly put you in the ultimate nightmare and even the music refuses to let you forget that. And then the soul segments are those brief breathers you sometimes get in a bad dream. You turn a few corners and lose The Thing That's After You for a while. You can rest a moment under the table. It won't see you here. And then the next phase of the music starts as you realize That Thing Can Crouch And Crawl And that's why I kill Flowery every. Single. Time. He's my favorite character but ye defi itely deserves it. "I kNeW yOu HaD iT iN yOu" I'm at LOVE 17 you stupid flower could you not tell by my stats alone that I'm willing to kill to defend myself? LMAO

7:01 these are the “GREAT FLOWEY NUKES” as jacksepticeye would say

Omega flowey is the perfect boss fight. You feel like it's over before it starts and the first time through, your fears are basically confirmed, but as you play over and over again, you realize you might actually be able to do something... it almost feels like the stakes are real. And once you reach the hopeful part, it really hits emotionally

Fun fact: While the game has a way to register all the fights with IDs, Photoshop Flowey's battle is the only battle in the game that has no battle ID because it all happens in a room (room_294_floweyx)

what the hell this video is so underrated

Another detail I love is that during the "Finale" segment, the face on the screen makes a scream of pain when you hit him.

Glad to see someone else appreciating Finale, I genuinely consider it one of my favorite tracks in the game and that drop is immaculate. I love how you just paused your explanation for a moment so everyone could hear it play uninterrupted lol :D

To add onto your points, I think the fleshy parts of his design is meant to be representative of Flowey’s exploitation of the 6 other souls. His cruel nature combined with the forced capture of the human souls perverts his appearance, thereby making the souls completely unrecognizable to what an actual human looks like. I also think this further emphasizes to the player that Flowey is completely beyond redemption and you NEED to take him down. Like you said in the video, the combined perverted flesh, Flowey’s plant appearance, and the mechanical tubes make a horrifying godlike amalgamation that we need the determination to fight.

during finale, if you listen carefully you can hear little dings that sound like “his theme”, a small but noticeable detail that shows flowey’s actual identity

13:23 the way the laughing animation for Flowey stops right as the SOULs heal you back to full truly a "And that's when he knew. He fucked up." moment

0:20 - he's not bored FROM the resets, he got bored OF the resets

this single character helped me ascend into my freaky art style and damn, he will always be my favorite

7:12 Grocery list.

0:43 I haven't played Undertale, I thought this video was about a new Photoshop feature called Flowey...

Finale is one hell of a song. It really rivals that of all the other route final bosses' tracks.

A bit late but I wanted to add. After Flowey absorbs the Human souls his appearance and attacks gain a human element. Finger pistols, Dentata, Nukes, Flamethrowers. It's not until he absorbs the monster souls and stabilizes/gains full control of the souls, that he returns to the classic black and white monster look.

Videos like this grow my love for Undertale so much more, I got chills learning how much better Undertale was than I originally thought

bro REALLY doesent want us to disagree insane job at explaining how disturbing omega flowey is.

Sir you cant be a eldrish horror here this is wendys

thank god someone acknowledges the brilliance of this scenario

4:19 That's also supported by the fact the TV was originally supposed to show the actual player's face by using their webcam

Fun fact: the fight was never called photoshop flowey Its just that one of the people who helped with photoshop also helped with the flowey fight so people misread the credits

8:00 normal ppl : get terrified from omega flowey my friend : OMG A FAT DUCK

Flowey in general [not as Asriel] has always been my favorite FAVORITE character. I'm so glad to see him done justice and people that noticed the same things as I did. I don't think I've really seen any Flowey videos, just, sigh, Sans, Gaster, maybe Chara, thats it.

fun fact! those background "tubes" that look kinda fleshy? worms! those are worms, but slightly tinted grey. so in a sense, they fit into both the mechanical and the natural at the same time, which i think is neat (much like the six "petals" framing the tv screen). this fight scared me SO bad the first time i played LMAO my heart was racing....... and yet, after sparing flowey and seeing his reaction? god did it really hit me that there's so very clearly SOMETHING deeper happening here than just the sadistic, nihilistic front that flowey puts up. not only is this ending so memorable for the fight itself, but it also perfectly sets up the bridge into unravelling the true tragedy of flowey/asriel's past, which it's VERY much implied that flowey himself pulls the strings into orchestrating the player discovering it all. he wants you to know, even if it's just under the guise of getting the monster souls, but that always felt like a bit contrived of a way to get his hands (vines?) on them to me. almost like....... he's calling for help again, ever so subtly. before he does outright as asriel, of course.

i love how his theme, or the melody, changes the more souls you save, it reminds me a lot of the titan dweevil from pikmin 2, as the melody changes the more parts you remove from him

One thing I wish about this game's bosses is that they were actually easier to die to. There's so much leniency with your health is this fight and to a lesser degre with the true ending boss that the illusion of difficulty disappears once you realize it. I'm not asking for sans-level difficult, but it should at least actually be hard.

I really think this whole fight is very underrated. This video is such a good way to give it some appreciation it deserves

0:13 Me: *AGGRESSIVE CHEERING*

Fun Fact: Omega Flowey is the name the fandom gave to it. The actual name (as listed in the credits after the fight) is Photoshop Flowey. Some of its sprites also call it God Flowey though. It is never called Omega Flowey anywhere inside the game. Omega Flowey just became such a widespread name for it though that people just accepted it as canon. It actually became such a widespread thing that the fandom's name for it is even mentioned and used in some of the official Undertale merchandise and kind of is canon now.

Thanks for covering this fight, loved the video dude! ive been through this fight more than I'd like to admit and ive been working on a big project related to the fight for a while now. It makes me smile and happy to see someone else share the same... Fascination of this thing, the music has and always still goes hard, the sheer contrast in design in every way, along with the haunting feeling it gives you without having to try much. There's also alot of cool info regarding the concepts and unused attacks/names of everything, but anyway You got a like and Sub, i enjoyed the work you put into it!! 😁

I still remember my first time playing Undertale. I'd read a lot about it, knew (in broad terms) most of what happens, including a bit about Flowey's role in the meta-narrative, but I was somehow unspoiled to the (on the PC version) fake-crash leading up to that final battle. I died once throughout the fight. And that final choice does a good job of making you question "will the game _really_ allow me to spare/kill Flowey?" Yes, but you only get this ONE chance to make that decision (Flowey won't fight you again). I've since seen quite a few playthroughs of Undertale, and the overall theme of hope vs. despair rings very true. One channel felt like this was the game's "bad ending" , after repeated deaths during the opening phase, almost gave up entirely. A different channel refused to attack Flowey during the final phase for several minutes. Another one defeated Flowey on their first try despite their claim about how bad they were generally with the "bullet hell" style dodging. Undertale may be approaching 10 years by now, but it still never gets old.

The weird metalic/mechanical intenstines remind me a lot of Dark Seed, I never really noticed it till now

I think Photoshop Flowey is really underrated. We need more fan content w/ Photoshop Flowey and his way of being terrifying.

Honestly this whole video was perfect. New subscriber. It’s great to see analysis’s in to how and why set pieces like this work so well. And that is a great point about Deltarune! I wonder if something will go down a similar route like Omega Flowey, like the Titan’s or if not them then a true final boss.

I absolutely love this fight just because of how much it breaks the fourth wall, and just how it breaks away from the natural Undertale style, everything about it is amazing

14:25 well, i dont think it was their fault. As a flower, asriel couldnt feel emotions, as said after the asriel dreemur fight so its not really asriels fault

Yknow when I originally went into Undertale I was worried about photoshop flowey, because at the time I was very scared of his design In general (sound, mechanics, appearance, etc.) but then I fought him and beat him on my second try and realized it wasn’t too bad but it was still fucking nerve racking. Great fight 10/10 best game best game

I do like your theory of flowey mocking the player with a real human via the TV, however I always interpreted it as Flowey mocking Frisk and the pain they’re going through during the fight with a “this is how you look, loser” or maybe even what the other 6 souls may be doing at the time

Funny story. I was running on the treadmill and I noticed some songs helped me run faster and longer, so I decided to try something a little risky. I set Finale going, and right before the drop, I set the speed to 10 MPH, I think the fastest I'd safely run before was 5-ish. Managed to maintain that speed until the end of the song.

when i played undertale for the first time, the only thing i remember (which most likely isnt true) is that i played the whole night for about 8 hours until coming across flowey, who i couldnt beat at the time. it took multiple days to defeat that beast and it was one of the most fun things i have ever done

yeah, this is a really cool boss, and your best nightmare is really good and fast-pace, which adds to the desperateness of the fight. also, if you play this song in a level in this other cool game called ultrakill, it would feel right at home.

i've never noticed how much the music matters in this scene- i got goosebumps hearing you mention the drop. i feel like i'm seeing/feeling this fight for the first time, but even better.

He is literally my favorite character from this game

great video! i love this fight and while i can’t personally explain the brilliance in it with my lack of literature skills, i find you really put it into words just how wicked it is, so thanks !!