The World

Cyber City is pretty cool, but I think I prefer the Card Kingdom a bit more. Cyber City is kinda lacks the sense of character that Card Kingdom has. It's still a great enviroment, and the enemy designs are great, but it lacks a certain something. Cyber City focuses on specific locations more than general atmosphere. There are more shops, and more places to explore, but it lacks the consistent atmosphere that made Card Kingdom such a good dark world :/

I didn't like the CD player head music guys, they just don't work for me. It's clear that they're meant to be likeable, but they play such a small part in this chapter that they're more of an annoyance than anything else. The Color Cafe is way better than their store.

Rouxls Kaard is back this chapter and I love it. It's hilarious. I hope he comes back every chapter with a new hair-brained scheme every time. Who would've thought the worm guy would be a re-occuring character.

We got some insane reveals this chapter, the most notable being that literally anyone can create a dark world. Chapter 1s cliffhanger ending is absolute trash compared to Kris opening a dark fountain in their living room.

Queen

Queen is a massive step up from King. It feels good to have an antagonist that's actually active instead of having only a paragraph or so of dialogue. She's also the personification of mommy issues. What do I mean by this? Well, it's simple. To Berdly, she's a neglectful mother. There's a reason the first time Berdly felt appreciated was at a spelling bee. Queen sees Berdly as an annoyance, which probably reflects the relationship Berdly has with his actual mother. Queen is a stifling mother to Noelle. She has massive expectations for what Noelle should be, while not actually asking her what she wants. She constantly speaks over and for Noelle. Queen has a lot of parental symbolism, which is great. Really lets us see how the other characters home lives are, even when we haven't actually seen their parents. She's also pretty funny. She's a more comedic villain than King, and a lot of her lines are absolutely iconic.

Kris

Kris being their own person was quite obvious based on the cliffhanger ending for chapter 1, as well as a lot of other, smaller details. However, it is steadily becoming increasingly hard to ignore as time goes on. We ARE NOT Kris, we're some weird phataphysical entity controlling their body. Kris' motives remain a mystery to us. Why did they create a new dark fountain in their living room? The closest we get to actual characterization is the character teas, which tell us that Kris likes Susie, and is mostly ambivalent to everyone else. That's not much to go off of.

Susie

We don't get to see very much of Susie in this chapter. The stuff we do see of her is charming, her ultimate heal spell is absolutely adorable, but she's just not a very active presence here. It's a shame, but screentime is limited.

Ralsei

Ralsei is a bit of a strange character. He gets the most characterization in this chapter through the acid tunnel of love scene, which is very... upsetting, for lack of a better word. I feel bad for him. "still figuring what it is to be ralsei-like" poor baby. He's never interacted with anyone before :(

Berdly

He sucks, and I mean this in the best possible way. He's just bad enough to be annoying, but not so annoying that you want to punch the screen in. It's hard to write an annoying character who the audience still likes, but I think Berdly straddels that line really well. Cool bird :)

Noelle

Quite literally the most relatable charcter to me in any piece of media ever, as well as my favorite character ever. They put memetic equivalent of crack in this reindeer girl. She has pretty much everything. A rough relationship with her mother. Gifted child issues. Weird religious imagery. Blocking out traumatic memories. Being a video game creepypasta protagonist both literally and metatextually. My god, she even has a neocities... *insert gif of patrick bateman holding buisness card*. Nobody is doing it like she is.

This character didn't make me transgender, I realized I was trans a month or so before chapter 2 released, but it would be dishonest to say she wasn't EXTREMELY influental to how I view myself as a trans woman, especially because chapter 2 released the day after my birthday. I swear to god, when the spamton sweepstakes came out, I was EATING GOOD! I was absolutely validated.

She's constantly trying to live up to peoples expectations of her but she's under so much stress and pressure. She has a lesbian crush on a butch dinosaur. She has a blog. What more can I say. She's literally me. I can relate to every aspect of this character except for the missing sister. I am obssessed. She is held very near and dear (deer) to my heart. I love her.

I straight up took her name as my own. I'm Noelle! ^W^

Spamton Sweepstakes

The trick with the Spamton sweepstakes is that they're not actually about Spamton. The main character of the Spamton sweepstakes is Noelle. Spamton is just the sugar to make the medicine go down. Fandoms love their sexymen. And yes, Spamton does feature heavily in the sweepstakes. He is the titular character, after all. There's his usual shennanigans there, and that's fine, but the second you start interacting with the arg elements, Spamton becomes a side character.

Honestly, thank goodness. I've been a Noelle faithful since day one, but the way the fandom treated her before the sweepstakes was abyssmal. They saw her as JUST the silly lesbian deer, and sure, she's that, but she's so much MORE. Given the evidence, she might just be a fourth protagonist. (a girl can dream) The sweepstakes fleshed her out so much. I love her so much. They elaborate on her creepypasta theming, with her love for horror and video games being in the forefront with a lot of the pages. She's a NEOCITIES GIRLIE. SHE'S LITERALLY ME I AM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH! GRAHHH!

Also, Dess lore 👀? It's implied she was straight up deleted from reality Gaster style. That's so fascinating. Is she the person stuck in the code? Who can say.

Spamton

Spamton is an all around improvement to Jevil. Jevil is locked up in a cage, and you barely talk to him before you fight. Spamton? He's all over the place. Instead of waiting to be found in a dingy cellar, he just jumps out from a dumpster and harasses the player. He's also a lot more menacing than Jevil. He's not scary, per say, but he is kinda freaky. He's a creepy salesperson of dubious morality. He alludes to a bunch of different stuff, and is a far bigger part of the chapter than Jevil ever was.

Snowgrave

I'm not calling it the weird route. I don't care if it's called that in the files, weird route sounds pathetic.

Anyway, given my rant on Noelle, you probably think I have a lot to say on this. Yeag. Despite the most notable event of snowgrave being the Noelle killing Berdly, the most noticeable feature to me is how weirdly comphet it is? Kris is nonbinary, so it's not really comphet, but it is weirdly romance and marrige themed. There's the rings, the insistence on being something else, the player inserting themselves as a love interest in place of Susie. It's HEAVILY coded as a toxic romance, forcing Noelle into a role she doesn't want. (this is also me, i havent been forced into a romance but yk how being transgender is).

This is also really good at establishing how much the player is NOT Kris. It's a tandem horror of Kris forcing Noelle to kill her best friend while Kris is being forced to do so at the same time.

Poor Berdly, too. He was just annoying. He doesn't deserve this.