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I love the reason for potholes being "mmm the universe is a bit glitchy, this was indeed a glitch tale"

Betê is like that one kid you’d invite over to play and you’d try to pretend, kill eachother with like Lava or Acid, but they’re always like: “Nuh uh! I got lava immunity!” The entire time.

“Betty never asked to be born.”

Literally no-one was asked to be born, Glitchtale.

i took french class, here's something funny
while her name, "Bête noire," can in fact mean 'black beast'
"bête" can also translate to "stupid"

Something that aggravates me about Glitchtale’s writing is that it has a lot of genuinely interesting concepts, but either absolutely butchers the execution or walks back on them as soon as possible. Betty is perhaps the biggest example of this. Originally, she was literally just a living debug program, an entity generated by the “game” to force the deletion of the timeline because it was so goddamn broken. The main antagonist was literally the manifestation of reality’s desire to erase itself. Which is actually really cool! But instead of exploring that in interesting ways, like perhaps Betty gaining self-awareness over time and eventually denying her “purpose”, it just walks it all back and makes her the result of some weird magic curse bullshit that the series barely explains. The series does this every time, actively trampling over its own potential until all that’s left is a hollow shell of a show that only cares about getting to the next shonen fight scene.

Betty is a “but wait there’s more!” Ahh type of villain and it has no justification 😭

edit: The problem is that Camilia is simply repeating things she watched in media with no regard for how it fits into her story.  She also sucks at writing nuance as shown in betty's origin story, where Agate is shown as unhinged because she wanted to get strong enough to stop her brother from breaking the barrier and kills a bunch of people for no reason.  Agate could have pointed out how the neighboring human settlements would see the breaking of the barrier as an undermining of their efforts to prevent monsters from having access to human souls, and go to war again.  But fuck nuance, we need the origin story to a murder machine.

Seeing the horrible writing and plotholes.

It fills you with CONFUSION

we got so distracted on the fights we didnt realise they just took place in a massive fucking grey box 😔😔😔😔

23:03 Bête casually running away from the character that in the source material has the power to remove your ability to run away as her signature ability, with said character also being known for running after you even if you try to escape is...Not very surprising. I'm not even sure Camilla played Undertale

My child self didn't understand the plot and instead imagined my cringey ass Ocs in every scene in the damn thing. Glitchtale was a forgettable experience.

My theory is that they were so focused on the animation that they forgot to actually do any writing

Bete: Is losing
Camila: RANDOM BULLSHIT GO!

If I had to pull up some wasted potential, Betty could've just not threatened and attacked Jessica and worked on more subtle ways to put actual distrust into humanity-her stated goal is to make aure monsters never know peace. You'd think then that she'd focus solely on taking out monsters rather than humans, save for the sole few who might get too close to the truth... but no, she just goes haywire killing humans, kids included, to build up power, which leads to both side uniting against her. I get that she's revealed as the main villain by episode 2 of the second season, but she really wasn't fleshed out too well looking back...

GlitchTale's greatest flaw is that it cares more about making senseless anime-style fights for the sake of being flashy and cool instead of actually caring about the characters, their relationships, the lore and the general message of UnderTale. It practically REEKS of all the EPIC COOL SANS AND GASTER GENOCIDE FIGHT TRIPLE TIMELINE AU animations and Sans AUs the fandom kept spawning around 2016 and perfectly mirrors their lack of sense, understanding and substance of the original material; like looking at it through a funhouse mirror.

one time i made fanart of the pink ghost thing and my mom said it looked like a sperm

Spoilers Below

As a former glitchtale fan looking back i realize now how bad it was to replace frisk with chara. Made sense for frisk to do that and was a cool character moment that did mix things up but lost all the potential frisk had as a character and all the themes they represented.

I used to glaze glitchtale so much as a 12 year old 😭

I won’t be too harsh on the animation since it improved a ton over the course of the show, but the art style has a lot of awkward parts that kinda take you out of the moment (namely the flat stanley lookin heads and the paint bucket backgrounds)

The characters are also completely flanderized and lack depth, and like half of them fall into mary sue territory

At first I wondered why Glitchtale wasn't included in Underverse

Now it makes sense