Undertale (song)
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| "Undertale" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Toby Fox from the video game of the same name: Undertale | |
| Released | September 15, 2015 |
| Genre | Video game music |
| Length | 6:22 |
| Composer(s) | |
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Undertale is an instrumental video game song composed by Toby Fox, with the guitar composition handled by Stephanie MacIntire. It is the main theme of the game of the same name. It was composed for theme of the final area of Undertale's "neutral" and "flawed pacifist" routes: "New Home", taking place prior to the bosses against Asgore and both of the routes' final boss against Omega Flowey, where the monsters of the underground tells the protagonist about the tragic backstory of Asriel and Chara during their venture through New Home.
Undertale is the longest song in the game and has been acclaimed for being bittersweet and being played during the game's most emotional scene. It has also been praised for implementing leitmotifs from other songs in Undertale.
Conception and history
A majority of the music created for Undertale by Toby Fox were composed with little iteration, this was not the case with the song, Undertale which was the only song in the game to go through multiple iterations in the game's development.[2] One of the iterations according to Fox was "completely different" from the final version of "Undertale" and was described by Fox as "bit more sad" than the final song with a different guitar arrangement but Fox thought that the song being sombre wasn't as effective as he wanted it to be.[3]
The song wasn't reworked until Fox heard the song, Redline Day for the movie Redline for the first time.[3][4][5] Redline Day as well as Pneuma from Solanin were cited as main inspirations for the final song.[5] The guitar arrangement produced by Stephanie MacIntire was used as the inspiration for another song for the Undertale Soundtrack: "Memory".[3]
Reception
Since its release, "Undertale" has been universally well acclaimed, Janrold Delmo for TheGamer ranked the track as his favourite song on the Undertale Soundtrack, he described it as "a warm, heartfelt performance that certainly elevates the scene [the backstory of Asriel and Chara] that unfolds." and that song compasses what Undertale is about: "empathy and compassion."[6] Priya Sridhar for Medium described Undertale as a song that she "tear[s] up every time I hear a version of [the song] “Undertale”." and praised the implementation of the leitmotif of the game's opening theme: "Once Upon a Time", she claimed that most of Undertale players "Without context, you may hear it as a simple melody. When a person listens to it again knowing about the tragedy [of the monsters trapped underground and the humans that fell and died underground], you [the player] may be sobbing with a lot of feels."[7] PeterG99 from TheTopTens described "Undertale" as "happy, not melancholic. It invokes empathy, which is the main point of a Pacifist run: to share and understand the emotions of others." They praised the inclusion of the game's first "REAL recording of an instrument."[8]
References
- ↑ "Undertale | UNDERTALE Soundtrack | Toby Fox". Materia Collective. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
- ↑ "GI Show – Yoshi's Woolly World, Star Wars: Battlefront, Undertale's Toby Fox". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2025-11-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fox, Toby (@UnderTale on Tumblr) (13 September 2016). "Before the song "UNDERTALE" was completed, it went through a completely different iteration. This version sounds a bit more sad, which I think would have been less effective. It wasn't until I heard a certain song that I was inspired to completely change the chords and guitar accompaniment. This new guitar accompaniment then served as the basis for "Memory," so we have a lot to thank that inspiring song for. That's all of the unused songs. See you tomorrow for a brief retrospective on my past year". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 2025-09-29. Retrieved 2025-11-10. line feed character in
|title=at position 175 (help) - ↑ Fox, Toby (September 13, 2025). ""That's actually correct." (Toby Fox's response to a user asking Temmie Chang: "@Tuyoki that song that inspired the changes to the Undertale track, was it redline day?)". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-07-10. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fangamer (2025-09-21). UNDERTALE 10th Anniversary Stream - Day 2. Retrieved 2025-11-10 – via YouTube. (01:50:38)
- ↑ Delmo, Janrold (2022-08-29). "The Best Tracks On Undertale's OST, Ranked". TheGamer. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
- ↑ Sridhar, Priya (2021-09-18). "The Music of Undertale". SUPERJUMP. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
- ↑ "Top 10 Best Songs from the Undertale Soundtrack". TheTopTens. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
External links
- "Undertale" from Undertale Soundtrack on YouTube
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