There is a glitch if the protagonist enters the fight with Toriel. Once a Genocide Route is aborted, it cannot be returned to without reloading to a SAVE before it was aborted, or resetting entirely. Even if the protagonist is captured and then goes back to finish off the last monsters, re-fighting Papyrus still proceeds as on the Neutral Route. For example, if Papyrus‘s battle is initiated without exhausting the Snowdin kill counter, the cutscene proceeds as if on the Neutral Route. If certain events are triggered before clearing an area completely of monsters, the protagonist is automatically sent back to a Neutral Route. Kill counters for different areas have different requirements. Undyne the Undying (triggered by fighting Monster Kid).(Secret bosses So Sorry and Mad Mew Mew are not accessible, and Glyde is optional.) All mini-bosses (excluding Snowdrake and including Shyren) can be encountered even after the kill counter is exhausted, which can be used to obtain extra EXP. Once the protagonist satisfies the kill requirement, SAVE points display the message “Determination.”.Snowdrake is unique in that he must be killed before the kill counter is exhausted, and is also part of the kill counter.New Home: No kills ( Sans) The protagonist automatically kills Asgore and Flowey upon encountering them.Waterfall: 18 kills ( Undyne the Undying).The following is a table of the number of random encounters only that the protagonist must kill as stated at SAVE points in red text, followed by the final boss of the area.The protagonist can also spare certain monsters so that they can kill monsters that offer more EXP and GOLD, such as Glyde. Sparing certain monsters allows the protagonist to avoid fighting particular monsters such as the high-defense Jerry. The protagonist can spare any number of random encounters ( Snowdrake is an exception, as seen below).This requirement must be done before approaching the final encounter of that area. Exhaust the random monster kill counter in every region.Requirements The first SAVE point in Snowdin Forest displays the kill counter for the first time. NPCs still occur in the region where the protagonist abandoned a Genocide Route. If the protagonist stops meeting the requirements for a Genocide Route at any point, they revert to a Neutral Route where the unaltered soundtrack plays.
This track is a part of Your Best Friend playing at 1/13th speed with added reverb.Īfter exiting the Ruins, most overworld songs are lower pitch, slower versions of their Neutral and True Pacifist Route counterparts. In a font size smaller than usual, the battle text reads “ But nobody came.“, which can also occur in a Neutral Route when you kill all monsters in an area.Īfter the protagonist sees this message, the music for the area changes to a distorted ambient track, mus_toomuch.ogg. After killing all monsters in an area, encounters still occur, but monsters do not appear. Starting in the Ruins, the protagonist intentionally triggers encounters and kills monsters until encounters with monsters no longer occur this is similar to level-grinding in other RPGs. The Genocide Route occurs when the protagonist kills every enemy in every region: the Ruins, Snowdin Forest, Waterfall, and Hotland (the CORE is a sub-region of Hotland.) Method Battle text after the protagonist exhausts the kill count Once the protagonist completes a Genocide Route, subsequent True Pacifist Route endings are altered – even after a True Reset. This route’s ending can occur without prior completion of the game. It consists of the protagonist killing every possible monster in the Underground. The Genocide Route leads to one of the three main endings of Undertale. For one definition of the “No Mercy Route,” where all encountered monsters are killed, see Leaderless Ending.