Light World counterpart to the original game

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This isn't an edit I want to make out of the blue, but I noticed that the "Original Game" page pretty assertively describes the original game as "likely the Dark World counterpart of Asriel's video game concepts".

This is a solid theory with some evidence to back it up (including the implied connection between the Green Room and Kris & Asriel's room), but I don't think it's guaranteed enough to cite in the wiki so definitively. I've seen other theories floating around as well — that it's related to Dragon Blazers, that it's purely a creation of the Dark World, that it's a manifestation of Kris's psyche, or some combination thereof. Even if the "MANTLE" game is related to Asriel's game designs, the supernatural aspects of the game make it unlikely that's the full story. In my opinion, the wiki shouldn't favour one theory over others until the game gives us more explicit information (for example, Dess's page makes very few assumptions about her, even though the fandom has a lot of strongly-held theories).

My suggestion is to move this line down to a "Trivia" section or similar, so it's more clear that it's not 100% confirmed yet. Does anyone else have an opinion on this, or a better idea?

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wow you have... SHOCKINGLY good timing.

the person who wrote that stuff and i are talking about if it's worth including here right now: https://deltarune.wiki/w/User_talk:Ceruleanwarbler2 but i am kind of busy so maybe you can carry on the MANTLE of discussion with them

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I believe the backstage area to be the dark space under Asriel's bed. Not only this would mirror the areas where we fight Jevil and Spamton NEO (the dark underside of a piece of furniture), but there we also find a game console and a knock-off controller (which I believe to be the Odd Controller).

Therefore, the old cartridge of Cat Petters RPG should be considered as a candidate, since we also find it in there.

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True, I should've brought that one up as well.

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This should be removed. The purpose of a wiki is to provide information, not to catalogue fantheories. The reader makes theories themself. I don't even see this idea being widely agreed upon in the fandom at large.

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This was extensively discussed at the link posted above — it did end up being removed from the page.