What if Deltarune was an action RPG?

Toby also admits that he had considered making Deltarune to be that genre, however, he wanted to keep the pacifism.

What would happen if instead, Toby made Deltarune a TRUE action RPG?

Would battles just be Kris running around in the overworld while attacking the enemies?

Would it just turn into Hollow Knight?

“Well clearly pacifism doesn't affect the ending!” - someone, definitely not me

Shadow Mantle holder fight but for every secret boss.

Did you let T̶e̶n̶n̶a̶ Jackenstein die

Well originally there was no sparing…

Yeah
The way to get a different ending is pretty weird
You might call it...
AnODD ROUTE

Huh

Well this would imply the Weird Route to not exist, since you need to go out of your way to freeze enemies to activate it which can't really be avoided in this version.

Exactly