Sounds like you need to just restart from scratch.
And I'm assuming you're now aware that Toriel requires no healing?
Yes, Gwazi, I am aware of that now.
And no, I am
not starting from scratch just to re-do some obscure detail. I'm sure it'll be possible to get through, regardless. Especially since I didn't exactly have anything from the spider bake sale
on me during my neutral run,
but I could still spare her because the fact that I bought things still remained.
But even if that
wasn't the case -- the reason why this game feels like a slog to get through now is only partially due to the increased difficulty of it. It is much more largely due to my ADHD preventing me from staying focused on it for long periods of time (which, as you already know, is also the reason why I can't really binge-watch shows all too easily). It doesn't matter if it's something I would normally enjoy -- I lose focus and therefore lose interest after a while.
And it's easier to remain focused when I'm more invested in it and when there are more new and novel experiences, which I think explains pretty well why this is slow for me to get through. Not only have I already played through the game once before -- which makes the experiences not quite as new or interesting -- but needing to fight
the same battles over and over
also makes it more repetitive,
and looking up the answers when I can't figure it out on my own makes it less immersive and just more thought-intensive to get through, which is why I get burned out faster.
Plus, I mean, in general... spamming "fight" is a lot easier than trying to figure out how to spare every last thing,
especially for underlings.
Starting over from scratch would
not be helpful in the slightest. Right now all I really want to do is move through the game and see what happens as a result of my actions being different. Which made things new and interesting when I fought and spared Toriel, because that was
different. But I already spared Papyrus (the boss I'm currently stuck at) during my neutral playthrough, and, aside from sparing underlings, nothing's going to happen differently until I get to Undyne, so, that's a bit of a long way to go. It's already
been a long way, just getting through all the puzzles.
And, again, I want to clarify, I don't
hate or even dislike this current playthrough. It's just
slow to get through because I can't always muster up the focus.
And the added difficulty is not the biggest factor in it. I'm not even doing
that badly, I'm just... not playing it nearly as much.
I'll get through it at my own pace. It'll just be
slow because it requires a lot more stamina and isn't as immersive as my neutral playthrough, which means I'm going to get burned out a lot faster each time. I'm not hugely stuck and I don't need a thousand and one pointers, especially regarding sheer basics of the game that I
already got through, I'm just...
slow, for reasons mentioned.
I appreciate that you want to help, but, the advice you're giving all seems to be either so basic that it really isn't helpful, or would actually make my problems
worse, and, in general, it's just getting kind of annoying...
I know what to do, Gwazi. And I have no intentions of starting over. I just can't whip through the game because, as stated in the tl;dr version of all this that was posted earlier,
I'm me.
Edit: Sorry. Today's just a particularly bad day.