What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent youth...
Fallen Down is the 4th track in the Undertale Soundtrack and in the Undertale Demo OST. This heartfelt, homey piece plays on multiple occasions in the Ruins when Toriel is interacting with the protagonist. It is always slower than in the game files.
It plays at 0.86 speed during the early interactions with Toriel, then at 0.75 speed after Toriel's battle if she is spared and is saying goodbye to the protagonist. In the soundtrack, it plays at a lower pitch and higher speed and replays the first eight bars once.
Trivia[]
- The track's title could refer to the seven humans who had "fallen down" into the Underground. When applied to monsters, the term refers to a comatose state they enter shortly before death.[1]
- In the Undertale Demo OST, it plays at the in-game speed and has a unique loop.
- There are two unique variants of this track:
- Empty House is a slow-paced track that plays after killing Toriel and wandering through Toriel's Home.
- Fallen Down (Reprise) is an extended track that plays near the end of the True Pacifist Route.
- This track, along with its reprise, is tuned at A=431Hz.
- This track was originally a contribution to "I Miss You - EarthBound 2012." The artbook states that Fallen Down was originally composed as a "Game Over" theme similar to the one in The Legend of Zelda.
- According to an interview with Toby Fox, this was one of the six tracks originally composed for other projects. The other five were Heartache, Nyeh Heh Heh!, Bonetrousle, Another Medium, and MEGALOVANIA.
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