Child Steps is the newest hilariously troublesome recreation from Bennett Foddy of QWOP and Getting Over It, right here working in collaboration with Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch. And it’s not simply in your efforts to place one foot in entrance of the opposite and make progress that the sport finds ludicrous methods to punish you. Gamers have found that, do you have to dare to skip the cutscenes all through your ordeal, you’ll be handled to an unskippable 28-minute cutscene. Congratulations to Foddy & co. for innovating daring new methods for video video games to fuck with you.
The sport loves to do this. Not solely does it take the idea of a “walking simulator” to the acute, making the act of inserting one foot in entrance of the opposite splendidly tough and maddening, however it performs video games with its cutscenes, too. Once more, actually. Cutscenes taunt you with a mini-game that you should full if you wish to skip ‘em.
And when you’re actually so tempted to provide the sport the proverbial center finger and skip all the cutscenes by passing these mini-games, on the finish of the sport you’ll be confronted with an unskippable 28-minute cutscene that includes two characters speaking about how a lot of a bummer it’s that a lot work went into these cutscenes and but, there you might be, simply skipping them. Wow. I hope you are feeling unhealthy about your self.
If you happen to’re not up for making your personal approach, step by hilariously agonizing step, by Child Steps, skipping the cutscenes all of the whereas, you’ll be able to watch the entire thing right here:
Anyway, the anthropomorphic donkey is sufficient to promote me on this recreation. Simply what I want, extra 2025 gems to replenish my already dense-ass backlog.
