Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

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  1. TitaniumDragon
    Dec 10, 2017
    4
    Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy is a game about climbing a mountain with deliberately extremely awkward controls. In the game, your avatar is a man in a big black cast-iron cooking pot with a sledgehammer. The only control you have is moving your mouse around to swing said sledgehammer. The head of the sledgehammer is used to push off of things, as well as to swing around things; itGetting Over It With Bennet Foddy is a game about climbing a mountain with deliberately extremely awkward controls. In the game, your avatar is a man in a big black cast-iron cooking pot with a sledgehammer. The only control you have is moving your mouse around to swing said sledgehammer. The head of the sledgehammer is used to push off of things, as well as to swing around things; it isn’t actually used to smash anything. You cannot walk or jump; all movement in the game is controlled on slinging yourself around with that sledgehammer.

    Naturally, this means that your goal is to climb a gigantic mountain of random objects, specifically designed to be extremely difficult to climb with this control method. Worse, there are no checkpoints; while your progress will be saved if you quit, the reality is that this is as much a curse as it is a blessing, because at many points in the game, it is possible for you to, with a single mistake, hurl yourself off the side of the mountain of garbage all the way back to the beginning – and even where you don’t do this, it is still often possible to hurl yourself back a significant distance.

    This is a game which uses difficulty for the purpose of comedy. The game is not only hard, it is deliberately and unrelentingly hard. Bennet Foddy – the man who made the game – said that it is a game designed for a specific kind of person. Namely, to hurt them. And this is really the case – this whole game is an exercise in masochism.

    The game is deliberately ugly – it looks terrible, just full of pre-bought assets, something that the game itself comments on. Because, you see, the real attraction here is Bennet Foddy himself, talking about the design of the game, games in general, the game that inspired this game (an old B-game called Sexy Climbing, which is itself another deliberately difficult game), ect. He has a pretty good voice, and says various encouraging quotes (or possibly maddening, if you are the frustratable sort) whenever you fall down.

    Naturally, you will be hearing a lot of these, as well as some old licensed music related to falling down or getting back up again (though, sadly, no Chumbawumba).

    I don’t think this is a game a lot of people would enjoy. Honestly, this game feels like it plays on our impulse to try and overcome some obstacle, no matter how ridiculous, for the sake of doing it. If you are very prone to such, you might spend many, many hours trying to master this game.

    If you aren’t, you are probably going to quickly lose interest, as that is really all there is here, and the game is, again, deliberately and unrelentingly difficult.

    The worst of it is, there’s very little sense of payoff; while you get more quotes, the further you get in, the more sparse they become, and the harder the game gets, making them grow even sparser. All you end up getting are the “encouraging” quotes.

    I ended up losing interest a few hours into the game; the sheer amount of repetition in climbing back up sections I’d already climbed began to bore me. I suspect that if you are an angrier person, this game might enrage you, but in the end, it is hard to get too invested in it.

    As a joke game, this is kind of amusing, but it is the sort of thing I don’t think most people will really appreciate paying for; as part of a Humble Bundle, I messed around with it for a bit, and thus I got it on Steam as well, but I can’t help but feel like I would have spent my time better doing just about anything else. Hard games can be fun - I enjoyed Super Meat Boy and The End is Nigh, as well as games like Super Hexagon - but the deliberate obtuseness of this game makes it hard to really love or even like. I didn't hate it, but it just left me feeling like I should have done something more productive with my time, or at least more fun.    … Expand
  2. leetl1
    Mar 14, 2019
    4
    This game broke me, and I will probably never be fixed. At least the game succeeded at it's goal.
  3. SByO
    Dec 29, 2019
    4
    in a game based on the gameplay, the imput must be excellent. spoiler, it sucks. almost any collision with the hammer means an incredibly long jump. i still really like the concept of the game and someone who annoys you whenever you loose, but it's thecnically very bad.
  4. Kaweciak
    Jul 9, 2020
    3
    This game is not hard. It's just poorly designed. It's literally the opposite of fun and good gameplay. The only good things about it are the jokes. There is literally no reason to play the game. If you want to climb a mountain, just play Celeste. It's much more fun
  5. bumbo2
    Dec 11, 2017
    2
    I went into this title expecting a video game about climbing a mountain with a sledgehammer, and using that sledgehammer in many different ways to get over the obstacles. After a couple of hours and completing the game i found myself frustrated, thinking to myself for what reason did i just put myself through all that, that's when i realised - this isn't a video game, but a visual novel.I went into this title expecting a video game about climbing a mountain with a sledgehammer, and using that sledgehammer in many different ways to get over the obstacles. After a couple of hours and completing the game i found myself frustrated, thinking to myself for what reason did i just put myself through all that, that's when i realised - this isn't a video game, but a visual novel.

    I say this because scaling the "mountain" in the novel is comparable to simply clicking through lines of text in others. Some may say that an avenue of skill is required to be able to use the hammer, and to that i don't disagree - if you are able to manoeuvre the hammer properly you will progress faster than others, however the game has almost retarded controls in the fact that doing the same action with the mouse twice in the same area will almost never produce the same results, coupled with the less than sensible physics makes a "game" in which most of your progress won't be of autonomous movement but simply doing the same circle motion until you get to the next obstacle. Much like a visual novel one is able to progress faster simply by clicking text faster, and similarly may be limited in progress by unskippable text.

    The story of this novel annoys me - man in pot climbing mountain with sledgehammer aside the main (and only) character Bennett Foddy cuts from musing about making his "game", how the internet is evolving both how games and media is created and the nature of these evolving mediums, as well as reciting some fantastic poetry about the above. What annoys me is that Bennett's "intellectual" (for lack of a better word) speaking is the minority of all the speech in the game - Most of the monologue (dialogue if you like to swear at the game like i did) comes from Bennett lamenting over your (eventual) loss of progress, which is quite disappointing because i kept slaving through the novel hoping to hear more of his thoughts rather than to experience the "gameplay". In the end the story left me bored as it devolved into "am i willing to do more circle motions to hear more Bennett".

    Overall this "game" is a mess, and that leads me to the final question; Would i spend money on this game? no.    … Expand
  6. Silentwalker
    Dec 18, 2017
    1
    A simple game that isn't anything new or exciting, it is just a copy of free flash games that you would fine online and play as a kid except in those instances the mouse movement would work better than what you find in this game.

    The voice over offers nothing of interest and doesn't provide anything for the game play and is there to just make the creator sound 'smart' when he puts in    A simple game that isn't anything new or exciting, it is just a copy of free flash games that you would fine online and play as a kid except in those instances the mouse movement would work better than what you find in this game.

    The voice over offers nothing of interest and doesn't provide anything for the game play and is there to just make the creator sound 'smart' when he puts in random quotes and talks about things that make no sense and is completely wrong.

    Save your self the money and play flash games if this is your type of game, it's short, uninteresting and has no replay value.    … Expand
  7. ThePokage
    Jan 13, 2019
    1
    This is not a hard game like Dark Souls or Cuphead. You do not get better at the game, you randomly get a burst of luck. You do not feel satisfied when overcoming a challenge, you dread having to do it again do to inconsistent physics. You do not have fun, you do not have joy, you are angry and only learn to hate all the ‘inspiring’ quotes and songs. When people say this game isThis is not a hard game like Dark Souls or Cuphead. You do not get better at the game, you randomly get a burst of luck. You do not feel satisfied when overcoming a challenge, you dread having to do it again do to inconsistent physics. You do not have fun, you do not have joy, you are angry and only learn to hate all the ‘inspiring’ quotes and songs. When people say this game is satisfyingly hard, I remind them you can fall from the end of the game to the start.… Expand
  8. ashmit_10
    Feb 29, 2020
    1
    MR. Bennet Foddy, ye jo game aapne banayi hai ye tune konsa jangli maal fuuk ke banaya hai beyy akhand chutiye. abeyy oo chandramukhi lund sade ghar pe gundey bhijwa kr pitwaunga tereko. tere iss game ka actual naam hona chahiye tha " MATKE MAI PHASA EK LUND". sale bhain ke lavde, lauduchand. tera ye lod kutiya upar chadta hi nai hai. salla sirf andhe lode ki Tarah haath ghumata rehta haiMR. Bennet Foddy, ye jo game aapne banayi hai ye tune konsa jangli maal fuuk ke banaya hai beyy akhand chutiye. abeyy oo chandramukhi lund sade ghar pe gundey bhijwa kr pitwaunga tereko. tere iss game ka actual naam hona chahiye tha " MATKE MAI PHASA EK LUND". sale bhain ke lavde, lauduchand. tera ye lod kutiya upar chadta hi nai hai. salla sirf andhe lode ki Tarah haath ghumata rehta hai chaman chutiye. bata rha hu mau apni ye chhutad se game ko delete krde nai tohh tujhe naga krke belt se maaruna aur ussi Tarah ek garam matke mai tujhe daal dunga aur tujhe himalay ki choti pe chod aaunga.. aur esi jagah jahan se tu zinagi mai wapas nai aaye payega. fir chalate rehna apne hatoda aaju baju.. abeyy bhosdike tu kya bhagwaan se bhi nai darr ta hai kya??? tera wo matke mai phasa lund bachpan mai kya pahad se gir gya tha kya… madarchod ka bacha hai wo.. bhai mere control mai rehta hi nai hai wo lund bhadir.. apna hi bhajta hai ye sunhara jeev.. usko samjha de mere saath khelega toh acche se khele nai toh gaand maar dunga uski mai… wo bhadwa upar chadne ko razi hi nai hai. use zindagi mai aage badna hi nai hai jab dekho tab neeche girta rehta hai!!! wo chutiya hamesha sirf girne ki mood mai rehta hai wo bhi bohot neeche.. aur wo jo snake ride banayi hai usme laudu tujhe ussi mai bithake bhej dunga aasman mai.. tujhe chaand mai chod aaunga wahan toh gravity bhi nai hai ek hatoda chalana seedha do kilometer upar tu bhi khush hum bhu khush tere astitwa ko mita ke. abeyy chaman goti tu kya paanchvi fail kya beyy.. science nai padha hai kya tune zindagi mai kabhi.. tu hi bata ye lund ke moves teko justified lagte hai kya???? ese kon kr skta hai beyy… sade teri aukat nai hai iss duniya mai rehene ki.. tuna logo ke nuuksaan krwata hai, mouse tud wata haui keyboard tudwata hai , aur kyakarega tu aadmi ko hi maar daalega kya pagal aurat…. tumhari maa ka bhosda.. aur ye beech mai bats kahanm se aa jate hai beyy... gand fatt ja ti hai bhenchod.. jumpscare dena zaroori hai kya beyy... ye apne baadshahi lund ko samjhade salla kabhi pakad tha hai aur kabhi nai.. salla wo khel rha hai ki mai.. bc mai nai wo khelta hai meko… usko puch aur bol ek decide kare kabhi fatfat chad jata hai aur kABHI toh bc chadta hi ai hai kitni bhi try krlo.. Sade wapas kehe rha hu uss game ko delet kr.. tere lund ko bol ki uss matke se bahar nikal ke nayi zindagi chalu kare aur ye bakchodi khatam krde.. uske biwi bacche nai hai kya.. nai honge toh accha hai aur use krna bhi mt dena nai toh bacche bhi ese matke mai poaida hoenge aur chutiye niklenge.. iska parivaar nai hai kya usko bol na wahan jaye yaahan paghad ke beech mai gaand kyu maarta hai tatti aadmi apni.. mai apna phone 5 baar tod chuka hu meko uske paise chahiye kse bhiu krke.. tu aur tera baap dono denge meko paise!!!!!tere gote muh mai le aaunga mai agar wapas ese koi tatti bhara game banaya toh.. tere bacche bhi ye game dekh ke bolenege ki papa kya bhosad pappu game banayi hai aapne ye dekhh ke lalat hai mujhe aap pe.. esa bolega.. tu india aa toh sahi tujhe agar mene jooto se swagat nai kiya toh mera naam bhi ash10 nai samjha kya… ye game DELETE kr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! abhi ke abhi… mai toh sabse bada wala chutiya hu jo iss ko khelta hu and idk why.. sabke sab gaand marao...… Expand
  9. rbrix
    Sep 16, 2020
    1
    Best game ever 10/10
  10. Frost_Cube
    Feb 1, 2021
    1
    This game is not hard. It's just poorly designed. It's literally the opposite of fun and good gameplay. The only good things about it are the jokes. There is literally no reason to play the game. If you want to climb a mountain, just play Celeste. It's much more fun
  11. jakob1
    Oct 27, 2021
    1
    bruh how can anybody like this piece of garbage, like by god this has nothing going for it
  12. Mithaldu
    Dec 11, 2017
    0
    Minor negative point: The game is absurdly performance-hungry. You'll maybe be able to run it on weak computers, but you'll need to set it to minimum resolution even at 60 fps to not get high input latency. (aka mouse lag)

    Primary negative point: The game makes no attempt to provide accessibility. It considers (and explicitly states so) broken controls (mouse acceleration on by    Minor negative point: The game is absurdly performance-hungry. You'll maybe be able to run it on weak computers, but you'll need to set it to minimum resolution even at 60 fps to not get high input latency. (aka mouse lag)

    Primary negative point:

    The game makes no attempt to provide accessibility. It considers (and explicitly states so) broken controls (mouse acceleration on by default, mouse cursor always drifts to hammer head) that effectively make any input multiplied by a random number, to be a feature.

    It does not however provide any way to adapt the amount of influence this has on gameplay to the kind of person playing it. Got slow reflexes? Motor control issues? Tough luck, you get to play at difficulty Extra Hard and there's nothing you can do about it.    … Expand
  13. DinoBeam
    Dec 4, 2020
    0
    "There’s no feeling more intense than starting over." Well someone wanted to announce to the entire world that they aren't marriage material, what a creep.
  14. OberiousLocke
    Jan 2, 2018
    0
    Honestly, this isn't even coming from a place of salt about how hard the game is. If I wanted to get salty, I'd play through Dark Souls 3 again.

    What puts me off is how insufferably pretentious the dude talking is. The following statement specifically. Going piece by piece; "When games were new, they wanted a lot from you." They never wanted a lot from us. The technology and    Honestly, this isn't even coming from a place of salt about how hard the game is. If I wanted to get salty, I'd play through Dark Souls 3 again.

    What puts me off is how insufferably pretentious the dude talking is. The following statement specifically.

    Going piece by piece;

    "When games were new, they wanted a lot from you."
    They never wanted a lot from us. The technology and methodology behind making them was unfathomably primitive compared to where we are now, just like today will be another 30 years from now. There is a reason that slippery controls, one-hit deaths and lives systems, among other things, have by-and-large gone the way of the dodo today. It doesn't make them more rewarding, just frustrating. They seem to be making a come back like culture sometimes does, thanks to the surge of Souls/Rogue-like genre, but I imagine soon enough we'll remember why they were left behind in the first place

    "Players played stoically..."
    Because we didn't have another option, that's just how **** was back then.
    "...Now everyone's turned off by that."
    Because we moved past the concepts that required that sort of thought ages ago, and for good reason. We realized the getting knocked back a mile in Castlevania, or Mega Mans slide-y controls were bad and we moved on or fixed that.

    "They want to burn through it quickly, a quick fix for the fickle"
    Generalizations are so much fun! Play through enough of Dragon Age: Inquisition to really enjoy it and tell me how quickly that went by.

    "Some tricks for the clicks of the feckless"
    feck-less: lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. That's just flat out insulting, really. I could call the creator an artsy try-hard whose games consist of purposefully horrible controls just to get some yucks at people raging, and I'd be tons more accurate than that last part (Lets not forget QWOP, which Bennett Foddy can also be blamed for)

    Normally this is where I'd say I understood what he was going for here, but I honestly don't. Deliberately frustrating controls, mechanics and environments, combined with how horrendously pretentious the narrator, treating Getting Over It like it's some grand, defining statement on gaming when it's simply just another rage game and nothing more. Just like QWOP, just like Kaizo Mario, just like I Want To Be The Guy, and all the other less remembered rage games before it.    … Expand
  15. hotgirlcritic1
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    This game is so bad, i would rather eat **** than play this game. this game made me kill myself, come back alive, kill myself, come back alive, and then right this review. This game is the worst thing ive played since fortnite. I hope the creator of this game has a lovely 2020. If god told me i had to play this game or go to hell I would say "send me away" i want to go to this guys houseThis game is so bad, i would rather eat **** than play this game. this game made me kill myself, come back alive, kill myself, come back alive, and then right this review. This game is the worst thing ive played since fortnite. I hope the creator of this game has a lovely 2020. If god told me i had to play this game or go to hell I would say "send me away" i want to go to this guys house and hug him so hard he cries and feels the pain i felt by playing his terrible game… Expand
  16. PaTrIcKoT
    Jan 6, 2022
    0
    I love this game very well. It the best that i have seen ever. best game ever. 12/10
  17. Bolt2434
    Jul 1, 2020
    0
    This game made me rage. man! when I fell so far down I felt like destroying something, I didn't because that would be expensive. worst game out there. I felt like I could run around the entire world with my anger as fuel. I cannot imagine how anybody would rate this game more that maybe a 3/10! This game injects rage directly into my soul! I could feel my blood begin to vaporize as I fallThis game made me rage. man! when I fell so far down I felt like destroying something, I didn't because that would be expensive. worst game out there. I felt like I could run around the entire world with my anger as fuel. I cannot imagine how anybody would rate this game more that maybe a 3/10! This game injects rage directly into my soul! I could feel my blood begin to vaporize as I fall down a very long distance. warning! do not play if you have a history of breaking things and ager issues, however, this could turn even the most gentle person out there into a complete rage monster oh and not to mention the annoying narrator speaking when I'm trying to concentrate.… Expand
  18. badnamraja
    Aug 29, 2020
    0
    This game is the worst game ever>>>> the laws of motion applied here are very very very very very good>>> the game plays itself and your computer you don't control it it controls you! 300 rupey barbed benchod . (though I bought it for free I knew it is a bad game ) thanks mr Foddy for the great experience of the new kind oh physics you have invented for us in the game. just one q are youThis game is the worst game ever>>>> the laws of motion applied here are very very very very very good>>> the game plays itself and your computer you don't control it it controls you! 300 rupey barbed benchod . (though I bought it for free I knew it is a bad game ) thanks mr Foddy for the great experience of the new kind oh physics you have invented for us in the game. just one q are you able to complete the game or not ?? do you need help too??… Expand
  19. dragonborn69
    Nov 5, 2020
    0
    terrible graphics gameplay story and sound design this is the worst game I've ever played
  20. ihatebennetfodd
    Nov 17, 2020
    0
    this game brings nothing but pain to my soul. every day i fret my existence knowing that this game exists. this is an amalgamation of pure unadulterated suffering.
  21. G33ky
    Oct 25, 2021
    0
    This is going to sound a lot like Markiplier, but that is just how much I hate Getting Over It With Bennett Fobbly. It’s so bad that I have no respect whatsoever for the developer.

    I want every last copy of this “game” hunted down and destroyed just like how this game destroyed me when I finally beat it. I urge every person alive to stay as far away from it as humanly possible. Wish it    This is going to sound a lot like Markiplier, but that is just how much I hate Getting Over It With Bennett Fobbly. It’s so bad that I have no respect whatsoever for the developer.

    I want every last copy of this “game” hunted down and destroyed just like how this game destroyed me when I finally beat it. I urge every person alive to stay as far away from it as humanly possible. Wish it only on your worst enemies, and even then, you will be cruel for doing such a harsh thing.

    Why do I hate this “game?” Where do I even begin. For those of you who don’t care, take your biggest pet peeve and multiply it by one million and you basically get a TLDR for this “game.”

    For starters, the controls are awful. No matter your DPI and sensitivity, there is no sweet spot. The sensitivity is always too high or too low. The physics are broken, the hit boxes are weird, and trackpad tuning is the worst, even though it’s one to one.

    Second, Bennett Foddy just won’t shut the heck up. He keeps on babbling on how this “game” isn’t that bad, and keeps telling me BS quotes that I don’t care about.

    The music is garbage and annoying. It gets old and stuck in your head really fast. Only the masochistic will keep music and voiceover volume on.

    And finally is the level of anger you will feel. Even if you get to the very top, trust me when I say that you’re going to fall over and over and over and over. So even if you fall badly at the very top, too bad! You go back behind the tree.

    This “game” is garbage, I hate it, and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. While it is very charming, it doesn’t make it any less unenjoyable. 0/10, do not recommend wasting your time and money on something so bad. If you do wish to play it, download from a free website so that Bennett Foddy doesn’t make any money from it.    … Expand
  22. ArdaBarda
    Jul 15, 2022
    0
    The controls are horrible, your mouse input feels bloated and there is a huge deadzone. Given Bennett Foddy's portfolio, you'd expect that but It doesn't feel intentional like it does in QWOP, It just feels sloppy and annoying. That along with the fact that it looks like a Flash browser game certainly doesn't help.
  23. Tommaso01207
    Aug 5, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Secondo me questo gioco non é criticabile. Perché? PERCHÉ É IMPOSSIBILE FINIRLO!… Expand

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  1. CD-Action
    Feb 8, 2018
    85
    The climbing mechanics are satisfying, the frustration you’ll have to endure on your road to mastery is sweet, and Foddy’s commentary is intelligent, but mouse controls are physically tiring and need getting used to. [01/2018, p.65]