Getting Over It obviously asks a lot from the player but if you're willing to give it everything it asks for you'll be pretty happy and beating the game will feel honestly incredible. Bennett's narration might seem pretentious but it's clearly a meditation on not only game design but a rumination on his own works and his own design philosophy. Getting Over It is a sobering and lonely experience so hearing his voice again at times is a welcome change of pace to the usual trial-and-error of the climb. Not to mention that Bennett probably knew you might get sick of him eventually so he put a solid setlist of old bluegrass hits in to ease your mind.

Bennett somehow found the perfect physics puzzle that would be just frustrating enough to watch other people throw fits over but just intuitive enough that if you give it time, you can figure out the devil in the details and become genuinely competent. A stellar experience and I think I just convinced myself to raise the score while I wrote this.

TL;DR
GOIN DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN BAAAAAAAAAAD IM GOIN DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN BAAAAAAAAAAD GOIN DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN BAD AND I AIN'T GON' BE TREATED THIS-UH-WAYYYYYYY

Reviewed on May 08, 2021


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