(For personal reasons, I've decided against marking these types of impressions as reviews in the future. If you want to see more of them, be sure to check out the list I'm compiling of each.)

More fascinating as a byzantine reflection of mid-to-late 2000s internet culture through the proxy of jokes that you had to "be there to get" than as a game itself, which means one of two things: you were either "there," or you're watching someone else suffer through the entire thing because Adobe Flash died years ago. Understood as a game that you watch people get mad at, there really isn't a lot to write home about here. The silly interactive bits and hair-splitting final question do give a bit more leverage over, say, a Kahoot quiz with nonsense questions and esoteric answers that sometimes repeat themselves. But other than that inch, the effect is nearly identical. Perhaps if I were trying to write a serious piece about this, I'd say that it's almost unintentionally successful in producing this looming sense of dread through its repetition and that the structure of failing a bajillion times to finally succeed is similar to, fuck it, I don't know, Dark Souls? But I'm not writing for Kotaku over here. The overall question this all makes me ask is: is it even worth that? And by its own admission, I don't think it is. The Impossible Quiz is more obtuse than punk, but it has the right spirit, and I guess that counts enough to warrant this as not an absolute trainwreck?

But I still wouldn't recommend playing it.