Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy is some sort of sick game for masochists, I swear. Not the most elegant thing to say about a game, but it's quite true. It's a game about climbing a mountain of things with a big hammer, very strong arms, and mostly realistic physics otherwise. This is, as you might imagine, quite difficult.
Normally, I would just label this game as "not worth looking at", since it features basically no gameplay, no variety, no fun - only a static environment and frustration. It even says so as the only sentence of its short description: "A game for a certain kind of person. To hurt them." But, as circumstances would have it, Getting Over It has amassed a pretty large amount of players. This could probably be attributed to it being fun to watch others suffer as they fall down over and over, so it's a natural fit for YouTube and Twitch, which are a huge popularity boost.
But regardless of this popularity, regardless of the hidden message that if you don't want to play this game, it's because it's too difficult for you, and you're just giving up... It's still a bad game. I could go on at length, probing that from different angles, but there isn't really any need. If someone tells you to play it, just tell them that it's frustrating without being any fun, and you see no reason to subject yourself to something like that, even for some petty feeling of accomplishment.
So I wouldn't recommend you play Getting Over It. Unless you hate yourself or something. In which case, go right on ahead.
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