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I think I had too many beers.

  • Writer: V
    V
  • Jan 9
  • 7 min read

I only have just under 100 games left in The Winter Jackpot? Dammit this series is going too fast! Can we slow it down a bit? XD! Speaking of which, next on the block, I am given Human: Fall Flat! A... I wouldn't necessarily call it a rage game. Not now at least. It might make you frustrated at some parts but not to the point where you want to smash your keyboard.


So I hop in and right off the bat I check out the character creator tool. And boy is there options! The Ninja mask already makes our dude look... sus... and because I am a guy who likes to say fuck it, I give him a gingerbread tutu and horse pants. Now this is the perfect character! I don't focus on any of the other customizable stuff because holy shit I'd be here all day. I had a game to play. So getting in and I fall into the tutorial area essentially. Learning very basic mechanics of the game like... opening doors... and that's the tutorial! Now it's time to actually play the game. And holy shit instantly the first fucking obstacle I am having trouble getting across. Ironically the most challenging obstacle. I have to essentially step across a train that got a little... derailed. The train is sloped and I have to very carefully walk up it. And with this game trying to give as realistic physics as possible, it ain't easy. I knew the idea was that I had to traverse across the center of the train. But holy hell even trying to get on the train was a chore. If this was essentially the first level... oh boy I am in for a treat. But with just a few minutes of patience, I do eventually make it across and into the station! HUZZAH!... now what? Going up some stairs lets me jump onto a car. But I can't make it to any of the other ones from where I am at. So now what do? Eventually I actually realize I can move the cars on the tracks. Besides the one that's connected to the train itself. So with this new knowledge in hand I am able to move the cars in a way that I have space to jump across them. After enough fiddling around with them and adjusting, I am able to open the door and fall to my death! HAH just kidding. I actually end up to the next level. This one I can actually get past the beginning in way less time. I mean it's not hard to put a box on a button. Doing that opens the door to let me move through. In the next section the box is higher up. Not an issue. I can jump! The next section introduces me to short elevators. The first part isn't too bad. Just send the lift down, carry the box to it, bring the lift up, put box on button. Easy! The next section took me a wee bit longer to figure out. This one brings back our old friend the train car! Surely it's as easy as bringing it to touch the side closest to the lift, bring the box to the car and... wait fuck now what do?


Yeah so I was in a pickle here. I mean I could carry the car to the other side but then I couldn't reach to get on top of it. And if I did move it so I could reach it, I couldn't jump over to the area with the button... so what do I do? I did realize suddenly that when I was on the car, I could actually move it by shimmying around. It was slow but it looked like it was getting the job done... or alternatively I could just grab on to the wall and walk in place to move the train car... that also works! Of course some times in life you do move the train car to the other platform by doing that and then the fucking box falls off of it so you have to do that all over again! After making sure I totally go through the right door, I fall my way to the next level. A very... desert themed area. It starts off with just some basic platforming. Jumping off the furthest edge of each platform to reach the next was what I did. But when it came to a section where I had to jump on some... high enough ledges... what do? I tried searching around for maybe any lower ledges... but to no avail. Eventually I grab on one of those... I don't know what you call it. We'll just call it a tablet device. These tiny little devices have spawned in each level I have been in. But I never really realized it was a hint device. Because grabbing this one was actually beneficial as it helped teach me how to... well... climb up ledges! Essentially I raise my arms in the air, grab on to the ledge close to me, jump and pull myself up. Hell I even figured out how to climb up a ledge by jumping to it. Didn't need a stupid video for that! Albeit the first time I did it was definitely the easiest. The next section was definitely a little harder. The issue is that when I hold forward, it moves my camera down which in turn also moves my arms down. Again with enough patience I did get across. A nice random train car to move to then jump on and make my way through and it was a little more platforming to... uh... the most frightening low pitch vibration noise you will ever hear. I mean seriously what the fuck was that? I guess apparently the large rock I was on was actually like a see-saw which is why it was making that noise. I reach up and move a large train car across a track. But now I have to get to the other side of it but I have to use the see-saw again.


I swear the first time I used the see-saw again to reach up to the other high ledge was easy. But after that, never the fuck again. And even when I did, I then had the fucking obstacle of getting on the damn train... emphasis on moving forward fucking my camera over. I am stunned I even got on the train. After that the rest of the level was smooth sailing. Literally climbing up some stairs to a nice house with a door leading to the abyss. Oh yeah I'd want a house like that! The last level I check out for this stream is the construction zone. You know it is because of the construction equipment. Just got to get these damn planks away from this door first. I move a lever to control a claw holding a box which busts down a wall. Then it's a matter of getting over there. I try to open the doors to my left but they won't budge. Well there is a convenient fire extinguisher I can use to not open the door. Oh well I guess I have to break the glass in front of me then. So I make it past the now busted down wall. Now it's a very quick where do I go from here situation. A wrecking ball sits high above a gap. But it almost looks like I can just jump across it and pull myself up which I almost did. I thought maybe I grab the wrecking ball? But when I tried to grab it, there was no dice. Turns out I was going a little too fast. Taking it slow, letting my hands be high up in the air, then making the jump lets me grab on. I then make my way in to the crane to bust down yet another wall... after realizing I originally moved the wrecking ball in the wrong direction. I use the ball again to get to a lever I can pull down... and then have it break on me. But a new platform has been raised for me so I don't need to get across with the wrecking ball anymore. Which is nice! This area has a box I need to use to push down a button with. But the button is behind a glass wall... how do I get to the button? Well there are plenty of broken wall pieces I can use to shatter the glass! That works! Once I get the box on the button, a new door opens. It leads to a weird room with a platform that is quite high so I can't get to it. A lever which opens a door but it doesn't stay open as it closes once I let go of it. I need to find a way to keep that door open. What if maybe I got something to hold down the lever? I do have a gazillion broken wall chunks to play with.


It was more a matter of actually getting said chunk up there. My original thought was to try to just chuck one up... that was easier said than done. So then I was like... maybe I should take a piece and use it as a little step and then take a piece up. It still wasn't easy but it was easier than how I was doing it before. Originally I thought my idea of holding down the lever with a chunk of the wall didn't work... but then I realized it just wasn't holding down said piece enough. After adjusting it, I got the door to stay open! Now it was a matter of getting up on that high platform. I thought about maybe taking the box with me. I just needed the door to be held open... yeah that wasn't happening. That wasn't the way to do that. And why bother with the box? I have chunks of wall to play with! I find a suitable enough piece and make my way to where I am just able to grab the platform and pull my way up. Was that the intended way to beat that section? Nope. It wasn't. But it was my way that I beat it and I was happy with it. And if it proves one thing...


I have a huge fucking brain! I mean it's so big that I think I have 30 foreheads!

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