finally got around to this on a friend’s rec… it’s honestly very very very deep, this one
as professional jazz pianist said on a podcast i listen to, about how to practice jazz, “It’s not hard, it’s easy, I just haven’t got it yet”
seeing the steam reviews with ppl fake-screaming about the difficulty is funny. it’s kind of funny to read them and think, “none of you people have ever seriously tried to learn a musical instrument”. i don’t really think this game is “hard”. it’s brilliantly clear. you’re over here and you need to get over there. here is your hammer, figure it out. really relaxing actually. burst out in delighted laughter each time i mess up in a silly way to a new dev-placed obstacle and launch myself back down 5 screens of height to the bottom of the chasm
if Getting Over It is “hard,” then literally everything worth doing is life is harder than Getting Over It.
we were having an axe discussion where @thecatamites was talking about ‘thingliness’, the idea that when you try to make art in most media (clay, music, paints, etc) the thing speaks back to you and the art is a product of interaction between you and the thing which will not remain silent. it’s hard to find a better example than Getting over it for exactly that, the ‘thing’ never stops speaking to you and you must learn to speak to it, and if you can learn to speak to this thing, you can learn how to do… really anything.
it gives that classic STG feeling of, this thing is overwhelming, until you master it, and then it’s understandable, and even easy. and it is fully earned, your brain has developed real grooves
i dunno, i think this is very very philosophically deep, this. it’s good art