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1. #GETTING OVER IT WITH BENNETT FODDY SNOWY MOUNTAIN TUTORIAL TRIAL#
2. #GETTING OVER IT WITH BENNETT FODDY SNOWY MOUNTAIN TUTORIAL SERIES#

While playing the game, you learn things about yourself that you wouldn't have realized in the confines of a more forgiving, breeze-through environment. Some would call this insanity - I call it a tough-love process of self-reflection.

Those who complete the game are the most determined of the playerbase - those who will fall, and fall, and fall again, and still have the resolve to keep going back up, most often to the same result. It's a punishing and unforgiving challenge to be sure, but it's incredibly rewarding to beat the game even once, an achievement only 8% of players can boast.

#GETTING OVER IT WITH BENNETT FODDY SNOWY MOUNTAIN TUTORIAL SERIES#

The map consists of a variety of stock assets - you start on a rocky lakeside and scale an odd, surrealist playing field consisting of such items as a rowing oar, a stray coffee cup you can smack around, a giant tipped-over ladder, a series of mysteriously-suspended rocks covered in snow that never melts, and of course, the iconic and notorious snake that takes you back to the beginning of the game. The goal of the game is simply to climb a mountain - or, what would be better described as the anarchical definition of a mountain. The controls are intentionally awkward and unwieldy, as you don't even click any buttons - you just move your character, Diogenes, around in a cauldron with a hammer using the movement of your mouse or trackpad. However, on a less philosophical level, it's an incredibly hard game. It's an experience that'll take everything out of you and build it back up from the inside.

#GETTING OVER IT WITH BENNETT FODDY SNOWY MOUNTAIN TUTORIAL TRIAL#

Getting Over It is, at its core, a game about taking risks, trial and error, and the value of starting over. However, when I picked up Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy in early 2022, after not playing it for almost a year, I learned the true meaning of comfort through risk - the VERY hard way. This causes an intense fear of uncertainty and taking risks. I have severe OCD and a whole variety of anxiety disorders, so I live my life in a lot of fear, almost constantly. Let me preface this wall of text by saying that I have never been a "throw caution to the wind" type of person.