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by Philipp Rüegg
"Fall Guys": The funniest, cuddliest and most annoying multiplayer game
5.8.2020
Translation: machine translated
"Fall Guys" is the latest multiplayer sensation. 60 players try to hold out the longest in the body of unguided blobs. In multi-stage levels, there are always new challenges waiting to thin out the field. Simple, ingenious and absolutely maddening.
60 players wobble off. The goal is 100 metres away, but the distance seems infinite. The path is littered with rotating propellers, trap doors and giant balls that keep knocking you off the pitch. As if that wasn't enough, you constantly collide with other clumsy players, sometimes involuntarily, sometimes on purpose. Most of the time, someone stumbles into you right before the finish line and you both stagger down the platform like two overweight guinea pigs, while the last players rush across the home straight and qualify for the next round.
Battle Royale meets "Takeshi's Castle"
"Fall Guys" is a multiplayer game for PC and PS4 for up to 60 players. In each of a maximum of five rounds, you try to be among the best and qualify for the next level. "Fall Guys" is reminiscent of Battle Royale and the cult TV trash show "Takeshi's Castle". The levels are sometimes an obstacle course where the aim is to be among the fastest. Other times you stand on platforms that slowly break away and try not to fall off for as long as possible. There are also team-based levels. Here, several teams try to steal each other's eggs, jump through rings or get giant balls into their own goal. The players on the losing team are eliminated.
"Fall Guys" requires skill and at least as much luck. If you run towards a field of pink slime and spinning dildos in a stream of drunken, bean-like figures, you'll lose track even with the most eye-catching outfit. Then you just hope that the pink pudge being trampled by a thousand tiny feet below isn't you.
Of course, you collect points that you can spend on outfits and emotes. Or you can put real money on the table and buy a DLC pack with costumes.
The developers have hit a nerve with "Fall Guys". The servers were so overloaded on release day that there were regular disconnections. Logical, as it is a perfect party game. The game principle is explained in one sentence. There is not much to understand. As befits a good multiplayer game, shouts of joy and curses that would silence even 13-year-old Call of Duty players are only seconds apart.
Simon and I show you the best example of how strong the mood swings can be in the Let's Play.
"Fall Guys" is available for PC and PS4.
We stream on Youtube and on Twitch. Why don't you also check out our Discord channel.
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Philipp Rüegg
Senior Editor
Philipp.Rueegg@digitecgalaxus.chBeing the game and gadget geek that I am, working at digitec and Galaxus makes me feel like a kid in a candy shop – but it does take its toll on my wallet. I enjoy tinkering with my PC in Tim Taylor fashion and talking about games on my podcast http://www.onemorelevel.ch. To satisfy my need for speed, I get on my full suspension mountain bike and set out to find some nice trails. My thirst for culture is quenched by deep conversations over a couple of cold ones at the mostly frustrating games of FC Winterthur.
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