The former sees players ascending a difficult obstacle course while attempting to avoid a river of pink slime that's slowly but surely engulfing the map, meanwhile also making sure to navigate around the horde of other players inadvertently knocking them off obstacles.
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Clocking in at around 2 minutes apiece, the series of small contests, for the most part, are also a lot of fun, with the standouts thus far being Slime Climb and Hex-A-Gone.
Better yet, players can jump back into a game in a matter of seconds ( if Fall Guys isn't suffering from its now-infrequent spate of connectivity issues) meaning there's little penalty for not qualifying. It also helps that its lineup of 24 courses are distributed fairly evenly, making it rare to encounter the same lineup of levels on a subsequent playthrough. It feels like anyone can steal a win on any given day and that's a rare feeling for a modern battle royale to offer. It can be frustrating, even maddening reaching the final stage of a hard-fought battle just for an oddly placed obstacle to completely kill a chance at the crown, but it's a worthwhile sacrifice for Fall Guys to offer such an unpredictable, fun-focused experience. With little more than a jump, dive, and grab button at the player's disposal, there's not much that can be done to avoid having to get stuck into the game's anarchic series of scrums and mobs either. The catch is that Fall Guys' quirky mascots aren't exactly the most gracious of avatars, and will slip, slide, collide, and fall over each other and themselves without much warning. Of course, it won't be easy, with the game putting them through a series of colorfully chaotic events inspired by some of TV's most iconic physical game shows. The player, along with 59 other hopeful online opponents, takes on the role of a wobbly, pill-shaped creature looking to battle its way to being the last anthropomorphic jellybean standing. RELATED: Fall Guys Player Has Worst Luck Right at the Finish LineĪlthough many will no doubt have seen Fall Guys' central premise throughout the influx of viral videos and social media posts during its recent beta phase, the concept is relatively simple. But the most impressive takeaway after playing several hours of Devolver Digital's newest independent hit is that it has the legs to grow into a game that - with a little bit of fine-tuning and some big additions - could carve quite a popular, long-running niche for itself in the years to come. Of course, that initially seems like it'll be a short-lived gimmick battle royales, after all, have been a genre primarily focus on skill-based play while Fall Guysis far more focused on luck and fun.
Gone are the big guns, the slowly constricting boundary circles, and the overwhelming reams of tiered loot, replaced by the extravagant colors and courses of game shows like Takeshi's Castle and It's a Knockout. Whether it's managing to outlast 12 other players on a neon pink and green variation of Total Wipeout's chaotic spinner or ascending a mountain of perilous obstacles to grab the game-winning golden crown, it's clear from the first hour of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout that Mediatonic has created a truly unique take on the battle royale.
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