Alright so if I just ever so carefully put my hammer down here...no..no no NONONO MOTHER
So now I must start over. At the bottom of the mountain. With nothing but my bare chest,
toned but not unreasonable biceps, and a mighty hammer thing. Alright. Hnngraaah!
THIS IS JUST THE INSPIRATION I NEEDED. A REASON TO KEEP GOING. A REASON TO KEEP DEALING WITH
LIFE AND IT’S...stupidness. It’s time to endure. It’s time for Getting Over It
and the REAL TRUTH of it! I mean...the truth is always real by definition but how many
people claim to have the truth but actually don’t?
This...is the REAL truth...of Getting Over It! Because my opinion is Truth! Get Ready!
Hnngrrahh!
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Hey everyone welcome to the first Treesicle video of 2018, and what better game could
possibly end 2017 and start the new year with than Getting Over It: With Bennett Foddy?
Cuz I don't know about you, but being a YouTuber in 2017 sucked to the point that we weren’t
completely sure we were going to be able to continue making videos for a living. So let’s
get over it shall we, after all, that’s what this game is all about.
In case you don’t know what Getting Over It is, it’s a game made by the same guy
who made QWOP. Remember this lovely piece of fecal matter? It was like controlling a
person if their skeleton was made of soup. Two buttons controlled your thighs and the
other two controlled your calves. And that was it. You had to figure out how to make
the ambiguously ethnic athlete walk or run or shimmy his way down the track. It was stressful,
it was infuriating, and now Mr. Foddy is back at it again with his most recent masterpiece.
However, unlike QWOP, which was stressful without any reason to be, Getting Over It
has a very important and obvious theme behind it: Failure. And in all honesty, Foddy has
made a game worth getting through because of its lesson. While this game is overwhelmingly
difficult, mind numbingly frustrating, and makes you wonder if it’s too late to circumcise
yourself with a saw blade, it does have some beneficial qualities. So let’s get into
this Mona Lisa of psychological horror game and find out just what it does before consuming
your mind with white hot fiery, chipotle poops style rage.
Alright..so uh… oh ok we’re this dude in a cauldron... Am I a witches experiment
gone wrong or something? Whatever if doesn’t matter. You play as Humpty Dumpty over here,
this cauldron man who’s one goal in life is to climb. So we venture onwards until a
tree! How could I possibly overcome such an immovable object?!? annddd hup! Yes, all trees
will bow before the mighty Tree-sicle! Course once you finally emerge past the Tree of determination,
Mr. Bennett Foddy himself decides to tell you what this game is really about. I’ll
allow him to explain in his own words: “There’s no feeling more intense than
starting over. If you’ve deleted your homework the day before it was due, as I have. Or if
you left your wallet at home and you have to go back, after spending an hour in the
commute. If you won some money at the casino and then
put all your winnings on red, and it came up black. If you won an argument with a friend
and then later discovered they just returned to their original view. Starting over is harder
than starting up. If you’re not ready for that, like if you’ve already had a bad day,
Then what you’re about to go through might be too much. Feel free to go away and come
back. I’ll be here.”
Well well Mr. Foddy, you certainly paint a bleak picture about your most prized creation.
I mean sure, the last year hasn’t exactly been easy but I’m sure your game couldn’t
possibly make it worst GODDAMNIT MAN! I HATE YOU HUMPTY DUMPTY! Ok, I’ve taken some time
to calm down, recenter my chi, pop a xanax, y’know all the things that people do to
settle themselves. So let’s get back into it. As you progress through the game Foddy
continues to bombard you with inspirationational quotes about failure as you fail, and philosophical
commentary as you succeed. You climb up barren rocks until you reach a vertical wall of metal,
then you climb over everyday objects, grilles, beach balls, stairs, chairs, things just taken
and thrown in to create a climbable obstacle for you to get over. Over and up you go. Learning,
understanding, but still messing up and redoing the same parts over and over. All the while
Foddy feeds you quotes about failure every time you mess up. And eventually, if you’re
really determined and spend a lot of time in the game, you can beat it and succeed,
fulfilling Foddy’s vision for the game. You’ve learned how to climb.
But the game isn’t really about succeeding. Sure you can beat the game and feel accomplished,
but that end feeling is nothing compared to the overwhelming frustration and concentration
you take upon yourself to just get out the metaphorical front door of the game. As you
climb, Foddy tells you about the game this title is based on: Sexy Hiking. It’s not
a game about that time I went hiking with your mom. It’s a B game, as he calls it,
and he extrapolates this idea of B games, games made on budgets and using premade parts,
to movies, to tv, to all forms of entertainment, to show its a part of our culture. We reuse,
recycle, create something from the same trash over and over again. And yet, out of this
trash game made from trash materials with a trash control scheme on a a trash mountain,
is a very real light at the end of this infuriating tunnel. Of trash.
This game makes you feel real emotion. It makes you pulse with anger, it makes you scream
with rage, but just as readily, it makes you smile with joy and beam with accomplishment.
Getting Over It isn’t just a B game created for us to enjoy the pain of the Markiplier's
and Jacksepticeye’s of the world. I mean it is, but Foddy created this game with a
real message behind it, that failure doesn’t have to stop progress, that anger can help
fuel our success and strengthen our resolve. This game isn’t about climbing a mountain.
It’s about life. Wading through the junk and muck of everyday living. Failing to get
that job, or failing to pass that class. It isn’t over, you aren’t even back at the
beginning. You’re still farther along than you were when you started your journey, and
even if the absolute worst happens to you, there’s only one place to go: Up.
That’s the real message that Bennett Foddy is trying to get you to understand. It doesn’t
matter how many times you fall down, it doesn’t matter how many tries it takes. You have this
one life to live, and you’re going to fail. You’re going to fail over and over again.
So it’s ok to get angry, it’s ok to get mad. It’s ok to leave and take a break.
And it’s certainly okay to shake your fist at the world which has blessed you with a
cauldron for legs. Your obstacle, whether its a class or a crush or a job or something
else, it’ll be there when you’re ready to pick up again. Get angry, get mad! Fucking
yell till your lungs pop if you have to. But come back, try again, and again. Because in
the end there’s only one way to go and no matter how great the pain of failure is, it’ll
be worth it, because all of it will turn into accomplishment when you finally do finish
your goal. So climb. Just like in the game you’re going to make mistakes, there will
be parts you’ll be good at and parts where you’ll struggle. There will be parts you’ll
mess up and failures you think you’ll never be able to get over. But you can. just get
back in that cauldron, pick up that hammer, and climb. It will be worth it in the en-
GOD DAMNIT! SCREW THIS GAME, SCREW YOU BENNETT FODDY! AND SCREW YOU’RE DUMBASS EYE OPENING
MESSAGE! I’M DONE, I’M OUT! I’M OVER IT! And that’s the real truth.
Seriously though, this game can be a inspirational nightmare, but I’m glad we got a chance
to cover it. If there’s a game you’d like us to cover let us know in the comments below,
or better yet, tell us in our discord server or on twitter where we’re much more likely
to actually see it! I hope you all are ready for a full year of new content. We have big
plans for the future and we’re going to be sharing them with you all soon, so thanks
for watching everybody and I’ll talk to you all soon. Toodles!