Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
released on Feb 28, 2019
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this might be unironically the worst game I've ever played. This shit is like if they made bennet foddy's getting over it but took all the character out of it to market it towards 14 year old XQC viewers (not to say that GOI isn't 100% innocent of being rage bait, but it has some substance with the dialogue sections w/ BF)
While I can kinda respect SOME of the choices they made, having country music being played ironically and also doing a cool idea by making you play in a server with like 10 other people (which I did appreciate), quite simply, pogostuck is the most miserable and unfun game I've ever played. I only put in 14 hours in this game and I think the furthest I've made was 45% on map 1. I genuniely think I will only return to this game when I unironically have absolutely nothing left in my backlog, and even by then I will probably find something else to play. It is just for me at least, doo doo garbage
While I can kinda respect SOME of the choices they made, having country music being played ironically and also doing a cool idea by making you play in a server with like 10 other people (which I did appreciate), quite simply, pogostuck is the most miserable and unfun game I've ever played. I only put in 14 hours in this game and I think the furthest I've made was 45% on map 1. I genuniely think I will only return to this game when I unironically have absolutely nothing left in my backlog, and even by then I will probably find something else to play. It is just for me at least, doo doo garbage
Lobotomy the Demo
Pogostuck feels closer to my experience with learning how to skateboard than any other game I've ever played.
Stuff that seems almost impossible at first becomes fully intutive after hours of practice and building up that pogo intuition. The pogo becomes an extension of yourself. Your brain sort of becomes a machine for calculating the angle of the ground against the tip of your pogostick. You learn little tricks like hooking ledges and scooping up slopes, and much more (I don't even really know what to call these techniques, since they just became intuitive to me over time).
The recovery mechanic where falling a large distance and bouncing will launch you almost the full distance you've fallen sets up some awesome and exciting situations too if you manage to save yourself.
The nature of "foddian" level design where you can lose all your progress from a single missed jump forces you to master previous sections since you'll be doing them MANY, MANY times. To put that into perspective, it took me 70 hours to finish the first level for the first time. I felt like trying again right after, and I beat it in 20 minutes.
I've only played the first level, but I think the last 10% was p inconsistent. There are a few jumps near the end that I don't feel like really test my pogostuck ability, and are more like very tight precision leaps of faith.
I also like the art style, it's got an "open source linux game from 2013" look.
Stuff that seems almost impossible at first becomes fully intutive after hours of practice and building up that pogo intuition. The pogo becomes an extension of yourself. Your brain sort of becomes a machine for calculating the angle of the ground against the tip of your pogostick. You learn little tricks like hooking ledges and scooping up slopes, and much more (I don't even really know what to call these techniques, since they just became intuitive to me over time).
The recovery mechanic where falling a large distance and bouncing will launch you almost the full distance you've fallen sets up some awesome and exciting situations too if you manage to save yourself.
The nature of "foddian" level design where you can lose all your progress from a single missed jump forces you to master previous sections since you'll be doing them MANY, MANY times. To put that into perspective, it took me 70 hours to finish the first level for the first time. I felt like trying again right after, and I beat it in 20 minutes.
I've only played the first level, but I think the last 10% was p inconsistent. There are a few jumps near the end that I don't feel like really test my pogostuck ability, and are more like very tight precision leaps of faith.
I also like the art style, it's got an "open source linux game from 2013" look.
u wont believe me but...
u are gonna rage with your friends
u are gonna rage with your friends
Solid rage game with the pogo mechanic that definitely got me angry more than a couple times.
I played this game expecting to get frustrated but I must be wired in a certain way in that every time I fell and lost a lot of progress I just laughed uncontrollably. Fantastic game to bust up laughing at 1:30AM with the boys.