30 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 172.0 hrs on record (145.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 11 Jan, 2021 @ 7:10pm
Updated: 11 Jan, 2021 @ 7:10pm

Fall Guys
With a massive cheating problem the first half of the 1st season it was pretty much unwinnable.
After upgrading their anti-cheat it became much more enjoyable as you could win a few games.
Sadly with that rough start and to slow content additions (if any at first), a lot of players left the game.
It is the main problem with a game like Fall Guys, it gets old playing the same maps constantly.
Season 2 had mediocre content, but Season 3 is by far the best season so far seen to content.

Fall Guys also suffers a lot from haters and labeling.
The game is not Dead by any means and it people still spam and try to massively downplay the game, a lto havent even tried it...
As goes with the labeling it isnt a casual game at all.
Play with your little children and they will most likely fail to qualify from the first round and a lot of players statistically havent even won a full episode once.
While skill is needed, it is very RNG dependant.
To make it even worse there is a clear adv/disadvantage between players.
Players are not affected by collision, grabbing and phisics equally.
This explains why so few have less than 20 wins.
The game greatly rewards skilled players, especially those with advantage.
Notice that golden person that is ungrabbable, that can walk into you moving you a long while if you do it you wont move them an inch. Do you fall more often and take much longer to get up?
Just watch a top player stream and compare your game, I can say mine isnt the same as theirs...

So to summerize some things the game has a good community, lots of haters and heavily rewards the top 1% of the game, it is probably fun for most people for a while, but many wont last even 5-10 hours.
Since they have episode varriations now I mostly play when good structured ones appear like the recent Hex-a-gone only one so I dont get bored.

Ignoring bad phisics, adv/dis etc. the game suffers from some other problems aswell.
For instance some people have a lot of disconnects and team games suffer from balancing when te teams are uneven. If your side is losing you dont get punished at all from leaving early and solidifying a loss for the team, 3 team games many teams end by simply having 2 teams gang up against one team which the game has no mechanics to balance against.
Lastly, for some reason they have an achievement for winning 5 episodes in a row.
Devs WTF, are you serious?
Disconnects break the streak aswell and early people used exploit to get it by leaving if they werent sure they would win to keep the streak...

In conclusion the game is fun, for a while but grows old rather quicky.
It doesnt take that long to finish the season pass and has been easier with each season.
Better players with not too much disadv get waaay more rewarded than other player with much higher playtimes and can usuallly buy everything constantly in the shop (cosmetics).

I recommend Fall Guys since it provides a good amount of fun and suits a lot of different people.
I hope they further balance the game between bad and good players, it doesnt really make much sense pitting the best against the worst in a battle royal and denying many players the ability to get a single win.
The biggest issue of being vastly unfair between players hopefully will get smaller as they keep optimizing and polishing the game.

//ECE//
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ECE94FSR 11 Jan, 2021 @ 7:12pm 
I would also like to point out that the game has a healthy player base and fluctuates heavily at the start of each season and with mid-season updates etc.