But my teammates are complete morons.
I will readily admit that my view of Fall Guys might be skewed by the fact that I didn’t pay a single dime for this game. I will also readily admit that had the game not been available day one for free on PlayStation Plus that I probably wouldn’t have bought it today. Or at all, ever.
Fall Guys is a fun party game in the sense that it is good for an hour if not a little less or more and then I’d rather go do something else with my time. I can see my interest in this game hitting a brick wall in probably a week and I suspect that’s going to be the case with a fair amount of the rest of the community, at least until they get their fill after the servers are stabilized and people can play for reliable periods of time. It’s fun but it’s not a long term staple.
If you somehow missed the news, Fall Guys is a 60 player battle royale set in an adorable universe of little bean guys and the goal is to complete the series of mini-games and be the last bean guy standing with your bean face and bean body. Fall Guys is great in one sense because the game is so whimsical that it’s hard to be mad at it when you lose, even if it’s for a totally crap reason.
Fall Guys also has a very shallow curve and a low skill ceiling, meaning you’re never going to dominate the field. It’s a mad dash through obstacle courses and silly games and at your disposal you have a jump, a leap, and a grab. You can be a jerk face and grab other players to hold them back and the game is mostly physics based which means you can bet most of the obstacles are all about knocking you around and watching your bean guy ragdoll.
It’s like Mediatronic figured out how to distill Minions into a video game while also removing the horrible cringeworthy following of boomer memesters that Minions has. I’d rather jump into an airplane propeller than deal with that crowd.
There’s one glaring issue in Fall Guys that I’d like to see developer Mediatronic let players opt out of: Team games. Nothing kills my enjoyment of a match faster than seeing a team game appear in the list of mini-games. Just knowing that I will likely lose because Murphy’s law dictates that I will be paired with incompetent morons like the guy who scored several times on our own goal in the soccer mini-game. I get that Fall Guys isn’t a totally skill-based game, but I’d at least like to have a majority of control over my character’s success.
Nothing kills the momentum and ruins my enthusiasm for playing Fall Guys quite like getting knocked out of a match three times in a row after happening to get put on a team of Barney Fifes. There’s not a whole lot of content right now and while your matches won’t play out in the same order there is definitely a list of mini-games you’ll see a hell of a lot more than others. The plan of course is to add a whole lot more mini-games as time goes on.
Who knows, maybe this could be the next Mario Party-esque game without the game board.
Hopefully Mediatronic can keep the momentum going. For $20 I gotta say Fall Guys is fun, it is definitely a game best played in small spurts and I would recommend playing it now because if the population dies off in a month there’s going to be literally no content. If you have PS+, then what are you waiting for?
My verdict: 3.5/5. It’s definitely a fresh idea for a game and a whole lot of fun, but the team games suck and I question the longevity of Fall Guys once the initial rush is done and people start going back to playing their regular games.
MMO Fallout 
