My partner hates playing online games, but this weekend I made him try Fall Guys and now our relationship is in danger.
Online games are just not for him. He does not think that interaction with or dependence on strangers should be a requirement to end a game. Plus, he’s social enough in his offline life to not need it in his online. Knowing this, it’s no surprise that his taste in video games skews toward retro titles with a few notable exceptions (such as the wicked number of hours he spent in) Dragon Quest XI for he must, as he has it, “literally finish everything”).
But I thought Mediatonic was fun and chaotic. “Wipe out but make it video games ”(see, I bet you thought I would say it) Takeshi’s castle) would be quirky enough to capture his interest, so this weekend we gave it a try.
I warned him beforehand that the controls and the “chicken with his head breaking motion” could make it difficult for him to move his avatar. And when he started, he had some moving issues. But that did not last. Not only did he qualify on his first attempt (something that took days for me to achieve), he qualified again, and a third time, making it to the final round, where he was eventually eliminated 4/6 in Hex-a-away. In a game he had never played before, in a kind of game he actively avoided, he almost won it.
Not at all related to any of these, I’m single now.
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