History VideoGame / GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: You can get a golden cauldron if you beat the game ''500 times.''

* TakeThatAudience: Foddy has some choice words for people who experience this game by watching a YouTuber or Twitch gamer do it, likening them to baby birds 'eating regurgitated food' because they won't experience it for themselves.

Overlaying the game is narration by Bennett Foddy himself, discussing video game design, musing about disposable culture, and talking about the game that inspired Getting Over It, a 2002 B-game called ''VideoGame/SexyHiking''. Sometimes, when the player falls far enough, Foddy gives the player some words of encouragement.

* {{Irony}}: Diogenes is considered one of history's greatest trolls. In this game however, The Man In The Cauldron is Diogenes, and you're being trolled by the game & narrator.

* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: After completing the game you are presented with a screen regarding your "reward", that asks you to confirm you are no longer recording or streaming [[spoiler: then it asks for your name, and lets you into a chat room of a sort, letting you leave messages for the Bennett and the other successful climbers.]]

** Of course, the game being what it is, that section and the one after are deliberately designed to enable the player to make a mistake, drop down to accidentally land on the snake and fall through the level to the start.

* NintendoHard: Averted. There are no enemies. This isn't a PlatformHell game. There are no invisible blocks that appear ruin your path, no KaizoTrap or FakePlatform areas, and it's not even an example of TrialAndErrorGameplay. The biggest enemy in this game is the players own will to finish it. What you see is what you get, with skill & practice the game can be legitimately completed in under 4 minutes.

* NintendoHard. The lack of checkpoints, the level design having sections you can fall huge distances back down, including all the way to the start of the game
** And yet, the game can be completed in under 4 minutes without cheating.

* NintendoHard

** Of course, the game being what it is, that section is deliberately designed to enable the player to accidentally land on the snake and fall through the level.

* {{{Determinator}}: You. If you win. The narrator asks who you are in this game? Are you Diogenes, are you his hand? The top of his hammer?

* Determinator: You. If you win. The narrator asks who you are in this game? Are you Diogenes, are you his hand? The top of his hammer?

* Irony: Diogenes is considered one of history's greatest trolls. In this game however, The Man In The Cauldron is named Diogenes, and you're being trolled by the game & narrator.

* MeaingfulName: Diogenes is the name of the man in the cauldron.

* ChallengeAsComedy: The game's awkward controls, cruel level of difficulty, and lack of checkpoints serve to make the game funny in a BlackComedy sort of way.

* SadisticCreator: Foddy.

Overlaying the game is narration by Bennett Foddy himself, discussing video game design, musing about disposable culture, and talking about the game that inspired Getting Over It, a 2002 B-game called ''VideoGame/SexyClimbing''. Sometimes, when the player falls far enough, Foddy gives the player some words of encouragement.

->''I could have made something you would have liked, a game that was empowering, that would save your progress and inch you steadily forward. Instead, I must confess: this isn't nice."

->''I created this game for a certain kind of person...
To hurt them.''

* YetAnotherStupidDeath: How the game hurts you. Though you don't die. You just have to start over your climb. Again.

''[[http://www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/ Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy]]'' is a game built out of recycled assets by Creator/{{Foddy}} in which you must climb over a mountain of garbage using only a sledgehammer. The climber is nothing more than a torso sticking out of a cauldron, and as such, can slide off of surfaces and has no ability to jump and climb themselves. Similar to ''VideoGame/QWOP'', this is a game about having very inconvenient controls for the task at hand, but it is a much, much longer game.

''[[http://www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/ Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy'']] is a game built out of recycled assets by Creator/{{Foddy}} in which you must climb over a mountain of garbage using only a sledgehammer. The climber is nothing more than a torso sticking out of a cauldron, and as such, can slide off of surfaces and has no ability to jump and climb themselves. Similar to ''VideoGame/QWOP'', this is a game about having very inconvenient controls for the task at hand, but it is a much, much longer game.