History VideoGame / GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy

* NintendoHard: Diogenes is considered one of history's greatest [[TheGadfly gadflies]]. In this game however, The Man In The Cauldron is Diogenes, and you're being trolled by Foddy, who states that he enjoys the bitterness and failure when playing a game to the ennui of beating it.

* DareToBeBadass: If you don't play this game, then Bennett Foddy can't hurt you, ever. But at the same time, he's implying that you're a coward, which is why Foddy is calls out Youtubers who simply watch other people struggle to beat this game.

* DareToBeBadass: If you don't play this game, then Bennett Foddy can't hurt you, ever. Which makes you a winner. But at the same time, he's implying that you're a coward, which is why Foddy is calls out Youtubers who somply watch other people struggle to beat this game.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Bennett Foddy created this game to emotionally hurt the people who play it and even says so, as the narrator, that he enjoys the bitterness and misery of the moments when the players make a long fall during the game. Yet he calls out the people who only watch videos of other people playing the game as being baby birds 'eating regurgitated food'.[[note]]Philosophically speaking, if you don't play this game, then Bennett Foddy can't hurt you, ever. Which makes you a winner. But at the same time, you're implying that you're a coward which is another reason why Bennett Foddy is calling out the people who will only watch other people play this game.[[/note]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Diogenes]] is considered one of history's greatest trolls. In this game however, The Man In The Cauldron is [[spoiler:Diogenes]], and you're being trolled by the game and Bennett.

* NintendoHard: Averted. There are no enemies. [[spoiler:Except the bats.]] This isn't a PlatformHell game. There are no invisible blocks that ruin your path, no KaizoTrap or FakePlatform areas. The biggest enemy in this game is the player's own will to finish it, and patience to correctly move through the level. What you see is what you get; with skill & practice, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-v5GHxn94o the game can be legitimately completed in under 2 minutes.]]
** TrialAndErrorGameplay is limited to the merest touch in one small area, the ice mountain section near the end, which can cause a few slide-downs if you didn't catch on (literally) to the hidden ledges within the ice. It is the first & only time the game presents hidden ledges, you won't realize the trick through plain pre-climb observation. As most hidden ledges are placed below the full arm's reach, you only stumble upon it by sliding down from a bad grab onto a non-ledge. [[https://steamcommunity.com/app/240720/discussions/0/1499000547489348827/ Foddy himself pondered the fairness of the section]], but ultimately decided to keep it.
-->'''Bennett Foddy''': And I liked the way you could slide all the way down and hit the snake.

* MeaningfulName: Diogenes is the name of the man in the cauldron. He is named after an ancient Greek philosopher who founded cynicism, took a vow of poverty, and slept in a giant, overturned ceramic pot. The similarities don't stop there. From Wikipedia:

The game is designed to be frustrating; A few mistakes can send you plummeting all the way back down the mountain to where you started the game. And given the awkwardness of the controls, and the difficulty of scaling many sections, this is likely to happen many, many times over the course of the 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 surfaces and has no ability to jump or climb on his own. 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.

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Diogenes]] is the name of the man in the cauldron.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't worry, I'll save your progress always. Even your mistakes."'']]

* AstralFinale: Manage to climb [[spoiler:the cell phone tower at the end of the game, and the climber is pulled out into outer space. Foddy sings a song from the climber's perspective, expressing delight that he's free of Earth's gravity]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Foddy's mood seems to reflect the player's over the course of the game. At the start he's pretty optimistic, talking casually about his game and ''Sexy Hiking''. Then as you get a bit further up, he just starts talking about the commercialization of the gaming industry. His mic quality changes around this point, too. Once you reach the snake, he starts to sound kinda bitter and cynical, occasionally speaking in rhymes. When you reach the top of the mountain, he's practically shoving his face into the mic and whispering. Then you jump. [[spoiler:It ends with Foddy singing an a capella version of an old folk song which is about overcoming obstacles and evil people.]] And then it's over.

''[[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 surfaces and has no ability to jump and climb himself. 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.

The game is designed to be frustrating; a few mistakes can send you plummeting all the way back down the mountain to where you started the game. And given the awkwardness of the controls, and the difficulty of scaling many sections, this is likely to happen many, many times over the course of the game.

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 ''Sexy Hiking''. Sometimes, when the player falls far enough, Foddy gives the player some words of encouragement.

* UnwinnableByMistake: It is possible to get irrevocably stuck by getting the head of your hammer on one side of the radio tower and your body on the other, then shimmying downwards. When someone brought this to Foddy's attention, he added a "Bad Ending" voice clip to the game for that circumstance, making this an AscendedGlitch.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: The Man, though it's more like "Hopping Shirtless Scene". It's hard to tell if he's wearing ''anything'' under the cauldron, in fact...or if he even ''has'' anything, legs included, down there.

* {{Speedrun}}: Several videos have gone online featuring gamers beating the game in minutes. The current leaderboards are [[https://www.speedrun.com/Getting_Over_It_With_Bennett_Foddy/full_game#Glitchless here]].

* NintendoHard: Averted. There are no enemies. [[spoiler:Except the bats.]] This isn't a PlatformHell game. There are no invisible blocks that ruin your path, no KaizoTrap or FakePlatform areas. The biggest enemy in this game is the player's own will to finish it, and patience to correctly move through the level. What you see is what you get; with skill & practice, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-v5GHxn94o the game can be legitimately completed in under 2 minutes.]

* NintendoHard: Averted. There are no enemies. [[spoiler:Except the bats.]] This isn't a PlatformHell game. There are no invisible blocks that ruin your path, no KaizoTrap or FakePlatform areas. The biggest enemy in this game is the player's own will to finish it, and patience to correctly move through the level. What you see is what you get; with skill & practice the game can be legitimately completed in 2 minutes.

* ContinuingIsPainful: While you can't die ''per se'' (except in the lake at the beginning), the mountain is designed so that you can fall all the way back to the beginning at almost any point.

* 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 Bennett and the other successful climbers. And the game ''will'' ban you if you're caught streaming the chat room.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: Unless you play [[VideoGame/IndiePogo Indie Pogo]] where he is featured as a playable character, you would never know that the main characters name is Diogenes

** TrialAndErrorGameplay is limited to the merest touch in one small area, the ice mountain section near the end, which can cause a few slide-downs if you didn't catch on (literally) to the hidden ledges within the ice. It is the first & only time the game presents hidden ledges, you won't realize the trick through plain pre-climb observation. As most hidden ledges are placed below the full arm's reach, you only stumble upon it by sliding down from a bad grab onto a non-ledge.[[https://steamcommunity.com/app/240720/discussions/0/1499000547489348827/ Foddy himself pondered the fairness of the section]], but ultimately decided to keep it.

* NintendoHard: Averted. There are no enemies. [[spoiler:(Except the bats.)]] This isn't a PlatformHell game. There are no invisible blocks that ruin your path, no KaizoTrap or FakePlatform areas. The biggest enemy in this game is the player's own will to finish it, and patience to correctly move through the level. What you see is what you get; with skill & practice the game can be legitimately completed in 2 minutes.

* 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. Although considering that most of the LetsPlay viewers don't come to experience the game, but the person playing it, [[MisBlamed the message might have fallen on deaf ears]].

* BatScare: A [[ScreamerPrank Screamer Prank]] caused by a massive swarm of the things that produces a loud roar combined with cacophony of bat noises. Appears from a gift box that falls near the Anvil and, more infamously, at the Church Bell. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfN9nmqM4kY&t=212s The latter scare has massive frustration potential]].

''[[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.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Foddy believes the main reason asset-based games and the discussion about them never took off is because of a "garbage culture" - though he's quick to explain it is in no way an insult towards the asset makers or consumers. He means it to be a society where things are disposed of once used up - be it a poem or food or, say, a video game - and pre-made items are often faster to go through, and thus disposed once finished, and often forgotten. Part of Getting Over It's rationale is both trying to defy an easy one-and-done game that won't last long and won't be memorable, as well as using pre-made assets in a way that makes them unique.

* CheckpointStarvation: There are no checkpoints. If you fall, you can fall all the way down the mountain, and the only way to get back up is to climb up again.

* DeconstructionGame: On [[SomeDexterityRequired awkward controls]] and CheckpointStarvation.

* DeadpanSnarker: Foddy's narration includes various inspirational quotes delivered in a matter-of-fact way whenever the player loses progress, but to more than a few players they almost always come off as Foddy sarcastically rubbing salt in their wounds.

* DeadpanSnarker: Foddy's narration includes various inspirational quotes delivered in a matter-of-fact way whenever the player loses progress, but they almost always come off as Foddy sarcastically rubbing salt in the player's wounds.