Do people even still play that?
Impressions:
A whole Fall Guys episode? I guess we can pin when this started production to 2020 then. And yet, it’s obvious they’ve never actually played it, or possibly any multiplayer video games ever by the way the “pro gamer” is selflessly working together with everybody and his pro gaming skills are “moving platforms move in a repeating pattern.” Or how everybody patiently waits their turns at each jump. Ya gotta at least have more than passing knowledge about the thing you’re trying to reference or parody. Assuming both that the audience doesn’t have the knowledge of even basic video game platforming, but would also clap their hands excitedly at seeing a reference to Fall Guys… who exactly is the audience here?
The end of the episode also fell apart a lot. They had referenced her hospitalized friend earlier, but there was ten times more focus on all of them being struggling or failed streamers. Then there’s an abrupt swerve into it all being about her friend with her soul stolen. Also, these are not weird aliens, but interdimensional Cthulhu ancient gods that have been trapped in a computer unless some rad dudes with l33t skills can save the day. Maybe if we didn’t spend ten minutes getting banal video game tips that would have embarrassed even Nintendo World Champions to put in their VHS tapes we could’ve built up to this bizarre reveal a little better than a rushed info dump and abrupt change of character motivation and purpose all in the last minute of the episode.
