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As people passed by my desk this week, they all invariably became intrigued and stopped to ask two questions: “What game is this?” was usually first. After I repeated “Human: Fall Flat” a couple of times they’d get it. Then, after taking a moment to thoughtfully examine the featureless, pudgy, toddler-like character stumbling around drunkenly on screen, they’d ask, “Why does your dude have a buttcrack?”“Oh, that? I painted that on in the character editor,” I’d answer as nonchalantly as possible. They’d nod, accepting the wisdom of my actions, and hang out for a few minutes to watch me struggle through a few physics puzzles with the intentionally klutzy controls and laughing at my Chris Farley-like ineptitude before moving on, saying they’d have to check it out. And the cycle would repeat itself: Human: Fall Flat. Buttcrack. Puzzles. Repeat. Executing on a solution is a matter of battling the controls until you get lucky. Overall, perhaps Human is a game that’s more fun to watch for a bit than it is to play all the way through. It’s not that it isn’t generally fun to play, but that it’s guilty of the cardinal sin of slapstick-style physics puzzle games in the vein of Octodad: Dadliest Catch and Surgeon Simulator: it creates situations where once you’ve figured out what you have to do, executing on that solution is a matter of battling the controls and trying over and over until you get lucky.

Its charm, comedy, and cleverness built up enough momentum to keep me going when the going got annoying, but man, does it get annoying sometimes during its six* or so hours. (*Estimating the time it takes to play through a puzzle game always feels so judgemental. If it takes you longer, that’s cool. Likewise, if you complete it in three, don’t tell me.) The biggest part of that charm is our doughy, completely untextured (by default) protagonist. His animations are driven by inverse kinematics, meaning they’re dynamic and react to interactions with the world around you, and that they’re hilarious. In the early levels I winced when he tumbled off cliffs and when physics contorted his pool noodle-like limbs in unnatural ways. But as soon as I learned that he feels no fall damage and will always eventually pick himself up off the ground, I laughed along as he clumsily waddled along like Gumby with a full diaper. As mentioned you can customize him in the menu, using MS Paint-style tools to fancy him up as you please, which I suppose could also be done tastefully. Likewise, virtually nothing in all of Human is textured — only colored and shaded — giving it the look of a work in progress, except with the consistency of a finished product. Each stage is distinctly different, ranging from a medieval castle to industrial loading docks, cliffs, and a garden.

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The lack of detail probably helps make the low-polygon environments look good, and also helps the almost flawless collision detection between objects that allows these puzzles to function. Controls are deliberately tricky, setting up the slapstick comedy Controls are deliberately tricky, setting up the slapstick comedy of flailing to keep from dropping important items, dangling from ledges, and getting crushed by heavy things. Your right and left hands are controlled individually by the right and left mouse buttons (or gamepad triggers), respectively, which gives you a lot of opportunity to mess up simple, usually automated tasks like pushing blocks or grabbing onto a ledge and pulling yourself up onto it. Your arms work like two of those sticky gummy hands you had as a kid, before they were encrusted in lint and gunk, and will fiercely grab onto anything they come into contact with as long as you hold down the button. That’s where some of those disfiguring physics-based animations come in. For example, something as simple as climbing up a ledge that in most games is a one-button operation is a complex, easily failable task in Human. You have to raise your arms by pushing the mouse or right stick forward, then hold both buttons or triggers, then jump toward the ledge. Then, once you’ve gripped it (not too far up, or it won’t work) you pull down to pull in your arms and drag yourself up and over the edge.

Even after I felt I had this procedure down, I still messed it up routinely, and that led to countless falls to what would normally be a messy splatter of a death and an irritating respawn. When you fall off the world you paradoxically plummet down right near where you fell. But here, it’s played off as a joke. Demonstrating some clever less-is-more thinking, all of Human’s levels take place on floating islands in the sky; when you fall off the world you paradoxically plummet down onto the same floating island, right near where you fell from. You have to respect a good respawn gag. Puzzles are fairly creative, bearing in mind that this is a game without a Portal-like twist to make you think outside the box of something resembling real-world physics. Mostly, they involve moving things around so that you can climb up to a higher platform or cross a gap. A few stand out, especially those that involve breaking down walls and watching them crumble into physics-affected pieces, or using the fully functional catapult (which is worth stopping to mess with after you’ve figured out how to solve the puzzle it’s used in) to launch yourself across the map. Some are less inspired, like plugging in cables to open doors. But few are tedious, and that’s appreciated because the linear level design means they all have to be solved in sequence. Of course, Human has no special moves to avoid the same trap that many other physical comedy games fall into: several puzzles rely on fairly precise movements, such as picking up a plank and laying it across a gap to create a bridge

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Or having to use a hook to grab a peg extruding from a wall while mid-jump to swing to the other side, or using your bad controls to manipulate a vehicle that also has bad controls. (It’s as if they heard you like bad controls, so they put bad controls in your bad controls so you can control badly while you control badly.) Because the controls don’t always work the way you want them to it’s often frustratingly difficult to pull off what should be simple. That sort of thing sometimes killed the absurdist mood, because laughing at failure only works the first couple of times. Then it just feels unfair. The best way to stave off this buzzkill is to grab one of those people who stop to ask what you’re playing and make them play with you in the local-only split-screen co-op. (Note: for some dumb reason you must have two gamepads to play in this mode; you cannot play with one person on a gamepad and the other on mouse and keyboard.) There’s definitely something to having someone there to laugh at your failure in person, only to almost immediately do something ridiculously stupid themselves for you to laugh at. Mutual mockery takes the edge off of repeated failures, and that’s great because for the most part co-op in Human is purely for the extra goofiness that comes from two people doing stupid things together, like trying to light your farts on fire.

There are no co-op specific puzzles, and rarely did I find a solution to a puzzle that was only possible with two players instead of one, so the thinking doesn’t change in the same way it does in Portal 2’s co-op. It’s just dumb fun, and frustration loves company just as much as misery. It has been said that the essence of comedy is tragedy plus time. A good-natured pratfall here and there is enough to brighten up anyone’s day, but when you play the role of both the audience and the victim of said pratfall, things get a little more complicated. Developer No Brakes has created an experience where physical comedy is inevitable, where a bumbling idiot is forced to solve complex physics puzzles, and trying to keep control of it all is the real challenge. Human Fall Flat throws away the classic banana peel, insisting on the comedic virtues of cargo ships, wrecking balls, and coal furnaces in its place. You play as a vaguely human-shaped lump of clay named Bob, who must navigate a variety of open environments with the simple goal of reaching the exit by any means necessary. Each broader level is broken down into a handful of smaller areas that all fit into an overarching theme. One medieval level for example tasks you with breaching the walls of a castle, before venturing through a small village and eventually diving into an underground network of caves. It’s a seemingly straightforward journey from A to B, but that journey is entirely what you make of it.

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Your sense of control over Bob is constantly and purposefully undermined by his wobbly movement, clumsy jumping, and awkward arm-flailing. While the world might seem fit for a 3D platforming hero, you’ll quickly find it’s a struggle to even open doors sometimes given the limited moveset on offer. The game’s introductory level acts as a tutorial, teaching the basics of movement and the importance of using those jelly-like limbs. By pressing the left and right shoulder buttons respectively, Bob can lift his arms to pick up items, grab on to different surfaces, and even clamber up ledges. There’s an instant, magnetic attachment to anything his hands come into contact with, so all you really need to do is aim your wild flailing by looking towards whatever your target might be. A key on the floor? Look downwards and Bob will bend over to pick it up. A wire hanging from the ceiling? Gaze upwards and hold your arms aloft to try and snag it. If this kind of movement sounds a little messy. well that’s because it definitely is. Initial puzzles might involve simply crossing from one side of a canyon to another, swiftly introducing the finicky mechanic of throwing your arms up onto the ledge and hauling yourself to safety without losing your grip. There are times where this kind of clambering is absolutely necessary, so you’re given plenty of opportunities to test it out, and if you’re truly stuck then a remote control will spawn in to offer optional tips or reminders.

You need to maintain awareness of the weight of your character, and how he’ll bump and nudge against every surface like a pudgy ragdoll. Aside from the physicality of drunken parkour, later areas also introduce vehicles, electrical circuitry and other gizmos to keep things interesting. While the game is eager to set you loose in these large, chaotic playgrounds, the look and feel of the environments are actually quite restrained. Everything is rendered in a minimalist style, with stark, untextured surfaces cast against silent backdrops devoid of other life. Red doors, green fields, and solemn stone towers do stand out nicely against these environments, which helps keep things on track given the amount of distractions strewn about. Somber classical music sets a serious tone even in the silliest of circumstances, and it lends a bizarre sense of loneliness to proceedings. Even in wild feats of idiotic brilliance we were slightly numb to it all, which was pretty unsatisfying as a result, but then we tried out co-op play… Without exaggeration, this co-operative play was a total game changer. Bringing another person on board with their own Bob and their own dumb ideas is a recipe for insanity of the best kind. Suddenly, every movement was sillier, every plan got more abstract, and every action just seemed so much funnier.

Playing solo is fine, but we would strongly encourage inviting a friend to experience as much of the game as possible. What’s meant to be a 30 minute test session ends up stretching on for hours once we give it a go, as the bumbling duo create makeshift slides out of bits of wood, launch each other out of catapults and repeatedly fail at any form of teamwork whatsoever. It could be argued that the game is sometimes more fun to watch than it is to play, but tackling the challenges with a friend gives you the best of both worlds. You can laugh at them, they can laugh at you. In practical terms, many puzzles are a lot more manageable with two people as well. Larger items are easier to lift, machinery can be used without having to juggle different control panels; it’s far more efficient overall. This is almost problematic given how many areas rely on weight-activated buttons, which are meant to be solved by finding a box and dragging it back. If you’re feeling lazy, just have another player sit on the button while you head for the door – works a charm. We’d say that mischievous solutions such as this were always intended to be possible, but it still feels a little too exploitative. Even so, we feel as though this is the way that Human Fall Flat is meant to be played, and with the recent patch allowing for a single Joy-Con to be used per player, it’s easier than ever to make this happen.

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