Meanwhile, Wu Wei gave the developer client a little click!
"Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" was listed on Zhiyou!
The page refreshed.
On the livestream, the very first game in Ah Yin's Zhiyou client was a little man sitting in a cauldron, holding a massive hammer.
Without thinking much of it, Ah Yin opened the game.
At the time, he had no idea that a supreme, agonizing torment was about to begin!
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'Hahahahaha, what the hell is that cover?'
'Could a carbon-based life form really create a protagonist that looked like this?'
'This protagonist is seriously freaking weird.'
'So what kind of game is this, exactly?'
'Looks like some kind of joke game.'
'Why did it feel so boring? Was there really anything to mess around with?'
"Heh—"
Seeing the strange, goofy-looking character, Ah Yin couldn't help but laugh.
"What the hell was this thing?"
He opened the game description.
Unlike the lengthy descriptions of other games, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy had only one simple sentence in its description—
A top-tier psychological game about battling your inner demons. (Note: The computer is yours. Please take good care of your computer and peripherals.)
For a moment, not only the viewers but Ah Yin himself had his curiosity piqued.
What did it mean, a game about battling inner demons?
Why did it remind players to take care of their computers?
"What did that mean? Did it have really high requirements?"
After all, his computer was top-of-the-line. Every AAA title on the market could run at maximum settings without breaking a sweat.
So there was no way his specs would fail to keep up.
Curious to give it a try, Ah Yin moved his mouse over the purchase button.
"Should we buy this?"
Ah Yin asked his viewers.
Wu Wei had priced this sadistic little game at only twenty yuan.
After all, all those miscellaneous textures had been downloaded for free. He had only spent twenty yuan buying the basic movement logic.
That meant he would stop losing money as long as Ah Yin alone made the purchase.
The viewers were clearly intrigued by Wu Wei's mysterious description.
The entire screen filled with 'Buy it.'
Without hesitation, Ah Yin clicked purchase.
The game was tiny. Because Wu Wei's textures were rather crude, it had been compressed to less than one gigabyte.
The game screen unfolded. Howling wind rose up, and a hammer was nailed into a rock.
"What does this mean?"
Ah Yin muttered to himself as he clicked the Start Game button.
A little hammer-wielding man sitting in a cauldron appeared on the screen. To his left was a tree trunk with two branches growing from it.
"The requirements aren't that high."
As he spoke, Ah Yin casually shook the mouse.
A prompt appeared at the top:
Maintain a calm state of mind. Leave Earth's gravity behind.
Ah Yin paused slightly.
"What did that mean?"
As Ah Yin moved his mouse, the little man's hammer swayed along with it.
After fiddling around for a while, Ah Yin realized that the only thing he could control was the mouse.
He tried moving the mouse in a circle. The little man braced his hammer against the ground and laboriously shifted himself, inching a little closer to the tree.
"Oh—got it, got it!"
Ah Yin snapped his fingers.
"Friends, I get it now. I gotta swing this hammer and climb upward."
Ah Yin was brimming with confidence.
"Got it. This game is easy. We'll clear it in ten minutes, then move on to the next one."
Then Ah Yin took a moment to get used to the awkward hammer-swinging controls and began moving himself.
It had to be said, Ah Yin was fairly talented at games.
Very quickly, he moved himself beneath the tree.
"Hey!"
The hammer-wielding little man let out a shout, and the hammer hooked firmly onto the branch.
Ah Yin pulled the mouse, and the little man thrust himself upward.
But Ah Yin immediately discovered a problem—
The branch above was longer.
That meant he had to swing himself up first, then quickly hook onto the upper branch if he wanted to fling himself over.
Thus, Ah Yin began a long battle with that tree branch!
"Like this, swing! Huh?"
"No, let's do that again."
"Up... get up!"
"Get up!"
"Why are you so useless? Jump up already!"
"Don't rush, don't rush. Stay calm. I have to stay calm."
Ah Yin muttered to himself, comforting himself.
But attempt after attempt—
The little man remained hooked onto the first branch, repeatedly slamming the huge cauldron beneath him into the trunk. The scene was utterly ridiculous!
There wasn't even the slightest progress!
Ah Yin had gotten stuck right at the beginning!
The viewers in the chat were laughing themselves crazy!
'Hahahahaha, why are you screwing the tree trunk?'
'Tree-fighting master.'
'Tree-fighting master, I'm dying hahaha!'
'What kind of bullshit game is this hahahaha!'
'Was it really this hard?'
'Ten minutes have already passed, and you still can't beat a single tree.'
'Amazing, what kind of dumbass game is this?'
'...'
As if it possessed some kind of magic, the more he couldn't get past it, the more Ah Yin wanted to get past it!
Finally, after dozens of attempts, Ah Yin's little man happened to jab the ground with his hammer.
The reverse force actually sent the little man flying through the air and straight onto the second branch!
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