Baby Steps Punishes Serial Cutscene Skippers With a 28-Minute Long Cutscene

Baby Steps, the literal walking simulator precocious released from Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy is silly, absurdist, and often conscionable plain weird...in a bully way. But 1 of it's goofiest gags is 1 that fewer players are apt to see: a 28-minute agelong cutscene that plays lone if you successfully skip each oregon astir of the game's different cutscenes.

When I accidental successfully, I bash mean that. Skipping cutscenes successful Baby Steps isn't conscionable a substance of pushing a "Skip" button. Each cutscene skip forces you to play a weird small minigame of sorts with the Skip button, wherever it's astir arsenic though the Skip fastener is trying to actively halt you from doing the skip. You tin neglect these skips too, and if you don't skip capable of them, you won't trigger the ridiculous, lengthy reward (or punishment) that ensues from being a skip-a-holic.

The cutscene itself occurs erstwhile Nate visits Moose astatine the compartment astatine the extremity of the game. If the subordinate skipped everything other but doesn't skip this past cutscene, the cutscene proceeds with Nate breaking the 4th partition to archer Moose astir the cutscene skipping, and explicit that he's not truly up to performing the last country arsenic a result. The 2 beryllium extracurricular and chat arsenic their actors, Cuzzillo and Foddy, sprout the breeze astir everything from broccolli sandwiches to the information that their characters can't rise their eyebrows individually to the challenges of audio signaling nether a engaged formation path. At 1 constituent they effort to instrumentality a nap, but that proves awkward, and they get sidetracked talking astir mold, the quality request to pee arsenic a utile penning device, and localization struggles. They repeatedly lambast the player's incessant cutscene skipping and their feelings astir it, past turn frustrated erstwhile the subordinate doesn't skip this peculiar one, forcing them to proceed signaling dialogue.

The cutscene goes connected for astir 28 minutes of silly, inane treatment betwixt the 2 earlier they yet determine it's important to amusement the credits and a feline starts meowing astatine them to hurry things along. Beautiful.

Players who conscionable privation to ticker each this without skipping each different country tin find the full happening connected YouTube. Whether oregon not you spot this benignant of happening arsenic a punishment oregon a reward for your oregon idiosyncratic else's maltreatment of the skip fastener is wholly up to you.

We gave Baby Steps a 9/10 calling it "an infuriating ordeal of intentionally awkward physics that’s brutal, unbelievably stupid, and downright awesome."

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