There is also an option for microtransactions to purchase larger amounts of the currency but this is, of course, up to your own judgement. The currency is earned by simply playing the game but also dictated by your personal performance throughout matches. Like other ‘last man standing’ type games, Fall Guys also boasts a number of unlockables, costumes and ‘theatricals’ (effectively cute taunts by pressing a direction on the D-pad), achieved by earning in-game currency. Grabbing, likewise to diving, can be used to tactically hamper another player or to grab items in certain rounds, as well as pulling yourself up to slightly higher platforms. In terms of controls, you run around with the analog stick while pressing X to jump, square to dive (after a jump, which, if used smartly can be an absolute saving grace) and R2 to grab. The courses are a frantic and frenetic mix of Takeshi’s Castle meets Total Wipeout, all blended into weird, wonderful and colourful Willy Wonka-style creations. Sixty will start but only one Fall Guy can remain. To do this, though, you must qualify through a number of solo and team based rounds to make it to the final. The premise of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is simple enough: be the last Fall Guy standing and win the coveted crown. It’s fair to say that people are quickly falling for Fall Guys and, frankly, it’s hard not to.

It recently accumulated a modest 2+ million players on Steam, as well as over 23+ million hours streamed on Twitch alone. This, of course, is Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout – the latest gaming sensation to take over damn near every streaming platform in the past week. I’m in a full pigeon costume, controller gripped in hand and teeth-clenched, ready in mind, body and soul to make it to the next stage of the sugar rush version of Hunger Games.

A veritable who’s who of Jelly Bean-people, all vying to navigate the wacky obstacle course ahead and qualify by any wobbly means necessary. The timer counts down from three as I move my analog stick to sweep to my left and eye up the competition.

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