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I was kicked out of my AP physics class in high school for not maintaining the required grades. Part of the blame rests with general laziness and lack of ability, but the lion’s share belongs to distractions caused by several games installed on my TI-84 graphing calculator—Avalanche, Turbo Breakout, Fall Down. This last requires players to navigate a ball through randomly generated gaps in the floor. As you progress, that game speeds up and difficulty increases.
Fallumns takes the formula and adds an ambidextrous element. Instead of one path downward, players must play two distinct games of Fall Down simultaneously, one with each hand. Failure on either side ends the game. It’s deceptively, punishingly difficult—and I say this as a man who has only moderate trouble patting his head and rubbing his stomach at the same time.
Fortunately, the game also comes with the Most Inspirational Song Ever Written. Although you can switch Fallumn’s soundtrack to any tune in the Newgrounds music system, there is no reason to do so when the default anthem makes the Rocky theme sound as motivational as a funeral dirge. “You can do it if you try. No one can stand in your way. You are the greatest that there ever was… You always come through no matter the odds. You’re less like a man, and more like a god! And the gods, they’re ants to you! And there’s nothing you can’t do! You can do it!” Excuse me while I go register for a community college physics class.
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