Baby Steps
Baby Steps is infuriating.
A third-person walking simulator in the most literal sense of the word, Baby Steps is an open-world exploration game from Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy, and it is meant to mess with you. You control a 35-year-old onesie-wearing doofus named Nate, and for some reason, Nate can’t do anything on his own–including walking. Each of the triggers on your controller picks up one of Nate’s feet, while the left analog stick controls how he leans. So you press a trigger to pick up a foot, lean forward with the stick, and put it down. One step. Then you pick up the other foot with the other trigger, lean forward with the stick, and put it down. Another step. Mess up any of these operations and you’ll overbalance Nate, who will flop over and slam into the ground like a fish tossed onto the deck of a boat.
