Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a wacky, colorful battle royale game where you let cute gummy potatoes waddle through obstacle courses. However, many players take the game hardly seriously and prefer to troll their fellow players instead of trying to win. See here how mean and nasty the craziest trolls in the game act.
What is Fall Guys about? Fall Guys is a squeaky colorful and surprisingly successful game, where you control a waddling gummy potato creature through absurd courses. The goal is to qualify for the next level in each round. To do this, you have to cross finish lines, survive, or collect the most points for your team.
One round goes over several levels during which more and more of the initially 60 Fall Guys get knocked out. The Fall Guy who reaches the finish line first wins the match.
However, some players are not concerned with winning. Instead, they take pleasure in hindering their opponents, trolling, and reveling in their suffering.
The Trolls in Fall Guys are really mean
This is how the trolls proceed: As already mentioned, many players in Fall Guys find it great fun not to play optimally, but rather to push the already partly unfair and absurd game mechanics to the limit and hinder their fellow players.
This is how 72Hrs trolls poor kids: They feast on the desperate attempts of other players to somehow succeed in the game. The streamer 72Hrs takes sadistic pleasure in standing at a choke point, grabbing every other Fall Guy who wobbles by and shoving them into the abyss. He is extremely skilled, and hardly anyone gets through.
Through voice chat, a teammate scolds him with the words “Hey, stop it, you poor kids!” This is a reference to the typical stereotype of the “sweaty kid,” often a minor player who plays competitive games very seriously and definitely wants to win.
But 72Hrs has no intention of stopping his antics. Instead, he cackles like a movie villain and nearly bursts with schadenfreude.
Yet, 72Hrs is not the only troll who unabashedly indulges in his tendencies in Fall Guys. There are plenty of videos on the internet where players entertain themselves by trolling their fellow players.
Trolling instead of winning: YouTuber MonkeyMayCryTV lists the different player types in his video. Among them are casuals and committed sweats who definitely want to win. Then there are players like him who simply enjoy watching the world burn. He then proceeds to gleefully throw players off spinning platforms to their certain death.
Players lurk at the finish line and mess everything up: Another big fun in Fall Guys: Standing in front of the finish line at the end of the level and preventing every other player from crossing the finish line. You can see how this action looks in this YouTube compilation.
That’s why it’s not so bad: While such intentional hindrance of fellow players is frowned upon in most online games and often a reason for reporting, it somehow belongs to Fall Guys. After all, the entire game is designed to hinder players with absurd obstacles and random events.
Whether you get knocked off the platform by a poorly-timed obstacle or a troll is lurking for you makes little difference. The game itself is, so to speak, a kind of giant troll, as aptly described by the website Polygon.
Additionally, the game greatly benefits from many players and viewers in streams taking pleasure in watching others fail. This schadenfreude, combined with the game’s colorful and silly aesthetics, is likely part of the great appeal of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.
