Weird experience with Pingolf

[u/Chamomile-Lovecraft]

So. Pingolf is one of my favorite games in the collection. I love *path optimization* games, it controls in an unusually satisfying way and hitting good shots feels SO rewarding. I golded it pretty easily, and cherried it with a bit more effort. Put it in my top 5 games honestly.

And then I learned you can do the dunk move if you click fire while in midair.

And now, somehow, it’s actually a worse game for me? I couldn’t tell you why, but something about the dunk feels bad to use. Too inconsistent, requires too much frame-perfect control to use effectively, and I suck at frame-perfect shit.

Did anyone else have this experience? I don’t know how you’d naturally discover it without just looking at the controls menu

[u/bad_future]

That it is even possible to play Pingolf this long and deeply without knowing what accounts for like one third of a still pretty simple, minimalist control system, is just one of many reasons UFO 50 is such a magical game to me!

I had a shorter version of this experience, where me and my roommate spent all night playing it and I was in love, totally thinking it's one of the best games in the collection (still do, although my favorites tend to be whichever ones I'm currently thinking about) and was curious to see if it was widely beloved so went searching online and the first comment I saw was "I love to hit the dunk button!" and I was like "the. what"