Starting at ground level in Only Up! you can’t help but look towards the sky and marvel at the seemingly infinite spiral of bizarre items that trail before you. The start was simple enough, clambering across apartment buildings and over rusted old pipes. The threat of imminent death gave me a slight adrenaline boost but nothing out of the norm for parkour titles. However, after a particularly anxious train ride and numerous strange obstacles, Only Up! took me to new heights.
After a few hours of trial and error (mostly error), the first real test of courage appeared before me: jumping off a bed onto a giant anime girl’s skirt. Missing this skirt would send me plummeting back to earth to start again. It wasn’t the first time death was watching me, but it was the first time I truly felt a knot in my stomach as the virtual vertigo set in.
