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PC Gamer
PC Gamer
Jody Macgregor

Yes, the protagonist of Baby Steps does have a juicy butt: 'Every animator winds up a little bit arse-focused,' says Bennett Foddy

Nate in his gray onesie looks at an ice cream truck and a distant mountain.

Nate lifts his left foot when I squeeze the left trigger, and his right foot when I squeeze the right trigger. He swings the lifted foot forward when I push the left stick forward, but if both feet are on the ground when I push the stick he leans forward instead, usually falling over immediately. And probably sliding downhill in his gray onesie, butt in the air.

As a third-person game, Nate's rump is in view for a lot of your time playing Baby Steps. Dudes who need to defend their enjoyment of Tomb Raider sometimes say, "If I'm going to be looking at a butt for hours I'd rather it was a nice one." Nate is not Lara Croft—he's a basement-dweller in his 30s mysteriously teleported to the wilderness in the middle of a One Piece marathon, which is probably the only kind of marathon he's ever participated in. But he's been given a lovingly rendered posterior nonetheless.

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