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Downwell (Game) Review.

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  There are games that we love, games we abhor, games that we are fond of and games that do something else; they tap into a feeling, a moment, an itch or a desire that we might not know we had. It's hard to quanitify that desire or to know what it is because they appeal to our minds in ways that hit a very specific set of requirements that only really make ourselves aware of them as we experience life a little more. So for the last four years of my life, has a game been one that anchored itself to my need to work against something very dificult and encourage me to improve at it. I can't see I adore it, or see it as something I love beyond any other game. More like, it's been present in as easy a way as I can access when my life has been rather difficult in spots. And so it is, that is how I've spent four years, trying to solve Downwell.   A game about a child falling down a well and firing your gun boots that slow your desecent but also allow you to deal with ...