At first when I saw this game, I thought it would be a simple pastime to appease the dopamine goblin in my brain. But oh no, dear reader, it has become far more. You see it was just that, a simple means by which to stimulate my brain, but as I progressed it morphed into a realization. We are all bacon, all trying to flip and dance our way onto an obscure object of our fascination. You and I, we start out easily mastering the first levels, but then it gets harder to quiet the demons. The silence is too loud, the sizzles burn in your ears. It gets harder and harder until-for the first time-you give up. You give in to that skip button. “Just once,” you say. “I’ll get through them all and circle back to Pinocchio.” No. You keep skipping and running until all that’s left to do at the end is face the ones you could not. You’re stronger now, more resilient. You understand the mechanics of flipping a two-dimensional bacon on a two-dimensional pan. But the demons now are disquieted. You are disquieted. You search for a bacon prize you will never have. Because, in all those condensed moments at the end, you are faced with an insurmountable hurdle.11/10, good gameplay. Came for the bacon, stayed for the story.