Baby Steps Fans Think the Game Is Secretly a Fanmade Uncharted 5

Fans of last year's gloriously painful literal walking sim game Baby Steps have a wild theory about its onesie-clad screw-up of a main character, Nate: they think he's the son of Uncharted's Nathan Drake, and they have a shocking amount of evidence to prove it. Baby Steps follows the story of Nate, a grown man who wakes up barefoot in a onesie in a strange world occupied by donkey people. Unsure how he got there or where he's even going, you have to make Nate press onward anyway by using the control sticks and shoulder buttons on your controller to painstakingly lift one leg at a time, position it, and set it back down. The very act of walking forward is agony, and you'll be terrible at it for a good chunk of the game. Then, just when you start to get used to walking, Baby Steps throws mudslides and sand dunes and mountains and ice at you to make things even more difficult. Baby Steps is fantastic - it's a meditation on masculinity and the expectations that come packaged with that, as well as an interrogation of what the player considers "character growth". Nate, to be frank, sucks. He's a middle-aged coward who mostly sits in his parents' basement and plays video games, has no red

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