World of Goo ( Not just a **** starring Nixnot and Whoads*!)Follow

So, the other day, I'm bored out of my mind and recently got a check in the mail from my college (they had been charging me for insurance that I already had elsewhere) for about $750. Too lazy to go to the mall, I stay home and check out my Wiiware and look at the games, one in particular, World of Goo, really stood out.

After dropping the 1500 wiipoints, I started playing it. It is strictly a physics/building game. You are given X amount of gooballs and need to use them to build a structure to a mysterious pipe. It sounds simple on paper, but it gets ridiculously hard.

The main challenge is overcoming gravity, by building a rigid structure with the gooballs. As you progress in levels, you find new gooballs, like ones that can detatch and re-attach, ones that act like droplets, balloons, sticky goos, impervious-to-terrain, and flammable just to name a few. While there are no enemies, there are hazards, like the bottomless pits, spikes, and fires.

There is very little to the story. It throws you the puzzle, stands back, and says get to it, more or less. It plays in chapters (I'm in chapter 3 right now), and each chapter has about 8 or 10 levels. At the end of each level, there is a bit of a conclusion, but nothing to really further the story. There is no playable hero, its just you and the wiimote. There are signboards in the levels, and the mysterious sign maker posts clues and funny little quips about the level that you're in. The game, as a whole though, feels very dark. From the few animations that we see, and some of the "obstacles" in the worlds, the world feels very dark and foreboding.

All in all, this is definitely the best Wiiware game out there right now. There is a sandbox mode you can fool around in, and there's some metagame that the game keeps alluding to. There's the OCD (Obsessive Completion Distinction) challenges in each level, and there's also a co-op mode, so you and a friend/relative/what-have-you can work together. I highly recommend getting it, especially if you love physics games.

Watching the videos is a treat for the eyes I think: Clicky & clicky again

There's also a demo for it on their website: Demo

And here is the blog for the game: Blog

*Disclaimer: Whoads is still not gay, Nixnot just used a bottle of Chloroform.

edit: I completely forgot to mention the creative levels. Some levels are very basic (Build a bridge to span a gap), some are those "oh! That's how you do it!" levels, and some of them are just downright bizarre, which makes it even more fun, like getting your gooballs out of a creature's stomach, or infiltrating a factory, or making a red-carpet appearance.

Edited, Nov 8th 2008 2:17pm by Whoads

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You make me cry Whoads! I like the review, but it comes across better if review is somewhere in the topic ;p

Just sayin', Goo is awesome!! Lots of (well, nix and I...and now you) interest in it! WOO!