World of Goo (Wii) Review
Be ready to be three years old again, when goo is disgusting, and yet alot more fun then it has every right to be…. only you mom wont tell you to stop playing in the mud this time. Instead, it’s time to delve into a strange world where the goo is alive, able to build structures with surprising strength for non-solids, and brains will count for far more then brawn (and about as much as reflexes).
The story behind World of Goo is as murky as your living building blocks at best. What starts as living goo beginning to explore the world around them quickly becomes a convoluted story about a company named after them, which for reasons that do not even begin to make sense, you will ultimately destroy. Seriously, I don’t even know if this qualifies as a spoiler since the whole thing makes so little sense. However, seeing how little the story matters to the game, this is hardly an issue.
The game itself is a puzzle game based on physics. You will build structures out of goo-balls with the goal of getting the goo flowing around it to the pipe at the end of the level, doing so with the instinctive ease of pointing your wiimote at your choice goo-ball and holding down A to pick it up and drag it wherever you want before letting go of the button, and dropping the ball. Using all the different kinds of good available (and each will be introduced by the game, so I will not try to explain them here), you will have somewhere around 40 levels to complete: Some easy, some hard, and some “are you ****ing kidding me” hard. You will have fun, but be STINGY with your skips (the game does let you skip 3 levels for every chapter you complete (there are 4)) to prevent some more hair-pulling events later.
The music to this game is simply amazing…. and for once, I can tell you not to take my word for it! It’s being given away for free! Go take a listen at fileplanet and hear this awesome masterpiece for yourself. As for sounds in general, there are not a lot to go around. There are generic pucker sounds for when you move goo around and they sometimes squeal as you manipulate them, as well as some popping, burning, and bursting, but nothing that will really draw your attention.
Graphically, this game is very simple. A blatantly flat and stylized set of graphics will meet your eyes and remind you in an odd way of things like Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas, if not a lot less technically impressive. It looks very nice and has a charm all it’s own, but it was never going to win any awards since once the charm wears off, there is nothing really special remaining.
FINAL VERDICT: If you enjoy puzzle games, go download this on the shopping channel. This game is also on the PC (with Mac and Linux also available now), but do not let that fool you. 2D Boy themselves have said both versions are the same exact game. The only differences I could find are you can have a player 2, 3, or even 4 on the Wii if you want, but in return you lose the leaderboards for the individual levels the PC version has. Add that to this version being $10 instead of $20, and there should be no reason not to pick this excellent title for your digital Wii library.
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