Love, from the Sign Painter
Did your science teacher ever let you play around with non-Newtonian fluids?
If not, my condolences.
You missed out on some of the greatest fun you could have at school.
World Of Goo, like its prototype, is a physics-based puzzle game.
There are pink helium balloon-like goo that can lift your structures to new heights.
But they, like the story as a whole, can easily be ignored.
moments, which are what tends to keep me playing most puzzle games.
The building blocks of World Of Goo are, quite literally, goo.
Stretchy, squeaky, adorable goo.
That doesn’t mean the levels of World Of Goo aren’t clever.
Particularly in later chapters the extra mechanics force you to think in completely different and frequently fascinating ways.
The personality that 2D Boy gives the goo is a huge part of the game’s fun.
It starts off as little more than an extra bit of charming silliness.
I cared about them far too much for that.
It brims my heart with joy every time I hear it.
Does it still hold up as the best game of 2008?
World Of Goo isn’t one of my favourite games ever made.
It’s not even the game I had most fun playing in 2008.
That accolade goes to the perpetually contentiousSpore.
It feels like the essence of the original Tower Of Goo pushed to the full limits of its potential.
Imagine if a World Of Goo sequel were made this year.
I’m not sure it would; nor am I sure a sequel will ever be needed.
It’s not as though the original feels dated, even 13 years later.
Without it, 2008 wouldn’t have been nearly the year it was for games.
