When I first bought World of Goo on the Wii Shop (after hearing about it from some friends), I thought it wouldn’t be that spectacular. I mean how much fun can you have if all you’re doing is building towers to get goo balls into pipes? The answer: a whole lot. The game progresses in such a way that even if you get frustrated with one of the levels, you’ll keep trying and trying out of sheer satisfaction. One of the great things about World of Goo that as you start the game doesn’t give you any instructions, it just starts you out and says “here are some balls, get to it” , and because you have only your intuition and brains to go on, victory is that much sweeter.

Though the game lacks any real difficulty levels such as the traditional easy, medium, hard, there are OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) achievements which offer both a challenge and a level of replayability. Some of them are downright evil, and you’ll be cutting corners all around, cranking the risk of failure to the max just to reach the OCD requirement. Another feature that adds a beautiful amount of replayability is the Goo tower that you can build with the goo balls you save during your escapes around the world. Here is the mutiplayer of the game, the building of the Goo tower to defeat other people’s record heights, it works like a highscore system, and you’ll be tempted to come back now and again to try to build your tower higher.

Even though World of Goo is a two dimensional game, the graphics are unique in their own style and direction. You see a type of cartoon-y game, however it’s not all happy-sunshine-fun-times-ahead, it’s more of a serious tone that’s complemented by the plot. Yes, this game does have a plot, and though it’s not too clear to me, it seems that you are the person collecting the goos for the corporation while also finding ways to stop the corporation from harvesting goo balls. The details are a bit fuzzy for me.

Add on top of all this beautifuly composed music, and a crazy sign painter who leaves clues in a mysterious, yet somewhat humorous way, and you’ve got  yourself World of Goo. It’s priced at a fair 20 dollars (through Steam), and you’d be right in buying it if you had the money. If you want to check it out, you can always play the demo to experience it for yourself.

You can even get the whole official soundtrack for it free from the creators now.