amphibious_ReViews

I don't think I've ever been so blind-sided by a game announcement in my life. I've been surprised by the short time between Xenoblade releases on Switch; I've been hyped for Ace Attorney games finally getting an English localization; this, however, is the first time a formative game from my childhood got a surprise sequel nearly 16 years after the fact. Before I bought it two or three more times on other platforms, the original World of Goo  was gifted to me by my aunt via a CD-RW she put together herself. I was a bit too young and inexperienced to recognize the dubious origin of that Sharpie-labeled disc at the time, but I wasn't too young to pop it in our family PC and stack some goo. Thus, my lifelong appreciation of tiny sentient goo balls began, and I'm thrilled that I was finally able to bear witness to their triumphant return! World of Goo 2 was immediately familiar and nostalgic. From the 2D Boy splash screen to the goo world itself being used as a menu...

World of Goo is a charming game that is so so much more than it seems it is. It introduces itself as a cute little physics-based puzzle game in which you use goo-balls of different varieties to build towers to oddly located tubes in order to complete a level, but through toying with the secrets scattered throughout the levels, and working through the unique levels, it becomes apparent that it has much more to offer than just pristine gameplay. The problem is, anything I let slip about what truly completes this game is one less thing to be appreciated by playing it. The most I can say is this: With the combination of a charming (and occasionally disturbing) art style, an unfaltering control-to-technique pairing, music set perfect to every situation, and a surprising amount of story to back it all up, this game is one that shouldn't be missed, and if you are reading this right now, you probably have something that you can play it on. Get to it! Have some fun, and when you are don...