Posted on: March 9, 2025
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Aged surprisingly well
World of Goo is a puzzle game from 2008 that made a lot of noise back then because it was a Wiiware hit, truly enjoyable for what it was in that era when we were discovering those new wireless game controllers, getting the most of them on physical games (or breaking TVs) but not a lot of it on more normal experiences. Or at least that's how I remember it. The puzzles are simple to understand, fully based on physics as we control little balls of goo and try to get them through a pipe along 44 levels, in 5 chapters. A lot of levels are fairly straightforward, but some here and there are quite clever and like a good puzzle game, manage to frustrate you, make you think, and give you the sweet satisfaction when you finally clear them. The puzzles are also quite short, and if you want an extra challenge there's an optional hard mode with tougher requirements to clear a level. So far so good, a nice and cool casual game. Why did it age well then? because the physics are still brilliant. It's easy to understand why your goo structure toppled, controls also work exactly as intended: good when you need accuracy, bad when you have your small structure full of little balls moving around and can't pick the one you need right out of the bad, a deliberate inconvenience that might be the special sauce behind this "connect the dots" experience. It just works. What didn't age well is the whole outlook. Sound is fine and the little noises the goo balls make are great, but the whole UI and cutscenes do look dated. It's not awful, it just looks like a product of its time in a way. It's also missing a couple of features that could have made it a timeless game, mainly a level editor and some more of those difficult puzzles because really, quite a few of them are introductions to some new type of goo ball, and a few of them are also simple actions for the chapter endings. The story was also a bit eh, but it doesn't really matter. Close to perfection, better than I remembered.
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