![]() That this game can reach such a wide audience, even in my small circle of loved ones, speaks to its ease of accessibility. The truth is, Tomorrow Corporation’s combination of bizarre, Burton-esque aesthetics and creative, varied gameplay options has given their efforts a sort of “timeless” feel that I’m willing to bet will see them continue to be remembered as some of the most beloved in the early history of mainstream independent game development.Ĭertainly, I felt affection the moment I heard the first notes of Kyle Gabler’s whimsical score start up though I’ve never actually played the game myself, it’s one I have a secondhand fondness for thanks to the memories and stories of my family members playing it - my, brother, sister-and-law and husband were all absolutely enamored with the Wii version, and my father (who basically stopped playing games after the era of Battlezone and Karateka) honestly shocked me when he revealed he’d installed the mobile version on his phone to pass the time. Does this 9-year-old game hold up to 2017 scrutiny, particularly after the cavalcade of indie puzzlers that have followed in its footsteps? Well… yes. To put it another way, after the impressive showing of their Nindie Showcase in late February, what better games could help cut the ceremonial ribbon for a flood of awesome indie titles on Switch than one of the earliest successes for WiiWare and a certain other game that previously couldn’t make it onto Nintendo platforms thanks to the company’s outdated policies?īut I’m here to talk about World of Goo, of course. In a way, this game’s return is perfect for the early days of the Switch console just as the original release in 2008 helped to usher in Nintendo’s first shaky relationships with indie developers on the WiiWare service, this 2017 re-release rings in an entirely new era of so-called “Nindies” - one that, presumably, will find them at a happy medium between their developer-unfriendly Wii days and the era of ludicrous shovelware that was brought on by the Wii U’s Web Framework. Has it really been almost a decade since the original release of World of Goo? Well, as the cliche goes, time flies when you’re having fun.
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