Game Changer: World of Goo

Having long since forgotten the plot of World of Goo but not its glorious, weird jelly Meccano physics, I think I was expecting this reinstall to be a mainly sensory experience. Something like Peggle – great music, appealing cartoonish aesthetic – but with a slippery puzzle element instead of pinball, and a streak of black humour involving some goo balls going through a mincer.

I had forgotten the observations about how companies use data and cookies ( operates in a GDPR-less world), about idiotic, wasteful product launches, about the value of physical beauty and so on. These observations are relatively broad-brush – corporations that put financial gain over consumer welfare, the ugly being trampled by the beautiful – but it’s a tang of playful cynicism I haven’t seen much in