Goobies

Very addicting very Goob

A small bullet heaven with a great look but not much else. So I actually think this would be a really good game to introduce kids to the genre — there’s no violence, just inky blobs, and the simplicity and smallness that made it boring for me is actually a good thing to not overwhelm someone new to this kind of strategy. Buuuut for me it was just too uninteresting. Which sucks, as I wanted to like it — I loved the look, and liked how it played and the choice to have kind of discrete levels and such. There was enough good about it that I’ll probably keep my eye on the sequel (though they seem to be going in a Megabonk over-the-shoulder camera direction, which I don’t really like; I’m a top-down person). But it just wasn’t complex enough for me. Simple aesthetic is great; simple strategy not so much. Also, weirdly, it made me motion sick, which was another reason I stopped playing (more 3D for no reason!). The movement patterns of the bouncy guy and wobbly guys really bothered me, and it was actually kind of odd, since I don’t think there was camera shake involved, I think it was just messing with my eye to have the PC moving around the centerpoint of the screen so much. I wish there’d been an option to turn protag movement off.