How is it that Goo can contain more charisma, charm, cuteness and lets not forget gooeyness than pretty much any other video game character ever? I will tell you why, it is because the two men who created World of Goo are masters of their craft. From all accounts Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler have spent their time sitting in a giant pool of goo becoming so intimately attached to it that they could create the perfect Goo ball.

The World of Goo is literally a world that takes you through different areas in different seasons of the year. Your first taste of Goo takes place in the summer, everything is bright and sunny and happy. The first level introduces the core mechanics of the game that are essential to making structures out of Goo.

Taking your Goo you drag it around the Goo foundations to create some links that hold the Goo in place. Goo’s are surprisingly bright creatures and surprisingly alive, they call out to you in their little voices when you pick them up and place them. Once you get your structure close enough to the Pipe, that ever present Pipe the Goo’s are sucked away and collected in a vat. When they are sucked up they make a pleasing noise of satisfaction that brings back memories of Lemmings.

There are many different types of Goo in the world they inhabit, some are ugly, some are beautiful, some are downright fiery balls of Goo, but they all have their own skills and characters. Those big blinking eyes constantly remind you that these aren’t just blobs of goo, they are real live Goo. When you commit the cardinal sin of dropping one to its doom you, by rights should feel real emotion at the loss of life.