An Interesting World Of Goo

Well, it is 11.30 in the night and it is raining cats and dogs outside. And the only other sound that is noticeable is that of cars speeding on nearby high-way. Sound of rain somehow makes me sleepy. I have always felt that water dripping from balcony telling me something. Well, this "something" is always interpreted (of course, by me) as "Go girl...you had a hard and long day. Take some rest. Go, go and sleep". I thought it is same case tonight too. So, I dashed to my bed early. While I was pursuing my favourite habit of sleeping, all I could see in-front of my eyes were some multi-coloured, funny-shaped, sort-of-animated balls dancing away to glory. Now, wait- what is that? For a split-second, I was not able to guess what I was seeing. And the moment this scary thought of "rain slowing down my mind" cropped up, I realised that they were Goo balls.

Hmmm, Goo balls! Lately, I am playing this WII game named "The world of Goo" and I must admit that I've fallen in love with it. What initially started as "What-the-heck, let me try this game everyone is so raving about" is soon turning out to be "Woohoo-what-a-game!". So, this game is about an aim, lots of goo balls and lots of physics. Ohho, don't get demotivated reading the word "Physics" there. To tell you, if I had played this game when Physics was one of my academic subject, I would not had hated it so much.Nevermind. Game has basically 4 seasons - Summer, Fall, Winter (I am right now in in this season) and Spring (Don't know for sure but I dont think we need Einstein here to guess it :)). Each season has different levels - you clear each level and then you reach to the end of the season. Aim is defferent in each level. But Before talking about aim, let me tell you something about Goo balls - aesthetically, some of them are beautiful and some of them are not that fortunate. Behaviour-wise, some really beautiful balls are real vile and ugly ones are pretty understanding and caring. Wait - Have you already started to imagine Goo balls as Human beings? Well, they are just balls. But they laugh, they cry loudly, they weep silently, they jump, they dance or for that matter, they even shout at you. Quite interesting...isn't it? Now, what can be so useful by just being balls? So, they have this wonderful power of getting attached to each other through strings (which gets formed automatically when you try to attach them).

What makes me fall in love more with this game is the way it is played. You begin with some Goo balls - running merrily in a teeny-tiny structure. You have to construct a well balanced structure (by applying basic Physics rules) using these Goo balls on the original one and take it to the aim. In most of cases, aim is a suction pipe which sucks rest of the balls (i.e. the ones which are not used in constructing structure - so, you see, you need to be economical to earn more points). The way to take Goo balls towards aim goes through lots of struggles and pains. In some cases, you have to be really creative to take them from one point to another. There are lot of things in between which can either make your life easier or may even make you think "what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-these-guys?"

Ohho, while writing this, I am getting this strong urge of restarting WII and playing this game rather than blogging here. Looks like, Goo balls are calling me - I gotta go......