The goo you collect from the 'story' part of the game gets sent to the Corporation of Goo where you build the infinite tower. This would be cool if you got anything for building a taller and taller structure but all it seems to do is allow you to compete with other people. World of Goo also has a gameplay mode that lets you build an infinitely tall tower of goo. At one point I had about 15 balls fall off of my structure and I had to drag them each individually up to the structure in order to finish the level. When you pick up the goo balls, you have to maneuver them around the objects in the world, which is generally fine, but at times is incredibly frustrating. There were many times where I either destroyed my structure or missed critical timing because I couldn't select the goo ball I wanted. Hovering over a goo ball stops it's movement even if it's in front of different type of goo ball. Moving the goo around is also pretty frustrating. It was common to rewind time and see my tower spasm wildly into the walls and spinning blades. Additionally, the bugs don't always go back to where they should, at least it seemed that way. The main problem here is that it can be a pain to click on the bugs as they fly around the level, sometimes they end up right on top of my goo structure. Clicking on the bug steps back in time to the point where the bug was spawned. The game offers an 'undo' feature in these little time-warp bugs that generate every once in a while. This would save a lot of time as you would know exactly how many balls were left and how many more you could use before you had to start the level all over again. It would also be nice here to have something that tracked the goo balls that hadn't been used. There is no 'retry' button after you complete a level so if you follow through and just finish you have to go back to the world map and then reselect the level you just finished. In order to even get the menu to pop up after collecting 8 goo balls and noticing I was going to fall short, I had to click, and then read, one of the in-game signs. You can't (easily) retry the level after you collect the first 8 goo balls. Again, this challenge is fine but the game does you no favors. The OCD challenge required me to collect 36 goo balls. In one example, the level required me to collect 8 goo balls to continue to the next area. Some of the OCD challenges require you to collect and absurd amount of goo balls compared to the amount required to complete the level on its own. This means that you have to go back to the world map and then reselect the level again in order to retry.Ī similar frustration is that you can't retry the level after the base number of goo balls have been collected. You have to wait until you finish the level to see your completion time. Some of the challenges require you to finish the level within a certain amount of time but don't offer you a timer during the game. The OCD challenges are what give replay value to the game but are frustrating to an incredible degree.

The problem lies in the concept's execution. It's a physics puzzler where you build goo based structures in order to save a collection of goo balls.

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