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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Basically the entire soundtrack; it makes little balls of goo with eyeballs ''absolutely epic.'' Available for free from the artist at [http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/ |
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Basically the entire soundtrack; it makes little balls of goo with eyeballs ''absolutely epic.'' Available for free from the artist at [https://web.archive.org/web/20180707225623/http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/]. |
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** Later levels the music may reach [[Tear Jerker]] proportions. |
** Later levels the music may reach [[Tear Jerker]] proportions. |
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2zSy9S5osQ&hd=1 Best of Times] is this troper's favorite song. |
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2zSy9S5osQ&hd=1 Best of Times] is this troper's favorite song. |
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* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|The World Of Goo Is Jesus In Purgatory]]: Quite possibly the biggest social commentary from a simple indie game about solving physics-based puzzles using goo balls. |
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|The World Of Goo Is Jesus In Purgatory]]: Quite possibly the biggest social commentary from a simple indie game about solving physics-based puzzles using goo balls. |
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* [[Fan Dumb]]: 2DBoy released the game with no DRM whatsoever because they thought they could trust their audience. [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|Their reward was a 90% pirate rate]]. |
* [[Fan Dumb]]: 2DBoy released the game with no DRM whatsoever because they thought they could trust their audience. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Their reward was a 90% pirate rate]]. |
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** They actually expected this; by 'audience' they meant 'not pirates,' and, true to expectations, ''despite'' the number of pirated copies, the game sold very well, especially thanks to it being available on Wii-Ware. As expected, in 2008, Gaming journalists proceeded to cry [[What the Hell Player|What the hell, gamers?]] after the independent developers reported the 90% piracy rate. (Mysteriously, all these people who pirated the game were nowhere to be found despite proudly linking others to torrents before.) |
** They actually expected this; by 'audience' they meant 'not pirates,' and, true to expectations, ''despite'' the number of pirated copies, the game sold very well, especially thanks to it being available on Wii-Ware. As expected, in 2008, Gaming journalists proceeded to cry [[What the Hell, Player?|What the hell, gamers?]] after the independent developers reported the 90% piracy rate. (Mysteriously, all these people who pirated the game were nowhere to be found despite proudly linking others to torrents before.) |
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* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The unveiling of product Z, analog with the product X and Y, leads the game to (falsely) announce "World of Goo is now in... 3d!!". As in X, Y and Z axises on a three dimensional coordinate plane, hee hee. |
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The unveiling of product Z, analog with the product X and Y, leads the game to (falsely) announce "World of Goo is now in... 3d!!". As in X, Y and Z axises on a three dimensional coordinate plane, hee hee. |
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** The "server farm" level involves building a tower of goo on a platform that tips depending on how you distribute its weight. So in order to reach the exit pipe, you must "load balance" the server -- ''a [[ |
** The "server farm" level involves building a tower of goo on a platform that tips depending on how you distribute its weight. So in order to reach the exit pipe, you must "load balance" the server -- ''a [[wikipedia:Load balancing chr(28)computingchr(29)|real computing term]]''. |
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* [[Fridge Horror]]: It's not the goo balls fault or the Corporation's fault the world is now polluted and destroyed. It's [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|YOURS.]] |
* [[Fridge Horror]]: It's not the goo balls fault or the Corporation's fault the world is now polluted and destroyed. It's [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|YOURS.]] |
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* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: Since it's a physics-based game, it can be broken, resulting in amazing OCD results. |
* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: Since it's a physics-based game, it can be broken, resulting in amazing OCD results. |
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: By the end of the first chapter you'll likely be pondering the mental stability of the game's writer. |
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: By the end of the first chapter you'll likely be pondering the mental stability of the game's writer. |
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Latest revision as of 15:31, 26 September 2018
- Crowning Music of Awesome: Basically the entire soundtrack; it makes little balls of goo with eyeballs absolutely epic. Available for free from the artist at [1].
- Later levels the music may reach Tear Jerker proportions.
- Best of Times is this troper's favorite song.
- The World Of Goo Is Jesus In Purgatory: Quite possibly the biggest social commentary from a simple indie game about solving physics-based puzzles using goo balls.
- Fan Dumb: 2DBoy released the game with no DRM whatsoever because they thought they could trust their audience. Their reward was a 90% pirate rate.
- They actually expected this; by 'audience' they meant 'not pirates,' and, true to expectations, despite the number of pirated copies, the game sold very well, especially thanks to it being available on Wii-Ware. As expected, in 2008, Gaming journalists proceeded to cry What the hell, gamers? after the independent developers reported the 90% piracy rate. (Mysteriously, all these people who pirated the game were nowhere to be found despite proudly linking others to torrents before.)
- Fridge Brilliance: The unveiling of product Z, analog with the product X and Y, leads the game to (falsely) announce "World of Goo is now in... 3d!!". As in X, Y and Z axises on a three dimensional coordinate plane, hee hee.
- The "server farm" level involves building a tower of goo on a platform that tips depending on how you distribute its weight. So in order to reach the exit pipe, you must "load balance" the server -- a real computing term.
- Fridge Horror: It's not the goo balls fault or the Corporation's fault the world is now polluted and destroyed. It's YOURS.
- Good Bad Bugs: Since it's a physics-based game, it can be broken, resulting in amazing OCD results.
- Nightmare Fuel: By the end of the first chapter you'll likely be pondering the mental stability of the game's writer.
- That One Level: "Incineration Destination"
- The level immediately before it, "You Have To Explode The Head", can make "Incineration Destination" look like a Breather Episode. Good luck with that swaying tower!
- Tower. Of. Goo. IN THE FIRST CHAPTER!
- Ugly Cute: Most of the goo to some extent, but the skull goo is particularly cute while still managing to look somewhat macabre.
- Unfortunate Implications: So, the pale pink goo balls are the "beautiful" ones, and the brown ones are "ugly"?
- Intentional. The peachish-brown ones are before makeup, the pink ones are after.
- So, brown people are ugly and should put on makeup to become pink and beautiful? That's not better.
- That depends on whether you look at the game as a Take That to modern society. Because let's face it, in the fashion world, makeup = beautiful.
- They do make makeup for dark-skinned people. "Makeup must be pink to make you beautiful" is still unfortunate.
- Another interpretation is that the brownish colour is meant to look natural rather than the artificial looking pink. It probably wasn't meant to represent any particular race.
- Then they should have picked green and blue. Unfortunate Implications are usually unintentional. (And "natural" = "ugly" is also unfortunate.)
- That depends on whether you look at the game as a Take That to modern society. Because let's face it, in the fashion world, makeup = beautiful.
- So, brown people are ugly and should put on makeup to become pink and beautiful? That's not better.
- Intentional. The peachish-brown ones are before makeup, the pink ones are after.