For those of you who don’t know, Noby Noby Boy is a downloadable game on the PS3 spawned from the mind of Keita Takahashi, the creator of the equally weird Katamari Damacy. In this game you play as a worm thing named BOY and you control either end of him independently using the triggers and the thumbsticks. The goal is to stretch BOY as long as you can by running each end in opposite directions, wrapping him around various things and whatnot. Also you can submit BOY’s length when you are finished to GIRL, which is a tally of everyone’s total length. The more everyone plays the longer she gets, and eventually she reaches new areas to explore. Four day’s after release she got to the moon, next stop is Mars.
I gave the game the benefit of the doubt and played for another couple hours over the next few days. I found a few cool levels with spinning things that could stretch BOY ridiculous amounts if he was entangled properly. Still there really isn’t that much too this game. Even with the communal aspect of reaching new planets, it is kind of lame. I checked out the moon, it is very similar to Earth except the green surface was now a gray color and the people were now weird moon people. The gameplay didn’t change at all. What is Mars going to be when we make it there? I bet it’ll be red!
I don’t mean to be horribly cynical; the game is only five bucks. With the current amount of content being delivered in full priced games ranging as low as 5 hours these days, can we really blame a five dollar game for being small? I’m just curious what all the fuss is about? I read a few articles that praise the game and I feel like I’m missing something. It’s not a bad way to kill a half hour, but I just don’t think the game is anything more than a small diversion. Something like Tetris without the replay value. Do you guys see something I don’t?
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