It manages to combine, quite successfully, great gameplay with everything you described above; intrigue, ingenuity and innovation (triple i’s). Playing through it (I’m almost finished) I was reminded of a time in the early 90s, playing games like King’s Quest, Lemmings, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and countless others. It was exciting because you wanted to see how things would progress, no matter the difficulty.

Also, the World of Goo is pretty funny. Everything from the sound effects to the hints/foreshadowing left by the “Sign Painter”.

I’m a sucker for physics-based games, so this sucked me in from the start and I’ve tossed money at 2dboy for the pre-order and the Wii version because multiplayer goo-fests are awesome.