![]() ![]() Powered by a Forsaken Child: Wildly theorized by the Sign Painter, regarding the world's power source.Real Is Brown: Parodied - after updating the "graphics card" in Chapter 4, most of the subsequent levels contain nothing but grays, browns, and bloom.Our Time Travel Is Different: Time bugs. ![]() Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: The Sign Painter is a mixture of being insane and, by the end of the game, misleading.Mega Corp: The bleak, faceless World Of Goo Corporation.Malevolent Architecture: Given an early Lampshade Hanging by the Sign Painter in the fourth level.And on startup, the game offers a series of such technical status updates as 'distilling beauty.', ' debating games as art ' and ' embiggening prototypes.'.It varies from being descriptive to simply amusing. Loading Screen: While loading, the level's title is displayed with a piece of text just long enough for you to read in the brief waiting period.Also, note that the goo balls are trying to get out from between the legs. ![]() Notice the hairy, feminine leg-like structures. Getting Crap Past the Radar: The level where the female goo balls are introduced.Genre Savvy: The goo balls often mention game-related facts, according to the sign pianter and the narrator.Fun with Acronyms: "Obsessive Completion Distinction" achievements, a.k.a.Fan Translation: 2DBoy relied on fans to translate the game to different languages.Evil Versus Evil: A sinister, polluting, extinction-causing Mega Corp versus a crazed, identity-stealing spambot.Ethereal Choir: One of the songs if you meet MOM and going to World of Goo corporation grounds after chapter IV.Along with a guy in the iPad version who says that there used to be a great market, only it fell apart because everything dropped to 99 cents.And also, MOM, an uber-powerful search engine with suspicious policies regarding privacy and user's personal data.Does This Remind You of Anything?: The goo is a black, viscous, gooey substance which is crucial to the economy, kind of like some other black, viscous, gooey substance in real life!.Probably polite to pretend we don't notice." These skull-shaped goo are the only species invulnerable to the ubiquitous Spikes of Doom. Dem Bones: One species of goo confuses the Sign Painter as to whether they're "alive.Given a fourth-wall-bending Lampshade Hanging. Dialogue Tree: In very unique, spoiler-y circumstances.Cyberspace: "Information Superhighway," an entire chapter dedicated to programming jokes and New Media Tropes.Cursed with Awesome: "Grape Vine Virus": the benevolent infection.Cosmetic Award: The very-appropriately named "OCD" goals of each level.Color Coded for Your Convenience: It would be difficult to tell the different species of goo apart without this.you're back to the beginning of the discussion tree. Also, in the same chapter, if you try to get MOM to erase the cookies concerning your personal data, she accepts, then informs you that they may in fact not have been entirely deleted, and. ![]()
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