Review: Noby Noby Boy (PSN-PS3)

Before I get into this review, I have to address an issue I've found with the Playstation Network.  Hardly any of thier games have demos, whereas if you went on, say, Xbox Live... Every XBL game has a demo.  Playstation needs to hop on that train... ANYWHO!

From the creators of the strange yet entertaining Katamari Damacy comes this... strange yet entertaining game.  Noby Noby Boy!  The game's premise is pretty straightforward, you control a character called BOY and you stretch him out and eat things to make him grow.  When BOY grows larger, GIRL also becomes larger as well, but that isn't all there is to it.  The game has you connected to the PSN and when anyone's BOY grows, it makes GIRL grow (there is only 1 GIRL).  Now, GIRL is far larger than boy, and when she grows, she grows outward from Earth to reach other planets.  So everyone that owns the game is working together to reach other planets.  So far, GIRL has reached the moon and is heading towards Mars.  Each planet is a level of the game, so everyone is working together to reach the next level.  Pretty unique concept if you ask me.

To those who enjoy more straightforward and/or linear game such as the Halo series, you may not enjoy this game as you will probably start playing and say, "So all I do is run around and eat stuff?  This is dumb..."  Whereas the more imaginative gamer would think otherwise as there are many things to do as you run around and eat things.  In the end, the game is a mere $5 so even if you do not like it, you didn't lose much dough in the process.  On the other hand if you do like it, that's a good game for 5 bucks!  

Noby does include trophies however there are only a few and there is no platinum trophy.  All trophies are attainable without getting to any planets that have not yet been unlocked.  There is no word yet though on whether or not they will add trophies as more planets come available or whether the game will continue on past pluto.  I give Noby Noby Boy a 7 out of 10.  The unique concept and gameplay won me over, but it definitely isn't a game for everyone.  The $5 price point helps though!

7/10

-CA