BOY Meets GIRL Meets MOON

Posted by Ryan (1249 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

There we go. That oughta clear everything up!

Noby Noby Boy continued to confound the hell out of me when, earlier today, BOY stretched out enough to allow GIRL to make her trek from the Earth to the Moon, just four days after the game's US release. Do not take that last sentence to mean that I am in the middle of having a stroke. This is just how Noby Noby Boy rolls. If you've neither experienced Noby Noby Boy for yourself, nor watched our anti-informative quick look video, allow me to clarify. While Noby Noby Boy claims to have no overt objectives, there is a collective meta-game that underlies all of the action. As players around the globe stretch out their BOYs, they all contribute to the length of GIRL. As GIRL stretches out across the galaxy and reaches new heavenly bodies, new levels in the game are unlocked.

Hmm. Reading back over that clarification, it's probably not much clearer. Think of it like a shared, virtual Stretch Armstrong where, the more everyone pulls on his limbs, the...OK, that analogy's not really working out either. I guess, just...there's a new level for Noby Noby Boy available. It's The Moon. There are people and dogs wearing spacesuits, there are penguins, there are fish, there are ambulatory crescent moons. Perhaps most exasperatingly, there are MOTHER-EFFING MOONS ROLLING AROUND ON THE MOON.

Next stop is Mars. I don't know that I'll still be able to write cogent sentences by then.

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#1 Posted by Ryan (1249 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Noby Noby Boy continued to confound the hell out of me when, earlier today, BOY stretched out enough to allow GIRL to make her trek from the Earth to the Moon, just four days after the game's US release. Do not take that last sentence to mean that I am in the middle of having a stroke. This is just how Noby Noby Boy rolls. If you've neither experienced Noby Noby Boy for yourself, nor watched our anti-informative quick look video, allow me to clarify. While Noby Noby Boy claims to have no overt objectives, there is a collective meta-game that underlies all of the action. As players around the globe stretch out their BOYs, they all contribute to the length of GIRL. As GIRL stretches out across the galaxy and reaches new heavenly bodies, new levels in the game are unlocked.

Hmm. Reading back over that clarification, it's probably not much clearer. Think of it like a shared, virtual Stretch Armstrong where, the more everyone pulls on his limbs, the...OK, that analogy's not really working out either. I guess, just...there's a new level for Noby Noby Boy available. It's The Moon. There are people and dogs wearing spacesuits, there are penguins, there are fish, there are ambulatory crescent moons. Perhaps most exasperatingly, there are MOTHER-EFFING MOONS ROLLING AROUND ON THE MOON.

Next stop is Mars. I don't know that I'll still be able to write cogent sentences by then.

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#2 Posted by Coltonio7 (3155 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

THE MOON IS HERE!!!

#3 Posted by LordAndrew (13812 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

That was quick.

#4 Posted by Snail (7831 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

AT LONG LAST!

WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS!

#5 Posted by MattBodega (1896 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

NOBY NOBY BOY: GET YOUR ASS TO MARS.

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#6 Posted by LiquidPrince (14656 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Ryan said:

, there are MOTHER-EFFING MOONS ROLLING AROUND ON THE MOON."

Awesome XD

#7 Posted by PLWolf (870 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Come On, MARS!!

#8 Posted by SleepyDoughnut (1103 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I love the creator of katamari damacy and NOBY NOBY BOY. May he keep making games forever. The man has originality in spades, and mushrooms

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#9 Posted by Coltonio7 (3155 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

MOOOOOON!!!

#10 Posted by tekmojo (2294 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

4 days is pretty beast.

#11 Posted by RafamanGrundy (41 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

god dammit

#12 Posted by Daniel_Newton (1161 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Just press the pacman pacman button, then it will all make sense. Good luck finding the button.

#13 Posted by jakob187 (20666 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Ryan, I regret to inform you that GIRL has not made it to the Moon. It's actually a conspiracy by NASA and the government in order to beat the Russians in the Cold War.

You can go back to writing cogent sentences again. Thank you.

Signed,

BOY

#14 Posted by punkxblaze (2422 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I want this game more than you know.

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#15 Posted by Steven (246 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

This game looks amazing.

#16 Posted by LiquidPrince (14656 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Newten said:

"Just press the pacman pacman button, then it will all make sense. Good luck finding the button.
"

That video was fucking jokes. I laughed so hard man.

#17 Posted by Aeterna (1110 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Haha, win. :)

Kinda expected something else sneaking in/unlocking too though, mayhaps later.

#18 Posted by TeflonBilly (4722 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

MattBodega said:

"NOBY NOBY BOY: GET YOUR ASS TO MARS.
"

More like GET YOU AHS MAHS!

I just bought this game after having a Killzone 2 session and playing SFIV and Lost & Damned all night yesterday and I think this thing just broke my brain.

#19 Posted by Coltonio7 (3155 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Hey guys....

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!

#20 Posted by ThePelinal (95 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

THE MOON. I feel that I would be remiss in not posting this link:

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song

#21 Posted by gakon (1938 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

From a 1UP preview:

"They're planning a simultaneous worldwide release for early 2009, with the estimate that it will take the group of PSN players 1-2 weeks to stretch GIRL enough to reach The Moon."

Good thing they have more planets lined up.

#22 Posted by tromboneshinobi (7 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Just got to the moon today also! Race your asses to mars!

#23 Posted by Milkman (13985 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

That's actually a pretty cool feature. But my question is, once Girl makes to the Sun will we have to turn all the way around and head back to the other planets?

#24 Posted by LiveOrDie1212 (926 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

AAHHHHHH!!!!! the more you guys talk about this game the more i want to buy it and try it out for myself!!! and im trying to save up money too!!! NO NO NO, im not gonna do it, im not giving in...........

*turned on ps3, dowloading Noby Noby Boy*

#25 Posted by Deathawk (272 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Noby Noby Boy is the biggest mindf*^k I've ever experienced in gaming, and I don't even own a PS3.

#26 Posted by Ffenix (30 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

So Ryan... what you're saying is that, Noby Noby Boy is an early GOTY contender? LOLOLOLZ!

#27 Posted by albedos_shadow (1485 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I love the whole meta-game aspect of this, even if I was utterly baffled when the game proclaimed "GIRL HAS REACHED THE MOON!"

#28 Posted by Brackynews (3324 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Sounds like Ryan took a hot one right to the Nobys.

#29 Posted by LordAndrew (13812 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

If they expected it to take 1-2 weeks, they'd better have a lot more planets lined up. This may go faster than they had anticipated. :)

#30 Posted by Claude (15850 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I wish I had a PS3, so I wouldn't know what this game was about.

#31 Posted by jakob187 (20666 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

FUCKING PACMAN PACMAN, RYAN!!!

#32 Posted by Dalai (6205 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Does Soulja Boy have a PS3? He may be the only one that can decipher the meaning of this game.

#33 Posted by jakob187 (20666 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Dalai said:

"Does Soulja Boy have a PS3? He may be the only one that can decipher the meaning of this game."

I agree. I mean, we've already seen a game for those who like to drink and get drunk or smoke weed and get high...but what does Noby Noby Boy bring to the table that is new to that formula?

#34 Posted by HT101 (1139 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I think the guy who created this game was on mushrooms or something. I haven't watched the quick look yet but it sounds like I need to so I can lose my mind with everyone else.

#35 Posted by AllanIceman (1279 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I have no idea what you just said Ryan.

#36 Posted by ImperiousRix (2933 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

One small step for GIRL.
One giant leap for BOY kind...

#37 Posted by MichaelBach (797 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Is GIRL the ass of the creature thing?

#38 Posted by racastro (19 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

If games end up being like that, Im scared already

#39 Posted by FlipperDesert (1812 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Oh man, I want this game so bad, and for that I need a PS3. I could care less about MGS4 and Killzone 2 right now, I want a PS3 for Noby Noby Boy.

I also showed that quick look to a friend that doesn't really follow games news, and now she also thinks Jeff's awesome. PACMAN-PACMAN!

#40 Posted by ParaParaKing (101 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

YES! Finally GIRL reached the moon. We have to try hard for Mars now!

#41 Posted by Death_Burnout (3698 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Alright! i checked this morning and the moon wasn't reached yet, but now it has! awesome.

#42 Posted by LiquidPrince (14656 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

What happens when we run out of planets?

#43 Posted by Junpei (685 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

so does a late downloader start with access to everything the community has opened already? Hmm, odd indeed.

#44 Posted by LordAndrew (13812 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Junpei said:

"so does a late downloader start with access to everything the community has opened already? Hmm, odd indeed."

Yep, seems that way. Levels are unlocked as a community, so the more people play the faster new worlds become available. Late downloaders will get access to all the worlds that have been unlocked, but if you buy it sooner you can help unlock them sooner. :)

#45 Posted by Rodiard (336 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Good news everyone!

#46 Posted by radion_null (160 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

Wonder how long it will take to reach Mraz

#47 Posted by Weltal (2250 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

God damn it. I want you Noby Noby Boy.

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#49 Posted by Roger_Klotz (706 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

I'm glad I was a part of it. I'm still dumbfounded how I pull off 2 hour playtimes with this game.

#50 Posted by AndrewB (6871 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago

If I'm understanding this correctly, then NobyNobyBoy could be the most innovative game to be released in a while.Well, that is, if the gameplay itself looked appealing in the slightest. But the premise, that's just genius.

Noby Noby Boy

Noby Noby Boy is the much awaited follow up to the Katamari Damacy series by eccentric artist and employee of Namco-Bandai, Keita Takahashi. Players control an unusual entity named BOY in surreal, randomly generated, physics-based sandbox worlds.

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