By Jim Rossignol on July 16th, 2007 at 1:05 pm.
I finally got around to playing the Dutch freeware game, De Blob. In it you take control of the titular blob, who is a crashlanded alien charged with absorbing the rainbow-coloured denizens of grey Dutch cities and transforming the city into large blocks of primary colour. It’s a purely mouse-controlled game and feels similar the single-button 16-bit era games. In fact it almost feels weird to only use a single button in a game these days – I’m so used to keyboards and gem-encrusted twenty-thumb gamepads.
It also made me motion sick for the first time in my life. I’m 29 and motion sick at last. I assumed that years of videogame abuse had immunised me from such effects, but perhaps the mad camera twirling of De Blob has finally got to me. Does this mean I’m getting old? I need to lie down.
Despite nausea I can earnestly recommend De Blob. It’s weird and cute, and really nothing like Katamari. You can download De Blob’s English version right here. Please post reports of motion-related illness in the comments. Eugh.
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