Nobi Nobi Boy

Anybody hear any news about this one dripping out of tokyo yet?

uh, not what I was expecting... http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21946
Must be the opening credits or something (not gameplay?)???

wtf

haha brilliant

awesome

That looks like Irritating Stick! Great song.

Noby Noby Boy looks to have an "early" 2009 release. Lots of details coming out this week (hands on preview up now). Lots of confusion?
http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3171810

http://pici.se/pictures/UEsFHpzNi.jpg

wow. i want.
from the rather brilliantly named website http://o--o.jp/
"there is some profound meaning behind this content, but details have to be kept in secret.
we don't answer any question about this content.
no complaint will be accepted after you purchased this content"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/pr.jpg

A couple "gameplay" videos are up...

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/23025
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/23023

It seems a little hard to believe this is getting released by a (somewhat) major company... looks more like an experimental web game or something. I wonder if Takahashi will ever be allowed to make another game? Still, I'm look forward to it (though I don't know why).

1UP: The stage we saw was a city that the player moves around in and interacts with. Will any of the later stages feature specific objectives, activities, or minigames for players to participate in?

KT: I suspect the sort of things like that that everyone's expecting aren't going to be in this game. I'm sorry.

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1UP: We heard that Namco expects players to take roughly 1-2 weeks before GIRL reaches the moon. How long do you estimate it will take players to unlock everything there is to see?

KT: It depends on the number of players and how determined they are, but...I hope I get to see the ending before I die.

Full interview http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3171925

that first gameplay video makes literally no sense to me at all.

i still want to play it.

looks exactly like an old cellphone snake game to me

I find the whole thing somewhat disturbing, actually.

holy fuck 9/10 on Eurogamer!
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/noby-noby-boy-review

cant wait

was fooling around with the video capture, which lets you upload videos directly to youtube (see above). There's a few more on the channel I created, but it's just random stuff http://www.youtube.com/user/thebottomlands

Once I get more used to the controls I'll try to do some more interesting ones.

Game also lets you use custom soundtracks (but not for videos).

My friend and I got high before we played this, and then neither of us could figure out how to play the game.

will be buying this in about two hours. yet another PSN title to distract me away from Halo Wars and Lost and Damned.

bought this yday but haven't had a chance to play yet. trying to power through bioshock before my rental is up!

Game could really use a multiplayer mode! As it is, there's just not quite enough there to make frequent visits something I see myself doing. Maybe once Girl gets to the moon things will change up a bit? Still - for five dollars, it's an interesting enough world to fart around in for a few hours. Definitely more an experimental interactive work of art than a game though.

These videos are creeping me the hell out!

Using the Sun as an intermediary, you can report the total number of metres you've stretched BOY to GIRL, who will grow by the same amount. It won't get her far - but everyone else playing the game is doing so too, and it's the cumulative amount of stretching done in Noby Noby Boy by PS3 users across the world that drives GIRL's voyage into the stars.

Eventually - Takahashi reckons it will take players a couple of weeks - she'll link Earth to the Moon, and then Mars. (Who knows if more planets in the solar system could be added at a later date?)

this sounds AMAZING

except in practice it's fun for about 3 seconds

this is some sorta practical joke right?

it's like an interactive screen saver from 1995!

that eurogamer review is... ugh. game reviews. make me. so. mad.

are you telling me my trying to convince my ps3 owning friend to get this is all in vain?
Even if i love Katamari more than family?
is it that worthless???? :'(

it depends if he wants a kooky, well-made interactive screensaver or not.

I can kinda understand the frustrations above but I do think this is a really neat toy

it's fun to stick it on in the background as a screensaver w/custom soundtracks and to tool around in it here and there

I'd be interested in reading a gamasutra-style development breakdown w/takahashi, from what I understand there were a lot of ideas that they never got round to implementing which is a shame

did anyone pick up the iphone version?

I did find a dude with balls on his chin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iT1UUe5X5E

^^ posted to the wrong board i think but congrats

This is a MEGAHIT with our five year old. "Jim! Look! I ate a reindeer! JIM! I pooed a ROBOT!" etc.

Your five-year-old kid calls you by your first name?

Uh, you shld google "stepfather".

Ahh, fair enough.

http://mob2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/MickaelMc/TheStepFatherDVD.jpg?t=1241812454

uh jim? this is what i found when i googled stepfather

Daddy's Home and He's NOT Very Happy!