Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an excited write-up of the game.

Oh heck, I'm going to quote them at length - hope they don't mind. They're so keen at RPS about it that they'll probably appreciate it.

... I have the suspicion this will be this year’s Peggle, in terms of the surface-simple Puzzle game which takes over the PC-mainstream.

Except that’s not really true - it’s a much more traditional PC game-game than Peggle, whose puzzles are purely abstract things, with the whole thing’s plot being obviously deeply tongue-in-cheek - hell, the whole graphical style’s appeal is that it’s so obviously ironic. Conversely, there’s little of that in World of Goo. It’s a surreal little, perfectly considered, coherent world, and while it uses irony neatly at a few points, it’s proper-irony rather than so-shit-it’s-good quasi-irony.

And I’m going off on one, which I’m trying not to do - there’s lots of pretentious things to say about it (Hell - for me, everything has a few pretentious things to say about), but they’re not what’s key. It’s just a charming, funny puzzle game. When Jim saw it, amazed by how slick it feels for a two-person show, he noted it passed his girlfriend test in the head - that it’s something he can imagine his other half playing and adoring. When Alec saw it, he thought it was quite something, paused in the MSN window for a few seconds and determinedly stated that it was something we should Champion. And John’s been playing fellow IGF-finalist Crayon physics Deluxe, so no news on that front yet. I bet he likes it.

We’ll hopefully have an interview with 2D Boy just before World of Goo’s release, but you want, you can pre-order the game for twenty dollars from their site. That allows you to become a Beta Tester, if you so desire, and gives access to the pre-order specific profanity pack, which swaps the eeks and ooks of your Gooey charges for my usual brusque idiom.

i dunno guys, i am pretty damn impressed. consider the fact that japanese and english are completely different languages, and the fact that english is so fucked up it is difficult to translate even if you are a human (my girl is at degree level and still struggles with the idioms and ridiculous exceptions and constructions).

Compared to just getting a load of kanji, i think this was highly understandable!!

ok, i couldn't renegotiate the kyoto protocols with this shit, but chatting to a friend and saying a clumsy "hello!" is a big big step up from saying nothing at all.

Consider it took me 2 years to get this good at lithuanian, i think this bot is pretty cool. Hope it's possible to make it better, but anyway, a good start.

Interesting. English isn't my strong area. Heh. Danke.

In reply to your comment:
“it's an idiom -

'lick your lips'

to feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen, usually because you think you will get something good from it.

In reply to your comment:
“Michie: Eh?””

From the Fox Sports website...

Hal McRae hates stupid questions. Ask him one, and you just might get a telephone to your face.

After throwing a series of questions about pinch-hitting options back in the faces of the gathered reporters, Hurricane Hal buttoned this line of inquiry with "You think I'm a (bleepin') fool?"

At this point phones and tape recorders were flying and the press was beating a hasty retreat into the safety of the hallway. But McRae wasn't done. He appeared in the doorway and capped the classic meltdown with an old-fashioned idiom: "Now put that in your (bleepin') pipe and smoke it."

I love shows like this, where the host has a perfectly fine command of the English language except when it comes to common idioms. Like "cooked water" or "let the white sausage ... sleep ... for 8 minutes". It makes you think of what you would do in the same situation when speaking a non-native tongue!

I like the popups explaining the German terms. Just watching this clip made me hungry!