Overworld examines how one game or series establishes a unique sense of place.
Checking out the trailer for Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox, I've got to admit it looks like a good time. And God knows any decent additions to the Wii's anemic library are a good thing. But one not particularly surprising thing about Blox is the degree of cartooniness in the presentation. There's nothing wrong with that, and granted, action/puzzle games have been cartoony more or less ever since technology started to allow it, but in the distant past, there were other stylistic options. Here's one:
When I was a kid, Marble Madness freaked me out.
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