Today we see a great new game on the XBLA Marketplace, Roogoo. For 800 of your MS Points you get a game that is so full of fun and packed with 45 levels.

You play as a Roogoo. One of the few remaining kind blokes in the alien race, in fact. It seems that King Goo, ruler of Planet Roo started stealing “joyful meteors” in order to fuel construction efforts to build new cities. After consuming meteors for some time, King Goo and his followers changed from cute little Roogoo into mean, nasty Meemoo. Now you have to stop the Meemoo and Prince Moo in their efforts to attain the rest of the falling meteors all for themselves.

 

These falling meteors are blocks that you need to guide into place throughout the 45 levels. There are six different worlds that you’ll progress through and while the gameplay of stacking blocks and maneuvering them through the various platforms that the game presents begins easily enough, the difficulty quickly goes up

When you first see it, you’d think any kid could play Roogoo, you might be right, for the first couple of stages anyway. After all, all you’re doing is lining up a square block with a square hole, a triangle block with a triangle hole, etc… But then it gets faster, obstacles start getting in your way, two more blocks are thrown into the mix making things even more hectic, and all the while you’re worried about collecting enough of those little suckers to make it to the bottom of the level.

I have to say one of the best things about Roogoo is the fact that the game adds bits in that could really spoil your level and making the game really addictive! There are times in levels where you’ll need to stack a huge number of blocks on top of one another in order to clear the stage and times when pretty little butterflies will come swooping in and make you play the level backwards by picking up your stack of blocks and carrying them back up the sequence of platforms.

Although the mulitplayer is not the best you would expect, there are only two things that Roogoo is missing. That’s some sort of an inventive co-op mode and a way to create a party and continue playing after a match has concluded, you’ll have to hop back into the multiplayer menu and select a new stage and invite your friend back in rather than simply moving along the set course of the levels