It’s incredibly fiddly, and doesn’t get any easier the more you play. Because the two ends of Boy are controlled with the thumb sticks, turning the camera left and right is governed by taps of L1 and R1, and zooming in and out handled by holding L1 and tilting the Sixaxis forwards and backwards. If the concept and graphics make your brain melt ever so slightly, then Noby Noby Boy’s controls will make your hand-eye coordination suffer a heart attack. There’s something disturbing and frightening about the idea of a giant snake-like thing devouring an entire planet. But, in that classic Japanese fashion, there’s an odd menace growling somewhere in the background. Everything is cute in that classic Japanese fashion us Westerners are used to seeing from children’s television and imported cuddly toys. The graphics are basic, but retain a strange charm, complimented by wistful acoustic guitar music. It sounds like a dream I once had while at university. You eat and eat and eat, and grow and grow and grow and stretch and stretch and stretch. Pressing L2 makes him eat the various objects that are found on top of the randomly generated maps, maps that are cubes that seemingly float in space (they don’t, but more on that later). With the two Sixaxis thumb sticks you control the two ends of Boy, pulling him apart to what feels like infinity. At first you’re not sure what you’re supposed to do except just… do.

Like PSN game Flower before it, Noby Noby Boy makes you question whether it’s a game at all. Here though, he’s taken the madness to a new level. Takahashi is the man responsible for the not quite as bonkers but still pretty barmy Katamari Damacy. I don’t know what creator Keita Takahashi does in his spare time, but I’d like to try it. There’s a lion/sun that peers into the earth from outer space and doughnut-shaped clouds. Rainbow colours scream out of the screen at every turn. You play Boy, an ever-growing bipedal snake thing that’s got a serious case of the munchies.

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