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Have You Played… Wattam?Wattare you waiting for?
Wattare you waiting for?
It’s difficult to describeWattamwithout sounding like you’ve gone completely insane during lockdown. At first you play a lonely green cube called Mayor whose only wish is that he had a friend to share his existential misery with, but within a couple of hours you’re parping golden turds, sticking sentient eyes, a nose and a mouth on a terrifying doll’s featureless face, and flying across the vast cloud sea separating the game’s four islands on the back of a giant toilet. It’s exactly the kind of fever dream you’d expect from Katamari creator Keita Takahashi, but man alive if it isn’t one of the weirdest games I’ve ever played.
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If Wattam had come outthisChristmas, though, I think its colourful cast of over-excitable household objects would probably have had quite a different effect on me. After all, Wattam is a game about reaching out and making connections, regardless of language, shape and size - and we need a bit of that after this year, don’t we? It doesn’t matter what you are in Wattam - you could be a French seed pod, a Russian stapler, or juicy bit of Japanese cod roe (for each item has its own name and nationality); you’re all welcome in Mayor’s new republic of misfits.
If it’s mindless tomfoolery you’re after,Untitled Goose Gameis arguably the better game for that (another reason why Wattam failed to land with me last year), but there is still plenty to like here. If you need a pick-me-up after this turd of a year, this winsome tale of hand-holding knives and forks and finding the good in literally everything and the kitchen sink, Wattam could be just what the doctor ordered.
