People often assume that lighthearted comedies all lack depth, or that their creators don't work just as hard as those that specialize in other genres. This is part of why we so rarely see a comedy film win an Oscar.
Knowing this makes me all the more worried that people will assume the wrong things about Pool Panic when it's released on Switch and PC later this year. This game has a ton of depth. Like the Katamari series, it takes a simple and easy to understand gameplay hook then introduces it to an incredibly wide range of scenarios, turning it on its head each time. You play as a cue ball wandering through a huge world where you meet other balls and inevitably try to knock them into holes. Each area adds a new spin on that goal, requiring the player to think outside of the box. For instance, you may meet a bunch of balls in a marching band that refuse to be knocked very far. Only by pushing down the eight ball first, then grabbing his band leader hat, can you lead the other balls in the band down the pocket.
That's just one of over a hundred stages in Pool Panic, each one building on the last in an effort to defy expectations. Later on, you run afoul of a roaming group of bear balls that can only be taken down with the help of a bear hunting ball who lives in the woods. After the bears are cleared, you'll be able to make it to the suburbs where you meet a ball who enjoys a posh lifestyle, though that hasn't made him immune to vermin infestations. By putting on a rat hat, you can shrink down to the size of a mouse and head into the yuppy ball's living room walls, where your goal is to muscle the rat balls into the holes with their cheese.
All these seemingly incidental, purely nonsensical events are part of a larger story that may or may not involve the God of Pool threatening to plunk the entire planet into a black hole.
via destructoid https://www.destructoid.com/pool-panic-is-brilliantly-stupid-498795.phtml