Kula World, released as Roll Away in North America and KulaQuest (クーラクエスト, KūraKuesuto) in Japan, is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Game Design Sweden AB and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.
The player character, a kula beach ball, collect keys to unlock the level exits, as well as coins and jewels along the way.
The game makes use of alternating physics, changing the direction of gravity as the ball moves.
Points are deducted if the Kula ball is spiked, captured, melted, burnt by a laser, falls/slides off or simply runs out of time, all of which require the player to restart the level - providing the score has not fallen below zero, in which case, the game ends.
[2] Kula World received generally positive reviews from video game publications.
[5] GamePro was critical to the game's import, saying that the players must always play the same worlds in the same order, greatly hindering replayability, and called the title more as a rental or trade-in.