I’m a sucker for cute-looking games. Add cute costumes, hilarious writing and old-school RPG-style gameplay and well, you already had me at “cute.”
Which brings us to Double Fine’s latest pimple-worthy game, Costume Quest. Why pimple-worthy you ask? Well, let’s just say I tend to get pimples when I stay up late. And up late I was recently cause I couldn't put this darn game down. Curse you, Double Fine!
Anywho, Costume Quest has you assuming the role of one of two siblings who decide to go trick or treating together during Halloween. Unfortunately, one of them gets kidnapped by IQ-challenged monsters who mistake the hapless sibling for a giant, talking piece of candy. Fortunately, your costumes grant you incredible powers against monsters, helping immensely in your quest to save your sibling and avoid getting grounded.
To make life easier, you can enlist allies in your quest while collecting new costume designs and materials to expand your monster-bashing wardrobe. You can also use the candy you’ve collected to buy helpful skill stamps from aspiring little entreprenuer Sadie to boost your strength, counter enemy attacks and stun enemies. Action is turn-based and relies heavily on timed button presses to boost your attacks and guard enemy attacks.
Dialogue scrolls a bit too fast to read in the beginning and there was also one time when my game froze while I was robot skating in my blue bot costume. But its simple and solid gameplay, along with its hilarious dialogue make Costume Quest a real yummy treat.
Cost: $15 download, PS3 and Xbox 360
http://www.costumequestgame.com
This review also appears at the Reno Gazette-Journal Sunday Tech page on Oct. 31, 2010.
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