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de Blob - Review
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de Blob
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Game Information
Developers: Blue Tongue Entertainment
Publishers: THQ
Platforms: Wii, iOS, Windows
Release Date: July 8th, 2008
Genre: Puzzle


Synopsis
de Blob, known as Blob: Colorful na Kibou in Japan, is a 2008 platform-puzzle video game that allows players to explore and liberate an alien city from the evil, monochromatic INKT Corporation that has taken over the city and outlawed all color and fun from daily life. Playing as de Blob, gamers embark on a quest to re-animate the fictional place of Chroma City (a parody of Manhattan), and bring character back to the oppressed, by splattering buildings, landmarks, and citizens with color.
de Blob was developed by Blue Tongue for the Wii and a cancelled version for the Nintendo DS was being made by the now-shut down developer Helixe,[4] whose former employees have since formed DoubleTap Games. Both were published by THQ. The game was originally scheduled for a February 2008 release,[5] but it was delayed and then released on September 22, 2008 for the Wii


Gameplay
The gameplay of de Blob is unique and is not your regular game you usually play. The player controls a blob who is water at first. But as you travel around you can collect paint from paint bots, you can get yellow, blue, and red. All these colors can also be mixed. Whatever the color is of your blob anything you touch will follow you to that color, or be painted on that thing. Once the player paints a certain amount of things the blob will get bigger, more enemies will start to attack and all kinds of crazy stuff will happen. One thing about this game that cheered me up was the certain music playing for each color. Every time you change a color it changes to a different instrumental kind of music. The more paint on your character the more louder the music got. There is a ton of mission to play in the campaign or just if your bored. Each mission will ask you to paint certain things and you must get it complete before dying. One flaw of this games gameplay was that you could attack enemies its just that you are likely to die and hurt the enemies. They could kill you or hurt you but you couldnt and I found that very dumb. I really enjoyed playing this game, it cheered me up everyday when I played it when I was younger.


Plot
Plot was short but very fun. The game starts out and you are introduced to this city but there is one bad thing it is being ruled by a dictator named INKT. INKT is a dictator who is trying to make everything black and be a War kind of city. The city is quickly turning black and becoming one of the INKTs. The hero blob, your character your playing as, notices this very rapidly and wants to save the city. The commander of INKT then sends out everything he has got to stop you from saving the city. By then you are already half way complete from making the city colorful again. At the very end Blob manages to get around traps and the army to defeat the commander and saves the city.


Graphics
When playing de Blob you are looking at the blob from a 3rd person point of view. When playing in tight areas it might switch to a different view so your playing like a slide scrolling game. Your blob doesnt look like anything that I could think of, it kind of looks like a weird looking deformed bunny but not really. It has white eyes and a white mouth when you see its face. When your looking at it from a regular third person point of view it keeps no shape at all, it is bouncing or its looks all jumbled every where. When your running around or jumping around a little color like a red beam will follow you around and when your walking on ground paint will follow you with paint splatters behind you. One flaw about the paint splatters is that they all look the same but I can understand cause it could be a long time to get good detailed splatters. When your blob gets killed there will be paint splattered on the ground these can vary on what you hit, how hard your crushed and it could look different. The game is just white world until you actually get your colors out and about on it. I really enjoyed the graphics of this game, it was a fun experience when playing it. It all ran really smooth and looked different at sometimes.


Controls
There is a lot of controls for this game and most are not needed as much and a lot of the same buttons have different controls. Some controls I dont see needed are C Button center the camera, D-Pad Left or Right rotate the camera. I dont really see a need of this but it could help to see around corners etc. I see it as, as long as you can see whats ahead of you then you should be fine. Other controls are just dumb or make no sense to me. Like shaking the wii remote sharply down and you will jump but if your near enemies you can attack them, Z button is to change and lock on to enemies when attacking or just spying on them. I just really dislike the controls of this game they could change a lot of things around like A to jump, keep the swinging down to attack, and change B button to like block or something. I just think the controls werent the greatest for this game, they could improve in a lot of spots.


Rating
Synopsis 8/10
Gameplay 9/10
Graphics 8/10
Controls 7/10
Overall 8/10
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