Costume Quest

[Daft]

It's fine for me. I think there is a display bug on the PS3 version. Press the Playstation button in-game and check the size of the XMB icons. I think the resolution sometimes duffs up.

[gmac]

it's a fun game, not too hard and I had fun with the different costumes

 

could have done with being a bit longer for 1200 ms points though

[ShavenWolf]

I've not followed this game at all, but I downloaded the trial under Daft's recommendation.

 

And, 20 minutes later, I was £8.99 poorer... damn charming, fun game!

[Pit-Jr]

Such an awesome little game! Like Paper Mario Lite and even more charming if thats even possible

[Emerald Emblem]

6 hours and 100%'d, such a fun game, it could have been longer and had more costumes but not taking anything away from the game it was a fun game.

Edited October 31, 2010 by Emerald Emblem

[Rummy]

I played a bit of the trial of this last night, thought it rather good but needed to know if it'd be worth that pricepoint, it seems not. Maybe at £8.99 if I was feeling frisky, but at 1200 MS points for a 6-hour game, I don't think I can!

[Hero-of-Time]

Such an awesome little game! Like Paper Mario Lite and even more charming if thats even possible

 

Totally agree.

 

I bought it yesterday and just finished it this morning. I enjoyed every second of it.

 

I played a bit of the trial of this last night, thought it rather good but needed to know if it'd be worth that pricepoint, it seems not. Maybe at £8.99 if I was feeling frisky, but at 1200 MS points for a 6-hour game, I don't think I can!

 

The thing is alot of full priced retail games are only around 6-7 hours long now. Just last weekend I bought The Force Unleashed 2 for £39.99 and 4-5 hours later the main game was over.

[Rummy]

Totally agree.

 

I bought it yesterday and just finished it this morning. I enjoyed every second of it.

 

 

 

The thing is alot of full priced retail games are only around 6-7 hours long now. Just last weekend I bought The Force Unleashed 2 for £39.99 and 4-5 hours later the main game was over.

 

A fair point, but I really try to avoid anything that doesn't have enough gameplay in it, or I wait til it drops sub £10-20 for some bargain gaming. At 1200 points this is like what, £10.20? For that or maybe even less I could probably pick up a second hand game with more work into it and more gameplay and get more bang for my buck. I know it's not helpful to the indy devs and whatnot, but it is something that crosses my mind. However I guess one thing that is an advantage, if I buy a short game it doesn't leave me with yet another uncompleted game :P

[Llama Juice]

So I know this is a slight bump and such, but whatevs.

 

@Rummy, the game isn't an Indie game, the devs on it are DoubleFine. They made Psyconauts and Brutal Legend. Psyconauts is one of the most underrated games ever... well... not that it's underrated. Everyone agrees that the game is amazing, it just was marketed extremely poorly so it didn't sell well at all.

 

That being said, ever since then I've pretty much said to myself that I'll support Double Fine with every game they launch because their games are always ace and they DESERVE high sales numbers and such.

 

Anyhow, the actual game... I did think that $15 was a big steep for an XBLA game like this, but nearly all my roommates were interested in the game too, so I bought it and a bunch of them played it on my 360. To me I got my moneys worth out of it since it entertained them as well... I really think it would have been better at a $10 price point though.

 

The game itself to me was the perfect length. Right about when I got tired of the trick or treating stuff I was done with it, and the game ends. I really enjoyed the game and laughed heaps at it throughout. Double Fine's sense of humor is awesome, and is almost worth buying the game for alone.

 

Speaking of which... I'd actually recommend you get the demo either way, and play through the demo fully, then buy the game and go from there. There's a lot of funny demo only dialogue that I missed out on because I was too eager to buy it haha.

[Hero-of-Time]

Christmas DLC!

 

There really shouldn't be anything stopping you from wearing a Halloween costume all year round, especially if it lets you transform into a towering robot or an undead pirate. From Double Fine studios comes Grubbins on Ice, which takes place shortly after the events of Costume Quest, so if you want to avoid any kind of spoiler content, then you might want to skip ahead. The adorable kids and their makeshift costumes are back for a new adventure, now that their neighborhood is clear of the candy-stealing grubbins. The new downloadable content comes with a patch that will fix some of the performance issues in the original game, as well as add in a few new features, such as the ability to pause during cutscenes and save your game at designated phone posts.

 

The first thing you'll notice in Grubbins on Ice is that the seasons have changed, so instead of bright-orange leaves and pumpkins littered all over the place, you're shuffling through streets that have been lightly sprinkled with snow. Lucy and Everett are wandering the streets in search of some tangible evidence that the monsters truly existed at some point. Young Lucy stumbles across a bizarre, demonic-looking receiver, which suddenly opens a portal and sucks her in. The panicked Everett seeks out the twins Wren and Reynold, and together--in their slapped-together outfits--they jump into another dimension in order to save Lucy. This portal plops them into the monster world of Repugia, where grubbins of all kinds mingle and eat candy. The current leader, Araxia--a crow in a bearlike costume--runs the place and has Lucy under his wing/paw. Apparently you've barged into the realm during a time of turmoil and political unrest, and a revolution is in the works. So after being tossed off a cliff (and harmlessly landing on some trowbogs), the three of you set off to find Lucy and decide to help the oppressed grubbins along the way.

 

As in the main game, you'll go door to door canvassing for candy to support the cause or fighting monsters that refuse to join. The turn-based combat remains the same, where carefully timed button presses will help you deal more damage or defend against enemy attacks. You'll find that there are new costumes to piece together that will yield some interesting results in battle. But there will already be several fun and familiar costumes in your wardrobe to start with, so you can wheel around the world in your robot suit or switch to your ninja outfit to sneak by guards. We came across a few new costume patterns, including a pirate costume, a track suit, and an eyeball. Using the costume's special abilities, like the pirate's hook, you'll be able to explore the realm of Repugia and complete quests along the way until you find poor Lucy. Once again the highlight of the game is not only the charming artwork, but the hilarious dialogue between the kids, which is now paced a little better for those who aren't speed readers.

 

We were told that the downloadable content is slightly bigger than a level in the original game and could take roughly five hours to complete, depending on how quickly you want to get through the game. By taking your time, though, and slapping around the foreign vegetation, you'll be able to gather more candy for the revolution. Grubbins on Ice looks to continue the adventure that Costume Quest started, fixing some of the issues in the first game, such as the save functionality, the pause feature, and the frame rate. Keeping with the holiday theme, the new content is planned for release sometime in December.

[Llama Juice]

Please only be like $5. As much as I <3 Double Fine I don't think I'd be able to justify $10 on DLC for an already expensive game (for how short it is.)