De Blob
Mind numbingly Repetitive
De Blob is an 8 hour long open world 3d platforming game all about color…
These ink punks aren’t aboutDe Blob
Mind numbingly Repetitive
De Blob is an 8 hour long open world 3d platforming game all about color…
These ink punks aren’t about that color life, so it’s up to you to spice the world back up again… free the worlds artists, and bring the 10 different stages back to life…
This game was originally released on Wii in 2008 and is finally coming to the ps4, pc, and Xbox one nearly 10 years later…
And while the gameplay holds up…
Standards have changed and the experience isn’t as great as it once was
De Blob starts out really clever and charming,
You’re a clear blob that can take over any color by slamming onto it or rolling over it…
And as you would imagine you can create new colors by mixing different colors..
And you have to store color up to 100
but what do you do with these colors?
You repaint the town...
Around the world are different quests, but by the games end you’ll basically be doing the same few things over and over for 8 hours and it gets a little old after only a couple…
you’ll either be painting buildings based off of a specific color told…
going out to gather a specific amount of color to purify an object, my favorite of the challenges the races, and taking out ink enemies that progressively get more annoying to deal with as the game goes on, as they’ll need more color to defeat, you’ll have to match their colors to defeat them, and they’ll start blasting you with ink…
which if you don’t clean off fast enough will cause you to lose a life… and once all lives are lost its game over and you have to do a stage all over again.. A stage that feels exactly like the previous stages
completing challenges will give you more time, as you do have a time limit to complete a level… though I never found the time limit to be an issue... but more importantly youre given color points to unlock the next section of the game...
And you rinse and repeat this cycle of painting the town, gathering colors, and fighting enemies over and over until you’ve unlocked all of the sections and have gathered enough points to leave and you move on to the next section of the game just to do it again while the game increasingly annoys you with ink enemies…
The idea of the game is a good one.. And I was having fun the first hour or so...
But the novelty quickly wears off…
Bouncing around as a color blob starts to feel more like a chore than a fun color filled game with a world to save…
There is a free paint mode where you can freely run around levels you’ve completed.. there’s a mode where you can play with up to 4 other players, and there are additional challenges unlocked for each of the stages to extend this games play time long beyond 8 hours…
But with such a lack of variety in the gameplay… the only variety really existing in this games enemies…
I don’t see why anyone would want to do such a thing…
It’s a fun at first game, its cute game.. but it gets old fast
I Give De Blob
a 6/10… Expand
