Includes the free Grubbins on Ice DLC pack!
Costume Quest is a Halloween RPG adventure with tricks and treats for all the boys and girls. In this charming role-playing game, choose your hero and trick-or-treat through three beautiful environments full of Double Fine humor and story. Complete quests...
Costume Quest is a Halloween RPG adventure with tricks and treats for all the boys and girls. In this charming role-playing game, choose your hero and trick-or-treat through three beautiful environments full of Double Fine humor and story. Complete quests, build your party, and collect costumes along the way that allow you to transform into powerful champions and take down the evil Repugians. This heroic holiday tale will capture the imaginations of kids and kids-at-heart.
Continue the Costume Quest adventure with the Grubbins on Ice DLC pack, included free in the PC version! Face new enemies while collecting additional quests, costumes, battle stamps, and creepy treat cards. Help the monsters overthrow Araxia to bring peace back to Repugia!
Collect costumes won through battle and unleash the power within!
A healthy dose of humor from Double Fine Productions, makers of Psychonauts and Stacking!
I really enjoyed this game. The story and characters are fun and pristine. The creative art-style works well with the beautiful cell shaded graphics. And as a plus the PC version comes with the DLC Grubbins on Ice for free. The only issues that I have with the game is that the frame-rates are capped at 30fps and that ending of Grubbins on Ice is a cliffhanger. Double Fine Productions have stated that the game engine can't handle 60fps but they may one day have an update that fixes this. All in all this is a great game for all ages.
I really enjoyed playing this. The battle system could have been slightly improved (which apparently they've done in the sequel), but 95% of the time I didn't feel like it was tedious to play, I enjoyed trying out the different costumes and stamps for the best combinations and strategies. And the game had me constantly cracking up with the jokes and witty remarks and such; "Plot twist!" was one of my top favorites. I already went and bought the sequel because of how much fun I had with this one. And, the difficulty and humor are good for all ages. A nice gem of a game.
I finished it, it took me about 6 hours to finish, and I'll be honest, I had fun. It was a cute story and it was nice to explore the world. Gameplay is repetitive, though, to the point of tediousness.
The game basically breaks down into "three worlds," your local neighborhood, a mall, and a carnival, and in each (for example), you have an apple bobbing miniquest that you need to repeat three times, so you end up doing the same apple bobbing game 9 times. While you can switch up your costumes and you get different opponents over time, the opponents are essentially just reskins of a few variations, and the costumes do offer real variety, but with only three moves (one only available every three turns) how you handle the fights is very much the same from fight to fight.
The game is strongest with its side-quests, like the costume contest, or delving into the patriotic costume conspiracy, or rescuing rebellious grubbins. If the game had been a quirky point-and-click adventure (what Double Fine excels at), I think I would have rated it higher; the gameplay feels more like padding on what makes the game fun.
It is not worth $10 bucks. After watching the cartoon (which was fun!) I picked up both for $5, and that felt like a decent price. I don't feel ripped off and, like I said, I had fun, but unless you're really into this sort of game, I would skip it. There are better "cute/weird JRPG" knock-offs. On the Rain Slicked Precipice of Darkness, for example
The good
- Halloween themed (can't go wrong with halloween)
- cute cartoonish art style
- the music fits nicely
- The combat is simple and somewhat challenging: normal attacks and defense are based on QTES which forces you to pay attention (enemies hit hard and scale up to your level, fiortunately you get full health after every battle and if you are defeated you are not punished in any way
- The game is short but very enjoyable, and the expansion adds a cliffhanger
- The writing is simple, but effective, serves well to the child firendly nature of the game
The not so good
- more character variety was needed, it was hilarious to see how the dad looks just like the mom with a fake beard, it also happens with the main antagonist and another character (idk if this is one of those situations of "the world looked through the children eyes"
- The QTES in Keybopard are rough, they only use 4 keys (shift, q, e, space) but I'm really shortsighted and so many times mixed up the shift and space prompts
- It gets repetitive, I had no problems with it since I was really enjoying myself with the game, but it has to be mentioned
- in combat most of the costumes are no better than your three first costumes (in the DLC the costumes you get are more useful in the final fight)
- The cliffhanger at the end of the expansion
Overall the game is good, enjoyable and fun, it has that flavor of kids going on an epic little adventure while grown ups are oblivious to the impending doom, the mechanics get repetitive over time, but if you like halloween and costumes this game is a must, I'll just sit here, waiting for a sequel that may never come
the controls suck and are not changeable~~! Atmosphere is great, graphics colorful and enchanting and the gameplay is differenet enough to be refreshing and appealing, yet it truly needs mouse/wasd control vs. only wasd
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