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"de Blob" A game based on coloring books
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Oct 4, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
2 out of 4 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
You play a blobby creature that's out to paint the town red...and brown, blue, yellow, purple, green and orange.
Starting off each level you are clear, but you run into robots that have either red, blue or yellow paint on their back. Smash into them by holding Z and swatting the Wiimote down you get 10 paint point and turn into that color. Each successive robot smashed gives you 10 more paint points up to a max of 100.
You can combine these three colors to get orange, green, purple or brown.
What do you do with those paint points? Well, you paint the scenery around you, most importantly the buildings. This is the Free Mode part of the game.
In the main story line, each level is marked with missions. The mission types are simple: go from one point to another following a trail of colored steam, paint building a certain color or colors, smash the evil soldiers, or gather up a certain number of paint points of certain color or colors and use that to paint a large building.
Completing the missions will give you more missions, and completing those missions will unlock the next stage or level of the story.
The cut scenes with the villains of INKT are great. They act a lot like the Rabbids in "Raving Rabbids", and are just as funny. But our heroes are flat and bland compared to them, and the text driven parts are boring to look at.
Another big problem de Blob has is the targeting system. If you are surrounded by enemies to bash into, the AI may not target the thing you wanted it to. Sometimes, it targeted an enemy that is off camera. This made the missions tougher than it should be.
Shaking the Wiimote to jump is a bad idea - jumps should be a button push to save wear and tear on players' elbows.
And the missions repeat over and over again. Once you've played de Blob for one or two levels, you basically played the entire game.
Still, if you love coloring books, de Blob is de Game for you. Give it a try to see if you like it or not.
Starting off each level you are clear, but you run into robots that have either red, blue or yellow paint on their back. Smash into them by holding Z and swatting the Wiimote down you get 10 paint point and turn into that color. Each successive robot smashed gives you 10 more paint points up to a max of 100.
You can combine these three colors to get orange, green, purple or brown.
What do you do with those paint points? Well, you paint the scenery around you, most importantly the buildings. This is the Free Mode part of the game.
In the main story line, each level is marked with missions. The mission types are simple: go from one point to another following a trail of colored steam, paint building a certain color or colors, smash the evil soldiers, or gather up a certain number of paint points of certain color or colors and use that to paint a large building.
Completing the missions will give you more missions, and completing those missions will unlock the next stage or level of the story.
The cut scenes with the villains of INKT are great. They act a lot like the Rabbids in "Raving Rabbids", and are just as funny. But our heroes are flat and bland compared to them, and the text driven parts are boring to look at.
Another big problem de Blob has is the targeting system. If you are surrounded by enemies to bash into, the AI may not target the thing you wanted it to. Sometimes, it targeted an enemy that is off camera. This made the missions tougher than it should be.
Shaking the Wiimote to jump is a bad idea - jumps should be a button push to save wear and tear on players' elbows.
And the missions repeat over and over again. Once you've played de Blob for one or two levels, you basically played the entire game.
Still, if you love coloring books, de Blob is de Game for you. Give it a try to see if you like it or not.