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Fifty percent more blobby than the original
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Mar 1, 2011
Member since Jan 2008
5 out of 5 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
De Blob is back, and so is his arch nemesis, Blank in De Blob 2 (it was going to be called De Blob Underground).
In the main part of the game, you go through 11 levels of coloring book fun as our blobby hero. Your job is to color everything in sight - from buildings to trees to the citizens of the land. Sometimes you can paint it any way you want, but others require you to paint landscapes a set color.
To color something, you either dip the hero in a pool of paint, or hit a paint bot. This will give you paint points which you need to paint anything.
And you also have to deal with Blank’s army of malicious - whatever the heck they are by smashing at them from overhead or rolling over them like a bowling ball.
Along the way, you enter buildings and get through 2D plat forming levels where you dispatch more enemies and hit all sorts of switches. And you get some new abilities, like turn into a wrecking ball or explode and take out several enemies at once.
The gameplay is improved over the original because instead of shaking the Wiimote to jump, all you have to do is push the A button. And you can also improve your abilities by collecting light bulbs placed all of every level and spending them like cash.
And this game has the charm - and the simplistic fun the original had.
But in this game, a second player can join in and blast some enemies - much like the second player in Super Mario Galaxy.
But there are problems, and they mostly have to do with the camera. Far too often, it moves and points in the wrong direction, and I have to readjust it. Getting up a tower or dealing with lots of enemies can be really annoying due to the wandering camera.
Another problem is the time limit for the levels - why do we have it in this game?
Still, De Blob 2 will thrill many players who love the original - and fixes one of that game’s biggest problems. It’s worth a rent, and maybe a purchase.
In the main part of the game, you go through 11 levels of coloring book fun as our blobby hero. Your job is to color everything in sight - from buildings to trees to the citizens of the land. Sometimes you can paint it any way you want, but others require you to paint landscapes a set color.
To color something, you either dip the hero in a pool of paint, or hit a paint bot. This will give you paint points which you need to paint anything.
And you also have to deal with Blank’s army of malicious - whatever the heck they are by smashing at them from overhead or rolling over them like a bowling ball.
Along the way, you enter buildings and get through 2D plat forming levels where you dispatch more enemies and hit all sorts of switches. And you get some new abilities, like turn into a wrecking ball or explode and take out several enemies at once.
The gameplay is improved over the original because instead of shaking the Wiimote to jump, all you have to do is push the A button. And you can also improve your abilities by collecting light bulbs placed all of every level and spending them like cash.
And this game has the charm - and the simplistic fun the original had.
But in this game, a second player can join in and blast some enemies - much like the second player in Super Mario Galaxy.
But there are problems, and they mostly have to do with the camera. Far too often, it moves and points in the wrong direction, and I have to readjust it. Getting up a tower or dealing with lots of enemies can be really annoying due to the wandering camera.
Another problem is the time limit for the levels - why do we have it in this game?
Still, De Blob 2 will thrill many players who love the original - and fixes one of that game’s biggest problems. It’s worth a rent, and maybe a purchase.