Charming but Forgettable
While Costume Quest will definitely reawaken fond childhood memories of Halloween and the thrill or trick-or-treating, it isn't a game you'll remember you played a couple of years from now (the trophies may serve as a reminder). The RPG-lite gameplay is intentionally kept at an extremely simplistic level. While this may help attract and appeal to a younger audience, I can speak from a child's perspective (given that my 4 year old son played this with me) in saying that it didn't really seem to work. For anyone else playing the game, the battles will just grind on you and the flow of combat has absolutely no variety. There were also some framerate issues in the battles, which struck me as odd given the low tech nature of the rest of the game. While the game had some charm and I saw it through the end, I had no motivation to pick up the DLC and don't think I would have finished it if there were another 2 hours of gameplay.
