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    Costume Quest

    Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Oct 20, 2010

    A downloadable turn-based RPG by Double Fine. Play as a child on Halloween night in search of your twin sibling.

    maskedarcstrike's Costume Quest (Xbox 360 Games Store) review

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    Short, but sweet treat

    Costume  Quest is a delightful holiday themed RPG from Double Fine, the fine developers of Psychonauts and Brutal Legend.
     You start the game out getting ready to trick or treat with your twin sibling when all of a sudden your brother or sister gets kidnapped by monsters and its your job to rescue your twin.  You'll knock on doors, battle monsters in turn based battles, and gain new costumes as you progress through the story.
     
    The game is graphically impressive for a download title, while roaming around the game may not technically look that impressive the cel-shaded graphics do the job well.  There's a great amount of attention to detail though, you can tell that the devs put a ton of work in creating the world and all of the Halloween decorations in it.  (there is one exception though which is a hedge maze section of the game)  The graphics during the battle sequences are quite different from the main game.  They are far more impressive on a technical level and watching each costumes abilities in combat is a blast, the animations are very good.  I found myself always looking forward to seeing what my new costume would do in combat.  The best is when you use the Statue of Liberty's special which flashes patriotic imagery on the screen with an eagle and Abe Lincoln.
     
    While you'll recruit 2 party members along the way to help you.  The costumes themselves however, are the real stars of this game.  There's quite a few of them and they are quite varied from vampires, to black cats to a french fry monster.  The way the costumes vary  on abilities  is very similar to a class system you might find in other RPGs.  Each costume only has one special ability and one normal attack but this can be augmented somewhat with the battle stamp system.  Each character can equip one battle stamp which will give different benefits like adding DOT's to your normal attacks, stun attacks, etc.
     
    The one thing I would have loved for this game to have is voiceovers.  While the music is good and helps build the mood and the charm it's just a real shame Double Fine did not include voice overs.  I understand this is not a full budget game like Psychonauts or Brutal Legend but it still would have been nice to have.
     
    While the game is catered to a younger audience there's still a decent amount of challenge to it.  You will die on boss fights if you take the wrong the combination of costumes into a battle or if you miss a few QTE's.  Some people might be turned off by the games length as it will probably only take most people about 6-7 hours to finish it.  I finished around that time and I also got all the costumes and did all the achievements.  As far as replay value, there pretty much is none unless you wanted to go through the main game again for fun.
     
    Overall Costume Quest is a charming, cute, great game.  If your willing to look past the games length and replay value you'll have a awesome time with the game.

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    $15 for 6-7 hours of Double Fine goodness? Sounds good to me. Most $70 games these days are barely that long -.-

    Other reviews for Costume Quest (Xbox 360 Games Store)

      Sugar Sweet! 0

      Double Fine, Tim Shaffer's company behind the titles Brütal Legend from 2009 and the overlooked classic Psychonauts from 2005, brings us with Costume Quest a charming and adorable RPG for XBLM and PSN. It's perhaps not the longest or most memorable downloadable titles out there, but it's certainly a perfectly fine first entry by the developer for the downloadable scene. And while this isn't directly a Shaffer development, but rather Double Fine's lead animator Tasha Harris pr...

      10 out of 10 found this review helpful.

      Adorably Shallow 0

       Costume Quest is one of those games that gives a good first impression. It has a nicely defined, clean art style, reminiscient of Animal Crossing or Earthbound, a whimsical sense of humour and simple game mechanics. The main thrusts of the game are mild adventure style item hunts and RPG battling. In order to proceed further and rescue your sibling from the clutches of the monsters hell-bent on stealing candy from your town, you need to acquire new costumes. Many of them have abilities that can...

      5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

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