A Boy and His Blob

I started playing last night, but you got farther than I did so I didn't see any of those problems. So far it's incredibly cute, and I can see how it's should develop into a good puzzle/platformer once the training wheels come off. I'd have played it more but Demon's Souls was sitting there, staring at me.

James

I would consider downloading this as an XBLA game.

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Originally Posted by James

I started playing last night, but you got farther than I did so I didn't see any of those problems. So far it's incredibly cute, and I can see how it's should develop into a good puzzle/platformer once the training wheels come off. I'd have played it more but Demon's Souls was sitting there, staring at me.

James

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I stopped playing this. It's now sitting in the "games to sell soon" pile. What really killed it for me was the blob's simple AI and the jelly bean throwing (and how I couldn't get the damn bean to go where I wanted it to with five minutes of trying, because every inch counted, unfortunately). There are too many games out there right now that I want to play to be frustrated by, what I feel is, a lack of polish.

I haven't picked it up yet, but plan on it. I just bought tickets to San Fran in January and it cost me nearly 400 bucks, so Blob is going to have to wait a week or two.

Played a few minutes. Controls are poorly implemented but it seems interesting enough to tackle after I finish with Muramasa and Lost Winds 2 (out tomorrow, yay).

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Originally Posted by Geen

Biggest pain in the ass is that each level has three treasures to collect, which the blob needs to grab for you, but he doesn't seem to grab it unless you're right next to the treasure with him. The trouble I'm facing is that some of the treasures are in areas that the boy can't reach (Such as a narrow passage that you can throw the blob-ball down). I'm going to look through the manual to see if maybe I'm not pushing some magical combination of buttons, but the blob just stands by the treasure and looks around rather than grabbing the damn thing.

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You're doing it wrong. The point is to get the boy next to the treasure. You should've figured this out when you had to get the treasure in 1-7 that's inside an enemy, since you have to get him to eat the blob ball, then wait for him to hop out of the spiky area before you recall the blob to pop the enemy.

Anyway, this game is nice. I concur on the controls - never thought I'd long for Puzzle Bobble-style rotation aiming with fixed speed, but there ya go. It doesn't help that the jellybean bounce indicator will lie on occasion and your bean won't end up anywhere near where it's supposed to. But that problem aside - and you're never really in a situation where timing is critical, so you can just keep throwing jellybeans until one lands properly - I'm enjoying this game. The puzzles so far seem fair and reasonably challenging, and I like the combination of death in one hit and frequent checkpoints. The graphics are gorgeous, too, and I haven't noticed any of the tearing that Geen mentioned.

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Originally Posted by bVork

You're doing it wrong. The point is to get the boy next to the treasure. You should've figured this out when you had to get the treasure in 1-7 that's inside an enemy, since you have to get him to eat the blob ball, then wait for him to hop out of the spiky area before you recall the blob to pop the enemy.

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Yeah, I had figured that one out after I put up my first rant. The one that killed the game for me was the treasure that is on the other side of some water and there seems to be no way to get the boy over there. Looks like you need to throw a bean over the water and get the blob to build a ladder so you can climb down, but the ladder seems to always get built too much to the right.

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Originally Posted by bVork

The graphics are gorgeous, too, and I haven't noticed any of the tearing that Geen mentioned.

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I noticed it on the raining level. Maybe it's just my Wii's video card dying (again)? But it was noticeable along all the floor's edges in that stage.

Shoulda bought this over Brutal Legend.

BUT THEN YOU COULDN'T ROCK!

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Originally Posted by Hero

Shoulda bought this over Brutal Legend.

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You didn't like BL? I thought the demo was solid and planed to get it at some point. I will be rounding up A boy and his Blob soon too.