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A Boy and His Blob
- Nintendo Wii
- Price: $39.99
- Genre: Adventure
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The sweetest, gentlest action heroes around.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that aside from the inclusion of a few scary looking evil blob monsters, A Boy and His Blob provides a sweetly entertaining adventure that works the brain and even touches the heart. The title characters are so endearing (and adorably rendered in 2-D artwork), it's hard not to like this game. The amount of fighting in the game is minimal, and mostly occurs during the four boss battles. But even those boss battles are really brain twisters; with the exception of one sequence in which a machine he enters allows him to "punch" the bad blobs, the boy never lays a hand on an enemy, he simply figures out which shapes his blob must take in order to defeat the bad guys.
What's it about?
In A BOY AND HIS BLOB, a young boy finds and immediately befriends a little alien blob that crash lands outside his tree house. He then helps his malleable new friend, who is being pursued by a bunch of evil blobs, to find his way back to his home planet of Blobolonia and free it from the tyranny of a wicked emperor. The boy is limited to merely running and jumping, so he must instruct the blob to change shapes (into things like a balloon, a ladder, a hole, a trampoline, etc.) in order to make their way through maze-like, puzzling levels on the way home.
Is it any good?
A Boy and His Blob is a fabulously entertaining Wii game. From the moment kids meet its eminently likable heroes, they'll be eager to help these two along, and in doing so, they'll be forced to think strategically. The puzzles can be deceptively challenging, and may require a lot of trial and error in order to find solutions. Each short level only requires that players make it to the end of the path in order to move on in the game, but also contains three hidden (or hard to reach) treasure chests that add extra challenge. This format makes the game accessible to a variety of age groups. A Boy and HIs Blob is a solo game, but two kids or a kid and a parent can easily team up and put their brains together to win.
What families can talk about
Families an talk about the jelly beans that the boy feeds to his blob. Is candy a good reward system?
Parents can also discuss the importance of friendship, and befriending those different from us.
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Boy falls dead when touched and cut scene creatures are scary
I enjoyed this game but I would strongly caution against it for young children. Within 2 minutes of playing the game myself an evil blob touched the boy (the character you play) and he falls to the ground dead. Although he's instantly resurrected for another round of the game, I found this image to be visibly jarring and was glad that I did not give my young children the game as I had originally planned. I have found that some ratings on games for this site (which I really like) have a grey area where a parent may be swayed a little older or younger on the age recommendations, but I would not on this one and may even bump it a year to age 9.
In the opening cut scene we also see the evil creatures which resemble black ghosts with ghoulish faces chasing the boy. This image may illicit some scary thoughts and bad dreams, so steer clear of this game for young children or kids that have challenges with fearful dreams. I believe that Boy and is Blob is also way too scary for young players.
The game itself is very enjoyable, but again only for 9 and up, in my opinion.
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A great pleaser for all ages.
A fantastic game that is innocent and really fun, and the boy is helping the blob, not exploiting him, and its obviously not scary.
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My review has a title
The boy clearly exploits his blob without any concerns for it's safety. Along with feeding it a constant supply of jelly beans, instead of more health conscious foods, the blob gets eaten, jumped on, shoved in a backpack, carelessly thrown at enemies and spikes and abused. While the boy may hug the blob it could never make up for the pain the blob must feel on the inside.
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Trouble on Blobulania (NES) review
*THIS REVIEW APPLIES ONLY TO THE NES VERSION*
I have this game on NES, and on the Wii. I prefer the NES version. It's not scary, but it can be a little unpredictable if your kid doesn't have very good puzzle solving skills. Still a pretty fun game, even if you can't beat it.
You can see a banner/advertisement for the company "Shockwave" inside the game in various places, but, who cares? They're just a internet media scripting company. Can't buy anything from them.
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oh my god this game is so amazing
The game's puzzles are challengeing (even for me) the diffrent power -ups are amazing. this game is so inocent. THE POWER-UPS ARE JELLY BEANS!!!! :) i love this game and so does my 4 year old brother. dskane. your review sounds like an OVER protective parent TO THE MAX
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| Platforms: | Nintendo Wii |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Developer: | Majesco |
| Release date: | October 13, 2009 |
| Price: | $39.99 |
| ESRB rating: | E for Mild Cartoon Violence |
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