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DeBlob Review
Only de Blob can flip, bounce and paint his way past the all-powerful I.N.K.T. Corporation to launch a color revolution and save Chroma City from a future without color. Battle against massive tank battalions, speedy I.N.K.T. racers and elite Inky soldiers on your quest to free the citizens of Chroma City. Avoid hot plates, electric shocks and inky turrets to create your own path to the impenetrable I.N.K.T. Fortress. Just remember that the struggle to reclaim Chroma City is to be fought on your terms. Remix the city in your own image using custom paints, patterns and soundtracks. Super-size your blob to attack larger and stronger enemies. Join the Color Revolutionaries to refine your skills while making a mess. The race to rescue Chroma City has just begun, and only de Blob can save the world from a black-and-white future.
Multiplayer - Compete to control Chroma City in 4-player split screen and online
DeBlob Reviews
5 Stars
One of the best games on Wii
de Blob is a fantastic original game with beautiful graphics, a cool jazzy soundtrack, and lots of fun challenges to keep you occupied. The presentation is top notch as the developer obviously put a lot of thought, energy, and humor into the creation of this game. There’s a range of difficulty to the challenges and goals so there’s really something to appeal to different types of gamers. More casual gamers can just roll Blob around and color buildings while hardcore gamers can go for 100% completion and try to complete tougher and tougher challenges with time limits. Whatever your desired challenge level, you’re bound to have a great time playing this game.
The graphics are crisp, clean, and most of all, colorful. The game runs in full 480p widescreen for those that have an HDTV and have invested in the Wii’s component video cable for the proper connection. de Blob’s graphics are a big part of its unique style and fun factor.
I can’t give the jazzy soundtrack enough praise. It provides a great atmosphere that compliments the graphical style perfectly. Also, it’s more dynamic than just being a set list of songs that you hear as you are playing through the various levels. First of all, you can select different moods for Blob, which affects the soundtrack for each level. Even more impressive is the fact that different instruments are added into the mix depending on the current color of Blob and how much of the level you’ve colored.
While de Blob has a couple of different multiplayer modes, I haven’t tried them out yet, but I’ve heard pretty good things about them from game review websites.
I’d strongly recommend de Blob to anyone who wants a fresh, fun, and original gaming experience on Wii.
5 Stars
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DeBlob is a game that has always LOOKED great. Through screenshots and early gameplay footage, it’s always looked like a very promising title. Even the box art LOOKS great, but with the power of current gen consoles, a lot of games can look great, and play horribly. DeBlob thankfully lives up to its style and graphical prowess. The game is just as fun as it looks like it would be.
You play the part of a paint ball, jumping around a gray world, painting the town red (or green, yellow, orange, etc.) Meanwhile the evil ‘Inkies’ are dead set on keeping things dull and rubbing you out. The people of a the world are depressed and oppressed, and it’s up to you and an underground group of rebels to set them free.
The game is just FUN. It’s great fun jumping from building to building slopping paint around everywhere you go. Even on the load screen, you can point the wiimote at the screen and doodle while you’re waiting. The game just oozes with personality. It’s got the dry sense of humor of the Rabbids games, or early Lucasarts titles. There are lots of challenges set up along the way (ie. paint 50 buildings yellow in 60 seconds, etc.) to keep things interesting, or you can just explore and try to paint all the tree, buildings or townsfolk before the (generous) timer runs out.
My only knock is the lack of a jump button. It’s something many players have mentioned. You jump by flicking the wiimote down, and while it works, its just not as accurate as a button press. The controls are very responsive however and this is only a slight setback.
DeBlob is easy enough for children, and at the same time offers enough extra challenges for any level of gamer, and is an all around great family game. It’s a clear ‘must own’ title for the Wii and one that should not be overlooked. I hope gamers will choose to support DeBlob so publishers will take more risks with titles like this! No more shovelware!
5 Stars
Nice to see some innovation and fun!
With so much shovelware on the Wii, such a unique and fun game is a great surprise.
CONCEPT: The concept is simple, paint everything.
GRAPHICS: The graphics like all Wii games are last generation but well done and very suitable for what it is. It could benefit from more colors and patterns.
MUSIC: The music is kind of a jazzy funky mix and very well done.
CONTROLS: I’ve never really loved the innovative Wii controllers. Give me an Xbox 360 or PS3 controller any day. However, the Wii controller is very simple and easy to use.
It’s all tied together with a cute story, and it received good to great reviews in the game magazines.
I noticed Best Buy sells it with a free T-shirt. Circuit City has a free game soundtrack CD included. Target has a mini-comic book included. I don’t think Amazon is including any extras. I purchased from Circuit City for the music CD. I’m not sure how long the free items will be available.
The game is appropriate for younger players, starting about 5 years old and up, depending on how much you help. The game is interesting and challenging enough that players of ANY age would enjoy it.
I often try to play new games over so many weeks and resell them while they still have good resell value, but so far, this game seems to be a keeper.
Highly recommended! If you need a number, I’d say 8.5 out of 10.
4 Stars
Great concept
De Blob is a great concept for a video game. The gameplay is simple and straightforward, but challenging enough for any age. Although comparable to another cult fave, Katamari Damacy, this game has a little bit more of a puzzle element to it, although nothing too taxing. This is one of the best third-party games for the Wii to date.
5 Stars
Love It
Galaxy was getting too hard so I needed a new game. This game is perfect!! I just got it last night, so I haven’t gotten too far into it, but so far I love it. Its good for any age depending on how high of a score you are looking to get. The only problem I have is that you jump and “pound” differently that Galaxy so that will take some time to get used too.





