De Blob 2, a coloring book on steroids! Snap into a Crayola!
*screen images courtesy of Bluetongue Entertainment and Drunken Spidey’s phone, all other images courtesy of THQ Nordic
De Blob 2 is a sequel to you guessed it, De Blob. This game has about 3 different developers for all the different systems and publishers as well. You know what? I will give credit to every single one. Here is a screen shot from Wikepedia.
*editors note: Wow that was lazy!
See what I am talking about? I have no idea who to give credit to. To further the mystery when I load up the game it loads up and is labeled as a Xbox 360 game. (*editor’s note: “It’s the Xbox 360 version via Game Pass“) I’m not reloading the game to watch the the intro either. This research can really cut into my drinking time. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Trust me its apparent.
3D Intensity? So I can go like 2.5D?
The first thing I do when I start a game is look through the game, audio, and video options (Yes, I still use the Oxford coma system. Sorry, to my editors. That’s how I was taught in school. Also, I have learned in the last year that double spacing after periods is no longer a thing. Again my apologies. I grew up with typing class on an actual typewriter. AAA, SPACE, AAA, SPACE. Sorry millennials, its how shit was done in my day.) (*editor’s note “It’s cool bro, me too!”) So I tab over to the visual section.
Enable 3-D?
Yes?
Am I all of the sudden playing on an Intellivision? (editor’s note “Oh hell yeah! I loved that system”) I don’t even understand what this is supposed to mean!!! Does Xbox have 3-D capability? What ever.
I seriously try not to get all worked up on little things like this. When some of these games put vague stuff like this it, “Really shakes my beers.” (There is your new catch phrase. I was told by my EIC Jake “Andrews” Combs that I should concentrate on a catch phrase. It’s not like I have a few thousand other things on my mind.) Sigh. (*editor’s note: “Um…no, ‘Really shakes my beers’ sucks, please try again! Also…point of clarification THIS editor, is not the EIC…just the lowly video game article editor.”)
Let’s get to the story. I never played the first De Blob so this is all I have for you. You are playing as Blob. You have a friend named Pinky that you can play with in 2 player mode. The objective is to stop Comrade Black. Comrade Black is running amok in the world taking all the color out of the land. As Blob you can color back in the land by sucking up different colors through out the world. Imagine a 3-D world (If it’s enabled or not. I don’t know anymore.), as a giant coloring book.
So what you’re saying is…I’m a sponge?
The idea is to solve puzzles using different colors and special moves you pick up along they way, to bring life back into a black and white world. The game frequently shifts between 3D and 2D depending on said puzzles. The 3D world pisses me off the most. (editor’s note: “Are you sure? Truly the most? Hard to tell in this review.”) Controlling the camera on De Blob 2 is like I’m wrestling with a drunk half octopus, half ape hybrid. Frequently I found myself just trying to get the camera to stay in position so I can make a weird angled jump or just sometimes moving in general.
No really…I’m painting.
The sound effects are basic to what you would think the sounds a Blob makes jumping around and leaking ink from it’s orifices. The music didn’t make me want to mute my television. That’s a positive.
Overall, not my glass of beer, unless I really missed coloring books. Fuck me.
Please just give me a game where I don’t want to drive an ice pick through my 3rd toe for fun.
This has been Drunken Spidey. Until next time, throw me a beer.
*image courtesy of evilbunnyband
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