Don't know about art but you know what you like? Whether you are a master of the brush or a finger painting fool, just say no way to gray and join with de Blob and his pals as they launch a color revolution on the Nintendo Wii gaming console. A mischievous and unlikely hero, only de Blob can flip, bounce and smash his way past the all-powerful I.N.K.T. Corporation to ignite a revolution and save Chroma City from a future without color. 
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de Blob dripping with green.
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Hopping around in Chroma.
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de Blob running out of paint.
View larger. | 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. Gameplay: de Blob's Primary Goal
de Blob is a 3D platformer where players use the Wii Remote/Nunchuck combo to maneuver their hero, de Blob. Equal parts amorphous blob of paint, struggling artist, revolutionary and juvenile delinquent, de Blob's goal is to replace the drab, lifeless gray coloring that the I.N.K.T. Corporation has imposed on Chroma City and its inhabitants, the Raydians, with a range of vibrant life-giving colors, all the while avoiding and battling the gray-clad forces of the Inkies. Players must acquire paint and hurl de Blob at the buildings, walls, statues, roads and skies above Chroma City. As de Blob bounces around, adding color wherever he lands, his supply of paint is depleted and he begins to dry out. As this happens players must collect more paint and rehydrate in pools and in front of hydrants scattered across the city. As the game starts access is limited to the colors red, blue and yellow, but these can be blended to create a number of other colors. Being able to create and apply these colors becomes important as Chroma City and its inhabitants come to life, and de Blob makes contact with a range of other characters known as the 'Color Revolutionaries' and receives an increasing amount of missions that charge him with splattering color all over town. Success at these mission gains the player point which drives the game forward, eventually leading to a direct assault on Comrade Black's I.N.K.T. fortress guarded by elite Inky soldiers and massive ink turrets. Key Game Features: - de Blob - Flip, bounce and paint your way past the all-powerful I.N.K.T. Corporation to launch a revolution and save Chroma City from a future without vibrant color.
- Long Live Color! - Join the Color Revolutionaries in the resistance against the evil Comrade Black and his diabolical array of hot plates, electric shocks, and ink turrets.
- Free the Citizens - Free your friends from a black and white world by dodging ink cannons, flattening I.N.K.T. tanks and outsmarting Inky soldiers.
- Save your City - Remix Chroma City’s towering skyscrapers, expansive bridges and massive landmarks in your own style using custom paints, patterns and soundtracks.
- Make a Mess - Super-size your blob as you splash, spray, and splatter everything you touch in sprint, race and combat challenges.
- Multiplayer - Compete for control as ink levels rise and wind cannons fire in eight multiplayer-specific gameplay modes.
Plenty of Play Modes
de Blob features both a deep story-driven singleplayer mode where players get to dig into the Raydian's struggle against all-powerful I.N.K.T. Corporation, as well as a diverse range of multiplayer options. These multiplayer campaigns support up to four players, come with street and sewer maps and include four player split-screen functionality. Just a few of the multiplayer campaigns include: Paint Match - Paint as many buildings as possible and steal points from opponents by re-painting the buildings that they've already covered. Blob on the Run - A variation of 'Capture the Flag,' in this mode only one blob can paint and is pursued by opponents who attempt to slam him into submission and gain the ability to paint and accumulate points themselves. Blob Race - In this mode buildings can only be painted once and are indicated by in-game arrow. With time limited it's a race not only to paint the town but also to keep opponents from doing the same. |
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 One of the best games on Wii |
| Review Date: September 27, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Michael Baker, Tallahassee, FL |
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. |
Painter and The Saviour
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| Review Date: September 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: ice grizzly, Dream Land |
This is game is coloring book on steroids. Your are a super hero. Your power is providing colors, lots and lots of them. You rescue the world that has fallen into gray boredom. What a premise... :). I wish in real life there is a super hero. Makes all our life cheerful and colorful.
You really have to know the basics of colors. What and what adds upto the final color. The music changes as your blob changes color. They have picked up very appropriate elements for every color. When you hear new music for the first time as the color changes, it will give you a high kick to your brain. Very well executed game play with minute care to details.
The basic structure of the game is similar to Katamari. You roll around, jumping and painting all the surfaces etc. etc. Open up more new section and add more colors. The game play never gets repetitive. As the levels progress you have to go from coloring every thing to coloring particular sections and mix and match things. The game play is always fresh. For any one who doesnt know about this game, it started as a free PC game in EU. So they have had enough background to make sure the game is nicely flushed out.
Camera work is the best I have seen in recent times. The fixed camera works as tight as in God of War. Controls are sharp, you never miss a jump. Even in 3rd person every thing works perfect. For love of gaming, buy this one. For any one complaining Wii doesn't have good 3rd party games. Take a hard look at Bloom Box and this game.
Pros:
- The game itself.
- Fantastic theme and Art direction
- Graphics. This is probably the best looking Wii game. Runs at 60 fps 16:9 wide screen.
- Audio. Exceptional, it is layered audio. You actions change what you hear
Cons:
- Very poor marketing. They never advertised it well. |
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| Review Date: October 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Don Walton Jr., Albuquerque, NM United States |
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!
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Nice to see some innovation and fun!
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| Review Date: September 26, 2008 |
| Reviewer: ClickmeClickme, North Carolina |
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.
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Bizarre and creative game
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| Review Date: October 15, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Quoad Toad, Chicago |
De Blob is a very creative/bizarre game. The plot involves bringing color back to a city where evil beings have turned everything monochrome.
De Blob is literally a blob of paint. The player paints things by simply hitting into them. Three basic colors are available - blue, yellow, and red. These can be mixed to create purple, brown, orange and green. I wish a greater variety of hues and tones could be created, but for simplicity's sake the game sticks to the basics.
As de Blob rolls around the city, he has the option of taking up various challenges - such as painting a block a specific color or gathering enough paint to free prisoners from jail. The challenges are optional for the most part, so if a player finds a challenge too difficult it can be skipped.
The game can be as difficult or easy as a player wants. Side missions include things like painting all of the billboards or trees in a given area. It can become quite challenging to complete all of the side missions. Again, that is completely up to the player.
I am very picky when it comes to the ability to control a character and de Blob is quite easy to control. Sometimes jumping can get a little annoying, but overall the game's controls work well.
I only have a couple of complaints. The first is that players can not save while in a level. I enjoy completing everything in one level at once. This can take two or more hours at a time, so I wish I could save my progress. Also, the music can get incredibly monotonous and irritating unless you love jazz. I wish players could use their own mp3's for the background music.
Overall, this game is a lot of fun and can be played by almost anyone.
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One of the most original and engaging games I've ever encountered
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| Review Date: August 4, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Andrés Ornelas, San Jose, CA |
I bought this game because it caught my eye on an unrelated visit to BestBuy and I thought it would be a fun game to play with my wife. While it wasn't what I was expecting (a rich multi-player experience), I was blown away by the concept.
It is important to note that I played it for more than an hour and thought "well, it's OK", but it wasn't until I actually understood what was happening that I got to fully appreciate the awesomeness of this game. I'm not sure if I'll do it any justice, but I'll try to describe such awesomeness...
*The story*
You play a blob of paint (appropriately named "Blob"), whose purpose in life is to save the world from evil creatures that suck the color (and fun) from everything around them.
*The gameplay*
You move Blob with the analog stick, target with Z, and jump (and smash) by flicking the wiimote. Your objective is to douse Blob in paint and then splatter everything you can.
*The concept*
This is where it gets interesting. When you first start playing a level, there is silence. You are a clear blob of nothingness (no color yet) and there is a slight "hum" whenever you touch/hit things in this state. As soon as you hit a paintbot and acquire its color, you notice things change drastically. Every time you touch something, it is gracefully splash-painted by your color. Now, that's the obvious part. The AMAZING part is the music. Every time you paint something, a short tune is played with a certain instrument, depending on the color. If you continue painting, the melody goes on. And as you paint more and more stuff, a song starts to take shape. You get drum beats early on and eventually start accumulating base melodies. Before you know it, you have a full on song going, in which you drive a solo in the instrument (...er, color) of your choice!
The music transition is so smooth and natural, that you don't notice it at first. But when you do, you can't help but feel blown away by its ingenuity. As you get the hang of it, you actually start composing, adding tunes here and there from your favorite instrument (I personally favor saxophone red!) and you find yourself immersed in the music, sometimes completely forgetting the story line (luckily, there is a Free Paint mode). And, on top of this, the music is really, REALLY good. It reminds me of the old days when video games were all about the soundtrack (queue in, Mario Bros. tune).
Your accumulated music is only interrupted when you are injured (by the evil inkies), which makes damage that much more dramatic ("Aww, all that work to get the music going!"). But no worries. With enough paint you can get the music back on track.
I hope I was able to adequately express the huge coolness factor this game has. And if you haven't, buy it (or rent it or borrow it or whatever) and see for yourself. You will not be dissappointed.
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Simple mechanic makes for a very enjoyable game
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| Review Date: October 11, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Zaxxon, Indianapolis, IN USA |
de Blob is based on an incredibly simple game mechanic--you're a rolling blob of paint, and the entire experience boils down to collecting and mixing the right colors to paint various things. So simple, in fact, that you might call it a gimmick.
But it's implemented so well, and polished to such a degree, that any fan of platformers would be doing him/herself a disservice by missing out on this game.
Give de Blob a shot. |
One of the Best Wii Games!
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| Review Date: October 14, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Andrew Holderbaum, |
| This game though is really fun and relaxing. One of the best art styles I've seen in a game. Also great music for a game. Overall it's just an awesome game with a lot of style and polish that is totally worth a purchase. |
Coloring has never been so fun!
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| Review Date: October 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: JBebe, |
This game is amazingly fun for such a simple concept: COLOR.
It's like a 3-D coloring book. Basically you are a cute little blob creature who powers up on paint - you can mix colors and collect different styles. You roll and bounce around a city coloring everything in your path and restoring a once-colorful and happy city-gone gray. There are challenges and dangers, but basically that is the entire gist of the game. And it is surprisingly really fun.
My husband rented this game and a few others when he had surgery and would be out of commission for a few days, and we could not stop playing this game! We have played it for hours and are not tired of it yet. In fact he is playing it as I write this. This is the type of game that would be fun for adults and children alike.
Perhaps one of the funnest parts of the game (or at least something really cool about it) is the music. It begins with a simple jazz beat and bass line, and as you add colors to the city the music builds and goes crazy. Each color is a different instrument - a flute, a trumpet, electric guitar, jazz voices - and as you paint the town you create some really happenin' music.
This game is very simple to play, has a fun storyline, is not violent, and is almost as much fun to watch as it is to play.
One downside is that you cannot save your game until you reach the end of the level, which can be very long.
I highly recommend this game to anyone. Have fun, and don't worry about coloring in the lines! |
My 6 year old LOVES this game more than any other.
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| Review Date: November 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jennifer Jensen, Oceanside, CA |
| I'm not a huge gamer, myself, but my 6 year old thinks this is the be all and end all of games. He plays this more than his other games. |
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