The revival of A Boy and His Blob is looking amazing! I can’t believe this game is not being covered as much as it is. Spend less time on Kratos and more on this, gaming press! The new A Boy and His Blob takes some really great ideas from the original and adds a some great ways to use old and new blob abilities. I am greatly amused by the hole punch as a means to avoid conflict. I also can’t get over how wonderful the art looks. The animation is so fluid, colorful, and innocent; its like watching a Disney animated movies from the 80s. The only thing about this game that is off-putting is that kids voice. “BLOB!” “BLOB!” “HEY!” “BLOB!” Well, I was able to tolerate Navi in Ocarina of Time, so this should not be too bad.

I’m wondering right now how beans that will change the blob’s ability will be acquired or if they will be in infinite supply. The former could challenge players but at the same time make them stingy with using their blob’s abilities. The best course of action is to encourage the players to use their abilities as much as they want because there seems to be a lot of good uses and chances for players to experiment. Hopefully, there will be infinite amount of each bean or at least a plentiful amount that a player won’t feel like they would waste beans by experimenting with blob abilities. It looks like experimentation will be part of the way players are going to find all of the hidden treasure in this game.

There’s definitely plenty of reason to be excited about playing A Boy and his Blob and it’s starting look like the Nintendo Wii will be more of a worthwhile console for myself to own. This fall is going to be nice.