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A Boy and His Blob | 
| From: Majesco Sales Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Seller: Hubbagames
Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 188
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 01612
Model: 01612
UPC: 096427016243
EAN: 0096427016120
ASIN: B002FG9MWE
Publication Date: October 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 40 additional challenge levels will put your skills to the ultimate challenge. | | • | Experience the heartwarming story through an all-new, hand-drawn and animated presentation designed exclusively for Wii. | | • | Teamwork is key: the boy has limited movement and strength, so you must use your blob friend to transform into useful objects to get to things or places the boy cannot access alone. | | • | Transform the blob into 15 useful items by feeding him jelly beans such as the all-new Caramel Cannon and Bubble Gum Bouncer and classic beans like the Licorice Ladder, Apple Jack and Tangerine Trampoline. | | • | Travel through the Blobolonian Outskirts to the Emperor's Citadel in four breathtaking worlds featuring 40 levels filled with hidden treasures. |
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Product Description
Product InformationA retelling of the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) classic of the same name A Boy and his Blob teams players with the unusual ally of a blob for single player side-scrolling platformer and puzzle-solving fun. Using both the blob's ability to assume a number of different shapes and your skill at calling each out together you set about saving the Blob's home of Blobolonia from the grasp of a enemy bent on domination.Product Features40 additional challenge levels will put your skills to the ultimate challenge.Experience the heartwarming story through an all-new hand-drawn and animated presentation designed exclusively for Wii.Teamwork is key: the boy has limited movement and strength so you must use your blob friend to transform into useful objects to get to things or places the boy cannot access alone.Transform the blob into 15 useful items by feeding him jelly beans such as the all-new Caramel Cannon and Bubble Gum Bouncer and classic beans like the Licorice Ladder Apple Jack and Tangerine Trampoline.Travel through the Blobolonian Outskirts to the Emperor's Citadel in four breathtaking worlds featuring 40 levels filled with hidden treasures.
Amazon.com Product Description
A retelling of the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) classic of the same name, A Boy and his Blob teams players with the unusual ally of a blob for single player, side-scrolling platformer and puzzle-solving fun. Using both the blob's ability to assume a number of different shapes and your skill at calling each out, together you set about saving the Blob's home of Blobolonia from the grasp of a enemy bent on domination. The Story
When the distant world of Blobolonia is threatened by an evil and frightening emperor, one of its denizens, a being known as a blob, makes the world-changing decision to stand up for what is right. This brings about his journey to Earth in search of help for his world. Here he discovers two unexpected things, the friendship and loyalty of a young boy and an overwhelming love for jellybeans of various flavors. Both will prove important before this adventure is through. Help the blob dethrone the evil emperor that's terrorizing Blobolonia and establish a friendship with the blob that will last a lifetime. Gameplay
 Team with the Blob to save Blobolonia.
View larger. | A Boy and his Blob is a side-scrolling platformer that teams the player up with the game's namesake amorphous blob as you navigate 80 game levels that make up the dangerous terrain of Blobolonia and take on the baddies and bosses that are terrorizing it. Your main weapon in this is the power of the Blob to transform himself into a variety of useful forms. There are 15 of these, and all are initiated by specifically flavored jellybeans. Just a few of the flavor/forms that can be expected are Caramel Cannon, Bubble Gum Bouncer, Licorice Ladder, Apple Jack and Tangerine Trampoline. During gameplay the Blob's transformative powers are balanced by the relative weakness and limited movement of the boy, but it's through his hands, and the jellybeans he tosses, that the powers of the Blob reach their height. Key Game Features - Experience the heartwarming story through an all-new, hand-drawn and animated presentation designed exclusively for Wii.
- Teamwork is key: the boy has limited movement and strength, so you must use your blob friend to transform into useful objects to get to things or places the boy cannot access alone.
- Transform the blob into 15 useful items by feeding him jelly beans such as the all-new Caramel Cannon and Bubble Gum Bouncer and classic beans like the Licorice Ladder, Apple Jack and Tangerine Trampoline.
- Travel through the Blobolonian Outskirts to the Emperor’s Citadel in four breathtaking worlds featuring 40 levels filled with hidden treasures.
- 40 additional challenge levels will put your skills to the ultimate challenge.
- Battle baddies and evil bosses that terrorize Blobolonia, including the Serpent, Quadruped Beast, and even the Blobolonian Emperor himself.
- Unlock bonus content including original concept art, video features and more.
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Easy in-game controls.
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80 play levels.
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15 different blob forms.
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 Hardly worth the time.... September 2, 2010
Lemnlime
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
In light of all the great 2D platformers of the SNES/Playstation/Genesis era, I simply could not recommend a game with such low production values. I know this game is just a remake of an NES game, but this would have made a better downloadable game for $10 then a more full-priced retail game. Broken down:
Graphics - Looks great...for an SNES game. But that was 15 years ago, and this game brings nothing new to the table visually and doesn't even come close to what one expects of a current generation title.
Music - Incredibly repetitive. The tunes are not memorable and the same song will play for several stages in a row so you are left listening to the same tune for hours.
Plot - What plot? Not like a platformer needs one, but it still would have been nice to at least have a little character development. Title says it all.
Controls and Gameplay - Very easy and intuitive, you just toss jellybeans around to turn your blob into tools and then solve simple puzzles. I barely ever got stuck in the game and you have unlimited lives and tons of checkpoints throughout a level so frustration stays at a minimum--except on the challenge levels, those are a whole other story. The game description says there are 80 levels but its really more like 40 with another 40 short challenge levels you can unlock for collecting all 3 treasure chests in a level. I barely coaxed myself to finish the game, but only so I could hurry up and sell it. I would never play this game again. Far too boring.
 A Boy and His Blob August 18, 2010
Dekan
The game is overall fun because of the childhood game that I played. It isn't any where near as challenging as the regular NES game was but still glad to see that a new game came out to keep the memory going.
 Building Complexity August 14, 2010
Shane Allen Windham (Dallas, TX)
This game is a real treat. It starts you off doing some of the simplest things and quickly begins to increase the depth and complexity of the gameplay. But it never really becomes something most anyone could pick up and play at any time. You play as a young boy, who is every bit as fragile and easily destroyed by enemies as you would expect a child to be. This keeps you constantly depending on your companion the blob to form ladders and parachutes and many other such useful things to get you through each stage. You simply select the object you want the blob to be and feed him a bean to make him become that object. The bosses are actually a real challenge and there are some advanced challenge modes which will keep you playing stages over and over again. And you'll want to play stages over and over again. Because there aren't many games that give you such complexity in such a simple way. Perfect for almost any age; this is one any 2d fan will love.
 Easy does it. April 29, 2010
D. Dell (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a nice little game if you are tired of the fast paced shooters. It's fairly easy and simple to play. Yet, has puzzles to solve and items to find.My one complaint is there are no instructions or even hints on controls. Otherwise, this is a good game for all ages. Just be aware that the play is somewhat slow and might be too boring for some.
Puzzle game April 29, 2010
Witzkeyman (New York, NY)
This game is a puzzle game, and not really a platformer. This must be said. Some people will get stuck on certain levels, but there is always a way to get through. For instance, it took me 15 minutes to figure out that I had to feed my blob a trampoline bean in a hole and then push a rock on top of the trampoline to provide a step at a higher platform, because otherwise the bird kept eating the beans I would feed. This game is very similar to Braid for the PS3 which is a download, and usually gets a 5 out of 5 reviews. Braid is 15 dollars, but A Boy and his Blob is much easier and I enjoy the plot and setting better. A Boy and his Blob also uses the new Wii Classic Controller Pro - White, and was the first game I tested the controller out with.
**Considering the price of this game(sixteen dollars), A Boy and His Blob deserves 5 stars.
Update 5/1/10: make sure you search for youtube videos when you get stuck. I did get stuck at the first boss, and needed the help. The first boss can take forever to defeat without that help. I accessed the youtube video and defeated the boss quickly after.
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