De Blob
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| Platform(s) | iOS, Wii, Microsoft Windows |
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iOS
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| Genre(s) | Platform, puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| GameRankings | 81.12% (45 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 82/100 (48 reviews) |
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| 1UP.com | B |
| Edge | 8/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Game Informer | 7.75/10 |
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| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| GameTrailers | 8.3/10 |
| IGN | 8.4/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8/10 |
| Nintendo World Report | 9/10 |
| ONM | 92% |
De Blob is a 2008 platform-puzzle video game. The game has players explore and liberate an alien city from the evil, monochromatic INKT Corporation that has taken over the city and outlawed all color and fun from daily life. Playing as de Blob, players embark on a quest to re-animate the fictional place of Chroma City and free it from the INKT Corporation by splattering buildings, landmarks, and citizens with color.
De Blob was developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment for the Wii, while a cancelled version for the Nintendo DS was being developed by the now-defunct developer Helixe, with both versions being published by THQ. The game was originally scheduled for a February 2008 release, but it was delayed and then released on 22 September 2008 for the Wii. An iOS adaption of the game was released on 8 July 2008.
On March 3, 2017, THQ Nordic unveiled De Blob for Microsoft Windows, ported by BlitWorks. This game was a surprise announcement to debut in PAX East 2017.
The player character — de Blob — starts out as a ball of clear "water". de Blob is free to roll around and collect paint from Paintbots in the three colors of red, yellow and blue, which can be combined into orange, green, purple, and brown. de Blob then merely has to touch a building, lamppost, billboard, or other object for the entire surface of said object to be smeared in his current color. As he colors the city, the game's soundtrack, featuring live bands which recorded slow and fast versions of each "lick" (each hit), gradually adds more instrumentation as well as an additional "layer" of sound corresponding to de Blob's current color—being red usually adds a saxophone solo to the music, for example. As de Blob collects paint, his size increases to a maximum of 100; each object he paints costs a paint point, as does attacking enemies, while touching water makes de Blob remove his color.
While de Blob is free to paint, there are various missions which can or must be completed. These missions are given by various members of the Color Underground and include painting certain buildings certain colours and transforming a landmark with enough of a certain color of paint (for example, 30 yellow paint points). Each of the 10 levels have a main landmark to paint, which may require more than one color and more paint points than usual.
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