Review Ivanchez 2/5 · Apr 16, 2019
A boy and his (Hey) Blob
A boy and his blob is platform/puzzle(?) game in which the main mechanic is using bean to transform your ally and friend Blob to get to the goal of a level and finally save the world from some black gooey enemies.
I will start with the positive aspects of the games.
First of all, Blob is cute and you have …
A boy and his blob is platform/puzzle(?) game in which the main mechanic is using bean to transform your ally and friend Blob to get to the goal of a level and finally save the world from some black gooey enemies.
I will start with the positive aspects of the games.
First of all, Blob is cute and you have a action to hug him :)
The mechanics are interesting and you have multiple abilities to use and different abilities can be used to solve the same puzzle.
The art matches with the concept of the game and is really simplistic.
It is a relaxing game that you can simply play through and get it done quickly or if you are like me try to 100% complete it (which isn't that hard to achieve, but there is some challenge to it)
Here comes the negative aspects and the reason why I gave it a 2/5
The puzzle are just to easy and sometimes it feels like they are not well designed at all. For example some of the puzzles is to kill enemies preventing you from advancing. You have a skill to turn Blob into a ball and roll it towards the enemies to kill them. There is no challenge at all and it would have been the same by adding or not adding this kind of puzzles, they just felt like fillers.
The history is very weak. Everything is narrated through actions and there is no dialog. This isn't so bad since the history is not a core aspect of the game.
The game gives you too many hints to solve the puzzles, even when you have progressed more than 50% of the game, which is totally unnecessary. The hints remove any challenge and thought process from the player.
There is a way to cheat the game. Ideally you would have blob go somewhere with a bean, perform and action, such as activate a switch so that you can progress and then you would have to find a way to get Blob to your side. You can just spam the "call" action which after certain numbers of times used will turn Blob into a balloon, which for some reason is able to pass through walls and get next to you. There is actually a bean to turn Blob into a balloon, but I never used it since I could just cheat my way through by calling him. I think it would have made the game more challenging and fun if you had to find a way to feed this bean into Blob so he could get to you.
The boss battles were tedious and boring. If you died you had to watch the cinematics everytime and you could skip them.
Each level would give you a set of beans. Some beans are more interesting, powerful and fun to use. I would have liked that you unlocked the better beans as you progressed through the game and not have random beans assigned to you per level. I think this would have given the player more flexibility to solve the puzzles instead of just having a set and knowing that you have to use what you were given to solve a puzzle. Also logically it doesn't make sense that in one level you have a bean and in the next you don't have it anymore and later you get it back. It seems like a lazy game design from the creators.
Conclusion
A boy and his Blob is an Ok game. You will have some fun playing but if you will find some flaws while playing it. There are definitely better platform/puzzles games that are better designed and more challenging. I could recommend this game for a younger audience as an introduction too platform/puzzle games.
