{"id":12059,"date":"2014-07-02T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12059"},"modified":"2014-06-23T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:57:05","slug":"tales-from-space-mutant-blobs-attack-360-ps3-vita-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/tales-from-space-mutant-blobs-attack-360-ps3-vita-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (360, PS3, Vita, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BLOB_BOX\"<\/a>In a secret laboratory facility, little space blobs are kept locked up and have experiments performed on them.\u00a0 But one green, one-eyed blob doesn\u2019t like it and isn\u2019t going to take it anymore.\u00a0 He escapes and hides in a backpack belonging to a college kid on a student tour of the laboratory.\u00a0 Now the blob must brave obstacles in a college dorm and frat house, around town, at a military base, and even on the moon!\u00a0 He\u2019ll have to eat and absorb as many things as he can so he can grow bigger and exact revenge on the lab that performed experiments on him and his blob friends!\u00a0 Tales form Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a downloadable 2-D platforming action game with lots of zany madcap humor (360 version reviewed here).<\/p>\n

The game is like a cross between Katamari Damacy and an old SNES game called Smartball (Jelly Boy in Japan).\u00a0 Of course, those are pretty obscure games so I guess it was pointless for me to even reference them.\u00a0 Anyway, this is a 2-D platformer where you control a blob.\u00a0 He can stick to walls but he can\u2019t climb them.\u00a0 However, he can wall jump to reach higher places.\u00a0 The blob can also eat and absorb almost anything smaller than him, and as he eats, he grows bigger and can then eat more things.\u00a0 You\u2019ll usually need to do this so you can eat certain sized corks that block your path to the next area.\u00a0 Eventually you\u2019ll get big enough to even eat people and buildings!<\/p>\n

The blob has other powers, too.\u00a0 By passing through certain gates, he will inflate like a balloon and gain the ability to fly and propel himself around by exerting gas.\u00a0 The blob can also telekinetically move certain platforms by using the right analog stick.\u00a0 This gives the game a bit of a puzzle element as well.\u00a0 Finally, the blob can stick magnetically to certain metal surfaces by holding down the left trigger button, and repel from them using the right trigger.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use all these skills in tricky and clever ways.<\/p>\n

Hidden in each stage are the blob\u2019s friends.\u00a0 Find them and reach a high enough score to earn silver and gold medals in each stage.\u00a0 There are around two dozen stages in all.\u00a0 There are also about half a dozen mini-game levels where you view the action from a top down perspective as you gobble up objects in a maze, like Pac-Man.<\/p>\n

This game is full of zany madcap humor and references to B-movies and other video games.\u00a0 I think my favorite is a billboard in the background on the moon levels that says, \u201cVisit Scenic SPAAAACE: Courtesy of Apetours.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s a Portal 2 reference, and they also make fun of other things like Angry Birds.\u00a0 Really the only problem I had with this game is that sometimes the obstacles you must pass are pretty tough, and while the play control is great, it\u2019s not always precise enough to get all the items for the highest score.\u00a0 But luckily you get unlimited tries and checkpoints are plenty.\u00a0 And sometimes you can press the Y button for tips on how to get past certain obstacles.\u00a0 At any rate, this was a fantastic game that I really enjoyed and highly recommend downloading it.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Alcohol Reference.\u00a0 While you can eventually eat humans who scream and run away from you, there is no blood or grisly deaths, and it\u2019s all presented in a cartoony, humorous manner.\u00a0 If the blob gets hit enough times, he just splats and you start over at the last checkpoint.\u00a0 As far as the alcohol reference goes, in the college dorm there are kegs that say \u201cHipster Juice\u201d on them, but it looks more like soda than beer.\u00a0 Some of the humor is a little off color, like a college sweatshirt in the background that says, \u201cFU.\u201d\u00a0 But most of the jokes and references will go over little kids\u2019 heads anyway.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text instructions, and younger gamers may need help with the tougher levels and obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a secret laboratory facility, little space blobs are kept locked up and have experiments performed on them.\u00a0 But one green, one-eyed blob doesn\u2019t like it and isn\u2019t going to take it anymore.\u00a0 He escapes and hides in a backpack belonging to a college kid on a student tour of the laboratory.\u00a0 Now the blob […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12062,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/12062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}