The story
follows the four friends, Reynold, Wren, Lucy and Everett as they wear
different costumes to combat the evil, and conveniently named, dentist Dr Orel
B. White. Well, in reality, you only play as Wren and Reynold but Lucy and
Everett are there too.
Basically Dr
Orel travels back in time to stop Halloween from ever taking place. Because
Reynold and Wren are kids and like candy, they embark on an epic quest through
time to stop him and restore the timeline to its correct state. The plot is a
little more in depth than that but that’s the overly complex gist.
Gameplay
wise, it’s an RPG with turn based combat. You have several different costumes
you can wear which all have different attacks and special abilities. There
aren’t random encounters though which means you can avoid battles as much as
you want. It’s advisable not to do this though as there are bosses which will
require you to be a certain level before you fight them if you want to win.
The battle
system itself is very basic. You play for most of the game with three
characters; Wren Reynold and a ringer, and each character has their own
assigned button to attack. They have one attack and one special attack and
that’s all. You can also use Creepy Treat Cards to get special bonuses. You
learn different ways to attack throughout the game but it doesn’t get more
complicated than that.
When you are
not fighting the minions of darkness, you are wandering around the game
environment collecting candies and solving basic puzzles. My biggest criticism
of the game is how many times my character got stuck on various items in the
environment. It was slightly irritating but didn’t happen enough to ruin my
day.
The music is
in keeping with the Halloween theme but like any RPG, after a while it becomes
very grating.
Achievements – 1,000 Points – 18
Achievements
Everything
can be done in one playthrough which can take up to 10 hours so generally it’s
a relatively short completion. Most of these will be gained through natural
gameplay but there are a few exceptions and one missable achievement.
The first
exception, and one I ground out early on, is for using the clown horn 1,000
times. It’s pretty unlikely that you will find 1,000 reasons to use the clown
horn, so when I read this I thought I would get it out of the way. Stick on the
kettle and hit the B button 980 odd times. All in the name of fun.
Another one that you will probably do but may not is for upgrading three costumes. Upgrading costumes does make the game easier but if you choose not to buy them or don’t save the candy it could be easily overlooked.
The two
optional costumes, Wolfman and the Solar System, take some finding and you have
to go off the track to get them but it’s not too hard, you just need to know what
to do.
The missable
achievement is called Hardcorn Mode and is for playing the whole game with the
Candy Corn costume equipped. You can be
forgiven for doing what I did and immediately de-equipping it because Candy
Corn can’t attack. It also delays battles because it simply has to pull out a
one-liner instead of attacking which is a wee bit annoying. Anyway, I played
for five hours before I realised this was even an achievement. My bad.
The last
achievement I got was for using all of the Creepy Treat Cards in battle and I
had to grind this out after finishing the game. Pretty boring, but again
completely my own fault for not preparing by reading ahead.
Downloadable Content – N/A
Costume Quest 2 is fairly
straightforward completion that doesn’t take too long. It was also quite
enjoyable with a light-hearted story that didn’t take itself too seriously.
Definitely a solid seven out of ten, gameplay environment issues aside.
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