Joystiq paints a grim picture of de Blob

by JC Fletcher { Apr 5th 2008 at 12:00PM }

THQ held a preview event for their 2008 games this week, and Joystiq's Zack Stern was on the scene to play all the offerings. Luckily for us, he checked out the demo for de Blob, one of the more interesting, original games on the Wii.

Or, well, that's what we've gathered from reading previews of the game before tonight. Zack wasn't quite as enchanted with the real thing as we have been with videos.

"de Blob looks like a cuddly Wii game, but it didn't hook me like Katamari. I think certain Wii owners will enjoy it, but the novelty didn't last long on me." He does mention that two-player matches "add a little more depth." We're a bit disappointed, but still convinced that there's a high probability of awesomeness within de Blob.

Gallery: de Blob

[Boxart via Gamefly]

Tags: de-blob, platform, thq

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brian @ Apr 5th 2008 12:32PM

That is a shame, i'm excited for de blob!

Pointz @ Apr 5th 2008 1:17PM

Fuck Zack, his opinion is as important as a cows. I'd rather play this for myself then have some guy tell me how it is.

Brian @ Apr 5th 2008 2:13PM

Hey, keep the swearing down.

Pointz @ Apr 5th 2008 3:22PM

Fine, but seriously this game is an original idea and the industry needs original games because people complain about so-called "sequelitis". Then when an original concept comes round they complain about it harder. That's why I'd rather play it myself and form my own opinion about it.

raindog @ Apr 6th 2008 11:21AM

De Blob is certainly going to be a niche game (the Weather Channel music alone kind of guarantees that), so I think I'm going to wait till some actual reviews come in before getting worried.

I just hope this early negative coverage doesn't predispose future reviewers to write it off. It's certainly still possible the game could be bad, but I just think it's different.