Electronic Theatre delivers an in-depth review of the recently released A Boy and His Blob, the revival of the 1990's videogame series now available exclusively on Wii across Europe.

As a modernisation of the formula, developer WayForward has kept the original gameplay design largely intact, whilst heaping upon it inventive puzzles with the new range of abilities available to your blob. The game plays as a puzzle-based Platform adventure, where the pace is more often slow and considered than a headlong rush through each of the levels. The player must feed his blob jellybeans in order to overcome obstacles and reach new areas. These could be a simple as feeding it a black jellybean to take the form of a ladder, or a gold jellybean to form a door at the end of each level, to more complicated actions such as trapping large enemies by making them fall through a blob-shaped hole.

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