Costume Quest -- All-in-One.

I have completed the Xbox 360 version of Costume Quest. The game was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by THQ. Costume Quest is one part adventure, one part role-playing game. It's an adventure in that there is a decent amount of focus on exploring and tool based advancement. The role-playing comes in with the combat. Which features basic turn based RPG mechanics. You can use a normal attack, or a special attack that is charged up by two rounds of normal attacks. There is a single augmentation slot that makes use of stamps you'll find throughout the world that allow you to add more attack power, health points, higher chance to dodge attacks, and the like. That's it. It's very basic stuff. The game's graphics are absolutely adorable and feature great style. The music has that wonderful hokey quality of cheap horror films of the 1950's. Costume Quest is very much focused on the nostalgia of Halloween. It's a charmingly funny tale that acts as a love letter to Halloween. A great deal of the appeal of the game plays off of how fondly you remember Halloween. I love Halloween so the game tickles all of the best bits of nostalgia associated with it. If you're one of those soulless people who doesn't really care for Halloween then Costume Quest is probably not going to have any charm as the actual gameplay elements while entirely solid are very basic. The charm of the characters and story carry the game. I'm giving Costume Quest an 8.5.