A Boy and His Blob is an adventure developed by WayForward, released 13 October 2009 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What A Boy and His Blob is
A Boy and His Blob is an adventure game developed by WayForward and released in 2009. It was published by Majesco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Wii, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Boy and His Blob follows the unlikely friendship between a young boy and a gentle, shape-shifting alien known as the Blob. The Blob has fled its home planet of Blobolonia, which has fallen under the rule of a cruel emperor, and crash-lands on Earth in search of help. There it meets the boy, and the two quickly form a close bond as they set out together to stop the tyrant. By feeding the Blob different jelly beans, the boy transforms his companion into ladders, trampolines, and other tools, and the pair rely on each other to overcome obstacles first on Earth and then on Blobolonia itself.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
A Boy and His Blob holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 2.4GHz / Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz or higher, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB or higher | Shader Model 3+. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
A Boy and His Blob launched on 13 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition and Bayonetta. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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