Action

A Boy and His Blob

Single Player

Critic · Metacritic

3.1

Users · RAWG

2009

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📅 Release Info

Release DateOctober 13, 2009

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🏷️ Game Details

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ActionAdventureArcadePuzzlePlatformer

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About this game

A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a 1989 video game developed by Imagineering for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game was published by Absolute Entertainment in North America and Europe and by Jaleco in Japan. A Boy and His Blob follows an unnamed, male protagonist and his shapeshifting blob friend on their adventure to save the planet of Blobolonia from the clutches of an evil emperor.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Blob's jelly-bean transformations shape the game's core puzzles.
Hand-drawn art, expressive animation, and colorful presentation.
Approachable puzzle platforming suits younger and less experienced players.
The boy and Blob share an affectionate bond despite limited dialogue.
Gentle soundtrack reinforces the game's storybook atmosphere.

Cons

Puzzles often make the correct transformation fairly obvious.
Levels revisit similar transformation-based puzzle patterns throughout the campaign.
Blob's positioning and responses are occasionally imprecise during platforming.
Short main adventure for its purchase price.

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