The premise is very simple. There are two children who have just moved to a new neighbourhood and it's Halloween. When you go out trick or treating, you stumble across monsters stealing candy and your sibling is kidnapped by an evil witch. Deciding that you don't take too kindly to your brother or sister being taken away and worrying for the future of everyone's candy, you take it upon yourself to stop the evil witch and her army of Grubbins.
Game play wise, Costume Quest is baby's first RPG. Everything is super simple with small maps and easy enemies. At first the game looks impressive because upon entering combat you transform into a much more impressive version of whatever shitty kids costume you have on but once the visual novelty dies off the game becomes boring. Each level, of which there are only 3, has you wandering around trick or treating houses. When you finish trick or treating a gate opens, you fight a boss and then move on. There are some other side quests but they don't vary from area to area and the rewards usually aren't worth it.
The game is also stupidly unbalanced. For the whole game I used the same 3 costumes and never once considered changing. The enemies don't ever vary themselves and blocking their attacks Paper Mario style is stupidly easy. The bosses are actually easier than the regular encounters because in a normal fight it's your team vs 2 or 3 while for a boss its 3v1. The bosses aren't strong enough on their own to be any kind of threat and the first costume you get has a stupidly strong area attack that does a damage over time that makes short work of everything else.
Luckily, the game isn't very long and you could polish it off in 2 or 3 short sessions. For me, that was 2 sessions too long. The game also has some other story called Grubbins on Ice except I was so bored by the end of the original I think it'll be a long time before I ever muster enough motivation to play through more of this boring, uninspired crap.
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