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In this simple old-school RPG themed around Halloween, the player goes on quests to find their kidnapped ally and save Halloween . . . by trick-or-treating. You must visit each house in the area and knock. If it's an adult, he or she will reward you with candy. If it's a monster looting the house, a battle encounter begins.
During a battle, for no reason other than [[Rule of Cool]], whatever costume you are wearing transforms you into a massive, [[Kaiju]]-sized version of what your costume was supposed to represent. You start off in a blue cardboard box that's supposed to be a robot, so what happens when you transform? You become a [[Voltron]]-esque, missile-blasting mech! Attacking and defending is performed with well timed [[Action Commands]], like those seen in [[
Outside of battle, players explore the neighborhood in search of new houses and costumes; there are eleven outfits in all, most of which are built from scratch. Each costume consists of three household materials, such as cloth or rope, and an instructional blueprint. Finding all the pieces yields your snazzy handmade digs, which unlock both combat skills and "Exploration Abilities" for reaching new areas.
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=== ''[[Costume Quest]]'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Action Commands]]: The combat is ripped straight out of [[
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Hilariously lampshaded every possible chance there is. At least one grown-up has seen the evil beasts himself - and thinks they're [[Teens Are Monsters|just teenagers]].
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Reynold, especially in "Grubbins on Ice". Ooh, look! A quarter!
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* [[Becoming the Costume]]: Literally!
* [[Big Bad]]: Big Bones.
* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: You can encounter Yetis and wear a Yeti costume in the DLC.
* [[Big Eater]]: Again, Big Bones.
* [[Beef Gate]]: {{spoiler|1=The return of BoJonn in the Arcade.}}
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* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Core game mechanic. In an enemy encounter, Wren and Reynold transform into a building sized version of what their primitive, handmade costume is supposed to represent. Here's a list by category of use.
** Attack: [[Humongous Mecha|Robot]], [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Ninja]], [[All Hallow's Eve|Pumpkin]], [[Classical Movie Vampire|Vampire]], [[Ghost Pirate|Pirate]] (DLC only), [[Faceless Eye|Eyeball]] (DLC only).
** Defense: [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knight]], [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|Yeti]] (DLC only).
** Support: [[Statue of Liberty]], [[Unicorn]].
** Special: [[Space Cadet|Spaceman]], [[Giant Enemy Crab|French Fries]], [[Panthera Awesome|Black Cat]].
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: Repugia.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Dorsilla. She tries to get rid of your awesome costumes more than once.
* [[Deal
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: {{spoiler|First the Grubbins, then the Trollbogs, then the Crestwailers.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla}}
* [[Dual Boss]]: The final fight of Grubbins on Ice pits you against {{spoiler|Big Bones and Araxia}}.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: [[Stacking
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: You join one in ''Grubbins on Ice''
* [[Evil Twin]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla}}
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* [[A Hell of a Time]]: One monster says Dorsilla is so bad that {{spoiler|they don't want her to return to Repugia.}}
* [[Healing Hands]]: The Statue of Liberty's power is to do this through sheer [[Patriotic Fervor|Patriotism.]]
* [[Homage]]: Tasha Harris says the game is inspired from many things. The isometric diagonal view of the town is from [[Earthbound]], the monsters are inspired from [[
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: "Grubbins on Ice" starts you off fighting against three Level 14 Repugiarchs; at this point, it's impossible to be higher than Level 10. You actually can win the fight if you hit '''all''' the prompts and catch some luck with the enemy's choice of targets, but [[Failure Is the Only Option]] and it dumps you into the next scene as if you lost. (You still receive a hefty experience bonus if you win, though.)
* [[Hot Witch]]: Dorsilla, in universe, and she boasts it. {{spoiler|After her defeat, she wonders if her failure to conquer the world is because she's too pretty.}}
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* [[Kids Prefer Boxes]]: The first costume.
* [[La Résistance]]: You help out the monsters against their oppressive new government in Grubbins On Ice. They even dress like Che Guevara. Citizens wonder why, despite being members of the resistance movement, you lack beards and berets.
* [[Leaning
{{quote| ''Everett'': A mall? This looks more like a dungeon! Which I am totally prepared for! Hey look! A dungeon map!<br />
''Everett'': He just took a natural 20 to the face and didn't take ANY damage! }}
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|The DLC leaves the main characters lost in a hub of portals to different worlds.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Robot Unicorn Attack|Unicorn Costume.]]
** The music in the mall camping shop is the camp music from [[
** The Pumpkin Costume's battle form is ripped straight out of [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]].
** The Disembodied Hand Stamp upgrades into the [[The Princess Bride (
** The cowboy warning the public about the dangers of candy? [[Clerks|He works for an apple company.]]
** [[Arrested Development (TV series)|"Like the kid in the $600 Banana is gonna follow the kid in the $20 costume. COME ON!"]]
** A mission in a corn field maze is called [[Children of the Corn|Children of the High Fructose Corn Syrup.]]
** Orzo the human cannonball makes references to the [[Monkey Island|Fettucini Brothers.]]
** The incantation used to open the Gate in the third area is [[Psychonauts
** Finding a girl hiding in a witch costume causes her to shout "[[The Wizard of Oz (
** [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|It may be a stretch, but there might be a reason why the DLC for this Halloween game is Christmas-esque.]]
** An incredibly obscure one: One of the girls dressed as a witch in the mall is named April, and refuses to do love potions "for charity cases". There's a [[Ray Bradbury]] short story called "The April Witch" which is about a young witch trying to spread love around out of charity.
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The Unicorn Costume
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Oh no! The villains are monsters trying to steal all the Halloween Candy!
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The player makes a [[Jerk
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Dorsilla.
* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Metxel crashes his Candy-dozer into two mooks in the middle of a fight.
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