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When you roll into the PlayStation Store with your new Vita, the number of games to gobble up is going to be overwhelming at first.

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But don't panic. Just take them in one at a time, absorbing them until your gelatinous sphere of a body has grown large enough to swallow the large cork keeping you from the drain that leads to the next stage (just watch out for lasers!) and then you —

Ahem.

Begging your pardon, but I lost the plot of my helpful Vita buying advice at some point there and just started talking about Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.

But I can't help it. Drinkbox Studios' follow up to last year's About A Blob isn't just the most charmingly malleable facet of the PlayStation Vita launch, it may just be the most fun.

The titular Blob of Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack wants little more than to be left in peace so he can side-scroll his way through Earth, eating all that he encounters. It's a simple dream.

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Being fundamentally opposed to being eaten, the denizens of Mutant Blobs Attack's peppy, mod-inspired Earth spare no defense, be it helicopter, tank or occasional cow. Like a malicious, suffocating katamari, the blob just absorbs whatever junk he can find until he's ready for any opponent or obstacle (including, specifically, the corks we use to keep him from the sewers that are his main path of transport).

All of Mutant Blobs Attack's tchochkes are rendered with impressive physics, so knocking about the world and eating anything that's not nailed down is a simple joy, even divorced from the platforming challenges you'll complete to progress. That joy is heightened by a tone that never takes itself too seriously, thanks in part to some cute references to beloved memes and indie games throughout. (I especially enjoyed a billboard advertising Souperbrothers Sweet and Swour Swoup.)

When he's not eating livestock, the blob has the ability to stick to magnetic surfaces, squish to eel-like dimensions and — occasionally — fly. What Mutant Blobs Attack does so brilliantly is introduce these mechanics, fully explore all their silly implications, and move on before anything gets stale.

For example, soon after learning of your ability to manipulate some items in the environment with the front touch screen, you'll need to kick the blob with a massive boot to move forward. In many games, this would be a recurring gimmick, but Mutant Blobs Attack has the restraint not to make it a one-off treat.

Where so many of today's releases force players into gameplay cycles that provide diminishing returns of fun with every revolution, Drinkbox is constantly inventing baubles in Mutant Blobs Attack to entertain the player. It's doubly impressive for a title that asks only eight bucks in exchange.

Wrap Up:

MUTANT BLOBS ATTACK OOZES INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN CONSOLE AND MOBILE PERFECTLY

A lot of developers are flexing every pixel and polygon they can muster to jam console games onto the Vita, and there'€™s certainly a place for that. But if the Vita is to have a sustainable future, it'€™ll need to find the gaps between home consoles and mobile, games that slip into the divide between the pricing of one and the scale of the other. Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack oozes into that gap perfectly, provided, that is, we keep our corks to ourselves.

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack was reviewed using code provided by Drinkbox Studios. You can read more about Polygon's ethics policy here.

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Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrollingplatformvideo game, released on February 21, 2012, as a launch title of the PlayStation Vita. It was developed and published by DrinkBox Studios. It is the sequel to Tales from Space: About a Blob. Mutant Blobs Attack was later released for Microsoft Windows computers with versions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 released in June 2014.

The game is about a grumpy mutant Blob that escapes into the world and starts eating everything around him. Mutant Blobs Attack features new levels, new powers and controls, and a new Blob player character.

Gameplay[edit]

In Mutant Blobs Attack the player controls a gelatinous mutant Blob. The player can grow by eating loose objects in the game environment. Over the course of each level, the player encounters a series of obstacles they must grow large enough to bypass. The game combines traditional 2D thumbstick-based platforming controls with touch-based powers and abilities. Physics-based puzzles are often mixed in with the action.^[2][3][4]

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Reception[edit]

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack was received positively by critics. IGN gave a score of 9 out of 10, saying 'Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack stole my heart.'^[5] GameZone scored it 9.5 out of 10, saying 'One of the PS Vita's first downloadable games turns out to be a must have for the system.^[6] As of 22 February, Metacritic showed that the game is the second best rated out of the 30 Vita games, with a score of 87%.^[7]

Digital Trends named Mutant Blobs Attack the Best Handheld Game of 2012.^[8]Mutant Blobs Attack also appeared in several 'Best of 2012' lists, including 'Handheld of the Year 2012' from GamesRadar,^[9] 'Best Indie games of 2012' from VentureBeat,^[10] and 'Top 50 Games of 2012' from Game Informer.^[11]Mutant Blobs Attack was nominated for 'Best PlayStation Vita Network Game' at IGN, losing to Super Stardust Delta, but claiming the People's Choice Award in the category.^[12]

References[edit]

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1. ^http://vita.ign.com/articles/121/1219029p1.html
2. ^'PAX: A PlayStation Vita Debut'. IGN. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
3. ^'PAX Hands On – Mutant Blobs Attack'. PlayStation LifeStyle. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
4. ^'Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack! Trailer/Screens'. Gamershell.com. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
5. ^http://uk.vita.ign.com/articles/121/1219029p1.html IGN review
6. ^http://www.gamezone.com/reviews/tales-from-space-mutant-blobs-attack-review GameZone review
7. ^http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/available/vita/metascore?view=condensed&hardware=all Metacritic Vita new releases
8. ^http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/digital-trends-best-games-of-2012-winners/
9. ^http://www.gamesradar.com/handheld-year-2012/
10. ^https://venturebeat.com/2012/12/22/the-best-indie-games-of-2012/3/
11. ^http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/12/10/top-50-games-of-2012-review-roundup.aspx
12. ^http://ca.ign.com/wikis/best-of-2012/Best_PlayStation_Vita_Network_Game

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