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I really liked Costume Quest, and I don’t care who knows it! Thus, when I heard that Costume Quest was having some Christmas-themed DLC, well, I kind of wanted in. So I spent my money and bought Grubbins on Ice.

The DLC does a couple of smart things. For one, the DLC has save points. There are these little phones about you can use to save, which is fantastic. I don’t know if they patched them into the main game, but they should have. Makes the game much more enjoyable to play, because you can take smaller chunks.
Secondly, it does what a DLC should do. It gives you more quests, more costumes, and so on. The new costumes are cool enough, but I mostly used my party from the first game, save the Yeti outfit you get near the end, since that one has an in-combat power that’s too powerful to be without.

Mostly, though, it’s just more Costume Quest. It’s not even particularly Christmas-themed, besides the fact that there is some snow around. Basically, since you kicked the ass of the bad guys from the first game, a new bad guy, Araxia, is attempting to take over the monster world, and has kidnapped Lucy. Therefore, you attempt to lead a revolution to overthrow him and save your friend. Still, the basic gameplay doesn’t change. You go from door to door to “drum up support” for the revolution, which is basically trick or treating. The characters even say as such. You also have to solve some troubles for the various monster elders, but besides a maze that requires you to use all your costume powers, it doesn’t really get very different from the base game.

Still, the dialog continues to be fantastic, and the combat and such are as fun and charming as they were in the first game. It’s also interesting that the game ends on a cliffhanger, suggesting additional DLC for later, which I’ll probably be on board for.

Yeah, it’s really more of the same. You really have to judge for yourself whether or not 5 bucks is worth it for 2 more hours of Costume Quest. I thought it was, and I was pretty happy with my purchase, but without the real holiday appeal like the first game, I couldn’t blame you to give this a pass. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It’s just more. I found it fun, though.