De Blob 3

de Blob 3 (Known as de Blob: Colour Worlds in PAL Regions) is a 2023 Puzzle Platformer developed by Purple Lamp Studios & the newly acquired Ronimo Games for the consoles versions while the Mobile version is developed by Halfbrick Studios which is published by THQNordic. de Blob 3 acts as a sequel to de Blob 2 retaining elements from the first 2 games while adding and refining the formula such as having English Voice Acting, Allowing Players to save after each mission, Mega Blob Powers and the addition of multiple playable characters. De Blob 3 was a timed exclusive for the Nintendo Switch & PC, Via Steam & later the Epic Games Store, until February 2024 where it was ported to Playstaion 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One and the Xbox Series X & S. The Game follows Blob & the Color Underground going on a Global quest, to stop the returning Comrade Black and new Villain, General White to decolour the entirety of Raydia from Colour.

The Console Versions received positive reviews from criticsfor it’s level design, graphics and music, though received criticism for some of the alternative gameplay styles used in the game and frame drops in the Switch Version, The Mobile version also received positive reviews though was criticized for its microtransactions and other gameplay styles. The Game also exceeded sales expectations set by THQNodric, selling over 2.5 Million Copies on all consoles however a majority of those sales came from the Switch and PC.

Plot
Taking place a decade after de Blob 2, Blob, Pinky and the entire Colour Underground have retried shortly after the events of the sequel. Blob & Pinky have retried to Paradise Island, The Professor is creating inventions that the entire world can use, Arty has gotten a Pet Dog named Spot and is an Art Teacher in Chroma Collage, Bif is a fitness trainer in the military and Zip is a World Renewed Sports Athlete.

Blob & Pinky are interviewed by the Chroma City news, explaining what they’ve been doing after destroying INKT, the news segment acts as a recap of all 3 Games, showing us how Blob saved the City & even the world countless times. The news reporter asks what both of them are doing now, Pinky answering that both have been keeping in shape while relaxing on the Island. The news reporter then announces that they are having a festival for Blob due to him saving the world countless times later in the week.

The interview is suddenly cut. The camera pans out, showing us a Raydian was watching the Interview. The Raydian heads outside in the storm storm fix their signal. However once they are outside they get knocked out, lightning reveals none other than De Blot to be the one who attacked the Raydian. The camera slowly flies upwards into the night sky.

There is a sudden cut into space. Comrade Black is floating aimlessly. He finds the Inky who stole his clothes and grabs onto them. After popping the rubber duck the Inky was riding on, Comrade takes back his clothes and badges and then has an idea. He sees the remains of his spaceship from the previous games and plans something. It’s revealed that a group of rouge Inkies run by the Inky Marshalls and Comrade Black)s Brother, General White have created a Propaganda Group called the “Stygian Underground” and have tracked down the 2 on this asteroid, their plan is too take over Chroma City an to have vengeance to the Colour underground

Blob & Pinky go to the festival and perform a few challenges from each of the members of the Colour Underground, after that Blob & Pinky get rewarded a medal before leaving back to their island. As they begin to head back the Inky Marshalls, lead by De Blot attack the city once again. The Player is now in control and after a brief fight the attacking Inkies (few in numbers) and an Inky Marshall are defeated.

Blob and Pinky learn about the Marshalls plan to takeover the entire world yet again. The 2 set off to find and eliminate all the remaining Marshalls, going to all 7 Continents of Raydia, to defeat all of the Inky Marshalls. Eventually De Blot calls all the remaining Marshalls and Inkies to return to the City where they make one final stand. Blob and Pinky lauch an assault on the central tower in the center of the City. (At this time it is also shown much of the technology has been hacked or is glitching. Fortunately excluding the election tablets.) The rest of the city is free and continues as normal despite the threat of the Marshalls. After they enter the tower however, the floor opens and Blob is sent into the arena alone. He takes on all of the Marshalls and inkies, but ultimately wins. De Blot at the top of the tower, has the arena self destruct. However Blob survives and is launched right up to De Blot. The two battle it out, but in the end Blob gets the upper hand. De Blot has one final secret weapon but the color Underground comes comes help and together they are victorious. Now with ever single Inky on earth destroyed, including all the factories the world can finally be at peace. They leave the tower and have yet another party. The moon can be seen in the sky.

On the moon it is shown there is a massive space base. The base is run entirely by robots and in the center appears to be a huge tower facing earth. Inside Comrade Black sleeping. He has been eagerly awaiting the day he finally takes revenge on Blob. But after waiting several weeks for the canon (which is show to be what appeared as a tower) he has almost given up. Comrade is accompanied by the only other remaining Inky, know as IIngy. Inky awakes Comrade to inform him of the canons position. It is facing directly at Chorosome City. Comrade eagerly hits the fire button. Slowly the excessively long canon prepares to fire. It is a much larger and longer version of the Canon on the Professors vehicle. Eventually the canon is ready and fires out robots onto the earth. One by one before finally launching a robot clone of Blob, known as Dlod.

Blob does his best to fight off the robots but they are near equal to him. He manages to defeat one before Dlod attacks. The two have a very brief fight before Blob is defeated and seemingly killed. The city is evacuated.

The player must now escape from the city as the Professor, using a very different playstyle to Blob. Once the professor escapes he calls all other Color Underground members including new folks to meet. The Player continues playing as the other 3 original Color Undergroujd members and Pinky.

Once all the members have met (including the new president of Chorom City) they begin to rally the free Raydians and prepare to attack. Meanwhile Blob who barely survived sees the beacon and decides to try to help, he continues to take out Robots as he travels to meet the Color Underground group. Together they attack the city, with the free Raydians and manage to break inside. Once again the group must take over the tower. Together they slowly make their way up, one by one each member stays behind to fight another enemy untl only Blob remains. Ingy reveals Dlod is back and stronger than ever and after a short fight Blob is again defeated, but this time ingy will finish the job.

just as Ingy prepares to kill Blob the Color Underground interrupt, easily beating Dlob and Ingy together. To be concluded later cus I'm getting bored.

Gameplay
de Blob 3’s Gameplay is similar to the first 2 games. The Player Control Blob who use a wide array of Colours which are kept in Paint Bots, in order to paint objects around him which in turn opens up previously locked areas and allows Blob to advance the stage. Blob is given missions by his friends in the Colour Underground, such as completing timed races, defeating enemies, liberating captured Graydians and seizing important landmarks.These landmarks must use a certain amount of paint points to enter the building, once inside he must then traverse through either a 2D section like de Blob 2 or a shorter 3D linear obstacle course/puzzle section and then launch a Transformation Engine in the center of the building to take it back.

There also are various hazards to avoid, however. Pools of ink turn de Blob black and cause him to lose paint points constantly; when he loses all of his paint points, he loses a life. Ink must be washed out with water. The INKT forces, Inkies, will send out foot soldiers to stop Blob, as well as other forces—handheld ink guns, turrets, tanks, jetbikes and even Inkies that are immune to all but a specific color. There are also other hazards, such as hotplates, electric plates and spikes.

The time limit on a level does return but once the player has finished the level's main objective, the time limit is abolished and the player is then free to take their time to fully explore all of the level and complete any side objectives. These include:


 * Clean-up Award – Earned by smashing up all of the INKT objects in a level e.g. crates, barrels, tanks etc.
 * Environment Award – Earned by painting all of the Trees
 * Liberation Award – Earned by freeing Raydians/Chromadians trapped buildings and rescuing those turned into Graydians.

A lot of gameplay additions from the 2nd Game return such as the Dash Attack (Now can be used in the air and without using Paint Points but has a cool-down), Inspiration Points that can be used to decrease Dash cooldown, Increase Paint Point absorption, Stomp Power, How much Black Paint will take his Paint Points, Defence shield and life amounts and how long you can stick to a wall.

Power-ups which have now been dubbed Mega Blob-Powers which have all of the Powers return from 2 and some new additions, the Paint Ball (replacing the magnetic Wrecking Ball) allows Blob to roll around in a giant Ball to paint areas of land along with absorbing with Inkies, The Magnetic Ball allows Blob to roll up metal surfaces, sink underwater, and destroy any enemy easily; the Hazmat Suit protects Blob from any passive hazards such an ink and hotplates; the Graviton Bomb temporarily transforms Blob into a devastating black hole; The Ghost Fruit allows him to turn transparent/invisible and float for a limited amount of time; the Re-Gen constantly replenishes Blob's paint points; and the Rainbow gives Blob infinite paint points and gives him the use of all seven colours at once, Blob can also harness elemental colours, Lava, which leads a trail of fire behind him whenever he moves, is immune to fire hazards and can dash into a giant Magna Ball similar to the burning ability in Kirby, Frost can freeze water, can dash into a Giant Ice Ball that can freeze enemies, and is immune to any ice hazards and finally Electricity allows Blob to avoid electrical hazards, can power up different parts of the environment, grapple onto certainly electrical lines and can stun enemies.

One of the new major additions to the game is multiple playable characters, in certain sections players can play with one of these playable characters or have them as a switchable AI along with Blob.


 * Arty revolves around painting artwork on a wall or going inside a 2.5D Landmark section, she can use her Paint Brush (which uses a certain amount of of Paint Points) that can be used as a Weapon that is either short-range with a 3 combo attack or long-range with her able to shoot paint balls or beams.


 * Zip revolves around racing against the clock in a short linear section while painting the environment as you go along, Zip can also boost with his boots for a limited time that will paint the environment with colour, drift, attack Inkies with a Homing Attack and quick step similar to Sonic in Sonic Unleashed/Generations


 * Bif revolves around fighting a certain amount of enemies before he can pass to the next mission, he has a Light attack and Heavy attack that can combined to perform different combos


 * Prof revolves around using different gadgets and bombs to either kill enemies or colour the environment while using multiple contraption either to float around or turn into a tank.

Levels
There are 10 levels to explore in the game. Some of the levels have their names changed after Comrade Black takes over Prisma City, and then revert back to their original names once Blob takes them back from INKT


 * Chroma City Festival: The game's first level, the main setting for the first de Blob game and is one of Radyia’s most varied and colourful series
 * Rainbow Isles: A Colourful Island based on Hawaii with chilled out Raydians living there
 * Paradise City: TBA
 * RijkTown: A Posh/Rich City based on London, Rome, France and European
 * Zootropolis: A Rocky Sanctuary with many animals living instead, based on Australia and Africa