In developer Double Fine’s triumphant return to Auburn Pines, our candy-crazed crusaders Wren and Reynold must once again protect Halloween from untold horrors, and grown-ups! Your favorite trick-or-treaters will come armed with a new batch of costumes they wear to transform into giant super powered fantasy Hallowarriors. Fans of the original can look forward to a sweet upgraded battle system and a story that is unmistakably Double Fine.


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it was cute whilst it lasted, then I got generally bored of it. But hey, it was still fun whilst it lasted

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Compared to the last game, this story is a lot better! The characters are a bit more developed, and I like that your twin is always on your team no matter what, really proving that they've become closer after the last game! Loved the time-travel plot- It's fun to see characters you recognize from previous games in the future and characters from this current game in the past. Again, aside from more "of the time" fat jokes (expected, but disappointing nonetheless) the writing is pretty decent again. In the last game I liked Everett and Lucy but they didn't have a lot of character moments, mainly focusing on the twins (I'm almost certain that Lucy only got like, 2 lines of dialogue or so before she joined the party) but in this game I liked the characters a lot more. Monty was my favorite :)
Aside from the story, the gameplay I think is what brought the score down a bit. It's fun and I think if I hadn't played the previous game before playing this (which I hadn't when I first played this) I'd like the battle mechanics a lot more, but I think the first game is a lot better. Each costume had specific quick-time-events, so if you could have a chance to have a team with three completely different quick-time-events, that which makes it fun and exciting! In this game, all the attacks are the same- hitting the corresponding button at the right time and either getting a "great!" or "amazing" (the buttons are different per character but it's still all the same) I feel like it could be fun, but it gets painfully repetitive after a while. The first few battles, before you get a better costume for your twin, were hard to sit through. The Candy Corn costume was a very funny bit, and it's good if you like to have a designated defense character, but again. Painfully repetitive. I felt like I was slogging through the first few battles. The specials are cool! I like how the special charge carries over from battle to battle, which is something I think was lacking in the other games. However! I really really loved Battle Stamps in the previous game. It was one of my favorite features and it made battles a lot easier and more fun (ex: some battle stamps allowed you to counterattack! How fun!) and I think getting rid of those in exchange for Creepy Treat cards (which had much more boring designs in this game :( I liked how they looked in the last game) you have to waste a turn mid-battle to use them and don't allow a lot of the cool powerups that the previous game was a major downfall. I think if given more chances to grind or just give more exp for some enemies, I'd forgive it more, but there weren't a lot of chances for either and I felt a bit under-leveled and weak in some battles.
I liked the character designs again, but some of the costumes were a tiny tiny bit boring. You don't get a lot of costumes back to back to back like in the previous game, which makes sense for the story, but it left me a tiny bit bored with the designs. Though, the powerups were a really good idea, being able to both up a character's stats and change their costume design was cool! The enemy design wasn't all that memorable- I loved the bosses though! The time lord guy I forgot the name of had the coolest design possible. The little time witches were cool too. The dentist robots were neat, I liked the designs of those a lot.

Liked the game but it's definitely not as cool gameplay-wise as the previous game. Liked the story a lot, though! 3 out of 5, another good family game.

A fun little game to play together with your kids - but also worthy playing by yourself if you want to get the trophies. The battles are a bit repetitive.

This was a charming little game I threw on for Halloween 2022 and I had an enjoyable time. I had long heard folks espouse the virtues of this and the original game and I can see why people are into them. I need to play the first game at some point and I continue to look for an affordable copy of the physical PS4 version to add to my collection.

A fun Halloween-themed RPG with some great characters and art design. It's not too hard, but it's challenging enough to give you some satisfaction and sense of accomplishment as you play through. It's a shorter game, but I would still recommend.

I will finish this game one day!