EVOLUTION is fun and Cubivore will back that up tenfold!
GAMEPLAY ~
+Positives+
Experimental in the least amount of words!
You are a newborn cub who has to grow and evolve to sustain life. The controls are all basic with attacking, jumping and walking very slowly. The game pretty much tells you what you have to do throughout most of it. You eat what you can to grow different body parts and change several shades of colors depending on the creatures you devour. If you don't like the color you become, or it isn’t powerful enough for your liking, poop it out! There are several training grounds to expand your abilities which will assist in battling the level boss! There is even a mating ground for you-know-what! If you mutated enough during the stage you can mate with several of those fine blocky ladies, and become the ULTIMATE CUBIVORE!
-Negatives-
The game moves pretty slow and many of the other Cubivore (NPC) are quite easy to destroy and devour, leaving little to no challenge in the development of you Cubivore. Some of the transformations are quite useless and for the first half of this game you will have like a flap or something you hop around on, it is quite pitiful to watch. Some of the bosses (Scoutmaster Beast in particular) are particularly HARD, so hard I gave up on the game for awhile whilst I came up with a battle plan! I think the biggest downfall of this title could be the names. CEO Beast? Parental Advisory Beast? They could be making a strong political statement, I wouldn't know thought... I didn't buy it to learn!
STORY ~
If you play this game for a story than you are missing alot. The premise is you need to restore color to the world that surrounds you and eventually beat the beast that corrupts the happy plains that you... wow... I am getting bored just writing something out... go play the game already!
GRAPHICS ~
+Positives+
The world is huge and just as the title suggested, it's cubified! Everything is cubified! Everything is designed to match the game style. The bugs look like "love letters" and the Herbivores look like grass paper horses. There is no scenes of mating, and we are happy for that! It goes from day to night and even the sun and moon are cubed! It's very quirky and an experience that is worth a once over in this game.
-Negatives-
This ain't no budget title, so why weren’t the graphics given a bit of a sprucing? No matter the basis of the game, it still could have been better for 40 bucks! But I guess something had to be sacrificed for gameplay... it's always something thought.
REPLAYABILITY ~
There is so much to learn it will take you a few times around the cubed worlds to master it all! From different evolution styles to massive amounts of colorizations and master tech's for training grounds, so if you get hooked on this scavenger hunt of a title, you won’t be backing out until everything is in the palm on your hands!
OVERALL ~
An experience like no other! If you liked strange games like Katamari Damacy and are looking for the most original title to emerge on a system since than! Pick up Cubivore, it maybe your savior from uninspired platformers and lackluster shooters that plague the market in this day and age.
EVOLVE AND ENJOY!