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Costume Quest 2

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux • 2014

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Quick resume

A sequel to the popular Halloween adventure from Double Fine Productions!

Global score

90/100

Genres

Adventure, Casual, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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    Pros

    • Charming halloween atmosphere
    • Humorous writing and characters
    • Costume customization and upgrades
    • Improved combat system with timing and cards
    • Colorful graphics and music

    Cons

    • Combat can become repetitive
    • Some backtracking to heal required
    • Short game length
    • Limited challenge for experienced players
    • Lack of multiplayer or social features

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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      "Players can choose characters, weapons, and customize outfits, with some freedom in playstyle and mission approach."

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      "Players can freely choose costumes and upgrade them, select cards for battle, and explore areas with some freedom."

    • Competence

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      "Combat involves turn-based RPG mechanics with QTEs adding skill elements; some players find it easy and repetitive, but others appreciate the strategic depth and timing challenges."

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      "Combat involves timing-based QTEs and some strategy with cards and costume strengths, but overall combat is simple and repetitive."

    • Competition

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      "Focus is on personal exploration and story progression without competitive or ranked elements."

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    • Continuation

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      "Long main story with additional side quests, collectibles, and DLC content encourage extended play sessions."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Gameplay centers on controlling a party of characters but no multiplayer or cooperative play."

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    • Creativity

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      "Players can customize characters extensively and experiment with different builds and party compositions."

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      "Players create and upgrade costumes with unique abilities and customize battle card loadouts."

    • Domination

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      "Interactions are friendly and humorous with no evidence of dominance or power assertion over others."

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    • Escapism

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      "The game offers a whimsical, imaginative Halloween world that evokes childhood nostalgia and playful fantasy, providing a strong escape from reality."

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      "The game offers a charming Halloween fantasy world with time travel and imaginative costumes for stress relief and fun."

    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for enjoyment and nostalgia, not out of obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Players experiment with different character builds, skills, and exploration paths within the game."

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      "Players experiment with different costume abilities, card combinations, and exploration paths."

    • Exploration

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      "Game encourages exploration of interconnected areas and discovery of secrets and collectibles."

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    • Expression

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      "Customization of characters, outfits, and visual styles allows personal expression and aesthetic choices."

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      "Costume customization and upgrades allow for personal expression and visual changes."

    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Primarily a single-player experience with minimal social interaction beyond sharing levels."

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    • Growth

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      "Players learn combat mechanics, timing, and explore to improve skills and collect items."

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    • Health

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      "Typical sedentary gameplay with no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention during combat and exploration; not designed for idle play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Limited social connections; interactions are with NPCs but no deep relationships."

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    • Leadership

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      "Players manage and direct their party, making strategic decisions, but no leadership over others."

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    • Progression

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      "Players collect upgrades, costumes, and abilities, advancing through a structured story."

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    • Relaxation

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      "Game offers a balanced challenge with enjoyable flow and lighthearted humor, suitable for relaxed play sessions."

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    • Sensation

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      "Colorful graphics, music, and animations provide enjoyable sensory stimulation."

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    • Status

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      "Achievements exist but social recognition or competition is minimal and not a focus."

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    • Story

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      "Engaging narrative with charming characters, humor, and a clear Halloween-themed plot driving the adventure."

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      "Narrative continuation with characters, humor, and a Halloween-themed plot."

    • Strategy

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      "Combat and skill customization require tactical thinking and planning."

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    • Thrill

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      "Some tension from combat scenarios, but overall predictable and repetitive."

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    • Value

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      "Players report good value for time spent, especially with replayability and content volume."

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Leadership, Survival, Violence, Strategy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

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    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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