Episode Guide
For the Love of Lincoln/Monsters in Our Midst The Best Offense/Belly of the Beast The Fun Room/Ghosting The Keychain to My Heart/The Big Con Baking is Best with Friends/Danger Bike Man Rides Again Girl, You’ll Be a Grubbin Soon/Secrets and Lies Breaker, Breaker/Factory Tour The story here, just like the game, revolves around four kids on the eve of Halloween trying to figure out what costumes to wear. Desperate to get their hands on the latest Abe Lincoln costume, they make do with makeshift costumes found at a run-down, mysterious shop after the hugely popular Lincoln costume is sold out. As they begin to warm to their new coutfits, a strange creature confronts them, changing into a maniacal beast after consuming a nougat bar. As the kids learn their costumes might not be regular costumes after all, they fight off the creature and find themselves caught in a battle with a group called the Repugnians. With 7 episodes clocking in at around 24 minutes each, Costume Quest is a decidedly brief watch but it makes up for this with a whole lot of action and humour throughout the episodes. There’s a consistent feeling of progression here too, helped along by each episode being split into two different tales that lead on from the last. Most of these end on some form of cliffhanger too, enticing you to watch through to the next one. Aesthetically, Costume Quest does really well here as well. There’s a suitably muted colour palette used throughout the series and the hand-drawn animation feels very reminisce of the late 90s cartoons. The humour is suitably on point and each of the kids have a unique personality to match their colourful costumes and subsequent powers each one holds. Whether it be the confident leadership of Everett or the quiet contemplation of Lucy, there’s a deliberately contrasting group of personas here that’ll certainly help kids resonate with. Whilst Costume Quest is unlikely to be remembered as fondly as the original game it’s based on, the lore, story line and general feel of the show certainly mirrors the fun of the game in a really compelling way. In a world of glitzy CGI and continuously digitalised animation, Costume Quest goes old-school, delivering an aesthetically pleasing animated series kids are sure to love.
