Costume Quest

German box cover.

Costume Quest is a role-playing video game developed and published by Double Fine Productions on iOS on 2010-10-10 and later published on several other platforms.

Personal

I own this game on Steam and am playing it.

The game does a great job of capturing the way children feel on Halloween. Their costumes let them feel like the actual things they represent. The powerful animation during combat is really great.
The combat mechanic of requiring the player to respond to stimulus both during an attack and defense is a nice way to keep the player focused on the game.
I like all the mini games included through the game. They're both enjoyable and fitting to the theme. Hide n' seek, bobbing for apples, racing, etc.
The various puns and jokes spoken by the kids throughout the game is a fantastic addition. Most are just worth a chuckle, but some made me laugh out loud.
The carpet in the arcade is spot-on.

The Statue of Liberty costume, although funny, isn't very useful.
The enemies are a bit too similar. They're basically all orc-like, but, more than that, they're all kind of the same. The magic users aren't very different than the fighters other than they occasionally cast spells and have slightly fewer hit points.
The audio isn't that interesting. There aren't any tunes that work well by themselves, and it felt like the game was missing sound effects.
I don't understand the point of making one of the main facing buttons a pause button.
I would have liked the ability to skip the longer combat animations. They're fun to watch at first, but tedious later in the game.
Like so many games, this one awards achievements for simply doing the things necessary to beat the game. I never feel like that's an achievement.
I would prefer the game used a button to advance text rather than a timeout. Sometimes, when I read the dialogue faster than the game expected me to, I would press a button on the controller, and, when I pressed B, it would skip the entire cutscene and there was no way to rewatch it.