Costume Quest: Saving the town's candy (and maybe your twin)

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I found Costume Quest via a circuitous route: a tabletop RPG that I love, Costume Fairy Adventures cited it as an influence, and while I do not understand Halloween at all (it was Not A Thing at round my way when I was a kid, but I'm enjoying watching the American part of twitter turn into pumpkins), the combo of "Dressing up gives you superpowers!" and "Made by Double Fine, who brought you Psychonauts!" got me where I live so I had to check it out.

Costume Quest is fairly straightforward in terms of plot: you and your twin head off trick or treating in a new town, with instructions from your parents to make new friends... And then your twin gets kidnapped by monsters! It's a good thing that trick-or-treating where you're from apparently involves your costumes letting you transform into a giant monster version of that costume to help you fight monsters and rescue your sibling!

No really.

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