Cubivore Review

Envision life cubed. You live in a cubed world, wander through cubed weeds and cubes full of water, and sport a cute little cubed body. When the sun rises it shines cubed sunshine and when the moon comes out to play, it also wears that shape. Other animals are shaped the way you are as well, and when you decide to eat you rip off cubed limbs and watch those cubed animals bleed puddles of cubed blood everywhere.

Cubivore is basically an evolutionary tale that takes you, a newborn, on a quest to be "The King of the Cubivores." To do that you have to find all the other types of cubivores, one hundred in all, and manage to "become" that type of beast. By becoming I'm not talking about the type of animal (ie: a pig) but instead the design of the limbs it has. The locomotion of the animal changes depending on what you take on, and you move forward in the game by adding appendages and taking out bigger animals. The addition of limbs comes from collecting certain types of things, which allow you to breed. Ahhh, sweet cube lovin.

When you first start, you are weak and have to wobble around to find an advantage. You have one limb and, by the end, you can have five. That adds for interesting creature design and it adds for some really odd ways to take a beast into combat. You have statistics that control how strong your bite is as well and how much life you have, and you can also grow things like teeth and a horn that make you more powerful able to take off more of something. Along the way you also run across excercises that allow you to become more powerful, giving you a stronger bite or the ability to move in and bite off one of two limbs off of something in one swoop.

The flaws to the game is that it is an easy game to play, a button masher in some places, and that you can beat it quickly if you simply want to play it through. Becoming the "King" is a little harder because you have to find all the different types of animals and sometimes that involves hidden areas and the coupling of types of shading, and sometimes finding one of the hidden types is a little difficult. A few of the body types are hellish to use as well, making fighting almost impossible, and getting stuck with one of those is sometimes harsh. Still, an attack normally only knocks you over and takes one of your limbs at worst, and you can always get your limbs back by jacking up a lesser creature. So, running away works oooh so well.

That said, this is a great game and is one that I found fun. It's hard to find a different theme to play and this was one of those, and I loved it. I played it through until I managed to get all of the types, and then played some more to fight in some of the body types. As far as a "kids game;" the difficulty level is indeed easy BUT this game is all about ripping apart other animals. So, most people wanting something to sit and play their Gamecube to will enjoy this.
Its an underestimated game with a short playtime, but fun and something I liked. Try it first, see if you like it, and then buy if you find it sexy.