Red's Blobtastic Adventure

Red's Blobtastic Adventure is a platform video game released in 2005 for the Nintendo DS and was developed by Butterfly Studios and was published by Agetec in the US, Ubisoft in Europe, Bandai Namco Games in Japan and WB Games everywhere else. It was released in the US on March 27, 2005, Europe and Japan on October 6, 2005 and everywhere else on November 16, 2005. Upon release it got a mixed to positive reception.

Unlike the previous Red's Adventure games, it solely uses the DS's stylus and as such, makes it the most unique game in the franchise. The game later got a remake on the Wii U known as Red and the Caterpillar Princess. Ironically enough, that port got a full on remake in the form of a Limit re-texture for the PlayStation 5 and XBOX series X known as Limit: Beyond the Power.

Gameplay
Unlike the previous entries of the franchise, the player does not control the user with the D-pad or controllers, but rather a DS touchpad. Controlled as blobs, Red/Rainbow/Cyan/Blue all use the Touch pad for controls. By swiping them, they can jump in midair and when swiped down, they can preform a pounce attack. The Pounce attack is used to obtain certain powers from various foes. All 18 powers return. In some instances, a color shield can be used to protect the player from ongoing projectiles as well as filling gaps. The shorter the spectrum, the more durable they are. But the longer the spectrum is, the longer they can be used without resting.

The health meter is located on the top screen and is portrayed with a face (a la Faceball 2000). Happy is full, expressionless means high heath, sad means low health, tearing up means one hit left and when the character on the screen (Red/Rainbow/Cyan/Blue) appears crying, then the player dies. There's also a trophy system. Gold means you took no damage whatsoever, Silver means you you haven't died, bronze means you haven't got a game over screen and an image of Red smiling saying "You Tried!" appears if you complete the level.

After completing a level, you can unlock a speedrun mode where you try to complete the level as fast as you can.

Plot
On a sunny day, Red and her siblings were on a walk in the park before they encounter a noble princess and her army of Caterpillars riding horses (known as Larvaemen). When they approached the Princess, named Princess Rosaworm, she insults them by calling them "Inferior and Braindead". Angered by this, the four strike at her (except for Rainbow) and she sends her most loyal knight to turn them into blobs. She hypocritically remarks with "Let's move away from these mean kids, shall we?". Upset, Red and her siblings try to find a way to stop the mean princess until, a special robot came from the Sky! This robot, named the Blobum (combination between Blob and Vacuum) assists the four by gilding them across the stage. This robot can also be controlled by their hearts and contains the four into three special blobs.

World 1 (Red Plains)

 * Pretty Plains
 * Tiny Cave
 * Fun Town
 * Brock The Boulder's Cavern

World 2 (Orange Pyramids)

 * Sandstorm Ruins
 * Rocky Tomb
 * Into the Spinx
 * The Monitwins' Pyramid

World 3 (Yellow Rivers)

 * Seashore Adventure
 * Under the Sea
 * Race against the Steelysnaper!
 * Sandra the Sea Serpent's Lair

World 4 (Green Mansion)

 * Creepy Falls
 * Mirror Universe
 * Land of the Jewels
 * The Mid-Boss All-star gang's Hideout

World 5 (Blue Caverns)

 * Dungeon Raid
 * Rainbow Canyon
 * Bats and Ravines
 * The Giant Driller's Mine

World 6 (Cyan Arctic)

 * Arctic Blast
 * Frozen Fortress
 * Iclantic, isn't it?
 * Icysaur-Rex's Dino Hut

World 7 (Violet Volcano)

 * Welcome to The Hot Volcano!
 * Burning Rush
 * Eroding Eruption
 * The Fire Princess' Palace

World 8 (Roseworm Palace)

 * Room 1
 * Room 2
 * Room 3
 * Roseworm's Battlefield!

Reception
The game got mostly positive Reception, but also mixed as well. Mooshroom Milk gave it an 81 for it's fun premise, but criticized it for being released around the same time that fellow DS game Kirby Canvas Curse came out.

Trivia

 * This is so far, the only pre-Minekoverse game from Acvivsion that has a remake that appears to be in the Minekoverse.
 * Originally, you just battled Princess Rosaworm as a larva and pupa. But her Butterfly form was added as a secret boss.