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The Munchables

The player controls creatures of insatiable appetite, using their regurgitating prowess to consume an army of invading Tabemon Space Pirates, each of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to various foods.

100 27 May 2009

The Munchables is a platform developed by Namco Bandai Games, released 27 May 2009 on Wii.

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What The Munchables is

The Munchables is a platform game developed by Namco Bandai Games and released in 2009. It is available on Wii only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Munchables, known in Japan as Tabemon (たべモン), is an action-platform game developed by Now Production and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Wii video game console. The player controls the titular Munchables, creatures of insatiable appetite, who use their gurgitating prowess to consume enemies, which are known as "Tabemon Monsters", space pirates who have invaded the Munchables' home planet, known as Star Ving, and bear an uncanny resemblance to various foods.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Munchables holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 33 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Munchables launched on 27 May 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous and The Sims 3. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Minecraft, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous, The Sims 3.

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When did The Munchables come out?
The Munchables was released on 27 May 2009 for Wii.

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