Costume Quest (Xbox 360) 100% guide

These four build up over the whole game. Start working on them in the first hour.

Pick Wren or Reynold. The choice is cosmetic and changes nothing for achievements. After your sibling is kidnapped, win the tutorial battle to get the Robot pattern. Then open the three nearby coffins for the Cardboard Box, Aluminium Foil and Roller Skates, and craft the Robot.

From here on, wear the Robot while exploring so you can boost off every ramp for Binary Bouncer. Pail-bash enemies from behind whenever you can.

The black gate at the edge of the Suburbs stays shut until every house has been trick-or-treated. Visited houses go dark, so any lit door is one you still need. Work through the neighborhood, doing these as you reach them:

• Programmed for Protection: outrun Travis to recruit Everett, who brings the Knight costume. Win your next fight for Battle Buds.
• The Patriot's Party: Cindy, the Abe Lincoln kid across from the patriotic house, gives the Statue of Liberty pattern and the password, Manifest Destiny. Tell the password to the other Abe kids to get past them. Wayne lets you into the sewer, and you get in by wearing the Knight and holding Shield. Inside, a coffin in a hidden room on the right holds the Sheet. Evan clears the first ramp, and the Cardboard is in a coffin in the garden beyond it. Brian, at the next ramp, hands over the Feather Duster. Craft the costume, wear it, and talk to Russell at the patriotic house to get into the party.
• Pie for the Putterpam: Mrs. Putterpam's bake sale blocks the top right of the neighborhood until you bring her cherries. Once Russell lets you into the patriotic house's backyard, a squirrel in the cherry tree throws things at you. Wear the Knight and hold Shield to walk under the tree and grab the cherries, then take them back to her. She lets you past, which opens the next block of houses and makes Austin, one of the card traders, appear.
• These Tombstones Aren't Styrofoam: a story-side quest you'll find along your route.
• Robot Repair: finishes when you assemble the Robot.

The park is the hub. It has a save point, Sadie's stamp shop and Bob's apple bobbing.

Most page-one cards come from the house fights. Each house fight happens once and pays out set cards, as far as reported, so trick-or-treating every house picks up most of the page. Glop and Fruity Foam each drop from two different houses, which gives you the spares for the two Suburbs trades. The second house for each is in the area that opens after Pie for the Putterpam.

These quests won't finish through the story. Do them before you take on BoJonn: once the gate opens, the Suburbs stays locked until the Mall is fully trick-or-treated.

• Auburn Pines Hide 'n' Seek: find six hidden kids. Two of them are behind quests: Nyla needs The Patriot's Party sewer route open, and Lili needs the Putterpam quest done, so do this sweep after both. Ruby is in a tree in the park, Mark is to the right of the patriotic house, Wendell is behind the green car after the first sewer, Julian is by the mailbox near the black gate, Lili is behind the trash cans past Mrs. Putterpam's, and Nyla is in a hidden room in the second sewer. The quest log counts them as you find them. The reward is the Tote Bag pail.
• Suburbs Bobbing for Apples: three rounds with Bob, needing 20, 25 and 30 points. Green apples are worth 3, red are worth 1, and rotten are worth nothing. Go for the green ones. Round three pays out the Sweet Tooth card.
• This Card Is So Rare: Scott, at the park corner below the apple bobbing, wants a spare Glop and gives you Choconana. Suburbs Collect 'em All: Austin, past Mrs. Putterpam's, wants a spare Fruity Foam. He gives you Jelly Has-Beens, a page-three card. Glance at the card book afterward to confirm it arrived. Each trade uses up one of your two copies, so you keep one for the book.
• Stamps: Sadie's stock grows as you level up. Buy whatever you can afford. Every stamp she sells stays available later, so there's no rush.

Creepy Treat Cards are sorted by area, 18 to a page: page one is the Suburbs, page two the Mall and page three Fall Valley. A card always goes on its own page, even when a trade hands it to you early. Cards come from battles, bosses, the third bobbing round and trades, never from chests. The graveyard past the gate has three more fights worth six page-one cards. Have 17 of the 18 page-one cards before BoJonn, because the Suburbs stays locked until the Mall is cleared. BoJonn himself drops the 18th, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fudge. The Collectibles section at the end lists every card and where it comes from.

Once every house is dark, the black gate opens onto the Auburn Pines graveyard. The Scarecrow, Dorian, is there. He gives the Pumpkin pattern and the Paper Mache, its first piece. He turns up again in the Mall and Fall Valley with the other two pieces. The two sarcophagi in the graveyard don't work yet.

You arrive in the dark construction corridors, before the main Mall. Get the Space Warrior here first. The security guard hiding from the teenagers gives the pattern, and the shopkeeper, construction worker and janitor hand over the Snow Boots, Safety Visor and Empty Soda Bottles. That finishes The Dark Side of the Mall. Use the Knight's Shield to pass falling debris, and use Glow to get through the pitch-black stretches.

Past the save point at the end of the corridors, the door on the left leads into the main Mall. Trick-or-treat every shop as you go. Once all of them are done, a sarcophagus by the gate opens and links back to the Suburbs for any leftovers. Tickets For Treats and The Mall-O-Rail is Broken move forward with the story. Lucy joins after the Mall-O-Rail section. She's your third party member, and the costume contest won't start until she's with you.

BoJonn returns twice in the Mall. The arcade fight during Tickets For Treats should give Wood Chips, and the Mall-O-Rail track fight gives Sour Feet. Check the book after the arcade fight. If Wood Chips didn't arrive, it's a Mall Trowbog drop instead.

Earn Your Monster Slayer Badge: the red ninja kid wants three monster horns, and he gives you the Ninja pattern. The pieces are the Scarf (Devin, after the arcade), the Sweat Pants (Lucy) and the Rope (Sid, after the Mall-O-Rail fight). The ninja kids block the way to floor three until this is done.

Finish these before you take the train to the Candy Emporium.

• Mall Hide 'n' Seek: Laura is in the tree left of the entry stairs, Razmig is in Sadie's tent, Joey is in the food court, Bert is in a waste container on the left of floor two, Christine is behind a plant on the right of floor two, and Mei is by a bench on floor three. The reward is the Pumpkin Pail.
• Mall Bobbing For Apples: rounds need 25, 30 and 35 points. Round three gives the Pizza Sundae card.
• This Card Is Rarer: Carlos, by the Mall-O-Rail Central Station, wants a spare Cinnamon Brain and gives you Gummy Water. Mall Collect 'em All: Kenji, on floor three, wants a spare Slime Beetles and gives you a Misfortune Cookie, which belongs on page three. Both requested cards come from two different Trowbogs each, one in the dark corridor and one roaming the upper floors.
• Stamps: Sadie runs the Campin' and Stampin' shop. If you're short on candy, the enemies on floors two and three are a good farm.
• Cards: have 17 of the 18 page-two cards before Metxel, who drops the last one, Banana Beard. Besides the dark corridor, page two comes from Trowbogs in the shops and on the upper floors, the bobbing prize and the two BoJonn fights.

Once every shop is visited, the train takes you through the black gate to Metxel.

You start caged and wearing candy costumes, with every costume taken. The Original Costume Quest gets them back. Do it straight away, because you need their abilities to continue. Chip, the fries vendor, gives the French Fry costume, whose Lure ability you'll use here and in Grubbins on Ice. A 2010 title update broke Lure for some saves that were already in progress. New games aren't affected. Do it in this order. First, lure the three hungry kids to Chip's stand one at a time: Kelsey by the fountain, Tasha on the pier and Tyler at the bottom-right of town. That earns your carnival tickets. Then go back to the two crows by the barn. They now show a food icon, so lure each one into the barn to recover your costumes. You need both the tickets and the costumes to get into the carnival. Trick-or-treat every house and tent, including the ones near Chip, to open the next black gate.

• All's Fair That Ends Fare: Henry at the ticket gate gives the Vampire pattern. The pieces are the Scary Fangs (coffin behind Jon), the Black Cloth (on the path from the carnival up toward town, break the obstacle, then use the Space Warrior's Glow to enter the dark cave behind the tree where Kjeld hides; the coffin is inside) and the White Makeup (a coffin on a side path near the black gate).
• The Ferris wheel and Orzo's cannon move the story along. The cannon needs the Ninja's Sneak.
• Fall Valley Bobbing For Apples: rounds need 30, 35 and 40 points. Round three gives the Sugar Bucket card. Unlocks Chompin' Champ, below.
• This Card Is The Rarest: Nathan wants a spare Street Chews and gives you a Mice Crispy Treat. Fall Valley Collect 'em All: Rebecca, on the path that opens after the cannon ride, wants a spare Unicorn Pellets. She gives you Coconuts & Bolts, and Booger Pie is a normal Fall Valley enemy drop. One older card list swaps the two, so check both slots in the book right after the trade. If Coconuts & Bolts is still empty, look for it in the tent southeast of the strength tester. Only one fixed Unicorn Pellets source is documented: the fight in the house northeast of the flaming statue, which only happens once. No guide names a second fixed source. Unicorn Pellets is listed among Fall Valley's general enemy drops, and guides report that every fight pays out at least one card. So before you go to Rebecca, beat every Fall Valley house, tent and roaming enemy, then check for a spare. If you still don't have one, leave the area and come back to fight respawned monsters until it drops. Respawns are limited and the drop isn't guaranteed per fight, so expect this to take a while.

Children of the High Fructose Corn Syrup: a defector Grubbin gives the Grubbin pattern. Three prisoners hand over the Burlap Sack, Dirty Socks and Grubbin Mask. The Grubbin disguise gets you through the maze. It has no battle ability.

You fight Metxel once more, this time with a single health bar. Afterward, two sarcophagi between the corn maze and the final climb link all three worlds. Go back now and finish everything left over.

Dorsilla traps kids in vines and splits into decoys, so keep hitting the real one. Afterward, keep talking to her to start the Big Bones fight.

Finish everything in the base game first, then go back to the main menu.

1. Choose Continue Game. If it offers Grubbins on Ice, pick it. This is the recommended carryover path.
2. If Continue just resumes the base game, go back and choose Start New Game. Then pick Grubbins on Ice on the second menu. This doesn't guarantee your costumes and stamps carry over, so only use it if Continue doesn't offer the DLC.
3. Never pick Costume Quest on the Start New Game menu. That starts a new campaign and can erase your base save.
4. If Grubbins on Ice doesn't appear in either menu, close and relaunch the game. If it's still missing, reinstall the add-on before choosing anything.

Your three kids start at level 10. Once the DLC begins, open the costume and stamp menus to confirm your base-game collection came with you. If it didn't, return to the main menu and try the other path.

The first fight, against three Repugiarchs, is meant to be lost. Winning it is possible and only gives bonus XP. The story carries on the same way either way.

Tome of the Trowbogs: talk to the Trowbog Elder, then to Ackley at the upper-left gate, and zipline across to the Caves of Confusion. Each room has a symbol on the floor, and you leave by the exit marked with the same symbol. In dark rooms, use the Space Warrior's Glow to reveal it. Some symbols sit under bones or candy, so clear those away. Use the Knight's Shield to pass falling debris. A wrong exit only sends you back to the cave entrance, and rooms you've cleared stay cleared. The Tome is in a coffin deep in the cave, past a Repugiarch fight. Bring it back to the Elder to open the next gate. Raha, the third escapee, is in the southernmost part of the Trowbog area.

This Card Is ULTRA Rare: Glob, a Trowbog just past the gate that opens after Grubbin Lovin', wants a spare Cuttin' Candy. The first house south of the bridge gives one. The spare comes from the fight house just east of Glob, the one with blue-and-white balloons outside, on the right above Shady's stand. The house on the left only gives candy. Hand it over as soon as you have two.

The Case of the Missing Yeti: the Crestwailer Elder won't open the gate until the Yeti shows up for Yeti Fest. Take the ice path above the Crestwailer area into the Yeti's cave. The Crestwailer inside gives you the Yeti costume outright, and its Abominable Armor shields the whole party for a turn. Walk out of the cave wearing it to trigger a short scene. Then zipline back and talk to the Crestwailer Elder, which completes the quest and opens the gate. Kat is behind a house on the right side of the Crestwailer area. Teddy is behind a rock in the cave you reach by dropping through the fence gap from that area.

• Bobbing for Eyeballs: Blob runs it in Crestwailer village, which opens after the Tome of the Trowbogs. Rounds need 35, 40 and 45 points. Yellow eyeballs are worth 3 and white are worth 1. Avoid the pink ones. Round three gives the Wiggly Woozers card.

Maximus, the sixth escapee, is behind a large rock next to Skully. Repugia Collect 'em All: Skully wants a spare Nutty Dumdums. Viva Repugia! finishes once every house in Repugia has been trick-or-treated, which opens the final gate.

If you're still missing a spare for Glob or Skully, work through these in order. Check the book after each step.

1. Trick-or-treat every Repugia house, including the three combat houses near Skully. Viva Repugia! needs this anyway.
2. Fight every roaming guard and patrolling enemy you haven't beaten yet.
3. Only then go back to earlier Repugia areas and fight respawned roaming enemies. Respawns happen, but it isn't documented how many times or whether every card can drop from them, so treat this as a last resort. House fights never repeat.