Costume Quest

Costume Quest

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Questing for Quests
By Siren of the Sea
A quest guide for the quests featured in Costume Quest.

Most quests listed here are officially in your note book in game. However, I took the liberty of adding a few other key "non-official" quests to make things easier. :)

NOTE: Quests my be out of chronological order, but they line up with the note book layout. I figured it was easier to see what you were missing visually instead of hunting through the quests to find the one pertaining to you.
   
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The Very First Quest
Your first quest is to choose between Wren or Reynold as your character.

Once you've done that, you can stop at the nearest house and collect your first candy bounty. The next house has a little suprise waiting for you. This triggers a cutscene and you find yourself in your first battle.

The battle is pretty straight forward, just follow the prompts and read the in game tutorial. After the battle, your costume is taken and now you have to find the missing pieces.
Robot Repair
There's a path in front of your starting position with a bunch of glowing pumpkins. Bash those with your pail.

Once that's finished, head down the alley and go ahead and hit random stuff with your pail. Anything you can hit will give you 2 pieces of candy (usually) with the exception of small children, adults and Grubbins. Though highly amusing, these will only trigger a small speech bubble.

Head down the path and you'll find your first Coffin Chest, it's holding the cardboard box.

Head to to your left and you should see the next chest containing the Aluminum Foil.

Go forward now and destroy the rocks in your way and at the end of the path (past some more rocks) you'll find the last chest with the Roller Skate Shoes inside.

Head back to where you came from and you'll get a short cutscene.

After it's over you have to use the robot's costume ability to launch yourself over the ramp. Just hold shift and direct yourself at the ramp. Once you've made the jump, you're done.
Programmed For Protection
Go talk to the mummy gang. Talking to the ring leader who's beating up the some kid will trigger your next quest.

Use your heelys (shift) and outrun your opponent. Stay on the road and you'll be fine.

The course is circular moving counter-clockwises, starting approximately at the 5 'o clock placement and ending near 7 'o clock. Careful of parked cars!
Pie for Putterpam
After you're done exploring the neighborhood, had your first battle, and sought out Sadie's Battle Stamp stand, it's on to the next quest.

You can find Mrs. Putterpam to the right of the park, on the road. She's next to a bunch of bake sale tables that are blocking the road.

She wants an ingredient for a pie and its up to you to fetch it for her. Don't worry about completing this one right away, you'll have to finish Patriot's Party to obtain the ingredients for her pie.

To get to the patriot party quest, head down from Mrs. Patterpam and take a right where the road splits. There's a house all decked out in American pride, talk to the kid who looks like Evil Kenevil and is shaking his head back and forth.

Once you have access to the backyard, head over to the cherry tree. The only thing between you and your ingredient is some hot and bothered squirrel.

Use the Knight's shield ability to pass under the tree and grab those cherries.

Deliver them to Putterpam, and you're finished!
The Patriot's Party
This quest is located at the house that's all decked out like the 4th of July. It's to the right of the playground. Talk to the blond kid in the red, white, and blue costume who's constantly shaking his head. He'll tell you to find the kids dressed up as Lincoln and give them the secret password. (MANIFEST DESTINY!)

Anyways, the first kid is right in front of the steps leading to the house. She'll give you a costume pattern for the Statue of Liberty.

From there, follow the road all the way to your right. You should find another Abe in front of a drainage pipe. Tell him the password and he moves. You'll now have to use the Knight ability to get through the water.

Once you're inside, take the little jog to your right and you'll see a treasure chest with your first costume piece.

Head up the ladder and you'll spot the next Abe standing in front of a ramp. Use the robot ability to jump the ramp. To your left you'll find another chest with the second piece to the costume.

Now, just talk to the last Abe directly below you and you'll get the last piece. Head back to the patriotic party, talk to the kid who gave you the quest and you're in like sin. 'Murica.
These Tombstones Aren't Styrofoam
This quest will not become available until you have trick-or-treated at all 20 houses.

Once you do and the announcement comes through, the gate will open. Just go through the gate and this quest will be added to your log.

You'll get a short lecture as you approach the first Grubbin about attacking enemies in the field with your pail. It's as easy as it sounds, just walk up behind and enemy and whack 'em to get the jump on them. Doing this will knock off some HP from your enemies at the start of battle.

Once you go a little ways in, you should spot a scarecrow with green mist emanating from its body. Fight the Grubbin standing there first, then talk to it. He'll give you the Pumpkin Costume Pattern and the first piece to the costume.

Go a little further and your character and Everett start talking about hitting a sarcophagus. You can abuse them if you want, but they're not going to open... yet. These will later become portals to prior areas you have visited.

Anyways, go forward and watch the cutscene. Boss battle dead ahead!

Once that's over with, it's off to the next area. Jump down to the Autumn Haven Mall portion of the walkthrough.
Suburbs Bobbing For Apples
This quest is at the playground, just look for the guy in the cowboy costume next to 3 barrels full of apples and water. Talk to him to initiate the quest.

This quest is pretty fun and a good way to save your progress as it auto saves after every round won. It can be also frustrating for the not-so-fast gamer. Keep at it, you'll catch a break eventually! :)

There are three rounds of apple bobbing, each one getting progressively harder than the last. My advice for these is to focus on green apples first and red ones last. Red apples are only worth 1 point, while greens are worth 3.

The rewards are as follows:
Round 1: 20 candy pieces
Round 2: 50 candy pieces
Round 3: "Sweet Tooth" Creepy Card
Auburn Pines Hide 'n' Seek
To trigger this Quest, all you need to do is talk to one of these 6 kids. Then you have to find the other five.

Here are their locations, in no particular order:

Kid 1: Hiding behind a tree in the playground, in the upper left hand corner.

Kid 2: Over near the gate, north of it just a bit. The kid's dressed as a devil, and he's crouched behind a mailbox.

Kid 3: If you did the Patriot Party quest, once you pop up from the sewer, he's right next to you, hiding behind a green car. He's dressed as a nerd. He's over on the west side of town by one of the Lincoln kids blocking a ramp.

Kid 4: Once you get past Mrs. Putterpam, stay close to the row of houses on the top, and go left. You should spot him hiding behind some trash cans with a dragon suit on.

Kid 5: Also not available until you complete the Putterpam quest. At the end of the area past Mrs. Putterpam, there's another drain pipe, use the Knight ability to get in. Once in the tunnel go into the small room with the treasure chest. The kid's right behind it.

Kid 6: The only kid that's actually hidden well lol. To find him, go to the patriotic house and go right. The house right next door, with the big purple garage and the large "Happy Halloween!" banner on it is where the kid is. He's just to the right of the garage, behind some shrubs.

You get the Candy Tote Bag for your efforts. Now you can carry even more candy and everyone gets a +3 to Attack Points.
This Card is So Rare!
The kid you get this quest from is just outside the park, standing on the corner of the street. He has a little card icon glowing above his head. This kid wants a Glop Card for his Creepy Treats card collection. Problem is, even if you have one, you're not giving it up!

You have to have at least 2 Glop cards in your inventory. You get Glop cards from the random battles with Grubbins around Auburn Pines. You probably won't get your second Glop card until late in your trick-or-treating pursuits, so you'll just have to wait a while to get this quest completed.
Suburbs Collect 'em All!
Just like the above quest, but this time you must find another Fruity Foam Card for the collector. The kid for this quest can only be found once you have finished the "Pie for Putterpam" quest.

He's in the section of town past Mrs. Putterpam at the end of the road near a drain pipe. He'll have a card icon blinking above his head. Again, just find 2 Fruity Foam Cards by battling random Grubbins in this area.

Tickets For Treats
Upon entering the mall, you're hit with a quest right away.If you look to your right, you'll see a kid in a ghost costume with a card icon above his head. Talk to him for another card collection quest (This Card is Rarer!!).

You're free to do as you please, find more quests, trick-or-treat in the mall, or whatever. Don't forget to buy some new battle stamps! Sadie is located in the Campin' and Stampin' store. You should probably be level 5 by now...

When you're ready to continue with the story, head over to the arcade on the right side of the map. Talk to one of the pirate kids and you'll get the "Tickets for Treats" quest.

Once you have the quest, just head over to Bojonn and talk to him.

After you've won, the quest is complete. Head through the hole in the wall and continue on.
Earn Your Monster Slaying Badge
After you talk to the red ninja on the second floor, he assigns you with hunting down three monsters and stealing their horns.

Stay on the second floor and head over to your right. You'll spot the horned monsters walking around over here. You can get the jump on them by whacking them with your pail from behind. These guys I found were quicker so surprising them from behind was a bit harder but possible.

Kill all three of them and report back to the red ninja. You'll be rewarded with access to the third floor and the Ninja costume pattern.
The Mall-O-Rail is Broken
Once you've gone through the hole, take the track leading down and you'll find a chest with a costume piece in it.

Head further down the track for another chest with 20 pieces of candy inside.

Head back to where you came from and follow the track around the corner. To find your third party member! The newest addition to the party will give you another costume piece.

Prepare yourself for a boss fight!

After that, the pirate kids in front of the escalators will have moved and you can continue onwards.

Your next objective is to go talk to the kids on the far left side of the second floor. There's three of them dressed in ninja costumes. Two blue lackey ninjas and a red leader.

Once you've spoken to the ninjas, your next story based quest will be assigned.

The Dark Side of the Mall
Once you've entered the mall, your only option is to go north here. Take a left and use the Knight ability to get past the falling debris. Keep following the path until you initiate a conversation with a mall cop. He'll give you the Space Warrior costume pattern.

Keep following the path and you'll eventually reach your first fight, remember to approach them from behind and use the pail to initiate combat for a better advantage.

Pretty soon you should spot a blond guy staring at a Grand Opening sign, talk to him to get the Snow Boots. Go down and talk to the construction worker for the Safety Visor, and to your right, there's a guy hanging out in the shadows with a broom who will give you the Empty Bottles.

Your quest will be complete at this point but you still need to get out. Head down from the janitor and to the right to find a chest and another Grubbin.

Head back to your left and you should see a large area of darkness. Use the Space Warrior ability to make your way through it. Keep heading down and you'll spot another patch of darkness. Make your way through it, head down the stairs and you'll spot two more enemies.

Over in the upper left hand corner, there's some more darkness hiding a chest. Head up the stairs to your right and in the next area there's a chest to the right and more darkness to the north. More enemies to fight, etc., etc. Pretty soon you'll arrive at the next gate. After a short scene, enter the opening to your left and you're in the populated and well lit area of the mall.
Extreme Costume Challenge!
This quest can be found by talking to the announcer in the orange suit who's on a stage with a "Happy Halloween!" banner behind him. He's on the ground floor in the middle.

In order to actually DO this quest, you have to have your third party member. So you're S.O.L. until you complete

Once you have your third party member, talk to this guy and he'll tell you to head off and find three judges to talk to and get the "insiders opinion".

All three judges are on the ground floor. Two of them are over to your left past the escalator. Both are heavy set and dressed in orange shirts. The guy in the back sitting on the bench is a judge. There is also a woman standing just south of him who is your second judge.

The last judge is all the way to your right, past the escalator, next to the french fry stand.

When you have all the information, dress up your characters in the Knight, Statue of Liberty, and Robot costumes and go talk to the announcer again.

For your efforts you'll get the Unicorn Costume Pattern.


This Card is Rarer!!
This is just like the other card collecting missions.

This time the kid wants a Cinnamon Brain card.

The kid you're looking for is right next to you when you first enter the mall. Look over to your right, near the monorail ramp and you should spot him. He's wearing a ghost costume.

Keep fighting trowbags around here and you'll eventually get the card you need.

Reward: "Gummy Water" Creepy Card
Mall Hide 'n' Seek
This is the exact same thing as the hide 'n' seek quest in the suburbs. Find one of kids to start the mission.

Kid 1: From the entrance, head down the stairs to the left and you should see him hiding behind a tree in the corner.

Kid 2: Directly to your left from Kid 1, you should notice the "Campin' And Stampin' store. Head in here and to the right of the tent there's a kid with glasses wearing a mummy costume.

Kid 3: Head to your right on the ground floor. Pass the escalators and when you near the arcade you should notice a kiosk that I believe sells french fries. The kid is hiding right behind it.

Kid 4: On the second floor, over on the far right side. He's in a frog costume, hiding behind a plant.

Kid 5: Second floor again, over on the far left side. The kid is in a banana suit hiding behind a trash bin.

Kid 6: The last child is on the third floor over to the right hand side. Not all the way to the right, but pretty close. She's wearing a princess costume. Pretty easy to spot.

Your reward is another candy bag upgrade and 500XP.
Mall Bobbing For Apples
"Bob" is right below the costume quest stage, in the middle of the mall on the ground floor. The objective is the same as last time, bob for as many apples as you can and beat the clock.

Round 1: 20 pieces of candy
Round 2: 50 pieces of candy
Round 3: "Pizza Sundae" Creepy Card
Mall Collect 'em All!
This kid is located on the third floor of the mall. Kinda in the middle of the floor, but closer to the left side.

Just stick to the path and you'll spot him. He wants a Slime Bettles card.

Just an FYI, there are chests to the right and left of him. One's behind the water run off and the other is kinda of obscured by a wall over on the right side. Both contain 50 pieces of candy.

Reward: Misfortune Cookie
The Candy Store
After you've completed as many of the optional quests as you want, just head upstairs and polish off the remaining stores.

There's also a spot over on the far left side of the third floor where you can gain access to another piece to the Unicorn Costume. When you're on the far left side, look out for some orange cones on the path. Right next to them, you'll see the railing is busted and someone put some caution tape over it. Yeah, like that will stop a fall.

Bust the tape with your pail and fall down into the giant pumpkin to claim your costume piece.

When you're done with the trick-or-treating, head back to the gate via the monorail.

You'll also notice now that one of the sarcophaguses next to the gate has opened up. If you approach it, you'll be given the option of returning to Auburn Pines. Even if you miss something in an old level, all is not lost, you can always come back.

Take the monorail through the gate, and you'll enter a standard fight, followed up by a boss fight.

After that's over, we're off to Fall Valley! However, it's not under the most pleasant circumstances...
The Original Costume Quest
First things first, bust out of jail! Just hit the left side of the thicket with your pail, then hit the sign and make your daring escape. Now we have to retrieve our costumes.

You have to do a little side mission to retrieve your costumes before you can proceed any further. So logically, that means finding another costume!

Follow the path out and go north. Just before you enter the residential area, you'll spot a guy manning a french fry stand. Talk to him to initiate the next part of this quest.

You have now been tasked with rounding up customers for the french fry stand. You have to run around in the village area and find the three kids with the chicken leg icon floating over their heads. Walk up to them one at a time and press and hold shift to use the tantalizing powers of the fry costume.

Once you've snared a kid with the smell of french fries, lead them back to the guy at the stand. The part that really sucks is that you have to get each kid one at a time.

Locations:
Obvious one next to the fountain.
Kid on the pier.
And slightly obscured kid over to the far right in the village; he's next to some balloons.

When you've delivered all three kids, the mission ends. Now you can retrieve your costumes.

Once you get back to the crow enemies guarding your costumes, you'll notice they now have the chicken leg icon above their heads. Use your costume ability to lure them into the red barn, open the treasure chest and viola!

Head over to the ticket booth and talk to guy there to complete the quest. You'll also get a new costume pattern for your efforts.

**NOTE: You can get your costumes without luring the kids to the stand first. All you need to do is run back to the crows and use the french fry ability. The kids will still need to be lured to the stand for the ticket to the fair but you can start to trick or treat earlier if you so choose.
All's Fair That Ends Fare
You'll receive this quest as soon as you enter the carnival area.

First order of bussiness is to eliminate the Grubbins frantically running back and forth in the candy shower below the ferris wheel.

After the fight, talk to the ferris wheel operator and you'll discover the controls are broken. Now you're tasked with finding an alternative means of getting to the top. If only we could fly...

Head to the right, you'll notice a cannon on a platform with a guy standing in front of it. Talk to him and you'll discover he's not just going to let you walk on by. Equip the ninja costume on your main character and use the cloaking ability to sneak past him.

After you finish the battle, you can now start your trick-or-treating rounds whenever you want. When you're finished with them, head for the gate.
Children of the High Fructose Corn Syrup
Head through the gate and talk to the Grubbin standing by the tree. He'll bestow upon you the Grubbin Costume Pattern.

Now you're tasked with freeing his friends. Each one you free will give you a piece to the costume. So, lets start searchin'!

First off, head past the Grubbin and go up at the first split in the path. As soon as you go up, hang a sharp left at your first opportunity. Follow this path until you get to another area where you must go up or down and go down. This will lead you to the first Grubbin who has the first costume piece for your costume. On your way back, you'll see a chest. Open it for an easy 50 pieces of candy.

Head to your right along the top path (or the path you just came from as they both lead to the same place) and you're back where you started.

When you're back at the tree, go directly to your right (top right). Ignore all the paths heading up and keep going right until you hit a fork that goes right or left and go right. Follow this path for a ways until you hit another fork, this time go right for a treasure chest. Then take the left path to continue on.

Just follow this all the way to the next Grubbin. Smash the thorns behind the Grubbin to exit and head down from where you are. You should see another path that leads off to the right at the bottom.

There are three paths here so take the one in the middle. It jogs just a little to the left and then goes down.

While on your way down there's a branch that goes right. Take that to find another treasure chest.

Head back to where you were, but this time continue down. Follow this path to the next Grubbin. You'll receive the last piece to your Grubbin outfit.

Now it's time to head over to the crow who's standing behind some bars on the south side of the maze by the Tree Grubbin. Talk to him to while wearing the Grubbin costume to proceed.

Note: The Grubbin costume does not work in battle, if you enter a battle with it on, you'll just enter the battle with a different costume equipped.

After you talk to the crow, the mission is complete. If you are feeling ambitious and would like a battle, equip another costume instead of the Grubbin one and walk behind the crow. Whack him with your pail to reveal your betrayal.
Fall Valley Hide 'n' Seek
Here's another hide 'n' seek quest to tackle. You should know the drill by now.

Kid 1: Located at the very beginning of the map, where the red barn is. He's towards the bottom of your screen, next to some hay bales. The kid's wearing a frog costume.

Kid 2: Another easy one to spot, he's just to the left of the ticket booth on the main path. He's crouched behind some rocks.

Kid 3: On the main path area, across from the kid with the card icon floating above his head. To his right you should spot a little path that deviates from the main one. Take this, destroy the thorns, and talk to the girl in the witch costume.

Kid 4: He's in the carnival area. Just south of Orzo the Human Cannonball you should spot him trying to hide behind some hay bails.

Kid 5: After you've gone through the little darkness patch using the Space Warrior ability, head south on the new path which will lead you towards the gate. On your way you'll spot a kid in a banana costume who's just standing on the road. Nice hiding spot kid!

Kid 6: On the same path as Kid 5 but this time follow the path towards the village area. You should spot a destructible wall and a kid in a superhero costume standing in front of it. Just to his right is a kid in a ghost costume hiding behind a tree.

The final reward is another pail upgrade and a 500XP bonus. But in my opinion, the biggest payoff is that the last pail gives a +10 effect to every characters AP.
Fall Valley Bobbing For Apples
Bob is located just to your right as soon as you enter the carnival area. He's very hard to miss. Anyways, the same basic concept applies here, bob for apples and get candy.

The last round can be a little tough, but it's certainly doable. Remember to go for your green apples!

Round 1: 20 pieces of candy
Round 2: 50 pieces of candy
Round 3: "Sugar Bucket" Creepy Treats card
This Card is the Rarest!!!
The kid that gives you this quest is very easy to spot. He's on the main road at the crossroad that connects the barn, carnival, and residential areas. Talk to him for another card collecting mission. This time you're asked to retrieve an extra Street Chews creepy card.

Reward: "Mice Crispy Treat" Creepy Treats card
Fall Valley Collect 'em All!
The girl you get this quest from is located on the path you open up in the fair. She's wearing a princess costume and standing in the middle of the path. She wants a Unicorn Pellets card.

Reward: "Coconuts & Bolts" Creepy Treat card
4 Comments
Siren of the Sea  [author] 1 Apr, 2015 @ 1:24am 
Anyhoo, I will replay the game soon and add pics if that will help. :)
Siren of the Sea  [author] 1 Apr, 2015 @ 1:23am 
That totally slipped past me. Thanks MestreLion!
MestreLion 1 Apr, 2015 @ 12:21am 
Great guide!

A minor correction: you can get your costumes back from the crows without luring the customers to the french fry stand. When you first talk to the guy at the stand he gives you the french fry costume, and that's all you need to lure the crows to the barn and retrieve the costumes. Now you can already fight and trick-or-treat houses. Luring the customers to the stand gets you the *tickets* you need for the fair. You need both tickets and costumes to enter the fair, so the actions are related but they are independent.
Anyhoo 18 Dec, 2014 @ 11:44am 
Man i still can't find one kid and did everything, must be a bug or something