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Tis the season: there's a pumpkin carving sim on XBLA photo

I'm a total dork when it comes to the Halloween rituals -- I love hanging the stupid skeleton on the door, going to pick out a pumpkin to carve, queuing up the scary movies. I'm not so sure how I feel about carving a pumpkin virtually, but if you feel good about it, now you can do it. Siliconera spotted indie game Pumpkin Carver on the Xbox Live store, which, as you can guess, is a pumpkin carving sim.

Sure, it's definitely aimed at kids with its simple interface, but considering it costs 80 Microsoft points (basically $1.00), you can't really complain. Thing is, all you really do is decorate the pumpkin with precut stencils, so if you're thinking you're gonna get fancy in there and make a Bayonetta pumpkin, I gotta shoot you down now. If you can do that to a real pumpkin though, send it to me, because I'll put it on the front page of Destructoid faster than you can say First Climax.








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Modern Robot's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 19:36
Modern Robot
The only major flaw: You can't print any of it out. You show your work to someone who cares, they leave, and then the inner sadness of your pathetic life begins...
njsykora's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 19:39
njsykora
It's on Indie Games actually, not XBLA. And it's rubbish. Even for 80 points.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 19:49
Xzyliac
Hate Halloween.
Electrium's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 19:59
Electrium
Anthony should review this. It's Indie, after all.
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 20:05
EternalDeathSlayer
I wonder if my wife could handle a Bayonetta pumpkin..........
Deathofthedead's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 22:32
Deathofthedead
Who needs that when you've got this?
Your Moms Hot Lover's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2009 08:10
Your Moms Hot Lover
someone SHOULD make a real life Bayonetta pumpkin so that Jim can have sex with it. I'd do it but I don't have the skills.
hpv's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2009 12:15
hpv
Why do people keep making comments like "80 points is basically $1"? It isn't "basically" $1, it is EXACTLY $1 (unless you're in Europe or something, then it's probably like $2.75). Just because they've pegged the price at 80:1 against USD doesn't mean it isn't an exact amount of money. There's no varying conversion rate, it isn't a currency.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2009 13:23
Holyetheline
I did a mario pumpkin back in 2006. It was in celebration of the Wii which hadn't been released yet.
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