Eets: Chowdown - Xbox Live Arcade review

There are two classes of item which you can insert into the world; the first is food. Eets is a creature ruled by gastronomics, and will gobble up any edible morsels placed in his path. Each type of food triggers a different mood, which has a domino effect on his behavior. For example, when he’s sad, he moves slowly and refuses to leap from the edge of a platform – which is handy to keep him from Geronimo-ing to his death. When angry, he charges forward and is not only willing to jump, he’ll vault himself much farther than he would if he was just in his default happy state.

The second, more interesting way to influence Eets is by placing user-triggered items around the landscape, all of which you set off using various face buttons. These include floating whales that suck Eets in and blowhole-launch him skyward, an orange, ghosty-looking Ginseng critter that can make Eets angry or set off explosive marshmallows blocking his path, and brown clouds that shoot tasty chocolate chips, just to name a few.