Crashing Castles and Breaching Boundries

Sorry for the delay in posting loyal fans… all none of you. But one day maybe people will read this on a regular basis and wonder to themselves “where was he for so long?” Well truth be told i was in the hospital with a Kidney Stone. A rather pesky one at that as the first surgery was a unable to reach the stone. So i got to suffer for a week while the stone painstakingly moved its way down. 

I may have been laid out but there’s one thing i do rather frequently while laying down and that being doped up on vicadin wouldn’t really affect Yep gaming. I watched too many movies and played enough of my 360 in the past two weeks to tide most people over for a good long while. And you lucky readers get to hear of the fruits of my incapacitation. 

Just before the stones i had just hooked my 360 up to x-box live. This was big for me since all my friends have been on for a while. The first thing they made me do (after setting up my account, avatar, etc.) was download the live arcade game Castle Crashers.

 

The Heros

I was really excited about crashers because i was always a huge fan of arcade style beat em ups. Some of the most classic examples are The Ninja Turtles Arcade Game, The Simpsons Arcade Game, and games like Streets of Rage. You take control of one of the characters and walk through various side scrolling levels slashing and basing your way to the next stage. They were simple and yet really entertaining…. and the difficulty as the game progressed would always become a challenge.

Same stuff here you start off as one of 4 knights whose party has just been crashed and its time to teach the bad guy a lesson, save the girl, and make money all at the same time. Each of the knights has his own unique magic abilities but other than that they all play out exactly the same. 

I was so excited to play this game with my friends, and yet once i had it was never able to make that happen. At least not yet. I did however beat the game by myself in what according to my friends was a ridiculously quick time. Overall the game is great, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. So here are the good and the bad.

The Good

• Incredibly fun simple gameplay
• A steadily increasing difficulty
• beautiful, crisp, and clean 2d graphics in all their gory glory
• Lots of Unlockables (characters, weapons, pets)
• The story is hilarious

The Bad

• The characters all seem the same, maybe different storylines for each character or a unique move set…something
• For all the trouble i had getting through the levels the bosses were a bit unchallenging 
• Their should be a better way to unlock new characters than simply beating the game with a different one. Beating the game is not a walk in the park, maybe with 4 people working together who knows.

So yeah not too many complaints and since its the first game in the series (assuming with its popularity there will be more) i would expect to see a lot of awesomeness coming out of the Behemoth (the developer) in the future. I will update as soon as i have had a chance to play with a few friends and let you know how the experience changes too.

BREAKING DEVELOPMENT

Due to my friend moving back in with his parents and a lack of place to put it i have finally gained access to a PS3. So now i have all the major systems in place in my house, plus all the retro stuff too So expect to see some more varied gameplay soon this this month in particular i will be picking up Ghostbusters, The Legendary Starfy, Klonoa for Wii, and hopefully diving into some PS3 games which at present i have zero experience with. Stay tuned for some major updates!

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