Castle Crashers just falls short due a few bugs and online probs
Ive been really looking forward to Castle Crashers since it was a shown a year or two ago. So now after so long it was finally released to the public about a week ago. The story goes your a Knight with magic powers just danceing untill a dead soilder falls down the stairs. you go to investergate and find out the some guy has stolen a cystal that seems to hold some kind if magic power, also a couple of fair maidens have been kidnapped as well. Its up to you to get the crystals and save the maidens. Its funny because there no voice acting or even like text telling the story. But its done so well that you can understand whats going on. But its funny parts that just really make the story stand. there's loads of funny gags and a lot of humor the makes you laugh so hard sometimes. everything to cutsceens and even the characters just make you giggle as well.
There a couple of gameplay modes all of which can be played online to boot, if you can get it work which is unlikey as most people have been having problems with the online with no real idea when it will be fixed. Its a real drag because this is one of them games that you need to play with four other guys to get the most fun out of it. The game ranges somtimes from not being to hard to pretty dam hard. such as the Corn boss can be a real nightmare the first time you face it if your not stocked up on potions and such while the Ice boss which is a boss later in the game is fairly easy. There aslo a combo system as well but most the time you just be mashing XXX or YYYY a lot. There a load of characters to choose from each with different special moves which is nice as well.
All the art from levels, characters and even things like promo stuff was done by one person which is pretty darn impressive. speaking of the art its all very pretty. Is has a kind of old school feel to as well and the gameplay adds to that feel to. All the characters have the own special attacks as I said and all look very nice a nice deisgned. There music is also really good.
One thing that can get anoying thought is enemy AI . A good example of this is the thief. they basisly spam arrows over and over making it a pain in the ass cause once u get hit by 1 u get hit by 1000 more after.also most enemys will alway move away from u when u try to fight them which can get anoying to.
There a hell of a load of content to the game which vast range or weapons and things called animal orbs which give u a little bonus. At top of that there there a good number of levels to keep you going as well. The Leveling system is nice and its don't so it does'nt feel like to much of a grind. Apart from the online problems and save bug that some people are having I so recommend you pick this LIve arcade game up because its by far better then anything of there and when they fix the bugs it be even better.
