Hello again Castle Crashers! The Beat-Em-Up that started it all! It's a Newgrounds game jumped up to full-size and it is pretty frickin' swell actually. You have a pretty flimsy excuse-plot: our heroes are partying it up in the Kingdom and a pile of monster orcs drop by and kidnap our wonderful princesses and get them back! You....crusade... across the continent fighting a bunch of new enemies, beating them up, and leveling up while taking on more and more bosses in this league of evil! This still might be my favorite of the genre - the speed with which you move around the map, leveling up your new characters (who all have a different spells! Or a bunch do anyway), the amount of unlocks to replay the game for... it's just awesome honestly. It's been nearly a decade since I played through and I felt enchanted all over again! It's a stellar game about beating up dudes over and over and then throwing lightning bolts around with some absolutely sick art and music. There's mutliplayer too but I didn't get around to it this time. A great adventure!

Reviewed on Feb 15, 2022


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