Left to right: Lightning, Poison, Fire, Ice knight
Wow, I just played Castle Crashers non-stop for… just about seventeen hours straight!
Went at it with a friend, local coop, all day and night. I haven’t binged on a game like that in years. It felt good. The game’s way beyond excellent, it’s a wild and frothing torrent of beautiful art and incredible gameplay. Both of us felt our characters were awesome unstoppable forces of destruction, and yet teamwork was required throughout. That’s a pretty delicate balance to strike, but it heightened the experience exponentially. I had the lightning guy, he can keep a whole row of people in perpetual shock for a good amount of seconds, doing hellish damage in the process. My friend got the fire knight, he fully covered the screen in an inferno of fire and death. Awesome!
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Furthermore, the game does everything in its power to just give you a good time. There’s no stupid shit like penalizing you for dying, and you don’t have to carry every item back home or anything. It just provides a bunch of missions to progress through, level up in, get loot from, and a whole slew of laugh-out-loud moments as the silly but well-told plot unfolds. It’s one long orgasm, essentially..
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This is pretty much the best coop game I’ve played in years. Actually I’m debating whether or not its the best coop game ever. Like, of all time. It certainly sits comfortably amongst the very best coop games ever made, and it is a nobrainer that other rpg titles needs to do at least this good from now on. That includes Blizzard with Diablo 3, I hope they’re paying well and good attention to this gem because they sure got their work cut out for them to outshine this one. Yes, it’s that good.
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That’s not to say the game is perfect, I know the game has some bugs for example. They range from harmless to annoying to actual showstoppingly bad. Like, before yesterday my friend’s game wouldn’t friggin’ save his progress, so that’s some serious shit in an RPG… Also, there are some minor nitpicks to the game itself, but c’mon, what game is absolutely perfect? If you can play without bugs though (like we did, after we solved the no-saving thing) this is a game that fully deserves 10/10’s and perfect A ’s. Hell it should get higher scores than that. Does scoring to go to 11?