G2A Pick of the Week: Castle Crashers
April 17 2015
Every week, Team Liquid will supply you with their pick for the G2A Game of the Week, which you can buy at an extremely discounted rate thanks to the G2A Weekly Sale. This week, we’ve chosen the colorful beat-em’ up, Castle Crashers. You can get it right now at www.g2a.com/weeklysale for $2.25, a whopping 83% off its usual price.
The Review: Castle Crashers
It’s not often you get to see a fun 2D brawler. But Castle Crashers is just that. It’s a 2D side-scroller that has simplistic combat mechanics and straight-forward exploration, but how it’s all put together makes this game extremely enjoyable for gamers from all walks of life.
The world of Castle Crashers is lively. The art direction the game takes is amusing, colorful, and often times just pretty damn funny. Really, the style itself is a creative endeavor in its own right and sometimes, you don’t need amazing AAA graphics to create visual appeal. From cats with giant googly-eyes to giant bosses with large scary teeth (and often derpy faces) puts a smile on my face since it all acts as a contrast to what the medieval times actually were like.
At the core of Castle Crashers are the four brave knights you play as, each with their own element represented by their color. The game is simple in-terms of progression and customization; you level up, you get a skill point which you then allocate into Strength, Magic, Defense, and Agility. On top of skillsets, you then have weapons and armor that often times have different combat effects.
While the above is all fine and dandy, the best—or most amusing—customization options are the animal orbs. These animal orbs are scattered across the land, in varying locations for you to find. Once acquired, each animal provides you with a different effect, an example being Owlet the Owl can retrieve food for you passively. A personal favorite is Rammy the Ram, who is quite literally a ram that rams into your enemies. Ram.
My one quip about this game is it is extremely challenging by yourself. While that’s not entirely a bad thing, it’s sort of a passive way to yell at players for not playing with other people (perhaps, still not a bad thing). The game does have excellent co-op though and equally great competitive modes.
All in all, it’s a great game and once again you’re getting a great deal at only $2. My only advice is to find some friends who also have $2 to spare, heh.