Castle Crahers is a great game to play with friends on a shared screen. It is based in a silly medieval fantasy world where your goal is to save princesses from an evil magician. All that was done way before Aventure Time became popular.

It has an original style, with the vibe of older games made by the same developers, and a good sense of humour.

The fighting system is quite complex for a game of this genre and presents the players with a good variety of combos which increase in numbers with level progression. Friends of mine who were not used to games of this type usualy feel overwhelmed after a few levels.

The level progression adds an element that enhances the experience as an element of competion between the players. It allows players to upgrade different stats which unlock combos and abilities which gives options 'builds' for different playthroughs, although magic and melee weapon attack are always the best options to choose from. It is also fun to have different players focusing on a certain stat more than the others.

There is a choice of characters to play with which except for the visual style differ only in the types of spells they cast which can be very different from each other in terms of damage, area of effect and the effect itself. I found this more than enough to make want to play the game again as other characters.

A variety of weapons and consumables are also present, but they do not change the gameplay to a great extent. The absence of different bows other than the starting one is also disappointing,

There are a lot of different enemy types, some of which can be unlocked as player-controled characters which adds to the game's replayability.

The levels are numerous and with a different feel to most of them. One of the most pleasant surprises was how long the game was.

Definetely the best co-op side-scroller I have played and I have played a decent number of them.

Castle Crahers is a great game to play with friends on a shared screen. It is based in a silly medieval fantasy world where your goal is to save princesses from an evil magician. All that was done way before Aventure Time became popular. It has an original style, with the vibe of older games made by the same developers, and a good sense of humour. The fighting system is quite complex for a game of this genre and presents the players with a good variety of combos which increase in numbers with level progression. Friends of mine who were not used to games of this type usualy feel overwhelmed after a few levels. The level progression adds an element that enhances the experience as an element of competion between the players. It allows players to upgrade different stats which unlock combos and abilities which gives options 'builds' for different playthroughs, although magic and melee weapon attack are always the best options to choose from. It is also fun to have different players focusing on a certain stat more than the others. There is a choice of characters to play with which except for the visual style differ only in the types of spells they cast which can be very different from each other in terms of damage, area of effect and the effect itself. I found this more than enough to make want to play the game again as other characters. A variety of weapons and consumables are also present, but they do not change the gameplay to a great extent. The absence of different bows other than the starting one is also disappointing, There are a lot of different enemy types, some of which can be unlocked as player-controled characters which adds to the game's replayability. The levels are numerous and with a different feel to most of them. One of the most pleasant surprises was how long the game was. Definetely the best co-op side-scroller I have played and I have played a decent number of them.