The Blacksmith is a special location on the Overworld map that allows players to switch between different found weapons and animal orbs. There are also stores, allowing players to buy healing potions, sandwiches, weapons, and various other items to aid them during gameplay. There are also arena stages, where players are pit in a battle royale against waves of enemies of varying types (unlocking new characters when each stage is completed). There are 36 main levels (that can be later revisited in the Overworld map) split into eight sections. Players must travel from stage to stage, defeating bosses and gaining special items, in order to rescue the four princesses and reclaim the magic crystal from the Evil Wizard. Story Mode is the default mode in the game and can be played with up to four players at a time.
The Magic button does not perform any abilities right away, and must be held while pressing another button to perform magic attacks and abilities. Each player has a Light Attack button (X on the 360), a Heavy Attack button (Y on the 360), a Jump button (A on the 360), an Item button (B on the 360), a Block button (LT on the 360), a Magic button (RT on the 360), and two Item Select buttons (LB and RB on the 360). GameplayĬastle Crashers plays like a traditional arcade side-scrolling beat-em-up.
Most changes to this version were also made available in the Steam version as a free update on October 14, 2015.
It was later ported to both the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on September 17, 2019. It later received an enhanced port (as Castle Crashers Remastered) for the Xbox One on September 8, 2015, featuring higher-quality textures, improved performance, and bonus content.
The game not only has references to Behemoth's earlier game Alien Hominid, but also Newgrounds itself and some of the other internet memes of the time.Īlong with numerous DLC (including new characters and weapons), the game was later ported to the PlayStation 3 on August 31, 2010, and to both the PC and Mac (via Steam) on September 26, 2012.
Because of The Behemoth's relation to the Newgrounds community, almost all of the game's soundtrack is created by the community members (and is available to download for free).
Inspired by retro co-operative beat-em-ups of the '90s, the game features an adventure mode for up to four players (either locally, online, or a mixture of both), numerous playable characters and weapons, and light action-RPG elements (allowing players to gain experience and upgrade character stats and abilities). Castle Crashers is a 2D fantasy belt-scrolling brawler developed and digitally published by The Behemoth for the Xbox 360 on August 27, 2008.