Castle Crashing “The Beard”
Genre: Beard Slaying 2D Action
Platform: Browser (Flash)
Developed by: BoMToons & Luis Castanon
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The Scoop: Castle Crashing the Beard is a remarkably fun & good-looking flash game, considering that it is basically based off of an inside joke. But then again, so is Hedgehog Launch, and that one turned out pretty great, as well.
The basic premise is that Castle Crashers developer (and Newgrounds magnate) Tom Fulp agreed to not shave his beard until Castle Crashers launched. This is a game based on annihilating that evil, evil beard.
Unlike the real Castle Crashers, CCtB is fully 2D. The game is basically one big bossfight – just you, and a disembodied head, in a single arena. The boss’s patterns are fairly basic, but it’ll still probably take you a few attempts to get through both forms.
To help you along, the game includes a basic experience & combo system. Each hit in a combo ups the amount of experience you earn (+1 for the first hit, +2 for the second, etc). So, if you can manage to string together a big combo, you can actually level-up very quickly, reducing the game’s challenge significantly.
The entire thing is over too quickly – I’d like to play a whole sidescroller with this level of quality gameplay & art. I think I actually like the pure 2D more than Castle Crasher’s pseudo 2D, in fact.
(6 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5)
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Links:
Kongregate Mirror
Video Run-through
Indiegames.com Write-Up
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He’s right, the game is a blast but too short…
Too much fun and nice but simple controls made me play this for much longer than I should have.