Castle Pals

This is a fantastic game, and it’s well worth the $1.99 to disable ads, but the controls for one of the characters are absolutely dismal. It wasn’t too much of an issue until quite a ways into the game, but the flying function is awful. Rather than holding it down to fly, you have to rapidly press the button to stay afloat, and there are times when you ascend really sluggishly, or it just plain fails and you drop like a stone, often to your death. And since there’s audio feedback in the form of a propeller sound whenever you press it, I know it’s not just a matter of me missing the button. Like I said, this game is great up to a point, but there’s a level in the third act that has such little margin for error that this design flaw completely spoils all of the fun.

I figured that this game would be extremely easy. The art style immediately made me think that this would be a more laid back platformer. I definitely wasn’t expecting this. This game is not unfair, and it is a far cry from the types of games that are notoriously difficult, so don’t expect something crazy out of this, but do expect something where you will die a few times per level. The only problem I have is that when you get a checkpoint and die, the gold medal timer goes to 0 seconds and doesn’t change. For some reason this doesn’t allow you to get a gold medal on the level, forcing you to do it all in one go. It is a minor glitch though, and I do enjoy the game otherwise.

When I first started playing, the game was super easy, but definitely got progressively harder. Highly recommend this game to anyone who wants to kill some time. Not only do you have the main game, but you have the time trials for the gold medals, and then another fun addition to the game ;). Hope that the developer will add more acts to the game. Would definitely play more levels! Even the ads didn’t bother me. It actually benefited my playing by giving me a quick break to think through the level! Keep up the good work!

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The concept is fun, but the game kind of ruins it for me. The hitboxes of the buttons are not in the right spot, so so when I tap the bottom half of the button nothing happens. The hitboxes are super unforgiving for enemies and your characters too. If you hit an enemy from diagonally above them, you die. The level and things in it move before you have moved, causing lots of cheap deaths when timings change. To be honest, I feel like the main goal of this game was to get people to die over and over and watch all of the ADS. This game is full of ads. You die 5 or so times and you get an ad. And it’s not just a “click an X and get on with your day” kind of ad, no, it’s a full 30 second ad. Cool concept but the cheap deaths, hitboxes, and ads ruin it. 2/5

Usually games like this tend to be pretty lame when all you get is left right jump or duck, etc. But this game has mechanics that make it fun, two characters with completely different approaches to each level, and being able to speedrun games like this is amazing. I absolutely love the good art style for the game and the funny little story jokes, definitely one of, if not, the best pixel style games ever made for mobile.