Crossy Road Castle

So I’m going to admit, I didn’t like the original crossy road , it felt like I was being begged to pay the developers, I also haven’t had the best experience with Apple Arcade, many games were disappointing and only had minutes of content. nevertheless I tried this game. I did not know what a masterpiece of a game that I was buying. I love the difficulty, I love the music, I love how it’s a 2d platformer, I love the art style, I love everything about this game! It’s smart how each 10 levels is like a group all with the same theme and I really like how you can regenerate lives every 10 stages the bosses are fun and engaging, and not to mention the gems in the secret rooms! The gems really make me feel like I have a goal in this game. The best part about this game is how for the first 30 levels you can only get some levels, but the farther you go the cooler and more engaging the levels are! It should be a crime not to have this game! 5/5

There hasn’t been anything substantial added to the service in months, but Crossy Road Castle feels like a significant release. The level of polish here is astounding, and developer Hipster Whale proves once again that they can condense a game genre (2D platformer, in this case) down to its very essence, and create a simplified showcase of everything gamers love about it into one beautiful package. The learning curve is done excellently, and introduces players to new gameplay mechanics in a gentle and measured way, so that the player never feels overwhelmed by new enemy types or obstacles. The only downside is that since the game released with just one “castle” (which is just a series of curated levels) you’ll end up playing the same levels again and again when you start a new run. The boss fights do not change either as of now, so you’ll be stuck fighting the same eagle boss until the game receives further updates. All in all, the foundation for this game is incredibly solid. It looks great, controls great, and even little things like the in-game menus are crafted with care. I have no doubt this will be another hit for the studio, and it definitely gives Apple Arcade users another reason to keep their subscription renewed.

This is a very very good game, and worth the wait. The playability is so much fun, and the music is amazing. This game is so much fun, and the healing system is completely fair. Every 10 rooms, you can turn in 100 coins for a heart. The rooms are a very good element of this game. The fact that although it still is endless, it doesn’t feel like those ones that just go on and on. For an endless game, it is really good because instead of just hopping around, and that will get boring, is actually doing true platformers, not just the “you keep running “ Type is a rare gem. Although the tokens (purple coins with t) are hard to get, and you have to spend 100 of them to get a prize might be the main bad thing about this. However, this balanced the fact that there aren’t too many prizes, so I understand. And if the multiplayer isn’t working, check you’re Game Center settings to see if you’re signed in and allowed other people on the same WiFi network to invite you to their game. To sum it up, this is definitely one of the strong games with Apple Arcade, and if you had it you should get it.

First of all I wanna say this is an AMAZING GAME I absolutely love it and I think all of you should play it. Secondly, I wanna know when the age restriction will go away. I read some reviews about this game and I found out that the age restriction will be going away soon but I never found out when it’ll go away and so I’m curious when it will go away, because I have 3 years until I can do multiplayer, which isn’t much for me, but my little brother is 6 and I’m not really sure he’d be able to wait that long. I know we can do multiplayer on our parent’s devices, but I have a lot more progress on mine and I like playing on my device more. Thank you for reading this and again I absolutely love this game and really recommend it for everyone.

I loved Crossy Road, so I was happy to see a new release from Hipster Whale. This is basically a modern Mario clone, and ordinarily I love randomly generated games, but in this case its random nature works against itself. The game gets repetitive very quickly, and I tired of it after about a day having played through around forty or so levels. That said, it is very stylish, very polished, and controls very well on the screen. Clearly a lot of hard work went into its production, so bravo to the team involved. It would have been better presented in a format other than Arcade, in my opinion, and indeed, that appears to be the way it was developed originally given the way that it plays. This is less a criticism of Hipster Whale than Apple - I'll give it a year, but the polish wore off of Arcade much too fast. Apple just can't seem to get gaming right, going back decades; they squander every advantage from Airplay, to Apple TV to this service. Let's not talk about Pippin. I'd love to see more compelling games and less mediocre TV shows, Apple.