Castle Story
Castle Story Review
The game itself looks alright. Nothing about the game is visually stunning, but that isn’t a detriment to the game. If anything, the lack of over stylized design makes it easier to understand what’s going on and what all your Bricktrons are doing. Bricktrons are the little yellow guys you see throughout the game. Their yellow blobby shape was endearing as they continuously worked, gathering resources and building up our castles. Speaking of castles, there’s nothing extraordinary about them, they look and feel like a castle should. The whole game has this playful look to it.
The game’s music lends itself to that playful atmosphere. Nothing in the game’s sound design will be etched in time as a classic. The tracks that play throughout the game serve to help carry the player through the game. Sound effects are there and they serve their purposes much like the background music. There isn’t anything positive to say about the sound design but there’s nothing negative.
If there’s one thing I felt when playing this game, I felt like a child playing with my blocks and action figures again. The act of building up my castle and then having to defend it from monsters that were trying to destroy it felt just like my childhood memories. Playing the game however, was not as simple as my childhood pastime. For starters, the game is missing a proper tutorial. Normally I’d be okay with that. Figuring out a game and how to do things is not something I’m against. But in this game, I needed to seek some sort of instruction. The game has an in-game manual of sorts that attempts to teach you how to play but the game doesn’t pause of even disable your controls while you read. This leads to wasted time and sometimes you perform actions that you didn’t intend to do while trying to read the guide. Luckily, developer Sauropod Studio has made a series of tutorial videos that can be watched online and I recommend them to anyone trying to learn this game.
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