Crush the Castle 12+

Been playing this game off and on over the past 15 years. Played the original on the PC and didn’t hesitate to acquire the ported version on the iPhone when it was released. The only reason I didn’t give this five stars is because I vividly remember having more fun when I played it for the first time on the PC. There were more features with the new items that were introduced for each map and region. They DO give you new items on this version but it just isn’t the same when I played this on the PC.

All in all, this is a fun game to help kill time and it brings back memories from when I first played it. Not as good as the original but it gets the job done. 👍

Either the rose tinted glasses were darker than i thought or they messed up some things in the port because its not as good as I remember. The upsides are the fun and quirky variety or throwables and how some are satisfying… but thats if they work right. For example, one mission required pinpoint precision with a firebomb to set the wood in the castle on fire to be a one shot, but it didn’t spread to everything for some reason making me do the difficult shot again and only on the third time did it spread properly. Another was where i had to launch a block at a castle using a well placed bomb, but the block hit the ground like it was magnetic and lost all momentum making me do the hard shot again. All this precise work with a funky trebuchet just to have your amazing shot be worthless really killed the fun of some creative levels. Its a bit of old school fun but not worth the money.

If you’re like me, who played the flash version of this game years ago, possible in school? Maybe at work for others. This was one of my favorite flash games and when I saw that there was a mobile port of it I knew I wanted it eventually, and so I got it. It is quite fun, some challenging levels but not many.

My only real problem with the game is that it doesn’t contain the original levels (maybe a few are from the original game, but the artwork remains the same which is nice) and I feel the weapons you can use have been tweaked or just don’t feel as powerful as the flash version of the game.

In the original game, I liked that every new region you’d be introduced by some weapon smith giving you a new item to use, which is absent in this game. You do get new items, not in the same order as the original version.

All in all, it’s decent, it contains the original Artwork, while giving some newer graphical changes, such as to the items you use against castles.

I however wish there was more levels, I went for gold as I went along as when I finished all levels I had nothing further to do, and the “Editor” is very weird to use, at least for me. It’s hard to even things out.