Indie Games Spotlight for July 29th, 2012

Indie Games Spotlight for July 29th, 2012

Castle Pain literally brings the pain

Written by mancide on 29 July 12 at 17:41

PLATFORMANCE: Castle Pain brings a brutal platforming style to a mid-evil setting.

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Can you save the princess? Will you get to the end of Castle Pain (and brag about it with your scoreboard)? As an heavily armored knight you must succeed in various challenging platform goodness: Slalom between bird droppings, avoid giant fireballs, flee from the ghost, escape a giant octopus, brave blood thirsty bats and much more... Let the quest begin!

RELEASE DATE: 7/24/2010
DEVELOPER: Magiko Gaming
GENRE: Platformer

FEATURES
Offline players 1
Dolby Digital
Brutal. That one word does so much to describe the experience in PLATFORMANCE: Castle Pain than any other word in the dictionary. If you loved Super Meat Boy, you will love Castle Pain just as much.

The game has relatively simple controls. Your A button performs all the actions of your knight, and your left stick controls your movement. The rest is a trial-and-error series of brutal platforming tasks to get you to the end, and save the princess. That is, if you don't give up to go cry in the corner like a little girl before then.

Luckily, for you that is, there are candlesticks scattered about your path that act as check-points. A death will only take you back to your last lit candlestick, so you do not have to attempt a perfect run through this brutal gauntlet of platforms.

For only 80 MSP you will get the full version of this game. I strongly encourage only those with great reflexes and strong wills to attempt this game, unless you like abusing yourself to the point of cowering in the corner of your gaming cave.

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Castlevania meets Super Meat Boy? Interesting...
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My very poor 22 death run on easy mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY6u2WPdjPA. Love these short indie games.
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Wish we had indie games in Ireland :(.
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Xonatron said:My very poor 22 death run on easy mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY6u2WPdjPA. Love these short indie games.Wow, it really was pretty short! Some of those parts looked annoying, but at least I don't feel the need to play the game anymore. :D
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At 80 pts, I cant imagine I wont get my moneys worth out of it...
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Posted on 30 July 12 at 08:32, Edited on 30 July 12 at 08:39 by JaggyTT
Grabbed this on the sons console,, Lasted all of 15 seconds before he deleted it, Saying it was rubbish and would rather iron his hands than waste another 15 seconds of his life lol,, To me it`s just a Mario copy...
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Posted on 31 July 12 at 11:14
There are actually two Platformance games on the XBLIG marketplace. This is the better of the two in my opinion though.

Very well made, but VERY frustrating!