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Knights Of The Magical Light

March 10th, 2010

I often find myself whining about “new games”, it normally goes something along the lines of why don’t they concentrate on gameplay as opposed to high end graphics, of course I am basically referring to in my mind “the golden age of gaming”- the Megadrive and Snes era. Perhaps it’s me reminiscing wildly about my childhood but I can still happily sit down and play through Earthworm Jim or Streets Of Rage 2 of an evening and feel gleefully fulfilled. No over the top cutscenes, no fancy lighting effects and dynamic 3dee just good old fashioned gameplay.

Then, something happened on XBLA.  4 magical knights arrived on the scene, in the form of Castle Crashers.

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