Castle Crashers: 15 minutes of castle crashing

Tom of the Behemoth list Guardian Heroes / Treasure's games in general as being his core inspiration (while Dan list River City Ransom), so I'm really hoping this game lives up to its greatness.

on a side note***

is anyone else having problems with the new comment system remembering ur email address? I have the "remember me" boxed checked!

I am. It won't remember my email either. I also don't like how the 'Returning' tab is not on the top.
Oh well.

Aye it's a lot more fiddly to post a comment now.

I agree Johnny. I saw the video of it the other day because so many people have been talking about this, but I don't see what is supposed to be great about it?

I tried the demo of Braid before hearing any reviews about it and thought it was one of the worst games I have ever played. I didn't know it was going to be considered by people as one of the greatest games ever. I played through the demo anyways to see if I would like it, but it turned out to just be a waste of time.

Side-scrolling brawlers are very rare now-a-days, yet, back in the 90s, they where among the best games to play with friends, in the arcades.

4 players on an adventure, smashing through the enemy lines, making progress against progressively larger enemies, bigger challenges, learning boss tactics, and in turn, how to perfectly defend against them... the surprise and coolness of finding new items that noone has seen before, competing for score, as well as trying to be the most impressive out of your group... "Man, I've wasted 4 credits getting here, how'd you not die once?! Amazing!"

Have you never played a game of this genre before? If not, grab TMNT or Streets of Rage 2 off the Arcade, and find 3 other friends (TMNT) or just 1 more (SOR2), and see if you can imagine how much more Castle Crashers myriad of features would add to the already excellent experiences.

Because people love laidback 4 player games because they are really fun thing to do with friends.