"BattleBlock Theater is an exceptional experience full of laughs and tight gameplay. The options given to you are plentiful, creative and addicting and the customization allows you to keep playing after the presets have grown tiresome. There are hundreds of unlockable heads to find and the additional “co-optional” gameplay rounds out the already voluminous gameplay giving you the absolute most for your dollar. The ranking system is a bit clunky as there is no clock to tell you when you’ve achieved the best time for an area, but regardless, the concept extends even the story mode. This game is a must buy if you love nonsense or are looking for a new chaotic party game to play with friends." - Alex Cabral of Geekenstein.com
Castle Crashers is just as fun today as it was a decade ago, writes Gazette gaming columnist Jake Magee.
Newgrounds fundamentally changed indie gaming and independent animation. Now it's struggling for the very reasons it was so influential -- creative freedom.
Interesting story. I haven't heard about newgrounds in years. The site was great and I hope the people that still frequent the site choose to support it. If not, you should give it a Viking funeral.
Geraint at GameSpew.com writes: "From The Behemoth, creators of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers, comes this little gem of a puzzle-platformer.
Having grown up on early-90s platformers like Commander Keen and Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure, and playing both of The Behemoth’s previous titles, it seemed only a natural choice to pick up the fabulous Battleblock Theater.
The Behemoth have advanced their status in the gaming world by finally adding actual speech to their games instead of just speech bubbles filled with witticisms and exclamations. They have employed the voice talents of Will Stamper of Newgrounds, StamperTV and OneyCartoons. Here, he is the much-loved-and-loathed narrator."
