Description
**IGN: “If you grew up on NES and Genesis, this game is a love letter, written expressly to you.”
**Appadvice: “Castle of Magic seems to be a culmination of the greatest platformers in video game history.”
**SlidetoPlay: “Step aside Mario and Sonic.”
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Finally, a platformer on the App Store packed with every feature of the best games of the genre!
Be prepared for anything as you try to save your friend from the clutches of the horrifying magician Nefastax!
Master numerous magical powers, discover beautiful enchanted worlds, stand up to the wildest monsters, transform yourself into powerful creatures, and even walk on the ceiling when gravity disappears!
Isn’t it time to believe in magic again?
Plunge into the magic:
• 5 beautiful 3D environments, each in a different material influencing the gameplay: slip on ice, swim in the sea, levitate in space, get glued in pastry, and more!
• Transform yourself into 6 different characters, each with a different power: a hunter casting arrows; the invincible fat man; the reckless swordfish, and more.
• 6 different bosses and a huge variety of enemies: from a giant snake, an octopus, a space-ship, snow-man, and more!
• Accelerometer use: shake your device to release superpowers.
• Tons of secondary quests: Find witches hats to win extra lives and search for secret worlds to maximize your diamond collection.
********************************************************************************
Follow the official Twitter account to get more info about the game: http://twitter.com/CastleOfMagic
What's New in Version 1.0.4
When resuming your game, you will restart from the last checkpoint instead of restarting at the beginning of the level.
Customer Reviews
A spellbinding experience
I’m sure many of us have imagined ourselves with special physical powers or in a world of make believe with awesome creatures and wondrous lands. That is what you have with Castle of Magic, an impressive 2D platformer that combines vibrant 3D graphics, fun and lively gameplay, and a lighthearted story that should keep you entertained for hours.
The beginning of the story is one many of us in the gaming community can relate to: boy breaks video game console, boy takes girlfriend to go exploring, boy and girl get into trouble. Of course in Castle of Magic, the trouble is a little more interesting than getting yelled at by parents. Boy (that’s how he’s referred in the game) and Jenny find a treasure chest that takes them on a ride into magical worlds where Jenny gets kidnapped by the evil (and dirty) magician Nesfastax
While the game is challenging, Castle of Magic has a certain charm that should put a smile on anyone’s face. The lighthearted soundtrack and the cute antics of the main character along with the various power up transformations of Boy really makes this game a joy to play. Castle of Magic has 5 great looking worlds—space, water, ice, forest and candyland—each with three sub-levels, and culminating in one final epic showdown. Visually, the environments are vibrant and detailed in the way a children’s story book would come alive, and they run smoothly on my iPod Touch 2g.
The game is controlled by a d-pad with two ability buttons. One is the jump button which you tap once to jump, tap twice to double jump and finally hold to parasail using the cape. The other ability button is based on the power up which I’ll get shortly. The controls are spot on, intuitive enough that even younger kids should be able to pick this up and play.
Throughout the levels depending on the theme, Boy will come across power ups that transform him into a hunter, spaceman, wizard, a swordfish, and my favorite, the invincible fat guy. The ability changes based on his specific power up; for example, as a hunter, the ability button allows him to shoot arrows. One of the most creative aspects of the game, and easily the best part for me is watching Boy transform into a multitude of characters, which only adds to the overall charm of the game.
There are 6 different bosses: Snake, Octopus, Spaceship, Snowman, Bee and Nesfastax. And, throughout the game, you will come across different and fun-looking monsters from bees to pirates to snowmen, which can be knocked off either by jumping on them or using the ability button to attack them. Of course, if you’re attacked by an enemy, all the diamonds collected start moving away from you, giving you a few seconds to try and re-collect them, although you can use the accelerometer to tilt them back towards Boy.
Besides attacking and dodging enemies, collecting the purple diamonds is important because for every 100 collected, you earn another life. As long as Boy has one diamond to his name, he can withstand any enemy attack. After that, it’s sayonara Castle of Magic. Throughout the levels, power ups appear as shining question marks, witch hats for extra lives, and secret doors that lead into smaller worlds where you can collect additional purple diamonds.
Castle of Magic delivers a good deal of fun as Boy jumps from platform to platform, dodging enemies, and collecting diamonds. The eye catching environments and the fast-paced gameplay make this a particularly fun platformer. While the limited number of levels may be frowned upon by some, the big selling point for Castle of Magic is that it has a playful aspect to it where you really do play for fun, which I think we sometimes forget is the point of games.
I hate platformers
Now THIS is a 5 star quality game. I own over 140 games on the app store and I can count on two hands the ones I think are worth 5 stars. I grew up with the NES and played enough platformers to hate the genre. It's like eating too much candy corn. (god I hate that candy)
Anyway, this is game is top notch. Unbelievably polished. Why it hasn't ended up on Apple staff picks with more user reviews is BEYOND me. The level of production in to this game is unbelievable. (no really, i'm not kidding). You have to play it to see for yourself. The sound is superb, and the music is extremely upbeat and enjoyable. The graphics are amazing, probably because it is a full 3d platformer, which is why the framerate is a bit lower. It's the only real gripe I have with the game, but with the amount of stuff they are pulling off with this game, it doesn't surprise me. I didn't think the iPhone was capable of doing this. I didn't think the control setup would actually work. But it does. It's a little cumbersome at first, but you get used to it.
The ability to turn in to different wizard costumes is sweet. The animation for it is enjoyable to watch every time, and his powers are cool! (I love the added touch of scaling walls with your own arrows in the robin hood costume!)
This game is polished. This is no cheap knock off platformer. This is the real deal folks. You get what you pay for with this game. Thank god, after spending as much money as I have in this damn store, it's extremely refreshing to get your money's worth!
EPIC! BUY IT! LOVE IT!
5 stars. Gonna go play some more...
great game!!
this game was worth every penny. it isn't too short and you will have a lot of fun playing it. easy controls and exciting levels.
- Category: Games
- Updated Aug 01, 2009
- Current Version: 1.0.4
- 1.0.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 76.9 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
- Seller: Gameloft S.A.
- © 2008 Gameloft. All rights reserved. Gameloft and the Gameloft logo are trademarks of Gameloft in the US and/or other countries.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
