Madcap Castle

Madcap Castle is a precision platformer where you have to get to the exit but each room has requirements such as pushing all buttons and killing all enemies. Many different traps and enemies are placed in such a way that the rooms won’t be a simple A to B walk. You have one skill that changes halfway through each castle (a world with 15 puzzles including 1 boss). There are 10 castles with their own gimmicks. The gameboy style in terms of graphics and music is charming. There is a lot of content for the price paid. The skills, levels and bosses have creative ideas and it can feel great to clear levels/bosses sometimes. I like what the game is trying to do as it’s my kind of game. The big issue that ruins things is the way challenge is achieved. There is fair challenge where a game can be incredibly challenging but the controls are perfect, the enemy behaviour is predictable, the traps are consistent and you know what you’re supposed to do. Madcap Castle is extremely challenging while it fails at all those elements. It requires perfect precision (sometimes with an inch difference) while there are some things that are seriously wrong. To give some examples: -Enemies: rats can som…

Fun puzzle platformer!

Finally I completed the game with all levels zero death. My first challenge of hell in 2024. If I knew the journey was that tricky and awful, I would think twice before buying this game. Have to say some designs are very smart, while the flaws are just as astonishing. I doubt whether they tested every level, quality control is definitely missing in this game. Some levels are extremely easy to beat, while others? I do not even think the developers want you to complete the game, they only want you to get mad. Unless you really want to challenge yourself at a high level, do not consider this game. Very few can play to the end, not even the developers themselves I guess.

Ok if bought on a sale for 50 cents or so

That's an amazing game created in Brazil! Awesome!

It is always good to remember the good games of GameBoy, this game gave me this pleasure to relegate my adolescence, with a current game design and good challenges for my rusty fingers.