Crossy Road Castle Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · Published September 10, 2024 · Updated September 13, 2024

Crossy Road Castle Review, Familiar Crossy favorites make for a cast of colorful characters with golden hearts and only slightly questionable brain power… now console players can join up and join in on the latest and greatest of castle climbs! Crossy Road Castle is PACKED to the turrets with multiplayer, platforming arcade fun! Come on and join in on the fun.

Crossy Road Castle Review Pros:

Classic blocky pixel graphics.
1.01GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Own in-game achievements like system.
Fast-paced platformer gameplay.
The opening tutorial section then the odd popup.
The goal of the game is to get through a room and make it to the next room going up a level of a tower each time.
Coins can be collected and grabbed by killing enemies.
Tokens are harder to get but can be found in the world.
Gems are hidden behind green doors that take you to a seperate instance.
Hearts – you have X amount of hearts and lose one after each death, you can spend coins on hearts at set levels in a tower, and losing them all ends your run.
Simple one button for jump controls making it very accessible.
Every 100-room clears will give you a key that you can use to open a new tower.
Each tower has its own theme and mechanics, and you can unlock them in any order.
Towers also offer unique rewards and stickers.
2 to 4-player local co-op support.
Two gatcha machines one for coins and one for tokens, these dole out new characters and hats.
Stickers are like achievements and you can check the journal for unlock conditions.
Highly playable.
Very addictive.
Has that one-more-go mentality.
Ten total towers to unlock.
Crossplay can be turned on and off.
Uses the controller speaker for character noises and fart sound effects upon death. You have in-game controller volume options.
Challenges will rotate and you have one main run where it’s like clear 20 rooms as fast as possible and then it will have a couple of longer missions that can be chipped at over time like doing 500 jumps.
Each tower has its own collection entry keeping tabs on how many hats, characters, and stickers you have unlocked.
So much fun to play.
Online multiplayer support.
It’s a 2D world but does a cool 3D tower rotation when going into the next room.
Clever level design and in particular has memorable boss battles.

Crossy Road Castle Review Cons:

You cannot remap the controls.
The screenshake options are only on and reduced, not off.
The movement takes some getting used to as it is very responsive.
At times it can be hard to know what to do.
Starting new towers is always work as you try to work out new mechanics on the fly.
FYI but online requires a Playstation Plus subscription.
No way to replay a room.
Rooms do repeat themselves quite a bit.
You don’t get coins for killing enemies with spikes or getting them to go off-screen.
I wish you could pin sticker requirements as I forget about them when I’m in the game.
It is definitely a mobile game blown up big.

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