Castle Crashers is set in a fictional medieval universe. It begins with four knights attending a party in a king's castle. During the party a dark wizard arrives, stealing a floating mystical gem and capturing four princesses. The king sends the four knights to retrieve the gem, rescue his daughters, and bring the wizard to justice. The four knights encounter several enemies along the way, including other knights, multiple encounters with a cyclops, a giant "cat-fish", and alien invaders.

As you get closer to saving the princesses as you take on hoards of enemies that become stranger the further you progress through the story, you soon realise the bigger picture, your a tiny knight with a not very powerful sword. There aren't boring cut scenes to sit through during this game all the story plays out right in front of you often by entering a room you'll trigger the next piece in the timeline. The story isn't very long, or complicated or brilliantly well written, but it doesn't need to be because you have one mission, kill things that move - save princesses, as long as you understand that you can't go wrong.

Button bash your way to stardom in each level dying as little as possible and making sure your the one handing out massive combos. The game lets you start with one weapon although you can pick up better weapons (even a carrot). That said the weapons are not what's key to victory in this game, it's all about experience. The higher your level the faster you can chop heads off, sounds obvious but it took me ages to realise the importance of dishing out my xp rewards properly to make sure I had a character with statistics that would rival even the best. Once you have that sorted you'll find yourself hitting enemies so fast that you'll be able to juggle them in the sky in no time. You can upgrade things like Agility, Strength, Magic. Depending on your play style and what you know to be your characters strong points.
The single player is great fun on it's own, even online with friends the story becomes a good way to boast about your almost invincible character. But trust me the real test is when you brave your skills and enter the almighty button bash fest that is multiplayer, again great with friends, or for the serious addict you can crush other knights in ranked matches which include modes like fight to the death, treasure hunt and other random words.

Considering this game first emerged on consoles back in 2008 as a downloadable item the graphics are not as bad as they should be, it's nice to look at very bright and almost like looking at a comic book, if that comic book was coloured using highlighters.
When playing this you have to remember this is a side scrolling RPG who's roots began back when online games were all free and the developers were just happy to have people playing their stuff. Then of course the bigger console companies got hold of it and demanded a new look, this was for the best though, the game can handle tones of enemies on screen at once and at points it can get pretty busy so busy you loose your player, but still it keeps going and won't let you down, unless you play online with a terrible host then you can expect so much lag you'll think your watching a flip book. But that rarely happens any more. I promise.