Crypt Custodian Review | Bytesized

[@milesprower8]

If your joybone is tickled for more than 6 hours please see a doctor

[@LucaTheStar]

I thought it was 4

[@wfryco9246]

Ooo! Heavy "Hyper Light Drifter" vibes! Ok, yep, just purchased. Fantastic review Javid!

[@BlackReaper0]

"joybone" should be a thing, in fact, all emotion bones should.

[@LucaTheStar]

Rage bone is just one letter away from being something else again

[@foldupgames]

The environmental styling and gameplay remind me of Hyper Light Drifter.

[@RougeEric]

Please wear protection on your joybone. Don't contribute to the spread of bad feelings.

[@noojbrowncow]

I love Javed's comment on the confidence of a game just doing the thing it set out to do without resorting to material collection, crafting, Frankensteining other genres etc. This is why I fell in love with indie games in the first place. This one looks like a must-buy for me!

[@Taenarius]

I don't know if I'd call this a platformer at all, platformers tend to be defined by their traversal methods being the primary focus, while this game clearly has combat as the primary focus. I'd be more likely to refer to this game as a hack and slash, even if that term is more often attributed to spectacle fighters/character action games in the modern age (quite erroneously in my opinion, spectacle fighters have a complexity to their systems that makes me think the term hack and slash is unsuitable).

[@doctorwhouse3881]

It's a hack and slash Metroidvania.

[@Ishtarru]

So that's what Mao Mao has been doing since WBD canceled his show.

[@DruidicVixen]

Man, I heard of this game forever ago and thought it was super cool looking at the time - but then there was a string of games that came out a little while after about being a new reaper that I thought I had misremembered it as one of them, even if it didn't look much like what I was expecting (e.g. Death's Door). Really glad this review came out as not only does it sound right up my alley, but also lets me know I wasn't going insane!

[@revzsaz9418]

Thanks for playing Javed 🙏🏻 This looks exactly like what I need after Death's Door. It's not available yet at time of comment, but I'm buying CC as soon as I can. Cheers and thanks for this review 🍻

[@doomraven0]

I am roughly 3 hours in and absolutely loving the experience on every front. A truly magical gaming experience especially for only 17 dollars.

[@skellybone8]

My joybone felt delightfully tickled whilst playing this game. 10/10 would recommend

[@juantoledo5248]

Ma boy GoodBlood on the mic! Fantastic as always.

[@Agent_Cube]

truly a meowtroidvania

[@marcelmartinez4916]

It's giving the Demon Tower minigame from Night in the Woods, though a cat in a dungeon is a pretty low bar of similarity. Looks fun, great vid 😊

[@elarielo]

No skill trees, no material collecting, and no crafting? I don't care about the rest of the game, I'm already sold.

[@Meep9092]

Excellent review! I can't wait to play it!

[@Ravenlock]

Sold! Thanks for the excellent review.

[@sams.975]

Ooh dang. This sounds good. Maybe I should watch more Bytesized videos.

[@Redeemer8916]

That is an incredible recommendation. I'm running right now!!

[@TheGamingWard]

LOVE this game. Just simple fun, adorable art, lovely music. SO good

[@JaredJeyaretnam]

Just 100%ed it! It’s such a fun game 😊 and I loved the characters and the story too

[@thetruemandalorian2637]

Ooo I very much enjoyed this review. Fantastic job.

[@deebzscrub]

I've been looking forward to this one for a while now, glad to hear that it's as fun as it seemed

[@TheTyper]

Played the demo for this (which was REALLY generous, I think I spent close to 3 hours in it), had a great time with it! Not that complex but the puzzles were challenging. I will say the music in the demo felt really unbalanced with the sound and I had to turn the music almost entirely off. Hopefully that came out better in the final release.

[@derekstein6193]

Black cats are always main characters.

[@latinojackson9694]

Stray begs to differ lol

[@ianhubble9973]

Nine Sols also begs to differ

[@derekstein6193]

Even if they are not the protagonist, my statement remains the same.

[@kalem1527]

Hadn't heard anything about this. Picked it up today and loving it!

[@illanesfco]

So glad to hear this game is delivering! I really enjoyed the demo.

[@senditall152]

Great review. Made me want to get the game.

[@CorneleusGreen]

Absolutely incredible lil' review. All your talking points were poignant and true. I just 100 percented the game in kind. I will shout this gems existence from the rooftop! More folks need to tidy up in this delightful romp🧹

[@88Opportunist]

If you want this but 2D then check out the dev's earlier game, Islets.

[@majormoron605]

Joybone sounds like a euphemism...

[@isaacwoods2918]

Looks like its made by the developer of Islets, which was also a very good metroidvania

[@Oisin2]

Great review and video! My only question - all pros and no cons?

[@Oymon]

You know, it took a good 30 seconds for the penny to drop, but I knew I recognised you voice from that Ocarina Of Time video. XD

[@merman1974]

Very interesting, it does sound like something I would enjoy - a certain game I am playing at the moment also has an afterlife-linked theme but ladled on extra mechanics and collectables that took away the purity of the experience.

[@SpikeRosered]

I played the demo after loving Islets. Honestly it didn't really grab me.

[@doctorwhouse3881]

Have you played Sheepo? It's rough at times, but it's rather entertaining.

[@CrossFireKitty]

I just played the demo and found it fun so I had to buy it on the spot...and than watch reviews ;) just to confirm if I'd made a good choice for sure. ;)

[@markdennis7512]

Pluto really looks like Mao Mao

[@meowzzies]

You had me at joy bone tickler

[@muntantmonsterx4365]

Ah yes a game about the underworld staring a cat named after the god of the underworld. Very fitting, looks cool

[@metaloverlord7465]

Well that's 20 bucks soon to be removed from my wallet!

[@ashuggtube]

Yeah, the joy bone's connected to the yay bone

[@gakuka]

Sold!

[@TheCroOdin]

just finished a demo on PS5 and bought the game just to find out I have to do that first hour all over again. not a deal breaker but defo not happy with it

[@zakshafique408]

This is like a deaths door sequel

[@VeritabIlIti]

Can an isometric game be a platformer? Anyway, thanks for the review! I think we can allow "joybone" to become a staple at this point

[@doctorwhouse3881]

If it contains frequent sections where you navigate via jumps, yes.

[@DreamblitzX]

welcome back hyper light drifter

[@Anuskasv0]

Fun game!

[@damie9412]

Nice

[@QuitsGosling644]

i have the feeling its from the same people as islets is.

[@yodal_]

0:20 Funnest? Are we accepting that as a word now?

[@user-ur4nl6dq2x]

Yes

[@tasteyfoood]

@@yodal_ boo linguistic prescriptivism

[@GoodBloodGames]

If Shakespeare can make up new words then so can I. Also, funnest is in the dictionary it’s just not used often.

[@user__214]

Has been for over a century.

[@TheDoc73]

Honestly, I feel offended by the assertion that this game makes the case for games not needing to be complex to be fun or engrossing. From your script to the gameplay video you showcase, it's pretty evident that this game is plenty complex. It's a bit like saying classic Mega Man or Mario games aren't complex. Straightforward gamaeplay does not preclude a game from harboring complexity. By the same reasoning, crafting and skill trees do not inherently make a game complex. If those systems are not integral to the experience, they will never add additional complexity. Top two examples being Horizon Zero Dawn and the next-gen God of War games. In Horizon, crafting is a nonstop grind-fest with the game assaulting players with hints to craft items, quests to learn how to craft items, and gather-able resources never more than 1 second away from the player at any given time. And yet this does not make the game more complex because despite all of that it is not integral to the game. You can and very well might play the entire game without crafting anything. As an action-platformer thinly veiled as an RPG, Horizon's gameplay revolves entirely around movement and the utilization of various weapons with tougher enemies always being weak to specific types of weapons. Sound like Mega Man? Because yeah, it's just Mega Man. And that's FINE. The skill trees and crafting actually served to detract from what would have been an amazing core gameplay loop. GoW is similar, but more focused on skill/upgrade "trees". GoW and Ragnarok can not only both be played without upgrading anything, the only upgrades that ultimately help the player are damage and defense boosts. These are both things done BETTER in the original GoW game series. Where the new games let you 'customize' a couple weapons, the old games gave players a vast array of weapons with linear upgrade paths. This approach of many weapons which flat-out became stronger through investment still let players customize to a desired playstyle, but did the same thing by providing them a selection of weapons that behaved in dramatically different ways, then let them decide which ones to use. Same outcome, but one pretends to create complexity through allowing players to make bad choices, while the other offers just as much complexity, but with every choice being equally valid.