

Just like the cover art would imply Crystal Castles is presented in isometric 3D. Eventually you will work around the gameplay issues. But I have found these things to be minor annoyances and don't cause enough wrongful deaths to be a big problem. Sometimes enemies will even get stuck behind walls leaving you to try and use yourself as bait to get them unstuck so you can get the gems they are sitting on. But enemies always try to take a direct course towards you so they may get you on your landing If you aren't careful. You can also jump over enemies which allows for more skill than Pac-Man and even a little more strategy. It doesn't prove to be to big of a problem though and will only happen a couple of times during a game. You may have to go back and pick up a couple of gems but that is a problem when there are enemies around.
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Most of the time you will zip through gems just to have one not be picked up. Collision detection when trying to pick up the gems isn't the greatest though. The game plays like a 3-dimensional Pac-Man for the most part. If you pick up a hat then you will be invincible temporarily. Enemies such as skeletons, trees and a witch will try and stop you and any contact with them will take away one of your lives. The only way he can get out of the castle and move on to the next one is by picking up all the gems and then be teleported. It seems that our friend Bentley Bear is trapped in an evil witch's castle. So I plugged the cartridge into my deck and was pleasantly surprised when I played this little gem (no pun intended). I didn't know what to think when I saw the label on the cartridge though. Now you can see how shocked I was when It turned out to be an arcade game with a bright boot wearing bear making his way through castles. I imagined that it would be some kind of adventure or rpg with a sword wielding hero making his way through castles. Before I played the game the name of it gave me a completly different idea of gameplay. Crystal Castles is based on the arcade game of the same name.
