History YMMV / CastleCrashers

* {{Squick}}: The idea of the King being playable sounds fine until one realizes it's possible for him to kiss the Princesses. Even if it's unclear whether he's their biological father or simply their caretakers, the idea of an old man kissing what appear to be some young women can be very off-putting for many players. Could also be intentional given the game's medieval setting.

* WidgetSeries: Some of the [=NPCs=]' actions are pretty weird. For instance, every background animal in the Thieves' Forest has bowel issues, though you would probably shit uncontrollably too if you knew what those ominously loud stomps belonged to.

* CatharsisFactor: On Insane Mode's version of Desert, your final challenge is essentially what comes right before [[spoiler:the alien ships that spawn aliens]], provided you bring Hawkster with you. Why? Because [[the aliens will still die in one hit, which will cause Hawkster to bring you a lot of fruit, which pretty much ensures you will never die from that point on as long as you don't get overrun by the aliens]]. It's ''very'' rewarding considering how arduous the rest of the level is on Insane Mode.

** Hawkster. The game tells you he attacks enemies when they're knocked down. What it doesn't tell you is that he also lifts fruit off of dying enemies. Like, constantly. Makes Insane Mode ''way'' easier.

* TearJerker:
** One point during the "Barbarian War" level has one NPC Grey Knight performing CPR on another.
** The first boss fight against the Cyclops has him mourning the Conehead Groom's death, before attacking you in a tearful rage. Villainous as he is, ''[[YouBastard you still killed his beloved son.]]''
* ThatOneAchievement: The Final Countdown, which requires surviving the "Back Off Barbarian" minigame (present only in Remastered versions of the game, where it replaces "All You Can Quaff" from the original) until at least 2 minutes and 30 seconds have passed. The enemies get very aggressive as time goes on, and controlling your character in this mode is surprisingly difficult.

* GoodBadBug:

* Squick: The idea of the King being playable sounds fine until one realizes it's possible for him to kiss the Princesses. Even if it's unclear whether he's their biological father or simply their caretakers, the idea of an old man kissing what appear to be some young women can be very off-putting for many players. Could also be intentional given the game's medieval setting.

* DemonicSpiders: Beefy enemies fall under this. They don't flinch from normal hits, they do tons of damage, they throw you everywhere, and they almost always appear with normal enemies. Also, Fire Demons. Nigh-immune to fire damage, lots of HP, and they love to spam magic.

* GoddamnedBoss: The [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Corn Boss]], [[GetBackHereBoss which tends to go underground]] ''very'' often when low on health, annoying many players who fought him.

* GoodBadBug: The boomerang glitch lets you grind levels way faster than with standard gameplay.

* PortingDisaster: A very minor example, but despite the optimization, the first time release of the PC version has no keyboard button prompt, and you can't play two player by using controller and keyboard, forcing every hotseat player to use XBOX 360 (or compatible) gamepad.

* TearJerker: One point during the "Barbarian War" level has one NPC Grey Knight performing CPR on another.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There's a good chance [[spoiler:the Orange Princess was alive throughout the game, [[TheFaceless though her face was obscured through coincidence]]. One of the pictures in the Painter's room has a picture of an orange dress with a knife/sword in it. This makes it possible that Tricky ''killed her late into the game and stole her clothes''. This makes the scene where she cries in the Industrial Castle even worse, as it is one of the last times you see her]]. There's always the idea that, even though the Evil Wizard didn't kill her, he did intend to. Only makes it less dark by a small bit.

* HilariousInHindsight: The Necromancer boss is a winged knight that spawns mooks and has epic rock music as BGM. [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Gee, sound familiar?]]

** If your speed is high enough, the Painter qualifies as well. All it can throw at you can be dealt with arrows from a distance, meaning the real problem is dealing lots of damage to the boss while he's actually there.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/CastleCrashers Now has it's own page]].

** The [[BlackKnight Stove Faces]] of Full Moon do also, as they're the strongest physical-fighting enemies in the game, and they come out en masse. Taken to extremes with [[OhCrap beefy Stove Faces]]...

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There's a good chance [[spoiler: the Orange Princess was alive throughout the game, [[TheFaceless though her face was obscured through coincidence]]. One of the pictures in the Painter's room has a picture of an orange dress with a knife/sword in it. This makes it possible that Tricky ''killed her late into the game and stole her clothes''. This makes the scene where she cries in the Industrial Castle even worse, as it is one of the last times you see her.]] There's always the idea that, even though the Evil Wizard didn't kill her, he did intend to. Only makes it less dark by a small bit.

** If your speed is high enough, the Painter qualify as well. All it can throw at you can be dealt with arrows from a distance meaning the real problem is dealing lot of damage to the boss while he's actually there.

* GoodBadBug: The boomerang glitch lets you grind level way faster than with standard game play.

** If you stand in a certain spot when fighting Pipistrello he never stops attacking you, which means he never takes flight or summons minions, and his attack is slow and blockable which lets the player get in a lot of hits. Abusing this is generally accepted as the only way to beat him solo on Insane.

** The PC port, both the first time release (now isn't available anymore) and the remastered, is very well optimized and runs well even in older or cheaper computers, but the original, now isn't available anymore, has some issues as detailed below.

** The Remastered version not only rectify the issue by finally has keyboard prompts shown, but also allows non Xinput (XBOX 360) compatible gamepad to play the game. The Remastered version has all but replace the first time release version.

** The Troll boss becomes this in Insane Mode by the virtue of being both a FlunkyBoss and a DamageSpongeBoss. Not only its health is increased from 350 to ''10500'', its minions, whose health and damage are also drastically increased, can also gang up on you and [[CycleOfHurting stunlock you over and over again]], leaving you with little to no breathing space. Unless you have some ranged magic attacks or good crowd control tactics to deal with its minions, the Troll can be a very difficult boss to defeat.

** Desert is long and has some very obnoxious enemies. The rolling beetles can go underground and attack you, and you can't hurt them while they're doing it. The enemies in the sinkholes that spit poison at you don't help.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The game seems to take place in the medieval times with some anarchonistic elements. As such, the game could be about a group of larpers going through an intense role-playing session, and the crazier elements such as the industrial castle and aliens are just the result of someone's imagination.

* ThatOneBoss: The Catfish. While it may not be hard to avoid its attacks, every other boss lets you bring your friends back if they go down. It doesn't help that the boss is heavily armored unless it is momentarily stunned by the King's cannon, but the cannon has ''very'' precise and finicky aim.