This extended version has a publisher, Abylight Studios, standing behind it. What makes these translations irksome to me is that while cheap translations make sense for the original, low-budget Maldita Castilla – which was a four-man show with one person making the music and sound effects, two working on a poster, and the last one making the actual game – it doesn’t for this release. (A steam user even offered to correct the French translation for free 7.) Additionally, the translations appear to either be computer-assisted translations without someone with a C1 or C2 level having proof-read any of them, or were created by volunteers who are not on a native speaker’s proficiency level. That means that unsuspecting players out there might “clog up” their hard drives with data they don’t know they have.Īnother point of contention is that the game is available in different languages (English, French, German, and Spanish), yet the menu itself does not have a language option and players cannot play in their preferred language. ![]() What’s worse is that there isn’t an option to reinstate the default settings either, instead one has to erase the contents of a hidden Windows folder, namely, C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Cursed_Castilla to get them back.Įven stranger still is that I have set Steam to save uncompressed screenshots for review purposes to the desktop, yet Cursed Castilla EX saves these images in the aforementioned, hidden folder and is the only game in my library to do so. This can lead players to inadvertently mess up the control scheme 6. The title can be played with both a gamepad or a computer keyboard, but for whatever reason, when one clicks on either Keyboard Setup or Controller Setup, the game immediately brings up a prompt saying Press Controller for instead of first showing the player the current button layout. First the controls: Don Ramiro is out for some derring-do While some video games don’t have an option’s menu, others, like Cursed Castilla EX have one that’s both empty and convoluted at the same time. Controls, Options, and Language Shenanigans: And lastly, there have been reports among PC-players on Steam about slowdowns during gameplay 4, 5. Additionally, despite having full health, he was one-shotted twice by a cauldron in Chapter VII: Cursed Forest. Furthermore, the player character got stuck between platforms during the second phase of Chapter III: The Alcazar (where a line of archers shoot at the player) and in one instance was unable to damage cogwheels in Chapter VI: The Aqueduct’s elevator part. And while Cursed Castilla EX ran with 60 frames per second (fps) most of the time, it did experience sudden and dramatic framerate drops down to 30-ish and 25-ish fps in the middle of Chapter I: Tolomera del Rey and during the windmill part of Chapter II: Road of the Harpies. I played this game on a 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium desktop PC with an Intel Core 2 CPU, 3070 MB RAM, DirectX 11, and a GeForce 9500 GT graphics card. While the developer, Locomaldito, overcame quite the challenge with the original game, for which he created and programmed six levels with 14 bosses, and 40 enemies all by himself, the EX release adds another two levels, five bosses, and eight enemies on top of the already existing content and adds a bestiary and filters to mimic CRT television sets like in the days of yore. ![]() the level design and mechanics in Ghouls ‘n Ghost 3) with the developer, Locomaldito, having pointed at other titles such as Karnov (1987) or Black Tiger (1987) as additional sources of inspiration 2. ![]() While the game’s world is inspired by the late medieval, chivalric romance, Amadís de Gaula (Spanish for Amadis of Gaul) (14th century CE), its mechanics and graphic design show strong influences of Capcom’s arcade franchise and action platformer Ghosts ’n Goblins (since 1985) 2 (cf. ![]() About the Game: A throwback to the 1980sĬursed Castilla EX (2016), or as it is known in its country of origin, Spain, Maldita Castilla EX (Spanish for Cursed Castile) is an improved pay-to-play rerelease of the freeware title Maldita Castilla (2012) from a few years prior. I first saw Maldita Castilla in early 2018 on a recording of an AGDQ stream on YouTube 1, then, on August 21, 2018, received a key to its EX release out of the blue. I received this game as a gift from a Steam user. King Alfonso VI of León thus sends out his bravest knights, Don Ramiro, Don Diego, Mendoza, and Quesada to the province of Tolomera to end this treachery and the demonic plague along with it. Always on the lookout for the easily exploitable, the forces of evil hear Marou’s cries and persuade her to enter a malevolent bargain that unleashes unforeseen evils on to the kingdom of Castile. It’s the year 1081 A.D., the fair maiden, Marou, weeps for the one she holds dearest, the one who fell in battle.
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