Castle Crashers blog-watch: Weapons Frog, heaps of animal orbs

The chaps over at the Behemoth are ramping up their development blog since the announcement that Castle Crashers is essentially done. They've released a whole slew of different animals that you'll be able to use throughout the game, which you can see in the above image.

Their different attributes are as follows:

Frogglet: Will pick up items with its tongue.
Giraffey: This fellow will help you level up faster.
Bitey Bat: Chomps on enemy heads.
Monkeyface: Increases your luck with finding items.
Troll: Will slowly regenerate your health. Might be handy with some harder areas.

Along with these cute characters was the showing of the Weapon's Frog!

This bizarre creature is essentially your weapons vault, allowing you to pick and choose your weapons and powerups. No need for tents or backpacks when you've got a Weapon's Frog!

Source: Castle Crashers Web Blog

Castle Crashers is done! Now we wait...

Castle Crashers is finished! Well, sort of - Bohemoth have sent off the game to be tested rigorously by the Microsoft QA team to make sure everything is working, all the text is correct in all the languages, make sure the game doesn't suddenly crash all of a sudden. It takes a while, and considering the amount of stuff this game appears to have, it may take a little while longer than, say, a SEGA Classics game.

From their blog:

I feel really great about how the final product has come out after playing through a few times last night. I’m very proud of what our team was able to accomplish. This game is undoubtedly the largest 360 XBLA game that has any kind of story; Large in scope, takes hours and hours to go through with your buddies. Lots of little treasures and secrets hiding around the levels, many unlockable characters all with a different feel, and lastly, no real weak spots in the game that I can foresee haunting me for the rest of my life. :)

Now before anyone goes to turn on their 360 to give it a look please note that it takes a couple months at the very least from this point. It has to go through all the required hoops of certification/final testing & all that jazz before it will actually become available on the service. Because of this, amongst other things, there is no actual release date that we can give anyone right now. However I have to say it’s a good feeling know that the crashers are working their way into the world as you are reading this, isn’t it?

Along with this new update are 3 new screenshots of the game showing off some of the selectable characters available to the player - including Bear, Thief and Perwinkle Knight!

The Behemoth have been updating each week with an additional character - I keep forgetting to update about it. This week had a new Animal Orb - which provide your player with new enhancements. This one is the Cardinal!

Click here for the new images of the game!

Source: The Behemoth Blog