Castle of Elite 1.6Mb
This is a great puzzle game that has similarities to Chip’s Challenge. It’s a fun and very challenging puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours at a time! It starts off easy enough through the tutorial levels then gets increasingly difficult and finally really, as in really, difficult! There are 53 levels, including four secret levels, and it is complete with a level editor, if you're feeling creative. To get to the final level, you have to have completed each stage and found/solved all four secret levels.
You collect coins/gems, hit switches, use teleporting devices, while watching out for enemies and trying to make it to the portal. You collect blocks you can move and place to help you access some parts of the screen. Look out for the secret jumpman catapults! There also jump boots to be found that let you jump two blocks high, instead of one. The portal to the next level opens when you have collected all of the coins on a level. This can be decidedly tricky!
Blocks come in many different types, and it is fun experimenting with them. You can place them on blue electricity sparks for a short time, before they burn out. When you have destroyed a block, the block is lost and can’t be retrieved.
Enemies (sweepers, trappers, trundlers etc) hurt you if you touch them, and be careful to avoid electric sparks. You can destroy enemies by placing a block on top of them. You may also be able to box in some of the enemies or change the enemy’s path with strategically placed block(s) so they can’t get near to you, or so you can avoid and get past them. You will be glad of the infinite lives, as it’s all too easy to get killed, trying that next level time . . . and time over again!
Arrow keys move your character and blocks are moved with the mouse and placed/destroyed using the left/right mouse buttons. You can destroy some pre-placed blocks when next to them. F1 for info/help file. F4 flips full-screen.
You can choose the character to play with, and choose any unlocked levels to play. The game is divided into different sections - Easy \ Medium \ Hard \ Elite - and each section has 12 different screens to complete, plus a secret level. On the select screen, completed levels are green, unlocked or tried but not solved levels are yellow and locked levels are shown in red. Castle of Elite has great graphics, and very nice music and sounds. It’s a terrific game overall!
Can you solve all of the levels and escape from the castle? Do at least give this one a try!
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCf3_YfDQI
You can find walkthroughs for some (!) of the levels on YouTube HERE