Year: 2008
Type: Original Soundtrack (OST)
Composer(s): Matthew Harwood
Number of tracks: 45

★★★★★

Positively bonkers

This game is insane. Not in the sense of insanely good, but insanely crazy. The story is simple: four knights work together to free a princess. But anyone expecting stories of brave warriors and noble battles will be disappointed by the comedic fireworks. In Castle Crashers fights with giant cats and deer with diarrhea are among the normal things. Entertaining brawling fun, accompanied by an even more entertaining soundtrack.

This was contributed by the community of the website Newgrounds, which was involved in the development of the side-scroll hack-and-slash. That is why there is not one composer, but 20 with different styles and genres. Trying to categorize this construct in any way is therefore relatively pointless - but I tried anyway. For this reason, I would like to take this opportunity to briefly list my notes up to the point where I gave up:

As you can see, things go haywire. The only thing inherent in all the compositions is a certain light-footedness and lack of seriousness. The music makers know the game principle of Castle Crashers and don't try to push it in a serious direction, but go 'with the flow', as they say. If you are looking for parallels to other scores, you will find in "Vain Star [Edit]", for example, a little of the essence of the Need for Speed-titles, "Jumper" sounds like the later Sims-games with its feel-good attitude and "War Machine" sounds like action films à la RamboA wild mixture of varying quality, but perfectly suited to this crazy couch co-op.

If you want to make up your own mind, you should definitely give it a listen - after all, this crazy soundtrack has made it into my Top 10 best indie scores . By the way, you can download a few of the tracks for free on the Newground homepage. Have fun!

Nr.	Title	Interpret(en)	Ratings
01	Four Brave Champions	DavidOrr	5
02	Flutey (World Map)	The Behemoth	3
03	Barracks Song	Dan Paladin	4
04	Creepy Frog	The Behemoth	3
05	Mudholes	The Behemoth	3
06	Spanish Waltz	Urbanus	3
07	War Machine	The Behemoth	4
08	Factory	CornandBeans	4
09	Gold Grab	The Behemoth	3
10	Race Around the World [Edit]	Waterflame	4
11	Jumper	Waterflame	4
12	Space Pirates	Waterflame	4
13	The Show	Waterflame	4
14	Techock	Waterflame	5
15	Dark Skies	Selcuk and Mandi	5
16	Till Death Do You Part	The Behemoth	5
17	Rage of the Champions	Selcuk and Mandi	5
18	Landfall	Mathias Rudsengen	4
19	Revenge of the Cyclops	The Behemoth	3
20	Vain Star [Edit]	Mathias Rudsengen	4
21	Totally an Active Volcano (Drumlift V2)	The Behemoth	3
22	Chaoz Japan	ParagonX9	5
23	(Please) Don't	Snayk	3
24	The Abduction (Alien Hominid Theme)	The Behemoth	4
25	Sand Castle Crashing	The Behemoth	3
26	Volleyball Match	The Behemoth	4
27	Swampland	Waterflame	4
28	Child of the Corn	The Behemoth	4
29	Flooded Castle	The Behemoth	3
30	The Ruins	The Behemoth	3
31	Evil Snake Lady	The Behemoth	4
32	Winter Bliss	Mathias Rudsengen	4
33	Castle in the Sky (Drumlift)	The Behemoth	3
34	Second Thoughts	DavidOrr	4
35	Simple Sight [Instrumental]	John Guy	4
36	The Final Confrontation	David Orr	4
37	Orange's Kiss	Dan Paladin	4
38	Menu Loop	Ian Slider	3
39	Archetype	Helix6	5
40	Vain Star [Bonus]	Cycerin	4
41	Don't [Bonus]	Snyak	3
42	Simple Sight [Bonus]	RealFaction	4
43	Race Around the World [Bonus]	Waterflame	5
44	Color-Coded Killers [Bonus]	SteveGuzzi	3
45	Simple Sight [2010 Remix][Bonus]	RealityVictim	4