Quick Look: BattleBlock Theater

"Little Big Planet but less british and more Amped 3" is the best description anyone ever gave of anything ever.

This game looks really fun with other people. I might buy it if/when it comes to PC or on PS3 so I can play with my nephews.

Oh god this is a remake of that extra platformer from Alien Hominid!

The gems, the boats, the animation when you finish a level and all the blocks. God damn

Better than mama!

Ok, the Cooking Mama joke is good.

Is anybody else hearing The Most Annoying Sound in The World being sampled in some of the music?

Psst. You should play Castle Crashers.

Stamper as the voice? Haha sold.

This game seems neat. That art is cool and the multiplayer looks like it could be fun.

"Clench your butt this isn't going to be good" is a pretty good line.

I feel like the 2 main characters look really bland, almost like they are throwaway designs for enemies.

@robotsquad said:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the platforming looks more interesting than the mini-games.

Good to know.

Waiting for Steam version, this looks great.

The intro is oh-so-good. It's almost as if Poseidon himself extended his hand of friendship and then... like....

You don't need gold to buy games.

Love everything about this, except maybe wanting to play it? Seems like that's a common reference in the comments. 4 player local seems to be the only real way to do this. I think I just want animated shorts with this art style, narrator and music honestly.

"Even better than Mama!"

@tobiass: to play online, you do need gold. Which seems to be the point of the game.

31:33

Jeff: "You can push me down all you want. I still have your soul."

This seems kinda dull. They seem to like it, though. Maybe it's more fun to play than it is to watch.

Looks awesome, i enjoyed you guys playing co-op thanks!

Confirmed! Brad Muir is a fish guy.

Okay, for the Capture the Horse level, I think what you need to do is stand on the bridge block on your side, then call your horse across the bridge with LT so you can ride it to the other bridge block, so that you can then ride your opponents horse back over to your side and score it in the stable :) Totally doable as a two player level.

@tobiass: But you do need gold to play the main mode in the game.

Love how Jeff always looks tired/bored/out of it.

They've made sure to reserve a booth every year for the next decade. So that after this game's release people think they're still working on it.

even better then mama? :p

This seems overproduced. I feel bad that they've spent so long making this thing. To be fair, I never found the gameplay to look that great, but it's probably fun in multiplayer. I'm not sure why it needs that elaborate single player when really the emphasis is on the multiplayer. I would have rather seen them adding more minigames, and putting limits on some of the games depending on the number of players. I can't help but feel that they've spent too much time and (perhaps) money building on a simple idea that wasn't super interesting to begin with.

What's the point of avoiding death when it seems to have either no consequences or in some cases even become beneficial? That seems like a pretty egregious error in a goddamn platformer.

One thing to keep in mind is that they were working on this at the end of Castle Crashers shipping for XBLA. Then the success of that lead them to do things like localize it for Japan, ship on PC, porting to ps3. This lead to the ship date of BattleBlock being pushed back further and further.

I'll wait 5 years for the PC version.

I can already tell I'm going to enjoy the hell out of that single-player. I've been missing a breezy, well designed platformer for a while (to get Rayman Origin's shit ass difficulty curve and bad checkpointing out of my mouth). If it also has cool multiplayer hooks, then I'm all in.

I love everything about this game except the gameplay soooooo pass.

Reminds me a lot of LittleBigPlanet, it's fun to mess around at times, but ultimately you're there for the platforming, and the neverending item collection.

Edit: I see they made that comparison too.

Five minutes in and the humour is downright bad.

I feel like a great big bastard for saying this, but I have to say, the primary reason I'm glad this game has been released is just that it's finally out of the goddamn way now, so they can focus on (hopefully) making something more like Castle Crashers. :P

Seems like they should have gotten someone a little more enthusiastic to play alongside Ryan lol

Excellent sound effects and music.

But what's the point of putting tip panels? Are our brains that atrophied to grok puzzle solving?

That's true, and looking into the devs I didn't realise that they run newgrounds; they have other things to do besides making this game. Still, it was scheduled to come out in 2010. I wish they had scaled their game to something like Fat Princess. Mabe the story stuff gets good later, but it looked pretty throwaway from the QL. A simple tutorial may have sufficed. I looked at their blog* and they would be "surprised if this thing’s story wasn’t twice the length of Castle Crashers". Ludicrous. This seemed like the wrong game idea to build so much stuff around.

I just hope they get enough money to work on something more interesting.

*http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/2013/04/03/battleblock-theater-now-out-on-xbla/

I urge you all to give this game a go. I was a bit meh about the gameplay when I first started playing it (after being such a big fan of Castle Crashers) but honestly playing coop when the levels start getting tougher is a whole lot of fun. When you play these levels and realise the scope of the levels that can be created, you start to understand it all a bit more. On top of the presentation being totally stellar, funny and awesome.

@zhabermann: I played that game for like 100 levels with my dad.

Yep, another issue I have. My hope is that the levels shown are more or less just 'tutorial' levels and that they're less obvious about everything later on.

Add 'behchweemoth' to the Ryan Davis verbal flourish list.

This looks like a very generic platformer with a unique sense of style. That is...not really worth my money, but I'd love to see these guys play it.

this looks like a game that would get popular on newgrounds for a few months. that's about it.

So there's no point in avoiding death?

Once I heard Stampers voice, I felt so happy.