Maldita Castilla

Maldita Castilla
Developer(s)	Locomalito
Platform(s)	Windows, Linux, Ouya
Release date(s)	2012
Genre(s)	Side-scroller
Mode(s)	Single-player
Sound	Yamaha YM2203

Maldita Castilla is an arcade action video game developed by Locomalito and released in December 2012. The game is primarily based on myths from Spain and Europe in general. Maldita Castilla was developed as a tribute to the video games of the late 1980s games such as Ghosts'n Goblins, Tiger Road, Black Tiger, and Shinobi. The game was inspired by the Amadis of Gaul, a sixteenth century Spanish chivalric romance.

The name of the game is a double pun in Spanish. "Castilla" means Castile (a place of historic significance in Spain) and castle. "Maldita" means damned and is used as an exclamation of anger at times of difficulty or danger.^[1] The game can be downloaded for free from the website of its author, Juan Antonio Becerra, a person from Malaga using the pseudonym Locomalito.^[2] The chiptune music was composed by Gryzor87.^[3]

Features

The game has six levels, which culminate with a Boss who is tougher to deal with than the rest of the enemies. Defeating the Boss enables the player to go up to the next level. Each of the game's levels correspond to an era of history, and each has four different endings that vary depending on the tasks performed by the player. The game can be completed when the player loses all lives less than four times.

Plot

The action takes place around the year 1081, when an ancient demon hears Moura's laments for her fallen love and uses her tears to create a magic key which unleashes demons into the Kingdom of Castile. King Alfonso VI of León orders Don Ramiro, his most loyal knight, and Don Diego, the skillful archer, the great Mendoza and Quesada missionary campaigner, to Tolomera to end the demonic nightmare that looms over the kingdom.

Reception

Maldita Castilla was well received by Spanish press. The blog portal IGN Spain praised the game's demo.^[4] MeriStation and Vandal echoed these positive sentiments^[5] and portal 3DJuegos analysis gave a score of 8/10.^[6] Lainformacion.com discussed the game's details and its use of Spanish culture.^[7] It has also been recommended as one of the best free online games by Coca-Cola Spain.^[8] Many web pages in languages other than Castilian and English^[9] or French^[10] have also echoed the positive opinions expressed by others.

There are several videos on YouTube with speedruns of the game and the fair RetroMadrid of 2013 hosted a championship.^[11]

Bestiary

Outlined below are some of the mythological or fantastic creatures that appear in the game or are mentioned in the manual,^[12] along with their origins.

Anjana. Cantabrian mythology (Spain).
Basilisk. Greek mythology.
Boo. Spanish mythology (Spain).
Vulture bicéfalo.
Colacho. Spanish mythology (Spain).
Cuegle. Cantabrian mythology (Spain).
Cuélebre. Asturian mythology and Cantabrian (Spain).
Gamusino. Spanish and Portuguese mythology.
Golem. Jewish mythology.
Harpy. Greek mythology.
Formalism. Spanish mythology (Spain). It is a being identical to troll of Norse mythology.
Manticore. Persian Mythology.
Moura. Galician mythology (Spain).
Nuberu. Asturian mythology and Galician (Spain).
Ojáncano. Cantabrian mythology (Spain).
Quixote crazy. Being based on the main character of the novel Don Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes.
Holy Company. Galician mythology (Spain).
Bell. Greek mythology.
Tarasca. French mythology.
Zarrampla. Spanish mythology (Spain).
Zombie and undead. Caribbean mythology.

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