The music captured the right atmosphere and made me want to enter the castle and bust some skeletons. I couldn't wait to power up my whips and get some random spells that tend to run out towards the end of the level when I'm facing a boss.
The controls are stiff and the character ponders at a leisurely pace. The graphics are nice with some impressive sprite animation and the usual 8 bit finesse but with the somewhat unusual unsatisfying weird Nintendo color palette.
