Crypt Custodian is such an awesome Metroidvania. One of the best I ever played. None of the achievements are missable, there are 3 very challenging achievements. I guess that completion takes around 14 hours.
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 14h+
Estimated achievement difficulty: 7/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: Yes, in “boss rush” mode the time in which you defeat each boss matters
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: Yes, but only for 1 achievement in “boss rush” mode, the rest can be unlocked on easy
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
You’re a cat and just died at the beginning of the game., You get sent to the afterlife where you first will be judged on your actions to determine if you go to the temple or are doomed to clean the afterlife forever. On your journey, you’ll meet a lot of other ghosts and learn about their lives and how they have been doing down here.
Crypt Custodian is such a great Metroidvania with a lot of quality-of-life features. It is one of THE BEST Metroidvanias I have ever played. The movement feels so good, the abilities you unlock are fun and the system to choose which power-ups you want to have active and the amount you can choose between are just awesome. I’m very impressed with Kyle Thompson’s work. The game feels so responsive and the combat/movement just feels good. Furthermore, the game looks so good as well.
I fell in love early on in the game already with the presentation and how the movement felt in the game, but my love for it only grew from that point on. You have a map on which you can mark with symbols things you saw but couldn’t reach yet, but you even don’t have to do that. There is a specific jukebox in the game that will sell you map markers and that way even if you didn’t find them yourself it is very easy to clean up all the side objectives later on. Another amazing QoL feature is that you don’t have to be at a warp spot to warp to somewhere else on the map. You can just open the map in your menu and warp to any warping spot. And it feels like there is always one close by. This helped during the game but also when cleaning up after beating the story.
The achievements in Crypt Custodian can be separated in 2 groups and none of the achievements are missable:
– 45 of them are for finishing the story and finding everything. As stated above, this is quite easy at the end of the game after finishing the story by buying map markers. That way you can easily see which items you haven’t found and where to find them. There is one challenging puzzle on the NorthWest side of the map, but you might want to look around in your menus to maybe get a clue on how to solve it.
– The other 3 achievements are for boss rush mode. You have to beat boss rush mode for every boss on S+ on every difficulty. This is a real challenge and tbh.. I wasn’t able to get S+ ranking on easy on the first boss, let alone later bosses and higher difficulties. However, I know I’m not good at games and normally don’t even try stuff like this. So I’m not a good indicator of how hard this really is.
Crypt Custodian is an awesome game, and highly recommended to play it even when not being able to unlock all the achievements. I give Crypt Custodian 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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Kyle Thompson
This review for Crypt Custodian was written on 20 September 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 48 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.
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