Music: The score of the game is delightfully retro, with a several extremely catchy jingles and themes spread throughout the world, each maintaining the game’s retro-vibe whilst sounding contemporary and fresh.ĭifficulty: Rogue Legacy is initially very punishing, and I found it tough to last even a few minutes in the easiest area of the castle when I started playing. Things do feel rather simple and limited at first, but once you unlock several of the runes and deploy things like the double jump and the dash, the depth of the mechanics shine through, and you’ll be effortlessly bobbing and weaving around enemies that initially gave you trouble. Thankfully, moving your little cartoon hero through the castle is a tight and fine-tuned experience, with the running, jumping and hacking/slashing all feeling natural and responsive. Pure gameplay: As well-designed as the progression system is, the game wouldn’t be able to hold your attention if the core gameplay and controls weren’t up to scratch. The system amounts to a slow and steady sense of progression, incremental in nature and one that scales in line with your own skill at the game, which makes for a satisfying system and succeeds in evoking that ‘just one more run’ hook. The runes are also interesting, as they give you access to special abilities like double jump, temporary flight, increased speed etc, but you have limited space for which you wish to activate, so it can be fun customising each run to suit your goal for that run. You can spend the gold on incremental gains in all your base stats like strength or health, or on new character class unlocks and various other perks. In each and every run through the castle, you’ll collect gold and runes, which you’ll be able to spend/activate for your next run after you perish. Progression: Rogue Legacy’s real hook comes from its progression system.
The premise sounds addictive and engaging, but does it have the gameplay to back it up? Let’s take a look at the good, the mixed and the bad of Rogue Legacy: The Good Whilst the classes are fairly standard, the character traits are what make the game unique, as they range from gameplay-altering things like vertigo (the whole game is played upside down) to the trivial (homosexuality – no effect on gameplay whatsoever). The twist lies in that when you die, your character permanently dies, with you then taking control of one of their offspring, who have their own unique traits and classes. The premise is fairly simple in that you take control of a character of a certain class (knight, mage, warrior, etc) and make your way through a castle, fighting enemies, collecting gold and defeating bosses.
The concept behind rogue-likes has always intrigued me, so I thought I’d pick the game up for a try. Rogue Legacy released back in 2013, and promised a rogue-like high-fantasy sidescroller with random level layouts, a perma-death mechanic with tight controls and a deep skill tree.
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