And I couldn't even jump over to attack its exposed back, because the corridor ceiling was extremely low. Just dash towards the thing, right? Except, there was also a hulking, green guard with a shield blocking the path. For example, I once entered a small, cramped, vertical u-shaped room where at the end was an eyeball opponent that shot multiple fireballs through walls. The level design is the real star of the game, because it's pretty shocking how clever a huge chunk of the castle's rooms are, in both the layout, and the placement of enemies and traps. The moment you first step into the castle after the tutorial, you can tell Cellar Door Games were committed to making a genuinely fun, challenging title. Or a trait where you pass gas, because fart jokes are the best jokes.īut any dev team could've made a SotN-inspired game with rogue-like components, tacked on a similar genealogy gimmick, thrown in a couple jokes, and called it a day. The characters' traits and/or phobias alone often take the game to ridiculous levels, as you can do a playthrough with chrome-colored graphics, due to a 'nostalgia' trait, or play upside-down because of a vertigo trait. Scenarios like that fit right in with the game's brand of morbid humor you can have a perfectly normal session one moment, and then, in the next, you find a circus tent and clown within the castle, battle a ginormous MS Paint portrait, and chose a warrior that has a phobia of chickens, allowing said health item to come to life and attack when encountered. I didn't think the latter was so bad, until I entered a room with a barrel tower leading to a chest. On the downside, he had low stats and was a clumsy fellow, destroying objects the second he made contact with them. In one playthrough, I picked Sir Lancelot because he was the best of the three, an Assassin class with powerful critical hits and no foot pulse, allowing me to walk on trap floors without setting them off. Each person has wildly different, often humorous stats and phobias from one another, stymieing any rock solid style or flow you planned on using. When you begin a new playthrough, you have to pick between three new, random characters from the ever-growing family tree to continue the fight. Then there's the generational quirk, likely the main reason most people gravitated towards the game in the first place. Yes, that sentence is exactly how it sounds. You can even purchase equipment and special abilities, such as dashing and double jumping, that your deceased protagonist found in chests. From there, you can purchase various upgrades before revisiting the randomly-generated castle, such as more HP and strength, or a better shot at critical hits and even a slim chance at reviving. As mentioned above, you retain loot, either from downed opponents, broken decor, or chests, for the subsequent playthrough.

This is where the rogue-lite elements come into play. At its heart is a 2D exploration title in the vein of Symphony of the Night, albeit you can't save and have one life to live.

There's always a refreshingly different outcome when starting a new playthrough of Rogue Legacy, and it's thanks to a fusion of several mechanics blending so well with one another. His loot and knowledge came in handy for future generations that braved the castle's corridors. He perished without ever laying eyes on a boss, but he was the first to travel the longest and defeated the most enemies of any relative that came before. All while independent spiked balls bounced off corners. On his way to the tower's boss, he stumbled into a very cramped room, its inhabitants being two large knights, both swinging two chained, spiked balls of various lengths. only to repeat the same setup in the following room he briefly roamed the castle's dimly-lit dungeon and immediately left, thankful that there wasn't a powerful knight waiting in the darkness then he ventured the adjoining forest for loot, but unfortunately had trouble reading a pillaged book, due to dyslexia.Įventually, Sir McGladdery met his doom when penetrating the castle's tower, where fierce opposition withered his HP bar. He entered a long, horizontal room filled with floor traps and enemies he dashed past a tricky, small room with turrets placed top to bottom. Skill and knowledge were also needed, and McGladdery had plenty as he plowed through many a fowl beast and trap that adorned the premises. However, those abilities alone could only take him so far within the inexplicable layouts of a castle besieged. Let me tell you about Sir McGladdery: he was of the Hokage class, would deal huge damage, and was very agile. 'Koinoniphobia? Well, then don't play this.'

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