The gleefully foolish Rogue Legacy 2 (opens in new tab) lately celebrated its first anniversary, and developer Cellar Door Video games has marked the event with one final main content material replace. Fittingly titled “The Swan Track”, it provides a treasure-chest of options together with new recreation modes, class adjustments, and an array of tweaks and changes. Most significantly of all, although, it enables you to kill enemies with a surfboard.
This radical addition is a brand new Fabled Weapon for the sport’s Pirate class. Pirates can use the surfboard’s momentum to batter enemies and simply bypass sure hazards like spike traps and (clearly) water. Surfboards aren’t the one new Fabled Weapon added to the sport, both. The Valkyrie can wield a Mjolnir-like Historical Hammer, smashing and zapping enemies with lightning-infused strikes. The Dragonlancer, in the meantime, will get a hand-puppet that is possessed by the spirit of a dragon, enabling them to soar by way of the air and incinerate foes with fiery assaults.
Alongside these new Fabled weapons are three new recreation modes. First up is True Rogue. That is meant as a extra genuine roguelike expertise, providing you with a random hero with only one life to finish a shorter run of 4 biomes. The opposite two recreation modes, Thanatophobia and Thana-Two-Phobia, are impressed by an achievement within the first recreation unlocked by finishing it in beneath 15 lives. Each modes solely provide you with 15 lives to finish Rogue Legacy 2, with the added restriction that you could solely play as every hero class as soon as. Thano-Two-Phobia additional will increase the problem by including enemy and boss Burdens, simply in case Thanatophobia is not arduous sufficient for you.
Different additions embrace a redesigned Blasting Wand that is simpler to familiarize yourself with, tweaks and buffs to varied weapons and objects just like the frying pan and the protect, and a change to the ultimate boss space that provides three relic rooms earlier than the sport’s climactic encounter. The developer additionally stresses that, whereas Rogue Legacy 2 will not obtain additional main content material updates, it would proceed to obtain patches and stability changes as required.
You’ll be able to watch the trailer for the Swan Track replace above. Rogue Legacy 2 was already fairly nice (opens in new tab) in response to our evaluation, with Anne-Marie Coyle describing it as “a sequel that not solely lives as much as its predecessor, however simply surpasses it.” It is also at the moment 30% off (opens in new tab) on Steam, with the low cost lasting till Could 5.
