Do not Shit Your Pants studio Cellar Door Video games has introduced an April 28 launch date for Rogue Legacy 2, a sequel to its breakout 2013 platformer roguelite. Rogue Legacy 2 has been in Early Entry since August 2020, and over that point it has grown a complete of 15 playable courses, and an method to progress that shies away from rinse-and-repeat permadeath gameplay.
So far as the latter is worried, Rogue Legacy 2 has “heirlooms” that grant the participant everlasting skills and upgrades, which is an growth on the base-building factor within the unique that offered a way of total progress, even upon loss of life. The sport’s trait system is again as nicely, taking the type of numerous nerfs and buffs you will take pleasure in or undergo with every run. These are a part of the collection’ genealogical method to its heroes: every time you die, your character’s youngster succeeds you, with a few of their inherited strengths and weaknesses. You will additionally get to spend among the cash they earned kitting out the household property.
However the very first thing that stands out about Rogue Legacy 2 is how fairly it seems to be. The unique had an honest artwork model so far as pixel artwork platformers are involved, however Rogue Legacy 2 has a 2.5D method that resembles outdated ’90s cartoons. It is an actual looker, and the number of biomes (lava areas, snow areas, fort areas) is an actual step up from the comparatively samey unique.
“We will not put into phrases all of the feelings we’re feeling now that we have gotten this far, and we all know it is just the start,” a Cellar Door spokesperson wrote on Steam, implying that the sport will proceed to increase after launch. In a press launch, the studio wrote that “our objective for Rogue Legacy 2 was at all times to make ‘Rogue Legacy 3’ as a result of we did not need to accept simply extra.”
To have a good time, the unique Rogue Legacy is free on the Epic Video games Retailer till April 14. It is price a play: regardless of the roguelite style being a tad overcrowded nowadays, it holds up nicely.
