Once you push past those opening impressions, though, you begin to see how Cellar Door has expanded that basic premise-and pushed itself, design-wise-to make something meaningfully different from the game’s predecessor. Not least of which because Rogue Legacy’s power loop-genuinely fresh nine years ago-has since been copied extensively, to the point that it’s now a cornerstone of the “Do a run, get stronger, do a slightly better run, etc.” genre sometimes known as “roguelites.” Seeing Rogue Legacy 2 trod that exact same territory when you first boot it up is a serious bummer (especially when we first checked it out in early access, before most of the game’s more interesting twists had been implemented). On first blush, Rogue Legacy 2's approach to these systems appears depressingly copy-and-paste. Choosing your new character means selecting an heir, weighing their class, choice of magical spell, and a whole bunch of those aforementioned quirks-most of which change how the game plays in meaningful, sometimes hilarious ways-against each other to try to set yourself up for success (or an interesting, “Super IBS”-afflicted failure). The money from each run is then pumped back into the family estate, allowing each generation of explorers to be a little stronger than the one that just bit it.
Players still guide members of a family with a lot of genetic drift through the halls of a randomly generated castle, with death (and fortune) the inevitable outcome. On a zoomed-in level, and just generally at first glance, Rogue Legacy 2 plays almost identically to its predecessor, albeit with a snazzy, cel-shaded new coat of paint. (That is, a game that can be picked up and played forever in hindsight, we probably didn’t need this parenthetical to spell that concept out, huh?) And the Forever Game has no need for sequels it is, in fact, a refutation of the whole concept that further game could ever be needed, or desired.
It’s a question that’s gotten quite a bit more relevant over the last 10 years of gaming, as a number of trends-the rise of the procedurally generated rogue-like genre, the advent of microtransaction-powered “Games As Service” design, and a general focus on updating existing games long after their initial release dates have come and gone-have collided to create the perpetually sought after Forever Game.
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