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Most games with an emphasis on permanent death draw their enjoyment from the satisfaction of performing difficult tasks. One thing this permanence offers is accessibility. While death is the end for that character and his or her personal progress through the castle, all of the upgrades, armor, and runes you have purchased remain constant through every play through. It's a cycle that keeps you coming back for more. So you give up your gold, enter the castle, and do it all over again, hoping to earn enough gold to make yourself even more powerful for next time. After all, you were just barely too weak to beat that boss last time, so now that you're just a little more powerful, you're sure to reach much greater heights. The upgrades that you are able to afford, though? You want to take them for a test drive as soon as you get them. Hey Dracula, how come your castle doesn't have a jukebox that plays 8-bit-style music? This is the primary hook that adds weight to each individual life you live grinding your way to a more powerful you isn't always easy. Want a great new piece of armor but you didn't earn enough money during your last game? Too bad. The downside? In order to enter the castle again you must give up all (or, later, only most) of your unspent gold. You invest in everything from health and damage upgrades to new classes and equipment. Still, you want to do as well as you can during each run through the castle, as the first thing you do when starting a new game (after choosing your class from a randomized selection of three heroes) is spend your hard-earned money on new upgrades. You fight until you die, at which point one of your children takes your place. As soon as you enter the castle, you won't be able to make any changes or upgrades to your character. You also find blueprints for new equipment, runes that give you new abilities, and bosses you must defeat in order to see the game's ending.

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As you run through the map, enemies, chests and destructible objects drop money that you can use to upgrade your character. Your main desire in Rogue Legacy is gold, and lots of it. This is a compliment, not a complaint, as those games have much that is worth emulating. Were it not for Rogue Legacy's light-hearted tone, you could easily trick somebody into thinking it's the next Castlevania title headed to the Nintendo DS.

In this 2D action game, you jump, slash and magically blast your way through dozens of randomized rooms, fighting the likes of skeletons, mages, armored ace-wielders and even animated portraits. Which is good, because making that progress is a blast.Įnvironments and enemies may look uninspired at first glance, but the gameplay isn't. So it is with Rogue Legacy, a game where your hero's permanent death doesn't mean a permanent loss of progress. An archmage with a lot of points in magic damage may raise the most magically adept assassin the world has yet seen. Athletic parents may birth a future sports star. Smart parents might bear a smart daughter. We pass on a lot of traits to our children.

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