The original Rogue Legacy still has its charms but is no longer as unique as it once was. So here we are, almost ten years and roughly a million roguelite games later. It’s now rarer to see a live/die/repeat game without a persistent upgrade of some sort than the opposite. While it was a side-scrolling action game with a lots of elements from roguelike games, its system wherein players could earn upgrades that persisted even after dying opened a veritable fire hydrant of more approachable takes on what had been a rather demanding genre up to that point.
Its embrace of the term, however, arguably brought that it to a wider audience than it had ever seen before. The original Rogue Legacy, released in 2013, did not create the term ‘roguelite’. Reviews & Mini-Views Rogue Legacy 2 ($24.99) And I know some of you must own it, because this game has already sold almost five million copies despite what seemed to be a middling reception.
Rogue legacy review update#
If you own the game, you can just go ahead and update to get all the new goodies. There are a few things in the update beyond the addition of golf as an event, but you can go ahead and watch the above video for the general outline. Nintendo indicated that it would be added in a free update later, and that “later" is today. Nintendo Switch Sports released back in April, and one of the more surprising things about the game is that it launched without one of the more popular sports from Wii Sports: golfing.
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