


Unlock new abilities to access new areas Passing Down to the Next Heir When you unlock a new move the game cleverly weaves in a challenge room specifically designed around the new ability to show you how to use it. The game delivers a helpful short but active tutorial on how to get to grips with things. Controls are incredibly tight and easy to pick up and play. These abilities don’t just help you access new areas but are used in the game’s combat and platforming. In order to access new areas and boss rooms, you need to explore the randomly generated levels to find new abilities such as dash and the ability to hop off lanterns and objects. Not unless you are some gaming master that is. Once dealt with you will be able to access the final area of the game, but it will be a very long time before you’ll see it. Like the first game, the overall goal is to track down several bosses which are hidden within themed areas. You are a brave knight on a quest to infiltrate a large castle on an island in the hunt for riches and glory. Another chance to take the castle Rogue Legacy 101 But if you need more excuses to make a purchase then read on. Rogue Legacy 2 does everything that made the original so fun and memorable and builds on it even further. If you’re new to the series or the rogue-lite genre as a whole this is a great place to start. If you loved the first game then you have probably already picked this one up and would have brought the T-shirt if that was even possible. Developer Cellar Door Games now returns with the hotly anticipated sequel which has finally been released through Early Access. This was a title I first discovered on the PS Vita, but, I soon found myself playing it via cross-play on PS3, and PS4 and even purchasing it on other systems due to how much fun I had with it. The original Rogue Legacy was one of the stand out titles in the rogue-lite genre back in the day. Review code provided with many thanks to Vicarious PR. When asked about a possible PlayStation or Switch version, Lee simply stated, “We’ve only been thinking about that so far, so we’ll see … We don’t like to make any promises or say anything if nothing’s set in stone, right?” As time passes, it’s more than likely a PlayStation port of “Rogue Legacy 2” will become a reality – so long as the Version 1.0 release is a success.System: Steam (Windows & macOS) also on Xbox “Rogue Legacy 2” lead designer Teddy Lee shared with Game Rant that as a small indie studio with just two programmers, making ports is time-consuming and challenging, and that includes the recent Xbox port. While the PC version of the game released in 2013, PlayStation versions weren’t ported until 2014. Looking back at the release of “Rogue Legacy” also gives PlayStation owners reason to be optimistic. Clearly, plans changed a bit since that FAQ entry due to the fact that “Rogue Legacy 2” has already been announced for Xbox prior to the release of Version 1.0.

In fact, it will be offered on a much more narrow range of platforms : Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. However, all hope is not lost for PlayStation users.Īccording to the FAQ section of Cellar Door Games’ site, the developers honed in on the PC version of the game exclusively through Early Access, with plans to announce wider console availability once Early Access ends. Unfortunately for PlayStation players hoping to give “Rogue Legacy 2” a try, the game is not going to be available on any Sony console.
