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hey everybody this is joey davidson from TechnoBuffalo calm and i'm here with a quick look at rogue legacy rogue lacy released for the pc on jun 27th we snagged it on steam for 15 bucks but you can get it directly from the developers website at the same price and they'll even include a free steam key which i wish we knew when we purchased this came last week but will include a link for you guys to head directly to their website in order to snag it the title is only for the pc right now but it is being developed for mac and linux as well that will come later according to the devs so real quickly rogue legacy is a 2d dungeon crawler with procedurally generated levels you're seeing me kind of select characters and upgrade my keep right now and i'll get to explaining more that in just a second it features permanent death sort of but I'll get to that later to an upgrade system and your characters even have disabilities seriously I believe that this character has dyslexia so every time you die you get if you pick a descendant to start a new game with and that the Senate might be dyslexic like this guy gigantic really fast really small colorblind stereo blind whatever you get the point they all have disabilities that make them more interesting to play and it gives the game kind of a new twist every single time you start it up so I'll talk more specifically about rogue legacy here in a second but I did want to touch on its genre first it belongs to the sub-genre of roguelikes so while rogue legacy is actually a semi roguelike or I believe the developers are calling it a rogue light as in like light soda roguelikes are basically a sub-genre of gaming that typically features a standard list of mechanics they're insanely hard what you're seeing here in just a second they feature permanent death and most of their encounters are randomly generated this is a really old genre of gaming that sort of seen some new love with recent years one of my favorite games from last year I don't know time abandons me when I try to talk about these things one of my favorite games from the last couple years is FTL fast and light that is a roguelike as well but the genres way old the first game rogue which is where rogue light comes from was released for the UNIX platform way back in nineteen eighty so and and that's pretty much what started this trend and in recent years has become more and more popular to do this so what makes rogue legacy a rogue light instead of a rogue like when you die you grow stronger so rather than a new game starting completely from scratch you'll upgrade your manner and weaponry you'll unlock new characters and you'll basically have a bigger strong point because your guy grows as you die and upgrade new features so it's not like you're gonna spend all this money on upgrades and then all of a sudden you won't have access to them anymore because you're dead those upgrades carry across generations so I guess in the lore of the game the weapons the metals the armor everything that you unlock it's passed down but so the genetics of being stronger and faster and bigger and whatever else so you're gonna die a lot in rogue RN rogue legacy which I do as well I med this is actually one of my longer runs which isn't really a testament to how good or bad I am at this game I'm terrible at it for them for the record I'm just gonna uh sir Gordon has been slain by a skeleton and then you'll see me jump back into the main menu and I'll pick a new descendant so this was the guy that I just had this is our new guy I could be a barbarian who they all have special traits this guy's a giant the guy above him is really tiny the guy below him is talented i don't know he's a savant my name is sure what that means yet this guy would also be stereo blind which means that the 3d aspects of the game are gone but I'm gonna go with Lady Priscilla the Barbarian who is also a giant this is the aforementioned manner so I do have some bucks to spend and I could just upgrade my sword here with the blacksmith which is what I think I'm going to do and the weird thing about rogue legacy is that when you go to approach this castle at the beginning of every round you're greeted by this phantom and you have to give all your money to get it in basically start playing basically you want to spend all of your money on upgrades before you enter the castle every single time so every single time you play you're going to flying upgrades so tough scheme does work with a controller which is really nice if you're someone who likes to play in big picture mode on steam which I do so that's great and it actually controls really really well it's hard I mean this is this is a precision platformer with like hack and slash mechanics your sword swings are super slow so you're gonna have to balance out when you're fighting and when you're dodging and running for your life and being a giant as you're seeing here with Lady Priscilla makes it even harder one also pretty cool thing that I wanted to mention about rogue legacy is the game's soundtrack so I'm actually going to kind of fade out here for just a minute just so you guys can listen to the music and watch me dodge all of these fireballs or not dodge them I get distracted like a turkey leg pops out I'm like I get that turkey leg see and then I get hit turkey leg useless so anyway pay attention to music and I'll be back on the other side okay so like I said at the very beginning in this game one of the big staples of the roguelike genre is its intense brutal difficulty and I think you guys are probably getting a pretty good taste of what that's like in play I'm not good at this game i'm not gonna suggest i'm good at this game i'm not i'm terrible at it but to my defense i think i have a whopping 30 minutes of play under my belt before recording this video so I'm gonna get much better guys I promise probably not huh it's it's meant to be tough you see me here I'm going to take a lot of sacrifice that chess is clearly gonna have so much gold into it so I'm just gonna jump down here take the hit look at all that phat loot getting hit harder and I split this is a roguelike and and rogue legacy is a blast for 15 bucks kind of in love with it already I can really wholeheartedly recommend it to anybody who kind of wants more challenge out of the games if you like the really tough stuff this one's going to be for you I'm gonna die here pretty soon this is probably this here is probably my longest running this game and I'm really proud of it I didn't do anything I'm terrible at it thank you guys for watching so much we'll be back again with another episode of let's play for now this has been joey davidson i'm joey davidson with rogue like it's out now 15 bucks check the link below for the developers website snag the game for yourself and until next week lady priscilla is out stupid grey night you