Rogue Legacy 2 Reviews

Really good game, one of the best I've played. Really good mechanics/skill expression, a decent amount of lore if you're into that stuff, and a lot of chaos. 9/10 great game.

Absolutely stunning improvement on the first game, everything flows so much better, the progression systems feel much better, Bard is absurdly fun to play and little details like the attack speed and the pitch of the notes you play matching to the music really well just sell it so much more... which brings me to my only serious complaint... the electric guitar weapon is an abomination upon the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, Tom Morrello, and Tosin Abasi... how dare you make me feel like I'm shredding less with the damn electric guitar than I am with the lute? The rhythm is just off, what it loses in utility is not at all worth the single target DPS it could put out... and most importantly the how am I supposed to feel like I'm shredding in rhythm to the music when it's just one shot between the air twirls? Change this and the game is a 10 out of 10 for me, a rare honour indeed.

More content doesn't mean better. The first game had a tighter and more crafted gameplay system and the enemies to compliment that. The addition of too much insane variety, plus new clunky systems ruin the fun. The addition of really cringe humor doesn't help the muddied gameplay.

Very fun game. I usually don't like rogue-likes, but this is very replayable. I especially like the different classes. At first, they feel kind of unbalanced and new class play-styles feel clunky, but the more you play with them, you realize their strengths and the ways to exploit them. I'd definitely recommend this game.

Really enjoyable rogue-lite with a lot more depth than you'd think. The unlock system is fun, along with the overall gameplay loop for the game. I had it wishlisted forever but I'm glad I finally tried it.

Love this game. It tricks you into thinking it’s chill and easy, then you get pummeled and have to start over. It has lots of exploration, secrets, and variety. I haven’t completed the game yet but for me that isn’t the primary goal, I’m more in it for the overall fun experience.

The resolve system kinda ruins the fun of runs. Especially early runs. You can buy upgrades to lessen the impact of the resolve penalties but that means significant grinding prior to being able to enjoy the upgrades that you find. It's just progress gating for the sake of progress gating, it isn't fun and all of the armor unlocks use the same resolve currency. After playing it, I can see why the sequel did not take off.

As with most roguelike that I enjoy, this game is super fun and addictive to play. The Legacy system is really interesting and adds a lot to the game. Unfortunately, I just am not good at this game at all lol. I never made it past the 3rd big boss and this isn't one of those roguelikes where it starts to get much easy with each loss. I wasn't really making any progress at all. This may be due to a large part of the game being skilled platforming and me not being skilled at that at all. But that is, as the kids say, a skill issue. Even if I personally can't beat this game, I'd still recommend it to anyone thinking of giving it a try.

It's a good game overall but I won't recommend it to anyone, unless they genuinely enjoy self-tormenting and spending time on tedious coins-farming runs over and over again just for some subtle bonuses to the characters. My effort to conquer this game has really turned into a journey of suffering from the beginning to the very end, although there are occasional positive feedback now and then, they were drowned by the ocean of negative ones.

This game deserves so much more praise than it got. Incredible work by the team.