Rogue Legacy

Too clumsy in it's controls, too hard with the enemies, too punishing in player death and too feeble in the upgrades it offers. The controls especially make this game suck more than it should - developers please stop using the hold down to attack mechanic, especially when it is the only way to activate wanky timed-limited platforms. Dear God - developers can you stop doing that please? Wherever this cretinous concept come from can we all send it back there from now on? The game really shows the clunky Flash legacy (good riddance to that awful software and it's retarded coding) by the jerkiness of the movements of just about everything. The response of the player is bad and the slowness of the attacks relative to the speed movement is embarrasingly bad. It's fake challenge that's neither fun nor rewarding, whatever the outcome. Upgrades are both over-priced with a barely noticable effect and worse, upgrading one stat increases the price of EVERYTHING. Worse still, there is an amazingly awful mechanic that beggers belief: if you don't spend all your money you lose it when entering the castle. So if the cheapest upgrade is say 580 gold and you've got 570, you lose it all. Developers can be dumb fucks sometimes and this idea shows it. As I write the devs already seek to correct this mess for the sequel, kind of confirms the damp mess that RG1 is really. I bought this at 75% off and feel cheated.

The game is demanding some effort, but grants great satisfaction. Definitely worth trying.

Addicting platformer, nice skill level pacing at the beginning, completionists' dream at the end. A little bit of grinding, but you don't really feel "stuck" at any point. Works great on both Windows and Linux.

The game is really challenging right from the start. And not the good kind of challenge, I'm talking about the kind of thing that only gets you angry and bored after so many tries. The idea is good enough, but the gameplay design along with the AI difficulty makes it too hard to enjoy. Definitely money down the drain.

It's an ok game, after a while it gets tiresome because it's skinner box style. go to the castle, upgrade, go to the castle again, upgrade again.... After that there's not much to it! the challenge goes up as the upgrades go up.