Rogue Rising

I'm dropping a positive review, despite feeling rather mixed on this. I do this to try and help the developer and encourage them to continue working on their project. I believe that a game can still be a positive thing that others may enjoy playing, even if I'm on the fence. First, I respect any solo developer who are putting in the effort to create something they're passionate about. I get the feeling this developer is no different and I wish them the best of luck with finishing this one. However I do need to speak truthfully regarding Rogue Rising in its current state. First of all the game has been translated into English which works fine for the Menus. However some of the tutorial instructions can be slightly confusing. This isn't necessarily a barrier, but something worth noting. Gameplay itself is fairly fluid with plenty of attack options and some handy mobility ones too. Something that immediately ruins the combat for me is the inclusion of contact damage (losing life when simply touching an enemy). There are plenty of games that pull this off and normally they're balanced with this mechanic in mind. However in Rogue Rising 2 of the 3 playable characters are melee focus…

All of the instructions are in Japanese, so you may want to wait until the translations are ready for English speakers. I don't want to say DO play it, but I also don't want to say DONT play it, either (I'll leave a positive review just to avoid negatively affecting the developer). It screams solo-dev game project, which means its got some really .. bizarre art choices, interesting gameplay/mechanics and balance is all out of whack. So, if you're in to that kind of thing, give it a look.

I hate that comments are disabled as the default option, you can’t even communicate on here as it is… but this is supposed to be about the game, and not the endless list of gripes I have with this platform. Read the review Beelz wrote (that goes for the Developers too!) it covers everything. I want to love this game, I can see where it’s supposed to be, but I don’t think it’s even possible to get anywhere without using the 3rd character who can shoot arrows. It’s like risk of rain, but better level design, I’ve only played a bit, haven’t been able to clear level 1 yet, and would like to know how to save up currency to buy unlockables, hopefully people will buy this and the devs don’t give up on it (which is yet another gripe because small indie devs are left out in the ocean to die as soon as they release their game… steam-no promotion from us, but we’ll take whatever money we get from the thousands upon thousands of shovelware garbage we release every week! FOR SHAME!!! Throw these people a bone, and show their game’s instead of burying them under crap!!!