Buy Rogue Legacy at GOG Everything looks so sweet and innocent in Rogue Legacy. Despite the fact that the game staunchly stands in the ruthless 'Metroidvania' genre, its innocuous aesthetic make it easy to underestimate both its difficulty and surprisingly poignant death system. In Rogue Legacy, each time a knight dies, you go into your next playthrough as that knight's descendant. That knight who fell is gone forever, and their memory is preserved as a portrait on the knight-selection screen. It's a given that many knights will die as you play, but if you had a particularly good run with one of them then you'll occasionally look at their portrait on that screen and reminisce fondly about their heroic exploits. But there's more to it than that, because all the money and items that a knight picks up on a run won't ever be used by them. Instead, everything you collect can only be used by that knight's descendants, which means that on each run of the game the knights are selflessly collecting items that will give their successors a better chance at surviving the castle; a brilliant way of giving a sense of purpose and progress to each knight's death; none of their deaths are in vain...
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