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Key · 10-09-2015, 10:34 AM

I've been playing a few new games recently and although some have left a bad taste in my mouth, others have kept going strong as I play them more. I want to talk about one that I haven't necessarily been playing a lot of, but it's had a lasting good impression on me since I bought it.

Rampage Knights in the simplest of terms is a side scroller-esque rogue like adventure game. Think of the random room generation of Binding of Isaac mixed with the combat and art style of Rogue Legacy. Although none of the games I mentioned are similar exactly, this game definitely pulls most of it's influence from those two games. You start out as a novice sword fighter and as you fight your way through rooms and waves of enemies, you get gold and other items to help you along the way. Basically, the more you play the game, the more you unlock and the more play styles and characters you unlock to make the game either more fun, or more difficult. I've played a few hours of this game so far and each time I play it, I seem to have a really good time. There's really not a lot I can say that's bad about it, but I will say that on my first run, it does seem like the game will punish you from the get-go. There's really no "get ready for a tough ride" stage, it just puts you right into the difficulty and you have to learn certain tactics and strategies to be sure you don't lose the lives that you have. You play the game with only 2 lives but you can pick up items to make yourself more survivable, like the potion that refills itself after each room. When it comes down to it though, this game being as difficult as it is can also be very rewarding. As you play through levels of combat, you find chests and other ways to find more items and sometimes you'll get lucky and find a weapon that can inflict far more damage than your default. The cost of that is often times the speed in which you inflict damage, but mixed with combos and strategies to take down the enemies, it seems worth it. This game while not yet one of my favorite rogue like games, it's definitely one of the better ones to come out recently. I found it almost out of nowhere and for it to be a pleasant surprise is always nice. Definitely do give it a shot if you're into some of the combat styling of Rogue Legacy, because like I said, it does draw a lot of it's influence from that game. Not a bad thing though, since Rogue Legacy is a great game. Also the music is awesome.

(example of the type of combat/combos you can perform on enemies)

10-09-2015, 10:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	I've been playing a few new games recently and although some have left a bad taste in my mouth, others have kept going strong as I play them more. I want to talk about one that I haven't necessarily been playing a lot of, but it's had a lasting good impression on me since I bought it. Rampage Knights in the simplest of terms is a side scroller-esque rogue like adventure game. Think of the random room generation of Binding of Isaac mixed with the combat and art style of Rogue Legacy. Although none of the games I mentioned are similar exactly, this game definitely pulls most of it's influence from those two games. You start out as a novice sword fighter and as you fight your way through rooms and waves of enemies, you get gold and other items to help you along the way. Basically, the more you play the game, the more you unlock and the more play styles and characters you unlock to make the game either more fun, or more difficult. I've played a few hours of this game so far and each time I play it, I seem to have a really good time. There's really not a lot I can say that's bad about it, but I will say that on my first run, it does seem like the game will punish you from the get-go. There's really no "get ready for a tough ride" stage, it just puts you right into the difficulty and you have to learn certain tactics and strategies to be sure you don't lose the lives that you have. You play the game with only 2 lives but you can pick up items to make yourself more survivable, like the potion that refills itself after each room. When it comes down to it though, this game being as difficult as it is can also be very rewarding. As you play through levels of combat, you find chests and other ways to find more items and sometimes you'll get lucky and find a weapon that can inflict far more damage than your default. The cost of that is often times the speed in which you inflict damage, but mixed with combos and strategies to take down the enemies, it seems worth it. This game while not yet one of my favorite rogue like games, it's definitely one of the better ones to come out recently. I found it almost out of nowhere and for it to be a pleasant surprise is always nice. Definitely do give it a shot if you're into some of the combat styling of Rogue Legacy, because like I said, it does draw a lot of it's influence from that game. Not a bad thing though, since Rogue Legacy is a great game. Also the music is awesome. (example of the type of combat/combos you can perform on enemies)