The bosses range with great variety- Stone Titans with death lasers, giant beetles that summon more insects to protect them and giant jellyfish that can fire homing explosives and turn themselves into a thermonuclear bomb at low health. You proceed attempting to survive long enough to buy items from security chests with money earned from kills so that you can find a teleporter, which you will then need to charge by standing near it and killing a boss. In a typical game, you will choose a character, hurtle towards the planet’s surface in a drop pod, crash into the ground, climb out and start fighting. Some items do increase your movement or attack speed, or reduce damage taken, but some are far more revolutionary- cause bleeding, light enemies on fire, explode enemies on death, a percent chance to completely ignore damage on hit and at the higher end revive you from death. The items you collect are all mostly passive, but that doesn’t mean they’re simple stat boosts. Most characters need only the movement keys and four buttons, five if you find an equipment- left mouse, right mouse, shift, q and r. If you hear the music begin to loop, you know you’ve been somewhere too long.ĭespite how much there is to the game, it’s very intuitive to pick up. The music swells as the planet redoubles its efforts, reaching a crescendo as you frantically dance through chaos, life on a razor’s edge. It starts off with a sense of wonder and inviting exploration, but quickly the undertones of danger bleed into the sound as the beautiful environments are covered in spent bullets and rising enemies. I’d like to touch specifically on the music- it’s amazing. The ingredients aren’t new, but the way they’ve been put together is exquisite. What sets Risk of Rain 2 apart is that nothing else has put those pieces together in quite the same way. It’s got great 3-D graphics, great visual design, controls, characters, character design, balance and simply feels fun to play. As you progress, you unlock new playable characters, alternate character abilities and new items for future runs- and some more secrets are waiting in the wings.ĭescribing the game is difficult, because individually the pieces that make it up have been done before.
However, this doesn’t mean that every game is the same. You will probably be restarting a lot, especially at first. When you die, the game ends and you are able to restart. Risk of Rain 2 is what we in the gaming business call a roguelike. Though, to be fair, a welcome and included please is more polite than anything the game will throw at you in its never-ending attempt to make sure you die. If Risk of Rain 2 had a tagline, that’d probably be it.
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