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[h2]Rogue Citadel Review[/h2]
[h1]Dungeon’s Core[/h1]
We’ve all explored dungeons, but have you ever defended one?
Build defenses and traps to stop the incoming hordes of monsters who try to destroy the dungeon core. Fail, but rise again and replan your strategy, upgrade your defenses, and level up to become bigger and stronger.
[h1]The Game of The Play[/h1]
Rogue Citadel is a Dungeon Tower Defense Rogue-Action Game in early access, which is also displayed at the opening of the game. The game plays out from a god-view angle, while the key bindings for movement are combined with the character’s view point.
Holding down the left-mouse button will allow the character to look around as the mouse moves but will cause the player to be constantly walking.
[i](There is no save file mechanic, so the player saves their progress when they close the game, and they cannot do a blank restart)[/i].
As there seems to be, there are three levels/floors that the player needs to protect. After completing protecting one floor, the next will be unlocked, along with a harder difficulty.
Overall, there’s three difficulties: Normal, Hard, Insane, but when starting to play the game, simply normal is quite difficult itself, which I enjoy. Forcing the player to rethink and redo their strategy for their next try.
Every time the player dies or the core gets destroyed, they will get teleported back to the camp at the ruined tower, and once heading back into the dungeon, it will look completely different, either to their advantage or disadvantage. Making sure that the player cannot prepare a plan beforehand but to think in action.
[b]Camp - Ruined Tower[/b]
At the camp, the player can access their found loot, retrieved from the dungeon, and upgrade their skills, weapons, or purchase new traps and defenses.
And once all is ready or nothing can be done with the remaining amount of currency, the player can dive back into the dungeon stronger and acknowledged of the upcoming dangers.
[u]Lectern[/u]
In the cozy little corner of the bookshelf and shenanigans, we have the lectern, which allows the player to select and move their trap and defense cards that are used within the dungeon.
The maximum equipped cards are eight, so the player needs to choose wisely what to bring and what to leave once they have all the traps and defenses.
[u]Forge[/u]
The burning hot forge is the very same thing that allows the player to upgrade their character, gear, or unlock new defenses.
If you don’t want a specific upgrade, you can reset it and get back all of your orbs to spend on another upgrade. (This, however, only works for character upgrades and not upgrades of gear or purchases of new defenses.)
[u]Campfire[/u]
Over by the campfire, you'll find storage for your gear and belongings. Here, you can select from the items that have been found in the dungeon while slaying monsters and equip them yourself for buffs.
There are a large variety of things you can equip and find down in the dungeon.
[u]Dungeon Portal[/u]
And finally, we have the dungeon portal, an oddly shining and flowing circle of blue light, beholding three levels.
But on the very other side, there are two stone pillars, just like on this side with the dungeon portal, giving the thought that a second portal might emerge if all levels are completed. Or if hard mode gets unlocked.
[h1]Visual & Audio[/h1]
[b]Visuals[/b]
As told in the gameplay, the game displays a god-view angel looking down at the character. And the character looks the way they walk, allowing the mouse to move freely when placing defenses or traps.
In general, the textures of the game look amazing, and after going to settings to see how the lowest options were, it still looked good. So, if you think it won’t look as good in lower graphics since your device would not be able to handle it, trust me, it would still look good and be worth the while.
The character animations are smooth and look very good, and so are the profile pictures of the NPCs? Basically, the people that show up during level-ups have wonderful voice recordings.
[b]Audio[/b]
The soothing but fascinating thing about the sounds in this game is when you walk up to a fire, for example, and it slowly starts to embed the sound of sparkling in the fire the closer you get.
The same goes for when walking up to the portal that sends you into the dungeon. When you walk next to any of these objects, they start to embrace you with their sounds and fade away as you walk away from them.
The voices for our unknown companions or the dungeon masters sound truly well done and fit perfectly in. But it remains a mystery who they are and what their purpose is, aside from giving us the upgrade options.
While down in the dungeon, there is no music. Just the sound of your footsteps, fire, and the ghouls attacking.
[h1]Pros and Cons[/h1]
[List][b]Pros[/b]
[*]Gameplay
[*]NPC? Narrative Voices
[*]Depth of sound
[*]Good Price
[*]Good graphics
[*]Auto Attack
[b]Cons[/b]
[*]Early Access
[*]Turning Mechanics (cannot walk backwards and fight)
[*]No Music in Dungeon [/List]
[h1]My final little thoughts[/h1]
Rogue Citadel is a small, dungeon tower-defense, rogue-like game that looks and sounds amazing and is quite enjoyable.
It takes a few trials before getting enough spirit orbs or soul orbs to upgrade the character or even unlock new defenses. Causing the player to be able to survive or defend the dungeon’s core longer while also getting bigger and tougher hoards.
The game is released as early access, and of course, no game is perfect at first, but this game will surely get more updates, both to smooth things out and add more things.
I highly recommend trying out Rogue Citadel, and I am sure you will find it enjoyable yourself.
Rating: 9/10
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