Maybe you should? I really liked the game when it first came out and I played it in high-school, but I never beat it. Then I thought I'd correct that so I replayed it in 2019 and found that it was not nearly as good or innovative as I had initially thought and actually was a total slog to play to the end. The dungeon crawling is like 80% of the game too.
I did play Dredge, it was fun too. I will check out Moonlighter.
Hades is the game that made me understand that I don't like rogueli*es because I loved the presentation and the gameplay but then I got resentful having to beat the same bosses over and over.
Have you tried out Double Dragon Gaiden yet? It's a rogue-like with tons of accessibility and easier difficulty options. You can make the game as easy or as hard as you want. Though if you want to get all the best unlocks, you have to play on the hardest or near hardest difficulty. The best part is that the game doesn't punish you either way for playing on whatever difficulty you like. You can still get the true ending regardless of difficulty.
I would still say that while Hades is fantastic, the definitive roguelite/like is still FTL or Binding of Issac.
No but I'll keep it in mind for sure if/when I'm in the mood for a brawler/fighting thing again (I'm on a whole 'nother wavelength right now)
The definitive Roguelike is clearly Nethack. FTL and BoI barely even know what it means to be like Rogue.
Yeah, the whole starting over each time aspect was bugging me. I had a good groove on with Athena's powers and my muscle memory kept fucking me over when I ended up with Zeus or Poseidon's powers.
Rogue. It's in the damn name. If Nethack was the definitive game, they'd be called Nethack-likes.
This was indeed the presentation I was talking about.
Rogue isn't like Rogue, it is Rogue! Nethack defines just what it means to be like Rogue, but not Rogue.
