If that doesn’t illustrate how joyfully random Streets of Rogue can be, I don’t know what does! This had the amusing consequence of giving me “Jock” character by accident. I was inflicted with the “Giant” status effect, making my character suitably massive, meaning I was accidentally stepping through buildings and stone walls like a veritable Gulliver amidst the Lilliputians. Every so often, a level will inflict random modulating status effects on your character. For example, the “Jock” character can be unlocked be reaching a very high destruction score on a level, which I achieved unwittingly. Unlocking new characters can be done through getting certain achievements. While normally you’d spend much of your playthrough scrounging through trash cans for food, needed to restore your health, Vampire characters can creep up behind people and suck their blood for sustenance! Counter to this, certain classes require you to be entirely non-lethal! The doctor, presumably because of his/her Hippocratic oath refuses to use lethal weapons, relying on chloroform and a tranquilizer gun, which actually makes him/her an excellent stealth character. Playthroughs unlock new characters, which allow for an entirely different way of doing things. You can even just toss a grenade at the wall next to a generator, blowing it up, giving you not only a rubble strewn entrance, but also disabling anything electronic inside! You could knock on the door, drawing guards to invetiaget before bonking them with a baseball bat when they turn their backs. You can use a hacking tool to remotely disable the various traps and unlock the doors inside. If you need to infiltrate a heavily guarded building to operate some switches or retrieve an item there’s countless ways to do it. The graphics have the style of Prison Architect while the gameplay is Deus Ex via Hotline Miami: Streets of Rogue has a lot of nifty aspects from these games, but with a twist: every new level is totally different from any you’ve seen before.Įvery new level is its own totally new procedurally generated ecosystem, but each one offers countless routes to achieve each level’s objectives. It’s a nice break from the weighty choices of other roguelikes and RPGs to know that you can pretty much cause destruction without guilt since the universe you’re situated in is so sardonically, and amusingly, violent. The comedic tone is firmly established right from the tutorial level, where a resistance leader is so shocked and excited at you being able to successfully open doors and use WASD to move around he literally explodes into a crimson shower of meaty goblets.
The totally non-serious plot of Streets of Rogue was honestly something of a relief when I started playing.
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Of course, this degree of heinousness gives you full moral license to achieve your goal of liberating the city from the mayor’s grip any way you see fit, whether it’s through stealth and guile or blowing up entire city blocks with a rocket launcher.
The mayor’s heinous crime? Outlawing beer and chicken nuggets. The player takes the role of a resistance fighter, battling against a tyrannical, corrupt mayor, who has established a vice like grip over a city. What makes it so beautiful though, is how well ordered it all seems before the chaos begins. Streets of Rogue is an expression of beautiful insanity. Streets of Rogue is actually MORE chaotic than Streets of Rage
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