Fun for a couple hours, but ultimately the twin-stick combat mechanics just aren’t deep, varied, or engaging enough to make one run feel sufficiently distinct from the next; the quest objectives, meanwhile, are randomized just enough to make finding them frustrating, while also being fixed enough to make the lack of any mid-run checkpoints, admittedly standard for the roguelite genre, frustrating as well. The pixel art is still cute and the writing is fun (if too Extremely Online), and I respect that Snoozy Kazoo chose to do something different with the second Turnip Boy game, but I wish they had just built on Commits Tax Evasion’s Zelda-like gameplay instead.

Turnip Boy Robs A Bank takes the comedic writing, characters, and hyperbolic grandeur of the first game and applies it to a more recent gameplay formula, the roguelite.

Calling it a roguelite is pretty generous: The level is functionally identical every run, little if any is randomized, but the game makes excellent use of the genres short-form run format.
In the beginning you only have three minutes so you're sprinting and collecting loot as fast as possible while happening to see a familiar face. As time goes on you get better at the game and the game gives you more lifelines which allows you to engross yourself in the storylines during your runs. The writing is right on par with the first game which is good to see since the mechanical gameplay is fine, but fairly uninspired.

Turnip Boy Robs A Bank is a great game and a worthy sequel. What will that abomination do next