Risk of Rain 2 wants you to break it, and that's what I love about it. Other roguelikes I've played have been timid to make the player too overpowered to break progression. RoR2 is the opposite. The constant stream of items constantly powers up your character, and being able to see the items accumulate on them physically really adds to this effect. The gameplay is simple yet fun, the environments are visually interesting while being fun to run through, and the soundtrack is absolutely wonderful. However, this game on console is greatly limited by its performance and differences from the PC version. As of writing this, the Survivors of the Void DLC is still not released, and the game is still buggy. Hopoo is claiming the next update will rebuild the game from the ground up, so if this is true, this game might earn five stars from me. In its current state, though, I can't give it that.

Reviewed on Apr 27, 2023


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