Remember those skills you were trying to keep in your head? OK.
#RISK OF RAIN 2 REVIEW UPGRADE#
Dota 2 fans will be able to locate an Aghanim's Sceptre, which really does upgrade each character's best ability. Remember the cargo I mentioned your ship dropping? There are exactly 100 of them for you to randomly find in Risk of Rain, from a ukulele, to a meaty cube, to a self-propelled missile system, to an ancient war banner, all of which buff your character in some way. To say nothing of the items you'll be fretting over! It's equal parts wonderful and absurd, and those aren't even all his skills. So you're trying to fight close, but not too close, while trying to kill enemies with the headshot button, not too early (or it won't kill them), but not too late (or you won't get the most of its 600% damage).
But then you also have a headshot skill that does 600% damage and resets the cooldown on everything if you get a kill with it, including the headshot skill.
Armed with a rifle, but also short-range grenades, your maximum damage comes from forming huge packs of enemies then fighting very close to them - which is exactly as intelligent and safe as it sounds. The Bandit's a wonderful example of how joyous that can be. It's to kill as fast as possible, chaining your powers together in dramatic combos. Because, don't forget, the aim here isn't to survive a taxing fumble with a new control scheme. While each has a default attack and no barrier to entry, learning to use each one well - learning to fire off each of the context-specific moves at just the right moment, and "feeling" when each of their cooldowns will end - is like learning to play a musical instrument. Seems good, is actually rewarding you for staying still.Ī generous 10 characters, from the default Commando, to the acid-sweating Acrid, to the unexpected laser swordplay of the Mercenary, all possess marvellously different powers. In Risk of Rain you have to level up against the clock to survive, but the only means you have of getting more monsters into the level is by upending a bucket of them over your head Watch out for the Banner item that buffs you in a particular area.
What makes it fantastic fun, though, are the MOBA-inspired elements. The challenge is in managing the game's pace, which is fascinating. So by design, the game always runs too slowly or too quickly, with you either swearing as you tramp ominously across a peaceful wasteland (tick, tock! tick, tock!), or swearing as you sprint from a laughably huge flock of pterodactyls. Which is a long way of saying that in Risk of Rain you have to level up against the clock to survive, but the only means you have of getting more monsters into the level is by upending a bucket of them over your head. But the boss is always accompanied by a horrific 90 seconds of regular enemies teleporting into the level at an unprecedented rate, appearing all but right inside your chest cavity. The easiest way to do this is by summoning each level's boss, which you can do whenever you find that level's teleporter. 30 minutes in, you're on a difficulty setting simply called "Hahahaha." To keep up with this you'll want to gain XP and items as fast as possible. 15 minutes in, you'll be subjected to an impossible onslaught of monsters. That begins with this: the enemies that spawn in Risk of Rain get tougher as time goes on. Rather, what sets Risk of Rain humming like a tuning fork is the bizarre puzzle at its centre. I'd have called Risk of Rain's highest difficulty setting “Cloud Strife”. Nor, really, does the traditional roguelike urge to see what content lurks beyond your best play-through.
Risk of Rain's plot - your cargo ship crash-lands on a hostile world, sprinkling its varied cargo across the surface, you have to use what you find to survive, GO! - isn't what powers it. Beneath its veneer of professionalism, this game is as mad as a bag of legs. The second thing you'll notice about Risk of Rain, perhaps 15 minutes in, is that it's not particularly interested in being perfect. From each precisely-timed leap that carries you from harm's way, to the crispy pixel visuals of you gunning down a preposterous giant crab, to the looming, grandiose soundtrack, right down to you laughing at the jokes in the main menu's unlockable encyclopedia: absolutely everything is as it should be. Risk of Rain is an immaculate platformer.
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