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‘Roguelike’ games are in vogue at the moment it seems, with many developers taking up this procedural level generation as a method of keeping their game playthroughs fresh and interesting. Today’s game from developers Nuke Nine Games is a roguelike known as Vagante. A dungeon delving dip in to the old school of adventure games, Vagante has a lovely soundtrack, fantastic art style and excellent level generation. I have to say, the intro scene you’ll see above, just after the warning about the current alpha state of the game, was one of my favourite bits, just for the music, and just how nice it was. It reminded me of many older style games I had on my old amiga (which I’m probably now going to dig out of my loft).
Gameplay is standard hack and slash style, jumping around the dungeon killing everything that moves and so on. You earn experience and level up along the way, earning new abilities and so on, rpg style. It’s permadeath as well, so if you die… time to start right back from the beginning. So don’t die!
The only issues I found were a slight difficult in turning around, but I am currently of the opinion this was an error with myself rather than the game, and I found the game quite hard, but again, this was me being useless rather than the game difficult. Seriously. Just watch the video above, I’m pretty terrible. Hopefully it’ll show off enough of the game for you to decide for yourself what you think of it though.
If you want to try it out (and I recommend you do if you’re a fan of the old amiga/snes era games which had this style of gameplay) you can get hold of it here.
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Tom
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