An Indie Sequel to a Great Action Roguelite, Also Great? – Lost Castle 2 Demo –
4Lost Castle 2 is an Indie, Action Roguelite light RPG Dungeon Crawler where you hack and slash, or bow and blast, your way through hordes of goblins, zombies, and miscellaneous monsters, picking your path through the procedural dungeon: it’s fun, and tough!
Like Lost Castle 1, but Better!
Unlike the first Lost Castle, Lost Castle 2 has a difficulty selector, letting the player set it to easy, normal, or hard; this is a welcome change to the original Lost Castle, which was seemingly always on hard!
Beyond a very welcome difficulty setting opening the game up to more people, Lost Castle 2 gives you much more player choice at the start, giving the player a pick of 1 of 3 starting weapons, in addition to the random one they start with; a big improvement over the 1 granted in 1, and 1 unlocked random in the original Lost Castle.
Like in Lost Castle, you seem to usually have a pick of 2 rooms, but in Lost Castle 2, rooms now give you some indication of what they are before you enter them, like a monster room, elite monster room, a cursed area with better treasure, but cursed dangers, merchants, a safe area with a forge for weapon upgrades using found material in the run, a gambling vender that wants souls, and a healing fountain for your flask.
The cursed rooms are really fun, think lightning bolt slamming down, requiring the player to dodge fast, they also hit the enemy too; fun!
There is also a curse where dodging cost 5% of your life, much less fun…
Lost Castle 2 is also influenced a bit by Dark Souls, as now, you get a recharging not Estus flask, which grants you limited free healing in-between fountains, a welcome change to the banana and apple hunts of the first Lost Castle!
Better Feeling and Playing Combat:
I already mentioned the dodge above, it is much better than the old jump, as it provides I-frames, and you really need them here, as Lost Castle 2 is still tough!
Unlike the original game, here you no longer have to click the attack button like a madman to keep attacking, in Lost Castle 2, you can simply hold it down; thank you!
Beyond sparing your thumbs, Lost Castle 2 added actual collision for the monsters!
No longer can you just run through them like you’re a ghost!
Now, they body block you with their big, bad, monster selves! Nice!
You can now pickup and toss the barrels at your foes, even the explosive barrels; very fun!
You can physically move barrels around here too, pushing them your way, if they are in your way; not so in 1!
You can even knock down and toss the big beasts around, even into the advancing pack of angry monsters! Wild!
You can also directly block enemy attacks here with a shield; a welcome change from 1, as there, the shield bash does not actually block attacks!
Lost Castle 2 also grants the player a default dodge, along with a pick of 2 default gears in the starting camp site, jump boots or a bomb bag; this is in sharp contrast to Lost Castle 1, where you have a jump, but no dodge, and your items take up inventory slots, and are very limited in use.
Meta Progression:
The meta progression currency here is gold coins, earned as you beat down enemies, and used in-between runs to become more powerful, if you wish.
Like the original Lost Castle, Lost Castle 2 is also a Roguelite, meaning you unlock stacking meta progression power in between runs, stacking up to 5 times for each buff here, buffs like: +1 to attack, 1% speed boost, throw-able damage up 5%, hp +6, Mp up 4, Healing potion up 4,+6 soul crystals, Crit rate 1%.
All of this stacks, adding a lot of meta progression power, meta progression that is likely needed for most players to win the game, especially on the higher difficulties.
I should also mention that Lost Castle 2 is a much nicer game than Lost Castle, as here, you keep any souls not spent in an upgrade, while in the original game, any souls not spent in an upgrade are lost, gone, like in Rogue Legacy! Ouch!
Thankfully, not so in 2!
You can also unlock different starting gears: you start with 2 in the demo, the Jumping shoes, and the bomb.
Controller Support is present, and good, which is very good, as mouse and keyboard control is flat out not present in game; as you cannot do anything except menu stuff with the mouse.
So, unless you really like 2 hands on keyboard control, it is gamepad or nothing here, at least currently.
Online Co-op is planned for the full game, in case that is something that interests you.
Note: This is an early demo look at Lost Castle 2 so any bugs or other oddness is not representative of the final product.
Still, Lost Castle 2 is an Indie, Action Roguelite light RPG Dungeon Crawler where you hack and slash, or bow and blast, your way through hordes of goblins, zombies, and miscellaneous monsters, picking your path through the procedural dungeon: it’s fun, and tough!
Lost Castle 2 is well worth a wishlist and a watch.
Watch?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445690/Lost_Castle_2/
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