I'm really interested in it since I love Roguelikes, but it's an older one from before they came the indie game phenomenon they are now.

How does it compare to something like Risk of Rain 2 or Dead Cells? Anything i should know going into it? Might give it a shot on the handheld on the road this weekend.

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    11 days ago

    Baroque is an interesting one.

    The PS2 version you're talking about is actually a remake of the original with a completely different gameplay style. The original Baroque was a first-person dungeon crawler on the Sega Saturn (later remixed and released on the PS1 as well) similar to the old King's Field games by Fromsoft.

    The story and vibes are very Shin Megami Tensei-esque. Very heavy religious tones mixed with a post-apocalyptic, cassette-futurism aesthetic. It's a game where you want to talk to NPCs until their dialogue is exhausted and actually pay close attention to what they say.

    Regarding progression, it's similar to other proto-roguelites of the time (thinking Fatal Labyrinth/Dragon's Crystal) where inventory space is limited and consumables are unidentified until used. There is also a way to pass items from one run to the next, but I'll let you figure that out. Death itself isn't the end in this game and is just part of the progression.

    I think it's pretty neat, but I haven't played the PS2 version. Good luck!