mothwentbad: How Rogue Legacy positively illustrates the difference between a challenging game and a frustrating game.

nefariouscole: LOL nice review.

"Because F*** you, that's why!" - Nice comparison with other games' cruel difficulties, and gaming comedy.

RedneckSith: I agree that the game is fun, but I definitely disagree with you about the difficulty being fair. It's not. I've died about 30 times already, about half of which are due to game mechanics.

For example, the attack animation has a near full second delay after the button is pressed before it activates, which has killed me many, many times. On the ground it can be dealt with, but while jumping there's almost nothing you can do about it. It makes the difficulty feel incredibly cheap, and serves only to frustrate. It reminds me of the original Castlevania, which also had a really long delay.

Also, I've died 4-5 times because I'm immediately swarmed with monsters and / or projectiles the second the room loads, giving me zero time to react. Full HP to dead in maybe two seconds. Again, makes the difficulty feel cheap.

Oh, and the downward stab's timing has to be nearly perfect, as anything else will result in taking damage. If I were 16 again I could probably manage, but the old reflexes aren't what they used to be. The same applies to some of the rooms, there are plenty which nobody but the most avid gamer with near perfect reflexes could get through unscathed.

Hit detection for sword attacks is also off. It's definitely not horrible, but it needs some work. There's nothing more frustrating than compensating correctly for the delay, then having your sword pass right through the enemy without leaving so much as a scratch.

So yeah. Fun game, worth buying, but prepare to be frustrated. Hopefully Cellar Door will read these forums and take some steps to polish up the game a bit. Heck, I'd be happy if they added a fairly early upgrade path to increase attack / animation speed.