I recently bought Rogue Legacy 2 because I liked the first one and saw this one just came out and had a few %s of discount at the last steam sale.
Gameplay wise it was "fine", nothing particularly stood out and I'm sure I would have had at least some fun with it had I kept it. However the flavor text and some design decisions were promoting lefty ideas which made it hard for me to fully immerse myself and enjoy the game.
I fully admit that I may be overly sensitive to this kind of thing but I would rather spend my gameplay time on something that doesn't try to sneak in a commie agenda, even "tongue in cheek".
It is also possible that at least some of the features were present in the first game and I just wasn't noticing them because 2013 as a different era.
The premise of the game is you are an adventurer looking to restore your family's kingdom and when you fail one of your children will replace you in the next run. Each child has randomly determined starting stats, abilities, and "quirks" that can include both benefits and drawbacks.
The first thing that stood out is your supposed "children" can have a variety of skin colors. This is pretty standard in terms of how random characters are usually made and only stands out because of the implications it has when you start with the original premise.
Second is one of the traits your characters can have is "Nature" which can state your character is homosexual thus promoting that degeneracy. I don't think it has any gameplay effect but why have it at all? Answer: virtue signaling and getting headpats from the pozzed gaming press.
Third is the flavor text on the castle upgrades had several digs at "the wealthy" or supporting "universal healthcare" which are completely anachronistic for a medieval-style theme.
And my last straw was the "Valkyrie" class which notes (paraphrased) "Thanks to gender equality men can also be valkyries!" They had absolutely on reason to choose valkyrie as the class name, they could have called it "Lancer" or "Spear User" or whatever but they had to use Valkyrie for virtue signaling purposes.
I noped out after that and got a refund.
This is why I want us to start going into video games and forming clans and groups inside these spaces.
They're targeting the children with this bullshit, and they're shifting the Overton Window as far as they can.
Take this scene from Sonic Boom.
Annoying and promoting Feminism, sure. But we have no cultural movement in any other direction related to kids. You don't hear Tales responding with
Match that up with him saying "Just because I'm a meat head, doesn't mean I'm not a Feminist."... when we all know, yeah it does. Weak cuttlefish men are Feminists, not meat-heads.
A better quip would be Tails saying "Sonic, I think Knuckles is going to try to molest Amy."
We don't really have any cultural backdraft against the inclusion of Leftist, and occasionally radical Leftist, ideology in entertainment. We need to provide potential enclaves to gamers, particularly the youths, from the incessant indoctrination we all went through and maybe even bought into. Especially if that line of politics is paired with rabid narcissism, nihilism, and resentment.
I'm less interested in making sure we get Shadow The Hedge Hog to start quoting from the John Birch Society, and more just making sure that the kids don't continue to kill themselves in an alarming rate by a media paradigm that teaches them worthlessness and aimlessness.
We need to build little enclaves that teach kids to tie their self-worth to their individual responsibilities, respect for stoicism, and even some basic bitch re-moralization on masculine and feminine forms.
After I wrote this post I had an idea for a game development house that releases anti-woke versions of pozzed games.
The protagonists will all be white males, there will be hot chicks as both decoration and princesses to rescue, the enemies will either be explicitly foreigners or have obvious stereotypical foreigner features. Lots of patriotic themes as well.
Think duke nukum 3d (the original) but played straight.
There wouldn't have to be any marketing at all, just plant a few seeds and the hate and outrage would be better than any intentional advertising.
What's sad is that that might actually work. But remember, most people don't care about the ideology of the thing, just the gameplay. The most important aspect is for it to be good.