Roving Rogue

 Wii U
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  • Summary: Jumping against the clock, you must fight tank knights, Goblin archers, obsessed ghosts, demented wizards and other evil forces to get out of the crumbling castle and find your way back to… err… to wherever you came from.

Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. IGN Spain
    Jul 11, 2015
    70
    Roving Rogue is an ingenious and ingenuous platform game, with milimetric jumps and the time breathing behind us. However, the truly fun and challenge depends on the story, funny, but peculiar. It's chaotic multiplayer is fun for a while, but only for a while.
  2. Vandal
    Jul 20, 2015
    65
    Roving Rogue has its issues but in the end it is a game we had a lot of time with playing it with friends. If that's your case, it might by a good choice.
  3. Gaming Nexus
    Aug 10, 2015
    65
    Roving Rogue is okay, but I got bored after awhile. Once you learn how teleportation works, there’s not a lot of challenge, as any enemies introduced as the game progresses are easy to either defeat or avoid entirely. If it ever goes on sale in the eShop I’d say give it a shot, but if you’re looking for a challenge, you'll want to look elsewhere.
  4. Destructoid
    Jul 3, 2015
    60
    Roving Rogue failed to really capture my interest throughout the entire adventure, but from a raw gameplay perspective I had some fun with the platforming bits. You'll enjoy it even more with friends.
  5. Cubed3
    Oct 25, 2015
    50
    Some issues, such as the frame rate and the environmental hazard glitch, could, perhaps, be resolved with a patch. However, the reliance on trial-and-error design and the harsh spikes in difficulty found in the last third of the game are likely to be too trying for most gamers.
  6. FNintendo
    Jul 31, 2015
    50
    Roving Rogue departs from a unique and refreshing concept – what in the world happens when videogame heroes end their quests? It doesn’t go much further than this, though, and quickly becomes a repetitive and unappealing generic platformer, which is a pity as there was a great potential to explore with such an original premise.
  7. Twinfinite
    Aug 10, 2015
    40
    In the end, Roving Rogue makes a bit of a splash with its interesting means of storytelling, but that’s about it. From the frustrating controls to the uninspired level design, the rest of the game falls pretty flat. It’s not necessarily awful, mind you, just uninspired and a bit frustrating.

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  1. gghani
    Jul 13, 2015
    8
    The game starts with an interesting plot twist, which is always a cool thing, but far from what I enjoyed most of the game. Just a couple ofThe game starts with an interesting plot twist, which is always a cool thing, but far from what I enjoyed most of the game. Just a couple of actions (teletransport and jump) and lots of challenging platforming action coming straight out from thorough level design, delivered just like in the good old gaming days.

    If you are into roguelikes like Rogue Legacy, old-school platformers like NES Marios, and also dig pixel-art indie games, I strongly recommend Roving Rogue.    … Expand

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#37 Best Wii U Game of 2015
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#35 Most Discussed Wii U Game of 2015
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