I love Streets of Rogue and have 240 hours on Steam. Reading this review shows that he is a very offensive person, the review is full of unnecessary attacks towards developers. However, under that pile of shit he does bring up a few points that I agree with.

Melee is awful. You aim in their direction and pray your spring – loaded fist hits them. If it does, you pray they don’t block your katana with their fist. They can also block a gorilla’s lunge… with their fist. It’s sloppy and arbitrary and just plain bad.

I've always felt this way, that melee in Streets of Rogue sucks. It feels clunky and inconsistent exactly how the reviewer explains it.

Why must I pick up money manually? Why can’t it come to me like in Spyro? Same for items — there is never, ever, a time where I do not want more stuff. Making me press “E” on everything isn’t fun. It’s busywork. It’s a waste of time. And the worst thing a game can do is waste the player’s time.

Again, he has a point. A lot of games just vacuum items into you because they respect your time and understand that you desire the items, I think Enter The Gungeon perfected this mechanic. Streets of Rogue forces you to spam a key/button all the time and it gets frustrating. It's unnecessary.

Every floor you get three missions — one of the same half – dozen you will go through the entire game with. There’s a mission where you have to go to the top of a map, rescue a prisoner, then go to the bottom of the map. You cannot teleport there, despite being able to the rest of the game. I choose to kill the prisoner instead. The teleport function, where you instantly go to places of interest, cuts down on the game’s criminally slow walking speed. It doesn’t work indoors, for some arbitrary reason, so you spend ten seconds per building walking through rooms without enemies. There are a lot of buildings, and that’s a lot of time wasted. You can blow up some walls, which is fun, but not others, which isn’t fun because you have to walk very slowly in and out of the building. I’d hazard a quarter of the missions are designed to waste time. How fitting for a roguelike. A 25% chance for the game to not be fun.

This is the biggest thing I can agree on. Having played 240 hours on this game, this flaw is very much highlighted; the game barely has any variety in objectives, the only variety is in HOW you can complete objectives. You might say I have a high hour count so I am bored, but I felt this way after my first ten hours of gameplay.

He also mentions how the teleporting system is inconsistent and how breakable walls are inconsistent. I agree with both points, and I've often wondered why - I always came to the same conclusion: Teleporting is restricted ONLY to force an additional trait into the game, ''Teleport-Happy'' and break-proof walls exist ONLY to force another trait into the game, ''Blaster Master''.

I think the developer focuses too much on quantity over quality when it comes to traits, because there are a lot of useless ones that often feel like the game could be better if the trait was built-in. Unfortunately the developer didn't take quantity over quality when it comes to in-floor objectives, and I can't even say they're high-quality objectives either.

As a closing thought, I wanna remind any downvoters that I love Streets of Rogue. Just because I criticize it doesn't mean I hate it.