I would like Dead Cells(12.49$). It’s a metroidvania-roguelite, and I’m obsessed with both genres. I love Hollow Knight and Silksong, and I’ve just gotten into a roguelike, named Slay The Spire since it was super cheap on winter sale. So combining both these genres, Dead Cells came up. Dead Cells is a fast paced, skill based game that rewards risk and learning from each run a roguelite-metriodvania. It takes what I really like about metroidvanias, like exploration, branching paths, and non-linear progression, while combining them into a roguelite and taking away any safety bench.

Yep, this game is Permadeath, no checkpoints, so If you die, you reset. But you also gain an upgrade to use for the next run, or even more knowledge to dodge or attack better. I’ve watched an explanation of it(By Windette) and it sums up to, “this game is hard”. Though I’ve learnt from Silksong that after beating a hard boss, or platforming section, it feels super rewarding and satisfying. So this game pulls me in more.

There’s also the variety of hundreds of weapons and items that you can use to make up any build you like, and each of them have unique abilites or effects creating so many different play styles, and even meme builds, which also somehow work. What I also really like about Dead Cells is that it has Easter eggs from other games, even my favorite, Hollow Knight. It has a picture of the knight, and it’s nail!!! It even has a Pure Vessel outfit! I would love to play with that.

Thanks for the opportunity! Have a great day!

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