It’s a way of hiding secrets in plain sight, tempting you to progress so you can explore areas that you could see, but that remained tantalisingly out of reach.Įach of Dead Cell’s immaculate, procedurally generated levels comprises its own biome, complete with their own delightful parallax scrolling backgrounds, scenery, and enemies. Like its namesakes, Metroid and Castlevania, new powers and equipment let you reach previously inaccessible areas in levels you’ve already played. It’s the kind of brutality players modern players aren’t used to but its design choices have inspired numerous developers since the turn of the millennium, giving birth to the still popular roguelike genre.Įven though Dead Cells, which received its most recent piece of DLC this month, is a roguelike, it also has strong Metroidvania leanings. Released in 1980, it was a dungeon crawler where each time you died you started again at the beginning, right from scratch.
Way back in the early history of video games there was a game called Rogue.
The third, but not necessarily final, paid-for DLC for Dead Cells is the first major release of 2022 and just as good as you’d expect. Dead Cells: The Queen And The Sea – if it’s not the last DLC after all, then all the better (pic: Motion Twin)
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