These are small narratives in the form of scrolls, which pose dilemmas to you. It’s also brimming with stories ripped right out of the roguebook. However, Roguebook is not just filled with relics that grant heroes advantages, and gems which you slot into cards for extra benefits like, reducing its cost to play. You’ll need every advantage you can muster. Everything you collect in your many runs will be vital if you wish to have any hope of becoming powerful enough to escape the Roguebook. Spending these points grant permanent buffs, and increase the chances of finding useful items in game, such as health canisters. Anyway, these pages you collect act as attribute points for a skill tree. Though, I couldn’t really wrap my head around how you’re in the book, walking across it’s pages while picking up it’s pages. Through your travels you’ll also be picking up pages of the roguebook itself, called embellishments. Like new cards, relics, gems, gold and health canisters. And without the ability to explore the environments, you’ll be missing out on a lot. Without them you’ll be going nowhere fast. Paintbrushes and ink are your best friends. So unless you’re going out of your way for a challenge, the game works best as a journey to find everything. However, it’s always in your best interest to slowly reveal the world and the secrets it holds. You could make a beeline for any given chapter’s boss battles and use your default number of paintbrushes to dodge the fights leading up to them. Now of course you’re not shoehorned into this explore and fight loop. Elite battles, however, always drop paintbrushes, giving you a fitting reward for the increased risk and challenge. Whether it reveals three or four spaces in a straight line, or allows you to pinpoint or expand a brush’s area of effect. Every normal battle has a chance to drop a type of ink or paintbrush effect. And the only way to get your mitts on some ink and paint is to fight. The only way to step on a block and traverse the tome is to make use of these tools. The world has empty squares that are inaccessible to you until you reveal them with the tools essential for filling in the pages of books. The only way to move around is to fill in the blanks so to speak. Roguebook is interesting in the way that it requires you to explore the world, or more accurately, the book. Fight and explore till you come back with something to show for it. As the group levels up they gain access to more powerful gems that you can either buy with gold, or find in gem stones by chance out in the field. Such as Seifer’s Absorb Soul card which when dealing the killing blow to an enemy, will replenish some HP. As they level up they gain cards which are permanently added to their inventory. The roster of characters level up at the end of every trip into the book, provided you’ve selected them for your party of two. That’s because with every death you gain an advantage for the next run. It’s expected of you to take a good couple L’s if you want to get anywhere. Failure is a part of Roguebook’s gameplay loop. Not just by way of your death being permanent between runs, but also through its role in progression. Roguebook is a roguelike (Hence the name, I’d imagine) deckbuilder where your death means something. Even when you’ve beaten the game for the first time, you’re far from done. The only hope for escape is to overcome the challenges and hordes of enemies residing in the book of lore. A handful of heroes all find themselves captive within the Roguebook’s pages. You’re trapped in the Roguebook, the name of the book you’re imprisoned in, as well as the game you’re playing. Only a great mind or near impossible RNG could hope to get you a win on your first run. Prepare yourself to try and fail, and then try again only to fail again. This process shouldn’t discourage you from trudging on though. Well, the name of the game is Roguebook, but repetition is a big part of the experience.
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