Z wrote on 2011.02.04 14:40:05:
Maybe it is not a roguelike, but it definitely is an extremely successful combination of a roguelike and a platformer.

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Al-Khwarizmi wrote on 2012.10.22 04:49:53:
I think the fad of calling everything a roguelike is going too far. What will be next? Tetris? After all, it also has permadeath and a randomly-generated environment, doesn't it?

This is a very good platformer, but it's not a roguelike. It's a game of reflexes and of being in the right pixel at the right time, which is not what roguelikes are about.

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Al-Khwarizmi wrote on 2012.10.22 05:05:04:
I think the fad of calling everything a roguelike is going too far. What will be next? Tetris? After all, it also has permadeath and a randomly-generated environment, doesn't it?

This is a very good platformer, but it's not a roguelike. It's a game of reflexes and of being in the right pixel at the right time, which is not what roguelikes are about.

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Vanguard wrote on 2013.04.26 19:18:10:
A perfect fusion of roguelike concepts and platformer mechanics. Spelunky rules.

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Aleksanderus wrote on 2016.09.12 17:10:33:
It's bad and I don't know what people see in it.

And it's not even a roguelike!

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