For PS5 players, action hack and slash title Soulstice will be available. PS4 players can look forward to Tacoma, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Killing Floor 2. A game trial for WWE 2K23 will also be available, though this is more than likely exclusive to PS Plus Premium.

It’s worth noting that several other titles like ELEX 2, Redout 2, MX vs ATV Legends, PAW Patrol Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay, My Friend Peppa Pig and DC League of Super-Pets: The Adventures of Krypto and Ace for PS4 and PS5 are mentioned in a recent PlayStation Access video. You also have The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York, A Hat in Time, Carto, Forager, Dodgeball Academia, The Wild at Heart and Thief coming to PS4.

Classics coming to PlayStation Plus Premium include Killzone: Liberation for the PSP and Worms and
Herc’s Adventure on the PlayStation One.

Of course, there’s also the question of whether the acclaimed rogue-lite Metroidvania will ever come to PlayStation. Though Cellar Door didn’t confirm whether PS4 and PS5 versions were in development, it said “we’re always working on things.” Since it’s a small team, fans may need to wait longer for further updates, but never say never.

Rogue Legacy 2 is available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Nintendo Switch. The story sees players venturing into a fallen kingdom with unique biomes. Players can choose different classes like Ranger, Dragoon and even Chef.

As you die and your descendants step up to the plate, they have unique quirks that would drastically affect play styles, like colorblindness, a permanent spotlight, and more. For more details, check out our review.

Time flies!

In celebration of Rogue Legacy 2's one year anniversary, we're working on one last free update and it's going to be BIG!

That's "Special Modes", plural.#roguelegacy2 pic.twitter.com/x5DHOoodcw

— Rogue Legacy 2 (@CellarDoorGames) March 29, 2023

Sorry, we're a small team, but we're always working on things.

— Rogue Legacy 2 (@CellarDoorGames) March 29, 2023

Let’s look at the 11 hardest boss fights of 2022 and what made them so challenging.

Gna – God of War Ragnarok

The new Valkyrie Queen, Gna, is probably easier than Sigrun from God of War (2018). Underestimate her at your peril, though, as she possesses a wide variety of slashes, slices, ranged attacks (including Bifrost), unblockable attacks, and whatnot. If that weren’t enough, she can toss out two glaives in a spinning motion, afflicting you with Fire, Frost, Poison or Bifrost. Did we mention stomps and slams, each causing immense damage? You’ll need max level, fully upgraded gear and weapons, and much more to even stand a chance against Gna.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring is as perilous as any of the Souls games, but on a larger scale. Nevertheless, knowledge is power, from knowing enemy placements and patterns to weaknesses, and will ultimately tip the scales in your favor. The Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast and its asinine hitboxes can still die in a fire, though.

Elden Ring

It’s easy to dismiss Elden Ring as little more than open-world Dark Souls. But it takes the sheer freedom of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and packs it with weapons, Incantations, Sorceries, armor, enemies, mini-bosses, side quests, lore and quirky characters. Elden Ring is a dense experience that goes from one spectacle to the next.

The Biome Burdens in New Game Plus have also been rehauled, providing new choices and challenges for players. The biome generation has seen lots of changes to ensure more rewards and some additional power for those who fully clear areas. Even the red portals benefit from the increased rewards, offering a gold chest, Health tree, and Relic room, though their challenge has been increased.

The option to reset your Skill Tree has been added to House Rules for those who want to spec into something else. In addition to native versions being in development for Mac and Linux, the game is also fully playable in Japanese.

Check out some of the patch notes below and the full notes here. Rogue Legacy 2 is also available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. You can read our official review here.

Rogue Legacy 2 – v1.1.0 – The Fabled Heroes Update

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

• Weapons, Spells, and Relics Galore – Tons of new Weapons and Spells are coming down the pipe for you to add to your repertoire. From big community requests like the Lich King’s Crow Staff, to more eclectic weapons like a haunted Umbrella, the latest update has a ton of neat new items to show off. We’re also making the experience even wilder with new Relics that really take the cake. We hope you’re as big a fan of these new additions as we are!
• NG+, and Fixing the Flow – Tons of gameplay changes have been made based on community feedback. We’ve rehauled the Biome Burdens to give players more control in how they tweak the NG+ experience, while also adding a ton of new choices to really customize each adventure. If you haven’t stepped into NG+ before, now is a great time, and if you’re a vet, there’s a whole new set of challenges that await you.
• A Braver, Newer World – We’ve gone over biome generation to make every area more rewarding and let players creep more power if they invest in full clears.
• More Risk/More Reward – We’ve also made massive changes to red portals to make the decision-making more dynamic. Their difficulty has been bumped up, but their rewards have significantly increased as well. On top of the gold chest, clearing these bad boys will now net you a Health tree and a Relic room to boot.
• Play Your Way – Even more options have been added to the House Rules, to allow for the most curated experience ever. We’re also including the oft-requested option to reset your Skill Tree if you ever feel your money was not well spent.
• Engine Rehaul – Considering how important movement is to a player’s success in Rogue Legacy 2, better performance was always a major goal of ours. We’ve finally had the opportunity to strike this off the bucket list, and a single note in the Patch Highlights doesn’t do justice to how much work was actually put into improving the experience. No part of the game was left untouched, with many of the fundamental systems completely rebuilt. Of course, this meant potentially breaking much of what wasn’t broken before, and while we’ve done our best to ensure the experience remains unchanged (other than making things run a lot smoother), we suspect a few bugs may have slipped through.
• Even More for the Masses – Now that RL2 has been released on the Nintendo Switch, we’re working on native versions for Mac and Linux that we hope to have ready soon. And as a sweet cherry on top, the game has been fully translated in Japanese!

CLASS ADDITIONS/CHANGES

New Fabled Weapons

• Stygian Sharpshooters. Find the best angles, and bring the pain to your foes with the power of ricochets. Hope you didn’t skip math class!
• Lich King/Queens. The fan favourite from Rogue Legacy 1 returns. Wield the power of the almighty Crow Storm staff and turn your foes into bird food – magic bird food!
• Brigands. Switch sides and arm yourself with the powerful blunderbuss and send foes flying with this shotgun-like weapon. Just be careful of the recoil.
• Demon Tamers. Let the monsters fight for you! Partner up with the umbrella shaped Kasa-Obake and Mary Poppins your way to victory.
• Eventide Spymasters. Poison your foes as you strike from the shadows with these new weapons borne from the teeth of a certain dragon.

Class Health (Buff)

Making the early game a little easier, without affecting late game.

• Raised Grace HP from 100 to 150 (All classes). Grace HP is special health that is not affected by modifiers of any kind, including Class Passives.

Barbarian (Tweak)

Tuning the brutes to be a touch less binary.

• Axe Attack (Buff): +5% STR scaling on aerial spin attack (high tic rate, means small increases lead to big gains).
• Axe Attack (Nerf): -10% STR scaling on Ground strikes.

Dragon Lancer (Buff)

Some DPS tweaks to make sure the Dragon Lancer have an easier time with Estuaries, and a big QoL buff to Bastion.

• Backblast Attack (Buff): Increased STR scaling from 180% to 200%.
• Charge Attack (Buff): Increased additive INT scaling from 150% to 160%.
• Charge Attack (Buff): Decreased charge rate SLIGHTLY (a slight grace for people with perfect timing).
• Bastion (Buff): Now generates a shield at the front and a shield at the back.

Much like its predecessor, Rogue Legacy 2 sees players exploring a massive castle, tackling bosses and upgrading their estate to earn permanent bonuses. When a character dies, you’re given a choice of descendants to carry on the legacy. The twist is that they have various quirks, from color blindness to fragility (meaning they’ll die on a single hit). The riskier options present bonus modifiers to gold earned, which helps in progression.

In addition to several new classes, Rogue Legacy 2 allows the mixing of different class-specific items and abilities. You’ll also encounter build-specific situations in biomes, Relics which alter your play style, House Rules for adjusting the difficulty and accessibility, and multiple New Game Plus runs.

For more details, check out our review here. Rogue Legacy 2 is also available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

Let’s take a look at 10 games which are amazing and fun to play but still have their share of such flaws. Story spoilers for certain games follow so be warned.

Genshin Impact – Time-Limited Story Content

For all of its annoying gacha elements, Genshin Impact is still a pretty good game. The story takes some time to get going and having to grind out Adventure Ranks to access main quests can be a chore at first. However, you’re quickly swept up into a magical world of Archons, mythical beings, assassins, and regions rich in culture. New updates provide additional content and event quests, and they can be pretty good in expanding the overall story.

However, some are also time-limited, just like the events themselves. Not being able to revisit them is annoying enough for any player but new players are just straight out of luck. Big moments like the introduction of Scaramouche and Teyvat’s false sky in Unreconciled Stars are unplayable now. It’s done in the name of FOMO and whatnot – various other gacha titles are the same – but it’s just that much more annoying to become invested in the lore at your own pace.

Ores, which are essentially for Blacksmith weapons and armor along with upgrades, have received increased scaling based on the room level. Bonus Ore from Gold Chests has also been increased from 150 to 200 percent while the drop rate and scaling rate from Commanders has been increased. The patch also lowers the base cost and scaling for Tier 1-3 Armor, Focus and Dexterity skills along with Tier 3 Strength, Intelligence, Vitality, Equip Weight and Rune Weight. So if you’ve been feeling the grind on some skills, this should help.

The Living Safe’s capacity has also been increased from 1250 to 1500 per level while the Gold conversion base cost has been reduced from 700 to 375. Check out some of the patch notes below and the full notes here for more details. Rogue Legacy 2 is currently available for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Rogue Legacy 2 – Patch v1.0.1

TURNING AND THE STICK FLICK PROBLEM

In general, players manage the input on their gamepad joystick in one of two ways, which we call “Easing” and “Flicking”. When moving the joystick to neutral, “Easers” keep their thumb on the stick but loosen the pressure to bring it back. “Flickers” however, remove their thumb entirely so that the joystick snaps back to its neutral position. The issue with flicking is that when you release the joystick, it doesn’t immediately snap back to neutral. Instead, it bounces slightly in the opposite direction before resting at 0. Depending on how loose your joystick has become over time, this snap-back can be extremely high. This is what causes the player to turn, and why increasing the deadzone generally fixes the problem.

Deadzones, however, are not a perfect fix, because it means the player must move their joystick further in a direction before input is detected. This can result in a feeling of sluggishness for players who are hypersensitive to input latency. So, after three different attempts, we’ve implemented a complicated array of checks that ensure flick turning does not occur, even when the deadzone is set to 0. We’ve tested extensively (and broke two of our joysticks in the process), and we hope it fixes the issue for players. There might still be edge cases where this happens, so we’ll keep a vigilant eye on this.

TL;DR: Interpreting inputs in a game is a nightmare.

INPUT CHANGES:

• Implemented a new “Flick Stick check” into player inputs to prevent players randomly turning.
• Raised the default deadzone from 0.25 -> 0.4. If you were below this value, it’ll bump you up. You can lower this back down to 0.25 after this patch if you wanted.
• Made Left Stick take priority over Right Stick while aiming (fixes an issue for players not being able to aim if they have a very loose Right Stick).

ECONOMY

Ore Update (Buff)

• Ore scaling increased (speed at which ore drops go up as room level raises).
• Bonus Ore from Gold chests increased from 150% to 200%.
• Bonus Ore from Silver chests increased from 50% to 60%
• Commanders Ore base drop rate and scaling rate increased.

Skill Tree Update (Buff)

Lowering the cost of all of the “base stat” skills to help speed up the early, mid, and late game for players (NG0, NG1-4, NG5+), and to also reduce the punishment for players who like to spread out early.

• Base cost and scaling for Tier 1 Armor, Focus and Dexterity skills slightly reduced.
• Base cost and scaling for Tier 2 Armor, Focus and Dexterity skills moderately reduced.
• Base cost and scaling for Tier 3 Armor, Focus and Dexterity skills significantly reduced.
• Base cost and scaling for Tier 3 Strength, Intelligence, Vitality, Equip Weight and Rune Weight significantly reduced.

Living Safe Changes (Buff)

Living safe is our way of helping new players if they’re struggling to collect large amounts of gold in a single run. We’re reducing the cost significantly so that people will be more willing to invest points into it and can reap the benefits earlier on.

• Living Safes Gold Safe Converter base cost reduced from 700 to 375. This affects scaling costs as well.
• Living Save Storage base cost reduced from 500 to 375.
• Living Safe Capacity increased from 1250 per level to 1500 per level.

Labour Costs (Buff)

• Labor costs kick-in delay increased from Lvl 18 to lvl 20.
• Archeologists Camp – Lower Relic Costs (Buff)
• Lowering the cost to get resolve stuff since relics are fun.
• Base cost lowered from 2000, to 1750. Scaling costs reduced as well.
• Aerobics Class – Encumbrance Limits (Buff)
• Making it easier to hit weight limits for more resolve.
• Base cost lowered from 1500, to 1400. Scaling costs reduced as well.

CLASS CHANGES

Dragon Lancer (Buff + Minor Remake)

Changing the Dragon Lancer so you’re doing more Lancing! Tap Attack now acts more as a reposition, forcing enemies back, so that you can do Dash attacks more often. Bastion has been buffed, and is now a “go crazy mode ability”. Activate it, block everything, and wail on your foes.

(Community) Lance – Blastback (Redesign)

• Blast Back attack exit duration slightly reduced.
• Blast Back damage down from 200% STR to 180% STR.
• Blast Back now knocks enemies further back, and can now knock back heavy enemies (Sword Knights).

Bastion (Remake + Buff)

• CD timer raised from 5 hits to 6.
• Increased projectile block size from Mid-Sized Projectiles to Large Projectiles.

RELICS

Demeter’s Trial (Buff)

• Finding 2 food/potions is hard enough that people skip this trial. So we’re reducing this to 1 to ensure people do stupid things.
• Now requires only 1 food to purify.

Aite’s Trial (Buff)

• Damage increased from +125% to +150%.

Hermes’ Boots (Buff)

• Rarity lowered to common.
• Resolve cost lowered from 35 to 25.

Icarus Wing’s Bargain (Buff)

• Damage Taken Modifier reduced from +100% to +75%.

Rage Tincture (QoL)

• Now displays an icon when you trigger the damage bonus.

Zealot’s Ring (Buff)

• Damage buff raised from 20% to 25%.
• Now displays an icon when you trigger the damage bonus.

Heavy Stone Bargain (Buff)

• Pistol Attack Speed reduction reduced.

Incandescent Telescope (QoL)

• A range indicator now appears to show how far you need to be to trigger the damage bonus.
• Now displays an icon when you trigger the damage bonus.

Soul Tether (QoL)

• Now displays an icon when you trigger the damage bonus.

Ivy Roots (QoL)

• Now displays an icon when you trigger the damage bonus.

LEVELS

• Fixed soft lock on the bridge where two pieces could connect and make an impossible jump (without access to Double Jump).
• Fixed multiple rooms with minor geo bugs.

TRAITS

Vertigo (REMOVED)

• We received a bunch of reports of nausea, so it’s time to chuck this into the bucket of removed Traits. Plus, while Vertigo was a cool blast from the past, it doesn’t really fit the sequel.

FND (BUFF)

• Disarm duration on hit reduced from 3.5s to 2.0s.

Crippling Intellect (BUFF)

• Health reduction reduced from -65% to -50%.
• Mana reduction removed -25% to -0%.
• English text updated to show numbers. Unfortunately, we can’t do this for any other language yet, so they will retain their current text.

Spelunker

• HP reduction reduced from -20% to -10%.

ENEMIES

Paintings

• Significantly reduced HP for all tiers (T1/2/3).

THREADS

• Re-sorted Burdens by order of unlock vs categorical.