#ror returns

All of my Risk of Rain drawings from the last week

Holy shit

I cannot wait

Apparently it won’t be a remix or anything, just a “remaster” to bring it up to today’s standards

Can he make perfection even more perfect?

Remains to be seen.

Coalescence/... con lentitud poderosa (Risk of Rain/Risk of Rain 2 [2013/2020])

Need I mention the instruments this time? They truly do speak for themselves here, as the whole list’s halfway point. It’s also 1 of the slowest-paced tracks here, so think of it as a sort of intermission between all the action-packed and relaxed tracks placed before and after this one.

The survivors are at the very last area; the spaceship leading the way back home. And so, the tune starts out relaxing to express relief, but always keeps a constant melancholy melody that fits well with how complex the track gets later on; a grim reminder of everything needed to be slain in order to get here, and how much more will still be required to make it to safety.

It’s not like there's a choice either; it’s either this planet’s life, or their own that perishes, and the player characters involved, whether through death or survival, will have this memory to likely haunt them for the rest of their existence… if they’re not already off the deep end, that is.

Near the end, this already emotional track simply explodes into what I consider cool and sad at the same time, making it what I find to be the (Closest to) perfect way to end off this indie roguelike classic from almost a decade ago.

Shoutouts to Risk of Rain 2’s “...con lentitud poderosa” which pays tribute to this track with a shared melody and even slower pace; that already makes for yet another ambitious setup!

And now, long after I prepared this description, a remake called “Risk of Rain Returns” has been recently announced! Although I don’t trust Gearbox to handle the series properly following their acquisition, some of the most important staff from the original are back, hopefully to fix some of the biggest issues from the original’s imperfect coding as well, since that’s getting remade from the ground up too; faith in this remake is quite justified at the moment, even with the worries in mind, let’s see where it goes from here!

(Length [Original]: 5.5+ minutes, […con lentitud poderosa]: Nearly 5 minutes)

I've been having lots of fun with RoRR, I can't recommend it enough. The new characters are both really fun and cute, and the new skills added to the old characters make them so much better (my boi Miner is so good now, even better than before!)

I love the new co-op thing, where if you die, you become a drone that resembles your survivor and you can still pick up items, perfect for not falling behind the curve too much (Drifter's drone carries a little bag, like her! It's so cute! 😭)

Him.

I demand you to look at him