The city’s best hope is a new mayoral election, which you can force if you can make it to the top of the oddly-vertical ‘burg and challenge the current despot directly. You are the newest inductee to this bold movement, and perhaps its only hope considering its members can’t run you through their training course without capping a few of their own. Crime is on the rise, fun is effectively outlawed, and a resistance has risen to unseat this corrupt overlord.
The city has elected a new mayor on a platform of junk food and partying, but his reign has been anything but good times. And really, if that’s not the kind of fun this whole “video games” thing has been evolving towards then I have no idea what any of us are doing here. But these robust options also leave space for a lot of different player approaches to problems, as well as some awesome, unexpected results when you manage to frame someone else for your misdeeds or trigger what seems like the apocalypse from trying to open a refrigerator. Streets of Rogue has a very similar appeal, owing to how open-ended the interactions between all its characters and features are. Honestly I don’t play Spelunky to execute perfect or even passable runs, but to see what kind of horrible, hilarious deaths I’m destined to suffer.
The appeal of some roguelikes doesn’t come from when things go right, but from when things go completely to hell.
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