When comparing Vertical Drop Heroes HD vs WazHack, the Slant community recommends WazHack for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” WazHack is ranked 32nd while Vertical Drop Heroes HD is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose WazHack is:
Over 300 items and 130 monsters, WazHack offers a lot of variety that will take a lot of play throughs to experience.
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Pros
Pro Lots of Unlockables
As you play, you randomly find a vendor that sells you a new character skill or passive. Certain combinations of vendor purchases will unlock a new weapon. There are a few weapons that are unlocked by you doing something specific as well.
Pro Difficulty Ramps Up
At first in each run, it is pretty easy, but gets steadily more difficult as you go on. The final boss is a toughie.
Pro There is progression between character deaths
Vendor purchases and leftover gold from a run carry over to your next character. There are three vendors in the starting area that will take your gold to upgrade starting health, weapon damage, and other things that I don't remember off-hand (sorry!).
Pro A lot of possible character builds
As you unlock more skills, passives, and weapons, your pool of possible character builds goes up exponentially. When you start a game, 3 characters are randomly generated for you from that pool. You can reroll your choices for a small cost.
Pro The Good ol' flash days
If you played the original Vertical Drop Heroes you will surely love the remake.
Pro Offers an impressive amount of variety in items and monsters, which keeps the experience fresh
Over 300 items and 130 monsters, WazHack offers a lot of variety that will take a lot of play throughs to experience.
Pro Unique twist on roguelike gameplay where the game takes a side-scrolling approach
A 3D rendered side-scrolling roguelike, makes for some very unique mechanics, thanks to not being top down like many traditional roguelikes. While it will still have the player progress in randomly generated dungeons, exploring for new items and gear, the battle mechanics will be more akin to side scrolling platforming.
Pro Surprising depth
Many approaches and strategies are viable in a simple shell.
Pro Controller support
Cons
Con Strange combat
Walking into enemies to attack them just seems strange. You can turn the auto-attack off, but that just seems to make the gameplay even worse.
Con A bit crash-prone
The game can sometimes crash. Seeing as this is a roguelike, crashes can be pretty frustrating.
Con RNG is a nasty mistress
RNG can sometimes give you your favorite character builds, or it can keep giving you your least favorite builds.
Con Costs money to get the full experience
The game asks to spend money on each character type separately to go deeper than 300 feet; cost about $1 each.
Con Some quirks with control scheme and interface
Some specific action in the game are hard to pull off with touch screen, causing the player to move when trying to open menus.
Con Somewhat crude art-style
Graphics are reminiscent of freeware games from the early 2000's.