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There is a progression of perspective in the best-designed roguelites<\/a>. The exciting confusion of the opening moments, when everything is foreign to you; when your hands feel broken as you hold the controller while reading a UI that may as well have been written by aliens. And the elation of completing a run, when a once indecipherable language of on-screen notifications and gameplay becomes native, and you have become an expert. Good roguelites understand this \u2013 the great ones use this, creating a consonance within the cacophony. Returnal\u2019s<\/a> Selene struggles as much as you in your first run. Zagreus is as emphatically excited as you when he first escapes Hades<\/a>. And now, Arjun, the player-controlled protagonist of Saros, joins this echelon\u2026 at least, I think he will after playing developer Housemarque\u2019s<\/a> upcoming roguelite for three hours earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n