Enter the Gungeon celebrated its tenth birthday this month, and developer Dodge Roll’s co-founder, Dave Crooks, along with the game’s composer, Adam “Doseone” Drucker, sat down with Polygon to reflect on its legacy. However, during the back half of the interview, the discussion strayed more toward the legacy of the roguelike genre as a whole, and Crooks doesn’t seem too impressed with how things have developed in the last decade.

“The most obvious thing that I see is a screen that pops up three choices every 45 seconds. That’s changed,” Crooks stated. “There was a time where the thought of being interrupted in the game and anything even remotely fast-paced would be seen as anathema to game design.…