![]() ![]() I can happily report that yes, I have beaten Spelunky 2…sort of. Most of those dangers will be familiar to anyone who has played the previous game, but Spelunky 2 has added new enemies, items, biomes, bosses and most importantly, secrets that will keep you coming back and trying to make it to the end in an almost infinite number of ways. For the most part the vast majority of my failed runs in Spelunky 2 were my own fault, but even in those rarer cases where it was just bad luck and there wasn’t much I could do, I still couldn’t help but shrug and tell myself, “that’s Spelunky for you.” Sometimes you die in an incredibly comic fashion that you just have to laugh at it. Oh, did I mention it’s a roguelike game? That means every time you try again, the level layouts are completely different, so you can’t memorize where enemies are, where item crates are or basically anything other than the basic mechanics of how the game works. It could be not seeing an arrow trap until it’s too late, missing a jump over a spike pit, or accidentally striking an NPC causing them to turn on you and do everything they can to kill you right then and there. It is so easy to get comfortable and make just the teeniest, tiniest mistake to screw everything up. Every time you fail (die horribly), you will return all the way back to the entrance and have to start completely over. ![]() As you progress down the caves, you will get better at adapting to all of the threats that can end a run. Spelunky 2 manages to take these two genres and perfectly blend both of them, with just the right amount of familiarity from platformers to learn the basics immediately and plenty of chaos to always (and I mean ALWAYS) keep you on your toes. ![]() I have also played more than my fair share of roguelike games like Enter the Gungeon (platinum trophy, baby) or Dead Cells. I have played my fair share of precision platformers like Super Meat Boy or Celeste. After fears her parents may need rescuing, Ana packs up her pets on a rocketship and sets out for the moon to try and save them. This time, the ever evolving cave is on the moon. The setup is pretty simple, this time you play as Ana, the daughter of the main character from the first game, whose parents have gone missing after traveling to the moon to explore what they believe were signs that Olmec, the big boss of the first game, may still be out there causing trouble. It is one of the most punishing and rewarding indie games I have ever played and I love it for that. ![]() Whatever amount of time I put into the first game, I can assure you I have played exponentially more hours of Spelunky 2. When Spelunky 2 was announced three years ago I immediately was ready to dive back in, despite my previous personal failure. I sank a tremendous amount of time into the roguelike precision platformer (especially on Vita!) but embarrassingly, I never was able to beat it. Spelunky 2 ps5 plus#Almost a year into the life of the PlayStation 4, I got my first taste of Spelunky when it was one of the free games included in October 2014 for PlayStation Plus members. ![]()
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