Be Excellent To Each Other

Some guy called Bamba once said...

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He seems to know his stuff, so I've given it a punt, even without a trial. And y'know what, I'm bloody in love with it already. It's Metroidvania and Shadow Complex et all but with cartoon luchadores.

You can tell from the video above that it looks great, but they've done a cracking job on the tooonage; all Mexican and horns and stuff. The music kinda reminds me of the mario or sonic games, all cheery and lovely in the background. The kind of music that doesn't annoy you even when you've been in an area searching for a while.

It's a real delight to play. Really! There's also some tricky platforming and button combo mashing that'll test your finger dexterity to the max so it's not a piece of piss, even though you'll be crashing through it as it's so ace. I was only going to have 30 minutes on it but I've bodged that up and been on it an hour longer than I should.

It's old skool gaming, no doubt, and it's just as compulsive as Shadow Complex was but without the shooty pew pew. Shame this Metroid style hasn't been successfully copied more often over the years. It's bags of fun.

Really, really ace so far. I've just been turned into a chicken.

Still ace after 4 hours. You need the finger dexterity of [insert forum member's name of choice]'s mum for some of the later stuff.

I don't know the guys who made this but it's got some cool references to other games dotted about. There's even one reference to Journey which was pretty fun.

Plus, if this is their first commercial release it's commendably polished and an utterly solid build. Very slick and awesome.

Do you play a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world?

Player 2 is! Who is also a wrestler.

That's right, it's also a 2P.

Not that anyone will play with me.

It's local coop only, isn't it?

The Internet says you're right. I've got a feeling one can play on the Vita and one on the PS3. You get a free Vita version with the PS3 download incidentally.

Do you get a free Vita to go with it?

I've done 76% of the map. Bit of compulsive fun this init?

8 hours in and I've finished it with 96% of the map done. BOOSH! In yo' face hole.

It's terrific PS3 owners. I've had reet fun with it.

Highly recommended. By me.

I'm definitely grabbing this next time I'm after some indie fun.

It's the best thing on PS3 right now, if you ask me.

Out now on steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/214770/

£10.79 for the gold edition and a free copy of Mutant Blobs attack thrown in

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/03/05/g ... ium=social

Is this game really good?

I ask this because most metroidvanias fail to be anywhere as good as the Castlevanias-metroidvanias. The only other great game of this genre that i played was valdis story. Dust bored me to tears. Cave Story is beyond horrible, i don't know how it managed to be so successful.

I really liked it - played about 3/4's of the way through on steam and finished it on the Vita

The ability blocks are pretty clear and separate out the sections (rather than being hidden around) and the world map / statues to let you warp around make it just about always clear where you want to go - however it does have a few difficulty spikes through the game (some very precise platforming required near the end and the 2nd to last boss fight is something i just grinded my way through until the right set of circumstances let me get past it).

If you've not played it before then its worth a look at least (there will be demos of it) and there may even still be a 'free' key for it in the free section on here as it was part of the last humble bundle

I enjoyed it up a point but did find it very difficult in places (both in the platforming and the combat sides) so gave up on it relatively early on. Obviously YMMV depending on your appetite for such things.

I didn't much get on with the combat.

Cave story is good though, so I obviously can't speak to your tastes.

I finished it cause (a) I'm awesome, (b) the game is awesome and (c) I'm not a quitter. But you don't need to be a quitter like these pansies above cause it's so ace that you'll want to finish it. Like I did, cause (a) I'm awesome, (b) the game is awesome and (c) I'm not a quitter etc...

I'm not sure your side of the grass is much greener cf. you grinding through miserable shit like Dead Space 3. There are more than enough games out there that no one really needs to spend time on one they're not actually enjoying; a lesson I've only learned myself in the last six or so months.

Dead Space isn't bad per se it's just poor by comparison to the previous games, which I rate highly, and marred by modern gaming tropes.

Guacamelee isn't. It's fab throughout - graphics, sound, the map, the characters, the difficult challenge etc etc. It's a gamers game and replete with throwbacks to the metroid games but in a fun Mexican wrestling stylee.

I don't know if this is going to be interesting enough to have its own thread ... YET ... but those guys who did this are now doing not another this but this: http://youtu.be/eyOcYpELq7A

Which is a PS Vita game! *Collapses*

Anyway, the graphics are similar to Guacamelee in style by the looks of it but it's a First Person RPG Dungeon Crawler. Or FPRPGDC of course. Looks, erm, natty? That's probably as much as you can say about it at the minute.

It looks like fruit ninja, but not as rubbish.