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Topic	transience's top 100 games -- please insert disc 2.
transience 01/01/20 12:44:20 PM #174:	13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abo_Z3-5x9o 2012 PC, 360, PS3, Vita, PS4 On its face, Spelunky is a simple but devious roguelite platformer thats out to ruin you. Everything at every corner is basically gunning for you and the combination of those things will destroy an amateur spelunker before they can get a couple of levels in. The first layer of this game is learning how to survive. Theres more there than a new player might think. You have to play Spelunky defensively, hyper-aware and with a significant sense of paranoia that something is about to kill you. Spelunky on its own isnt as hard as its reputation might suggest, but it is a cruel mistress. It will get you when youre least expecting it. This game combines variables together in the most crushing of ways. Sometimes an enemy triggers a bomb offscreen which sends a rock flying across the screen which hits you and lands you on top of an altar which sacrifices you and oh hey youre dead. That stuff is hilarious, amazing, and part of the calculus that the player makes as they ever so slowly tiptoe across each level. Eventually you get good enough to move at a reasonable speed, but that paranoia never truly leaves a good Spelunky player. Once you get competent enough at the game to understand its inner workings and how variables combine, the real game begins. Spelunky has layers upon layers of hidden stuff that is beyond esoteric. Just the other day, I learned that if you gather enough favor with Kali by sacrificing characters on the altar -- the more blood their bodies have, the more favor, apparently -- then you get an item that lets you collect the blood that falls off characters when they get hit, and if you drink enough blood itll increase your hp. I also learned that if you leave rubies laying on the ground and the end-of-level ghost passes over them, they turn into super valuable diamonds. Spelunky is loaded with all sorts of crazy minutia, from hidden levels to secret items to superbosses, that make it super duper replayable. Im not especially good at Spelunky, but I love rolling the wheel of fate and seeing what crazy thing will happen to me this time. --- xyzzy <cite>transience posted [p:932324039] in transience... [t:78293456]...</cite> <quote>13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abo_Z3-5x9o 2012 PC, 360, PS3, Vita, PS4 On its face, Spelunky is a simple but devious roguelite platformer thats out to ruin you. Everything at every corner is basically gunning for you and the combination of those things will destroy an amateur spelunker before they can get a couple of levels in. The first layer of this game is learning how to survive. Theres more there than a new player might think. You have to play Spelunky defensively, hyper-aware and with a significant sense of paranoia that something is about to kill you. Spelunky on its own isnt as hard as its reputation might suggest, but it is a cruel mistress. It will get you when youre least expecting it. This game combines variables together in the most crushing of ways. Sometimes an enemy triggers a bomb offscreen which sends a rock flying across the screen which hits you and lands you on top of an altar which sacrifices you and oh hey youre dead. That stuff is hilarious, amazing, and part of the calculus that the player makes as they ever so slowly tiptoe across each level. Eventually you get good enough to move at a reasonable speed, but that paranoia never truly leaves a good Spelunky player. Once you get competent enough at the game to understand its inner workings and how variables combine, the real game begins. Spelunky has layers upon layers of hidden stuff that is beyond esoteric. Just the other day, I learned that if you gather enough favor with Kali by sacrificing characters on the altar -- the more blood their bodies have, the more favor, apparently -- then you get an item that lets you collect the blood that falls off characters when they get hit, and if you drink enough blood itll increase your hp. I also learned that if you leave rubies laying on the ground and the end-of-level ghost passes over them, they turn into super valuable diamonds. Spelunky is loaded with all sorts of crazy minutia, from hidden levels to secret items to superbosses, that make it super duper replayable. Im not especially good at Spelunky, but I love rolling the wheel of fate and seeing what crazy thing will happen to me this time. --- xyzzy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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