No shit.

Had a decent daily challenge run today, was on course to get to the city of gold with a fair stack of bombs when one of those annoying floating blocks crushed me out of nowhere. Bugger.

Aaaargh! Great daily all the way through to hell to the end boss and managed to blow myself up with a bomb. Effing game.

Finally! made it to Hell, after just over 2500 deaths.

Killed Vlad, but just missed out on his amulet as I'd spent so long fannying about the ghost turned up and I dies thanks to those stupid fucking climbing gloves. Hate those things!

Oh well, maybe it'll only take another thousand goes to get back there.

Shitbat indeed. Although they do make the ice levels ridiculously easy.

Been consistently getting to ice, well equipped and with the ankh. Then I've been consistently dying in the most ridiculous ways. A recent one involved a rock stuck bouncing up and down on one those bouncy pad things, clipped me and then bounced me to death. I had 89 bombs at the time too. Just stuck in a repeated bouncy death trap of embarrassment.

Hell finally mastered, might leave it at that, the eggplant challenge would just be too frustrating (or for me impossible). Farewell my fellow spelunkers.



Until Spelunky2!

Impressive, good work! I was en route to hell the other day, only got as far as olmec. Actually haven't looked up what I need to do to get there other than what stuff to pick up.

Have you beaten the worm and worked all the way through the spaceship?

Cheers. Was just the last bit I wasn't aware of. I fucking love this game.

adored wrote:

Kudos fella, well done. Did you do it in less than 15 mins?

 

Speed running eh? Well may be I'll give it one more go...

Edit: effed up quote fixed.

No point in making it stupidly hard eh?

Go on, do the eggplant run.

I've had a few goes at doing the 8 min speedrun, but failed miserably.

Would be a lot easier if the teleporter wasn't a suicide machine in my hands.

Returned to this recently on 360 and finally managed to kill Olmec for the first time (after 330 games). Using the shortcut to the temple though (thankfully I'd opened all those when I was playing before). It was just a case of getting access to all the bombs at the top and making a large hole. Even then I was lucky to get the climbing gloves as I'd made the hole too big and wouldn't have got out otherwise.

So now I'm trying to finish it from the beginning and just had 2 goes where I was quite far in with jetpack, shotgun, good health and quite a few bombs. Both times just some freak conspiracy of events led to an instant death. Heartbreaking.

adored wrote:

I've had a few goes at doing the 8 min speedrun, but failed miserably. Would be a lot easier if the teleporter wasn't a suicide machine in my hands.

I have not continued playing this, also failing miserably at the 8 minute speedrun, no siree. My best is sub 10 minutes, will have to look into mastering the teleporter, although it appears it's a similar model to the one in The Fly, rather than the reliable ones in Star Trek.

Spelunky is life, Spelunky is the essence of truth, Spelunky exposes fate for the conman is it. Choose chance, choose Spelunky.

Spelunky will never lie to you. Spelunky will never tell you that there's nothing going on with Dave, then end up leaving you for him the day before your wedding. Spelunky doesn't want you to fail, Spelunky wants you to learn. Spelunky will always be there.

Childintime wrote:

Spelunky is life, Spelunky is the essence of truth, Spelunky exposes fate for the conman is it. Choose chance, choose Spelunky.

And yes, Spelunky is a lot like real life, at least insofar as you'll get through it much easier with a jet pack and a shotgun.