Also finding the whip timing a bit off. Made good progress getting through 1-# levels, all about learning the new additions to the original and multiple paths/choices.
I do feel with the new traps and creatures the difficulty has exponentially grown, so many new ways and combinations to kick the bucket. I love it!
Enjoyed the eurogamer review (words I don't often say or type), interesting comparison with tetris - obviously has nothing in common but has a simlair level of perfection / addiction. Props to Derek Yu, can't remember many sequels (even in books, music, films, tv etc) which get it so right, respecting the original while developing it further.
If you stay on them long enough you can control them and they’ll take damage for you. Double jump. Float by holding button. Deliver them to the turkey guy to get a key to his treasure.
You can also cook the turkeys with fire for an extra heart...
I'm getting quite good at this now. Consistently making it past 2-4. The subsequent worlds after the initial one seem to take it a little easier on you but not by much lol.
The runs from 1-4 once I unlocked the shortcut have been some of the funniest/best times I've had in gaming for a long while. The little geezers you get from the coffins have led to utter hilarity.
You can also cook the turkeys with fire for an extra heart...
Yes.
Always on either 1-2 or 1-3
Spoiler:
there's the turkey guy and 2 loose turkeys in the level. It's usually not worth giving them back to turkey guy, because there's not much behind his door. If you can round up both turkeys and get them together somewhere, then plant a bomb next to them... 2 roast dinners (hearts) for the price of 1 (bomb).
Right, I’ve been fairly committed to not robbing the shop on every run. But all my best runs are after robbing the shop. So fuck it, I need shop robbing techniques. Hit me.
1. Stand on top of shopkeeper.
2. Use a rope to knock him out.
3. Throw him up and away from you.
4. Pick up shotgun and shoot him.
Watch out for explosive items. Whipping any bombs towards the shopkeeper before you start lets you instantly pick them up when you hit him with the rope.
Jetpack can still be robbed by running out of the shop with it and flying to safety.
We'll I'm going wrong on step 1 then. The cunt's in an alcove, how you do that Dubs?
The most fun is trying to fuck the shopkeep every time. No point in playing through otherwise.
A question about 2-4...
Spoiler:
Can you bang Olmec up the bum with ropes in his second phase when he's shitting bombs all up the place? It looks like you can beat him right in those two pink tits of his...
I now have the first shortcut and am starting to get to grips with the next levels, plus I had my first encounter with Lunar Olmec in a confusingly tall chamber.
Starting to get quite savage with robbing the shopkeep now and generally fucking his shit up. Straight up bitch slapping him about the room. It's the most fun you can have in videogames currently I think. This game is genuinely a masterpiece.
Made it to the other world 2 on the Daily Challenge today and even through a couple of levels therein. I'm definitely improving now that I have the first shortcut available.
I never really got on with Spelunky all that much but after basically clearing everything I want on Hades, and having a few Spelunky 2 streams on in the background whilst writing and working I decided to go back to Spelunky.
After 230 odd deaths I beat Olmec, which was a fun time. I have now bought S2 this afternoon cos I had some refund cash in my Paypal, so I thought i’d have a go. It’s a lot more chaotic in general really. I got to Olmec in my first 10 runs, and then had a stupid death. Now I’ve unlocked the first shortcut and can have had three other goes at the bastard, and got to the third area two of those times. Having watched it streamed a lot I know a few things, but actually playing it is a different thing entirely.
It's a tough game really. The thing I like about Hades and those sorts of games is that you build yourself up and get stronger and sometimes unstoppable. In Spelunky you can have all of the shotguns and bombs and jetpacks and 12 hearts but if you step into a trap you still dead. I step into a lot of traps...