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Why Spelunky Should Be Game Of The Year
On the surface, Spelunky is a rogue-like platformer where you become like Indiana Jones, going farther and farther inside ancient caves holding untold riches and perhaps even lost civilisations. You have some rope, some bombs, a whip and whatever else you find along the way. It’s a difficult game, and you will die a ton. But death is also a tool in your arsenal: eventually, you’ll have a repertoire of mistakes that help guide your future spelunkers to make better decisions.
Spelunky’s Best Feature Lets You Rescue Whoever You Want
Saving people is not the point of Spelunky. The trapped humans you encounter in the roguelike platformer are essentially just people-shaped health packs, there to grant you a heart if you escort them to an exit and finish the level you find them on. But, while you’re doing that, the back of your brain will inevitably create a story about how your damsel got there. If you could only play as a guy in Spelunky and could only rescue women, the results would feel like only one kind of story.
Spelunky: The Kotaku Review
Sometimes a video game is like a razor blade — just millimetres thick yet sharpened to a fine edge sharp enough to draw blood if you’re not paying attention. Once you learn that truth, such a game requires your total attention lest you wind up bleeding a lot. Spelunky comes to the Xbox 360, sharp enough to etch itself into your memory, time and time again. And even though you’ll wind up raw from its rough scrapings of your mind and reflexes, you won’t be able to stop playing.
Spelunky Can’t Wait To Kill You
You’re going to die a lot in Spelunky. The indie platformer hits Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, bringing with it a rogue-like structure that switches everything up each time you play through it. That means you’re going to find different traps, monsters and drops in each cave you venture through.
Plants Vs. Zombies Composer Tries Her Hand At Magic: The Gathering Rap
It’s an indie game geeksplosion as the woman behind the Plants Vs. Zombies music teams up with the programmer for Xbox Live Arcade’s Spelunky to rap about their shared love of Magic: The Gathering.
Head Crabbed In Indie Game: The Movie
Big money, big production video games are great, but let’s never forget about the indie games, that’s where the sexy happens.
This Is Spelunky For Xbox Live Arcade
Indie developer Derek Yu’s Spelunky is making the platform leap from PC to Xbox Live Arcade some time this year, a release date we’re starting to believe courtesy of a quartet of new screenshots.
