July 12, 2023 - Day 193 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 213

Game: Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Aug 22, 2014
Library Date: May 17, 2019
Unplayed: 1517d (4y1m25d)
Playtime: 20m

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition (yeah, I'm not retyping that constantly) is not what I expected. It's one of those games I repeatedly skipped over, because I assumed it was a luchador-themed beat-em-up.

Turns out it's actually a 2D Día de los Muertos/luchador-themed Metroidvania brawler mashup.

For a game that's 9 years old, it doesn't play like a game that old. It feels like it could have been released in the last couple of years, and I think that's largely down to the art-style.

It's also multiplayer co-op playable, but I've not had the chance to test that yet.

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is:

4: Good

#Guacamelee! #Metroidvania #2D #Platformer #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

Two very good, occasionally very difficult, and also very funny metroidvanias are currently free on the Epic Games Store and if you have any interest in the genre, you should absolutely download them. [Unless, you already own them. In which case, well done.] #Guacamelee #Guacamelee2 #metroidvanias

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/guacamelee-stce-7cdbc8
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/guacamelee-2-ac4977

#Guacamelee 1 and 2 are both free on the #EpicGames Store this week. Very good #videogames certainly.

Yo guess what I got from Gamespot today The Guacamelee One Two Punch Collection for the Nintendo Switch.
#Guacamelee #GuacameleeOneTwoPunchCollection

Giving #Guacamelee another go, this time on #Steamdeck. I've gotten farther than I have before, but it always comes down to the same issue where some of the platforming just requires too much button mashing of 3-4 different buttons and I just can't.

#gaming #steam

https://youtu.be/h4waB2Ik-sg?t=35

Creo que o #Guacamelee non é pra min. Deixoo para outra ocasión

Empecei co #Guacamelee e a verdade é que cústame un pouco facerme cos controis. Moi gamer non so 😅

Don't mind me asking #HyperLightDrifter and #AxiomVerge to this list a bit late. Upon consideration also #Momodora.

And a few more:

#Minit
#AShortHike
#LenasInception
#Guacamelee
#SilverGrapple
#Spiritfarer
#AHatInTime
#Aquaria
#DustAnElysianTail
#Eastshade (sorta)
#Everhood
#Evoland
#HeavensVault
#TheMessenger (kinda)
#Owlboy
#Saira (kinda)
#ShovelKnight
#Timespinner
#VVVVVV (kinda)
#Yooka-Laylee
#YouHaveToWinTheGame
#SuperWinTheGame

(Yes I did just take a look through my game libraries...)

Been playing #Guacamelee 2 on and off with my older daughter (who is now getting really good at it and can do some of the sections better than me, which is nice). It's ostensibly a beat-em-up metroidvania which is great fun, but it also keeps wanting to dip into challenge platformer territory, which I don't appreciate as much.

Fortunately a lot of it is optional challenges, but some of the required sections get a bit too tough for my tastes as well.

👊 Amazon Luna+ subscribers will soon be able to punch their way through the streets of Kamurocho and Mexican-inspired temples.

Also, Amazon Luna has announced the next line-up of Prime Gaming titles!

👉 https://clouddosage.com/six-games-coming-for-amazon-luna-in-january/

#CloudGaming #AmazonLuna #Yakuza #AmazonPrime #Videogames #Gaming #Guacamelee #IndieGames

Finished #guacamelee - yeah, metroidvanias are my favourite style of game. This is an oldie but a goodie, long been meaning to pick it up. Visually great, lots of hidden references. Looking forward to playing the sequel now.

Playing a bit of #Guacamelee and although it's a little too "foreignised Mexican" at times (there are just a few details I would change here and there to really make it feel Mexican), I really enjoy the combo qualifiers:

¡Vientos!
¡Órale!
¡Toma perro!
¡Pa' su mecha!

Those really tell me, "yes, a Mexican worked on this."

Sorry for lack of CW here, but I just want to loudly proclaim my love for this article:

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2018/12/11/i-made-guacamelee-to-create-a-mexican-hero/

A #Mexican #videogame designer explains what it's like to be an expat and how all we ever hear about Mexico in the US and Canada is bad news, "relegated to drug war territory with a hint of piña colada". He made #Guacamelee because he wanted to tell a different story with Mexican heroes (and also because Mexican wrestlers are just good fun).

Just wanted to let you know that yesterday I completed the most DIFFICULT (but still fair) platform sequence I've ever attempted in a video game. "Bgawk! Keep going! You're halfway there!"
*punches the chicken in the face*
And now I'm gearing up to go back in to do an annoying platform sequence (the disappearing/reapparing platform one in the mountains). Ughghgh that one's just annoying.
#games #gaming #guacamelee #platformer #gamingwoes

Hm...I want to play more Guacamelee...but I also want to Krita up some French Bulldogs (and maybe sneakily figure out a cover for my next novella). hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm which will win out
#artproblems #games #guacamelee #frenchies

Guacamelee is on sale on Steam...I could get like 2 versions + the soundtrack for $6 so I grabbed it, thought I'd play a few minutes to see if I liked it...
An hour and a half later...
#guacamelee #metroidvania #games #luchadores #thecolorsdukethecolors