Comments on: Sound Of The Underground: Spelunky

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By: Legend of Zelda Games

Legend of Zelda Games — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:58:19 +0000

Just can not say enough praise to this game ! Stopped my L4D session to play Spelunky :D

BTW

Due to RPS mention of this game. Tig.source servers kind of crushed and it was impossible to download the game !

By: Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:39:43 +0000

Wow, I just noticed something kind of cool.
The text in the intro is different every time you play, so in a way, the story is as randomly generated as the levels are.

By: bonuswavepilot

bonuswavepilot — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:04:55 +0000

Played quite a few hours of the Amiga port of RD as a kid; I remember it struck me as terribly amusing at the time to mis-sing Roxette’s ‘Dangerous’ as “You know she’s a little Rick Dangerous [amusing scream]“. To this day I can’t hear the song without thinking of that (though it might well be preferable to the thoughts that listening to Roxette would usually engender).

By: Lobotomist

Lobotomist — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:24:51 +0000

Again me :)

Just can not say enough praise to this game ! Stopped my L4D session to play Spelunky :D

BTW

Due to RPS mention of this game. Tig.source servers kind of crushed and it was impossible to download the game !

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:15:55 +0000

This is amazing. I am in love. (Insofar as video-games can be loved by a man.)

Nox, I’m not really seeing the similarities to Spelunker, besides the… spelunking. Was that game randomized?

By: Zetetic

Zetetic — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:56:01 +0000

Nox: As of the latest version you can set the music and SFX volumes on startup.

As to the controls, well, I’m alright with them, but I can see how easily they could frustrate and confuse.

By: Tonamel

Tonamel — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:19:22 +0000

Am I missing something? I try to run the exe, and it immediately crashes.

By: Nox

Nox — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:31:24 +0000

That’s odd. I assumed it was intended to be an homage to Spelunker, a game I was playing back in the eighties on my C-64. I figured that I might have been imagining the similarities, but then I found this on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCwXNB24v78

There are fundamental differences, sure, but the similarity of the name alone–and especially the fact that it appeared to be changed slightly as to avoid legal issues–had me convinced he’d at least played this title.

I definitely see the Montezuma’s Revenge and Rick Dangerous influences, though, having played both (and even the 3D remake Montezuma’s Return a decade or so ago on my PC).

But the controls ruined this for me when I tried it a couple of weeks back. That and the music volume which I would have preferred to simply turn down, not off, when it began to make my molars hurt. Which was about five seconds into the first level.

I would kill for a slightly refined version of this, especially since I believe randomized content to be one of the Holy Grails of gaming. If someone makes that game, I recommend that the list of individuals I need to ‘off’ to fulfill my side of the bargain be hidden in the credits with an asterisk next to each victim. Make sure to include at the bottom:

* Please kill these people.

And alphabetical credits are probably the most considerate way of thanking an individual for his or her contribution. Especially since it alleviates the awkwardness of “Well, he has Nolan L. at the very top of the list, but he also has an asterisk, which begs the question, ‘If he’s the first person the author could think to thank, why would he want him dead?’”

So, definitely alphabetical.

Thanks.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:49:37 +0000

Nice graphics, nice concept, too bugged to play.

I really like Derek Yu’s art, I just hope that some day we’ll see it attached to another game as good or better than “I’m O.K.”