Comments on: Snake To Death: The Majesty Of Spelunky

By: Tei

Tei — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:05:55 +0000

News from a alternate universe:

Rock Paper Cynic comic about “Fractal Zelda”
http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-08-24

By: chris

chris — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:02:01 +0000

You must me psyched that Spelunky is coming to XBLA

By: Pulse

Pulse — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:34:35 +0000

Fuck Yeah SPELUNKY!!!

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:16:07 +0000

This is wonderful – my game of the year, probably. Thanks!

But… I can’t buy things. I press ‘p’ and nothing happens. How do I shot $$?

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:40:17 +0000

Nothing else to add ‘cept those spike statues can jolly well fuck right off.

By: Supertonic

Supertonic — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0000

MP, I’ve got it running nicely in Wine, albeit in a ludicrously small window (thank fuck for compiz’s lovely zoom function). Yeah I know linux aint mac but I think you should be able to get it running somehow on a mac via the usual means. If it helps I have dx9 installed on my wine setup and had it run in a virtual desktop.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:19:57 +0000

Spelunky does a pretty good job of explaining why you die. For instance, a large Indiana Jones rock rumbling over you and crushing you to bits, or a huge spider that you accidentally threw a pot at, or a strange bloody altar that you thought might be interesting to blow up with a bomb. All end in the same way.. a mad dash, a missed jump, and lots of blood.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:05:20 +0000

That’s a fair point ^_^ I guess you just have to be a little weird to enjoy perma-death games like this and DF and all those other Angband and Nethack type games.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:01:32 +0000

But in N, you only get sent back a little. And you can figure out how to fix your mistakes and triumph.

Here, one mistake and the game starts over, and, if you don’t know what mistake you made immediately, you never will.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:24:19 +0000

For those annoyed by instantly dieing over and over I submit the game N in which you’re a ninja running about try to get through a door or something. In this game you insta die ALL the time but you have to play the same level over and over again until you get it right, insanely annoying compared to exploring a new interesting level every time. This is just genious. Now if you’re a carebare and don’t like losing any game you play it won’t be for you obviously, go plays a game that auto saves every minute and lets you reload from your last save when you die. No challenge, you just batter your way through the levels dieing over and over again until you get it right, again very boring after a while.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:55:50 +0000

I have already died in so many fantastic ways, I love it.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:39:16 +0000

If you enjoy this game, as I do, I would also suggest Dwarf Fortress. There is a great adventure mode where you more or less so how far you can get before you are dismembered and torn to pieces along with your recruited shoulders. I can’t explain to you how much fun it is to hit a monster and watch it’s corpse fly through the room and explode against the wall when the game is all letters and numbers but it IS FUN! The lack of graphics makes your mind fill in the blanks , much like reading a good book.

I agree with Psyk about rationing bombs and ropes! That is my major problem but like the review says that is MY problem not the games.