Comments on: Spelunky

By: 10 Things I Did This Year

10 Things I Did This Year — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:56:32 +0000

[...] Loved Spelunky more than any other game this year, though frustratingly failed in my attempt to capture [...]

By: Jake Lee

Jake Lee — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:32:09 +0000

It looks like the old C64 game- Rick Dangerous- which was awesome. And hard as nails.

By: Kerotan

Kerotan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:47:58 +0000

You’re posts are few and far between, but your playing and posting borders on the obsessive compulsive, I’ve been meaning to try spelunky for a while, but Empire has swallowed me whole currently.

Also, you brief comparison with N has me worried, when I played that game, I swore so much that babies started crying.

That’s how evil N is.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:48:09 +0000

The first few times I reached the next environment type, I died almost instantly due to, as you say, an unrecognised sprite. Eventually though, I reached that new environment enough times that I could pay the Shortcut Man enough money to dig a shortcut. Now I can start on level five.

When I reached the third environment style, I was a lot more cautious, and even though I’ve only reached it a few times I’ve grown better a lot faster. So I feel like I learned from my near immediate deaths in the jungle areas.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:42:59 +0000

I lose interest for the opposite reason: I almost never see how I was supposed to avoid my death. Or, more often, the loss of that particular health point. Most of the time it’s an arrow rebound, which unaccountably costs 2 health points, or a tricky spider.

I wish ladies replenished all your health, and there was one on every level. As it is, the health economy is too harsh for me to learn the next area: every time I get there, I get killed by a new unrecognisable sprite, and it’s so long between these occasions that I forget what little these deaths teach me.