Found it. Spoiler warning.
Be warned though, it may just make you feel sadder if you got the other ending. It sure did for me.
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Guacamelee! |OT| ¡Mexicovania - Olé!
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Found it. Spoiler warning.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
This game has been murdering my fingers.
Just beat hard mode and Platinumed the game (and finally saw the normal ending).
The only negative thing I can say about this game is that it was shorter then I would have liked. The memes and humor seemed rather forced, but it was easy to ignore them.
The combat is surprisingly deep, the platforming feels tight, the level design is appropriately challenging and the music is very catchy. The visuals look great, and have a charming style fitting in with the Mexican theme. The bosses are actually challenging without feeling unfair.
Just a well-designed game overall.
Shame there's no co-op or playable Tostada for the Vita version. :/
The only negative thing I can say about this game is that it was shorter then I would have liked. The memes and humor seemed rather forced, but it was easy to ignore them.
The combat is surprisingly deep, the platforming feels tight, the level design is appropriately challenging and the music is very catchy. The visuals look great, and have a charming style fitting in with the Mexican theme. The bosses are actually challenging without feeling unfair.
Just a well-designed game overall.
Shame there's no co-op or playable Tostada for the Vita version. :/
terrdactycalsrock
Member
I just beat the arena area and it gave me a piece of a mask, what is that about?
Much thanks.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
This section has just baffled me. I have all the abilities up to the goat thing. Help please.
Dreamgazer
Member
This section has just baffled me. I have all the abilities up to the goat thing. Help please.
Do you have the
Goat fly flying
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
I can run
up flat walls, if that's wha you mean. I holt the triangle button, then press up and Juan then shoots up like a fireball.
This section has just baffled me. I have all the abilities up to the goat thing. Help please.
You can actually do this part without goat fly. Grab onto the block on the left, do the rocket thing upwards, tap left once briefly and you land just to the right of the spikes (on top of the block). From there it's a few simple jumps.
Dreamgazer
Member
the teleporting platforms.
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh tree top is nothing compared to this.
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh tree top is nothing compared to this.
Nope you're missing an ability, where you hit "->"+"o" when on a wall. You must have missed it, or you just haven't got to the point where you get it yet.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Nope you eventually get an ability to fly horizontally until you hit a wall. So that left most short platform you would cling onto and then fly to the right, dimension swap then land on the far right short platform then run up the wall and land on top of it to where you would then double jump and upper cut and dimension swap to the right "T"
Basically you need to progress the game further and get the Goat Fly.
True as that may be he still needs to just stop and get the Goat Fly ability, because the upcoming sections force you to have it.
Dreamgazer
Member
What? Did you actually finish the tree top challenge without goat fly?
Those center blocks are not climbable.
I got all the way to the
buzz saws screen
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
He just got past that part, the red saws are impossible with out the flying ability.
Edit: Are we really spoiler tagging all of this? lol
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Thanks, no I haven't gotten that power yet. I literally just got the Triangle+Up when attached to the wall.
Dreamgazer
Member
If only there is some non-intended way to get through the teleporting platforms >.>
*stops his whining*
blame space
Banned
what's better this or shadow complex
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Thanks everyone.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
That's a tough one. I'd say they're about even, but for different reasons. Shadow Complex had a more fun combat system, but the sense of humor in Guacamelee is very impressive. Both have some amazing platforming.
I'm so bummed we never got a Shadow Complex 2.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Shadow Complex, easily. This isn't bad though.
I liked Guacamelee a lot more, although they're probably close in quality. I just vastly preferred the visuals and tone of Guacamelee.
I enjoyed the gameplay in Shadow, but the humour and platforming puzzles in Guacamelee! were a lot more rewarding.
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
Weird. I had goat fly and did it with double jumps, uppercuts, derps and lotsa switching.
Tizoc
Member
That boss fight was normal for me. Granted I was done to critical health by the time I beat him, but he wasn't too hard.
Going back to do some quick clean up before fighting the final boss, but I still dislike how Juan is (mostly) emotionless and mute.
Anyone know if there's supposed to be a treasure in that room? I'm at 87% in Sierra Morena and I've searched everywhere. Maybe it glitched out on me?
If you take a shot of where it is in the map, I'll check it out.
So I'm working on climbing the Tree Tops now.
Clearly there's some weird rules going on behind the scenes for when you can and can't do your circle + direction moves. I'm currently at a bit where you have to keep switching from one side of a central post to the other, as spikes line alternate sides in sections. You race up the post, switch dimensions to leap through it, switch back to make it solid again, blue-rush back towards it and grab on with triangle.
Took me some time to nail it down, but now I can do it pretty consistently for the first two sections of the post.
The third section though? Every single time I do it (and it's been about a dozen now) I get to the point where the blue-rush move is required and all I get is an impotent yellow flash and an infuriating "No" buzzing noise. I have something like seven blocks of stamina, and I'm never short on them by the time I reach the last section.
What. Is. Going. On.
Clearly there's some weird rules going on behind the scenes for when you can and can't do your circle + direction moves. I'm currently at a bit where you have to keep switching from one side of a central post to the other, as spikes line alternate sides in sections. You race up the post, switch dimensions to leap through it, switch back to make it solid again, blue-rush back towards it and grab on with triangle.
Took me some time to nail it down, but now I can do it pretty consistently for the first two sections of the post.
The third section though? Every single time I do it (and it's been about a dozen now) I get to the point where the blue-rush move is required and all I get is an impotent yellow flash and an infuriating "No" buzzing noise. I have something like seven blocks of stamina, and I'm never short on them by the time I reach the last section.
What. Is. Going. On.
Magic Mushroom
Member
I prefer this. It has way more character and style and I much prefer the combat and platforming of Guacamelee.
Sounds like you're trying the move more that once in a single "jump". Which section is that? I thought the third section was the goat run where you just need to time the shifts and double jump at the end.
Lapidus' Beard
Member
I just completed this at work during my break. I think my colleagues are staying away from me now for the rest of the day.
Started it last night. Still want to scream this morning. But I will not give up.
This is the part I'm struggling with.
Going by that guy's tactics I clearly don't need to do the blue-rush move at all, which is nice. I'll give it another go tomorrow when my hands un-cramp.
Ah, I had them mixed up. Yeah, I did that using double jump only - but it's the piece that gave me the most problems as well.
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
Good video! I mostly used jump-switching at te buzz saw, but cool to see it done purely w goat fly.
Drinkbox have posted on Twitter to remind people that the NA PS+ discount ends tomorrow, and PSN will be down later apparently. Buy the game!
I didn't watch on after the initial few seconds, but I did the saw part with goat fly almost exclusively.