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If I thought the original Spelunky was bad, this game is worse by a thousand times over. Once again, the art is great and the controls are wonderful, but the music has taken a large step backwards in quality and above all, quantity. There's so much silence in this game that contrasts so oddly with the fast paced frantic nature of everything happening at once, and I don't understand it. The soundtrack is dynamic, which is one of my favourite things in video games, but the changes are so incredibly subtle barring the first area that it may as well not be there at all. Tell me, what is the difference between Ice Caves normal and Ice Caves 1 HP?
And the gameplay... I don't even know where to begin describing how absolutely atrocious the lack of design is in this game, and more than the first game, the enemy variety is FULL of one hit kill garbage that ends a 50+ minute run in a literal second, before you could even decipher what in the world that thing WAS, or what it COULD do. I do not and will NEVER believe that the concept of "now I know for next time!" justifies bad or NO telegraphing on enemy behaviour. Every single moment in this game is another "gotcha!" trap that sends you back to the start and it's so, so miserable to experience.
Why then, did I 100% this game and the first game? I can't be too certain, but I have a bad habit of putting up with things that I HATE to my CORE in the name of "giving it a fair chance," or something like that. I wanted to feel right in my experiences, that I truly don't agree with or understand ANY of what ANYONE says about this game that isn't "that was unfair." The bosses are garbage, the worlds are rather uninteresting barring the ones that are extremely hard to get to (and even then, a lot of the time, there is NO REASON to do so because they offer NO benefit), and worst of all, everything happens OFFSCREEN. There is a rule of hands-off chaos that is intrinsic to this game and I think it does nothing but bad for the overall experience. UFOs flying in and blowing you up before you could react, erratic, knee-jerk enemy AI just DROPPING in on you, or an altar to the goddess getting smashed or blown up, or a jar that summons the invincible ghost getting broken by an enemy that had NOTHING to do with you, and these things getting blamed on YOU by COMPLETE random, Spelunky 2 is simply the worst game I have ever had the displeasure of laying my hands on and I curse the day I ever gained interest in it as it is one of the most miserable experiences I have had to this point in my life. Stay as FAR away as possible.
And the gameplay... I don't even know where to begin describing how absolutely atrocious the lack of design is in this game, and more than the first game, the enemy variety is FULL of one hit kill garbage that ends a 50+ minute run in a literal second, before you could even decipher what in the world that thing WAS, or what it COULD do. I do not and will NEVER believe that the concept of "now I know for next time!" justifies bad or NO telegraphing on enemy behaviour. Every single moment in this game is another "gotcha!" trap that sends you back to the start and it's so, so miserable to experience.
Why then, did I 100% this game and the first game? I can't be too certain, but I have a bad habit of putting up with things that I HATE to my CORE in the name of "giving it a fair chance," or something like that. I wanted to feel right in my experiences, that I truly don't agree with or understand ANY of what ANYONE says about this game that isn't "that was unfair." The bosses are garbage, the worlds are rather uninteresting barring the ones that are extremely hard to get to (and even then, a lot of the time, there is NO REASON to do so because they offer NO benefit), and worst of all, everything happens OFFSCREEN. There is a rule of hands-off chaos that is intrinsic to this game and I think it does nothing but bad for the overall experience. UFOs flying in and blowing you up before you could react, erratic, knee-jerk enemy AI just DROPPING in on you, or an altar to the goddess getting smashed or blown up, or a jar that summons the invincible ghost getting broken by an enemy that had NOTHING to do with you, and these things getting blamed on YOU by COMPLETE random, Spelunky 2 is simply the worst game I have ever had the displeasure of laying my hands on and I curse the day I ever gained interest in it as it is one of the most miserable experiences I have had to this point in my life. Stay as FAR away as possible.