spelunky is the kind of game i like thinking about playing more than actually playing. maybe im just a total scrub but spelunky just feels WAY too unforgiving at times, and while i appreciate a lot of what it does in terms of secrets and discovery, after a while it just feels like smashing my head into a brick wall, and i just get frustrated and give up. i like hard games, just not when losing one bit of hp makes me want to reset the entire run, because i know itll be a whole ordeal to get that hp back. i gave up on getting to cosmic ocean long ago because it just feels infinitely out of my reach, i dont feel remotely good enough at the game to do that, even after more than 170 hours of the game. dont get me wrong, spelunky 2 is phenomenal, it just gets a bit too punishing for my tastes

Is this the funniest game ever made?

I mean. No. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Todd's Day Out will likely never be beaten in that regard, but a lot of games TRY to be funny. Jazzpunk comes to mind, a game I was told was very funny and fun but I found to be neither. Some games are funny, but not "fun". More exercises in joke telling, like The Stanley Parable.

This game, however is both fun and funny. You can speculate on illicit biocurrencies. Eminently quotable lines. The life bar may be one of the funniest HUD elements I've ever seen. But you also can go sicko mode with speed upgrades and intestinal-spiderman slinging to pull off sick 360 no-scopes on mayors in crowded malls. You might get REAL nausea playing this, which is both funny and fun.

I knew I was going to like this game, but I had no idea I was going to LOVE it.