-Quick Review-
Guacamelee is a Metroidvania 2d Platformer Brawler Beat ‘em Up, all mixed together and wrapped with traditional Mexican culture and folklore theming. Guacamelee! Super Turbo Charge Edition was developed by DrinkBox Studios and released in 2014, Just a year after Guacamelee Gold Edition Release in 2013.

Review Video:
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-Detailed breakdown review-
Story: You play as Juan, a humble agave farmer who goes into town and bumps into his childhood friend and love interest “El Presidente's daughter”. He also ends up confronting the Antagonist Carlos Calaca, a once famous rodeo Horsman before he broke his arm and sold his soul to the Devil to have his arm healed in time for the rodeo match. But right after he finished the match the Devil Dragged him into hell. And now Carlos Calaca is out for blood, performing ceremonies to unite the worlds of the dead and the living to subject everyone under his rule… and only Juan the Luchador can stop him!

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Gameplay: In True Metroidvania style, you start out the game with basic movement, dodge, a punch and a throw. One of the things I’ve loved about going back to play Guacamelee for a second time, is just how well put together the game is! As you get abilities, each power will correspond to a color block you can destroy. Not only are these abilities usable to access new paths in the game and secrets, you can use them for combos in the Beat-Em-Up section of the game, and they can ALSO be used on the 2d platforming.

From start to end you’re getting new abilities, beating up enemies for coins which can be used to purchase new skills, costumes, and power ups to your health, energy, and Intenso. You’ll often have the chance to detour from the main mission to work on a quest or parkour your way by using the abilities you’ve unlocked to get chests with power ups.
The style and music have held up well over these years and will continue to hold up well for years to come. Be it year 2017, 2024, or 2050. Just like I enjoy going back to old NES 2d stylized video games, so too will Guacamelee remain timeless.

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What is New in Super Turbo Championship Edition? There are two new areas: Canal de las Flores and Pico de Gallo. There are two new abilities: El Intenso and Pollo-Bomba. A New Boss: trio de la Muerte. And you can now play with 4 players for complete and total chaos, it was crazy enough trying to play cooperatively, but now you can drag along two more friends for party night.

Conclusion: Ay, Dios Mío, What a game! Guacamelee is a great game, I cannot recommend it enough to really anyone. The extra stuff you get from this version of the game is nice, but mostly peripheral. What makes Guacamelee excellent is the style, the theming, the colorful world, the music, the humor, the charm, the quirkiness, satisfying controls, platforming, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome.
As always I cover way more stuff in the video, so I’d suggest checking that out if you’d like to see gameplay and want a break from reading my lengthy wordy reviews. But thanks for reading! I appreciate it, and hope you enjoy Guacamelee as much as I have!

Muy bueno pollo. Super fun game. Loved it.

Eggs/Chicken.

Un metroidvania sencillo y gracioso, con un diseño artístico muy bonito. Muy recomendable.

De todos los plataformas que he jugado este podría ser fácilmente de los peores. No por la primicia del juego, ni su dificultad (menos de 30 minutos para adaptarte full a todas las mecánicas), mas bien por su jugabilidad, ya que es muy deficiente a la hora de ejecutar combos o pasar ciertas plataformas. Te recomienda jugar con mando, pero es poco preciso o el juego interpreta muchas veces otros movimientos, ni hablar de los hitbox que son casi nulos, he visto al personaje pasar casi por el centro del enemigo sin hacerle daño. Con 29 horas jugadas (Normal y ahora difícil), puedo decir que es una perdida de dinero. Lo estoy volviendo a pasar en difícil solo por el logro, pero no lo recomendaría.

Guacamelee tiene un lugar especial dentro de mi corazón, fue uno de los primeros metroidvania que jugué (si no el primero) y lo he revisitado hace poco con esta Turbo Championship Edition y me ha regresado los recuerdos que tenia sobre él. La ambientación, la música, los personajes, todo me encanta y la verdad es que está muy logrado y se mantiene fresco como el primer día.

Sí que es verdad que la historia es algo simple y el plataformeo a veces se hace un pelín repetitivo por el hecho de que te hacen ir muy para aquí y para allá todo el rato, pero las peleas se hacen placenteras y divertidas desde el inicio.

Si

The gameplay is incredibly smooth and I was not expecting the full story that goes with it. Including some... scandalous characters ;) I'm a little lost with learning the blocks but totally loving this!!

Thought it was going to be cringe, but its really a charming and fun game, lots of easter eggs as well

Yeah it's cool and all, funny, enertaining... but then you play on hard and try to do the challenges... difficulty goes from 5 to 50 pretty quick. And it's mostly a RNG based gank. If you get good RNG you can do good crowd control. If not... dead. Most of the time it feels like the red skelly bones are timed, and the yellow skellys go full ninja and never stop dodging if not to punish. Plus the stunlocks... and the one shots... it kinda becomes an exercise of patience until you get good RNG.

play for big pp