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| 7 | ->''Putting the faded photo in my pocket,''\ |
| 8 | ''I drained the rest of my canteen,''\ |
| 9 | ''and wondered how long I'd be below.'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''[[http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Opening_Narration (one possible)]] Spelunky intro''' |
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| 14 | ''Spelunky'' is a series of {{roguelike}} {{platform|Game}} games created by Derek Yu. Following the adventures of an explorer named Guy Spelunky, the aim of the games are to traverse underground tunnels and ruins, gathering as much treasure as you can while avoiding traps and enemies. Combining elements of the roguelike and platforming genres, the ''Spelunky'' games feature the randomly-generated levels, multiple ways of interacting with the environment, varied progression paths, and PermaDeath of the former, and the real-time jumping and climbing of the latter. |
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| 16 | The first entry, now referred to as ''Spelunky Classic'', was a {{freeware game}} released at the end of 2008. It can still be found [[http://spelunkyworld.com/original.html here]]. This version later received a VideoGameRemake for Platform/XboxLiveArcade, complete with [[ArtShift a change from retro graphics to hand-drawn art]], more features, many new levels and enemies, and local co-op/comptetitive multiplayer. Known simply as ''Spelunky'', the HD remake was released on Xbox LIVE Arcade on July 4, 2012, Platform/GOGDotCom and Platform/{{Steam}} on August 8, 2013, Platform/PlayStation3 and Platform/PlaystationVita on August 27, 2013, and Platform/PlayStation4 on October 7, 2014. |
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| 18 | A sequel, titled ''Spelunky 2'', was announced in 2017, starring the [[SpinOffspring original protagonist's daughter]]. You can watch the announcement trailer [[https://youtu.be/EywsqbENxwE here]]. The game was released for Platform/PlayStation4 on September 15, 2020, and released for Steam on September 29. Both games were released for the Platform/NintendoSwitch in August 26, 2021. |
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| 20 | Each of these games are [[JustOneMoreLevel addictive.]] [[NintendoHard And tough.]] [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned You've been warned.]] |
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| 23 | !!Provides examples of: |
| 24 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 26 | [[folder:General]] |
| 27 | * OneUp: The Ankh is the closest thing you're going to get to this. It gives you one extra chance in the current level should you die while possessing it. [[spoiler:You ''need'' to keep the Ankh up to a certain point, and no further, however, to get the Hedjet, and thus to access the City of Gold — and, through that, [[BonusLevelOfHell Hell]] — meaning, for all intents and purposes, it's more a key than a OneUp. It retains this functionality in the sequel, being the only way to access Duat (by sacrificing yourself on a specific altar in the Temple of Anubis) and the intended way to reach Abzu (by using it to avoid having your run ended by a nigh-impossible-to-evade-once-triggered lava trap concealing the entrance in the Tide Pool).]] |
| 28 | * AbandonedMine: The first 4 levels of the game [[AllThereInTheScript according to the game's source code]]. Outright stated in the remake, where almost everything is now officially named. |
| 29 | * ActionBomb: |
| 30 | ** Fire frogs and flying saucers. |
| 31 | ** Also, Damsel Bombs, which is what you get when a sticky bomb manages to get stuck on a damsel. New players generally learn to avoid using the quick-throw button with sticky bombs if they're holding a damsel [[YetAnotherStupidDeath by dying to one of these]]. |
| 32 | * AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Guess how much a kiss will be worth at the end. |
| 33 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: You. |
| 34 | * AllCrimesAreEqual: All crimes, from murder to kidnapping to opening a package without paying for it first, result in every shopkeeper in the game sentencing you to death by shotgun. Yes, all crimes — even the ones you didn't commit. Averted in the sequel, which introduced "forgiveness" points: Minor crimes like vandalism or robbery give you two "sin points", with one point being lost each time you complete a level. Killing shopkeepers is worth four "sin points" per kill. |
| 35 | * AllNaturalGemPolish: Even gemstones freed from the walls are shiny and cut. |
| 36 | * AntiFrustrationFeatures: |
| 37 | ** The game deposits a rock, skull, or pot right at the start next to your newly-arrived spelunker, ensuring they have something expendable to toss down ahead as a trigger if they immediately encounter an arrow trap. |
| 38 | ** Every level is intended to have at least one path to the exit that is unobstructed by walls, though very occasionally one in the Mine section will be generated that is blocked. This (usually) ensures that players who have no bombs in their inventory can advance. |
| 39 | ** Traps will be lit up by torches in dark stages. |
| 40 | * AscendedMeme: In the sequel, the dog damsel is officially given the name Monty, which originated as a FanNickname coined by Michael AL Fox and further popularized by LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}. |
| 41 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 42 | ** The Teleporter. A small high-tech device that can instantly zap you from place to place, allowing you to reach inaccessible locations, and even take out dangerous enemies with TeleFrag! But unless you're ''extremely'' careful when using it, you're more than likely to end up fragging ''yourself'', or materializing yourself over some deadly hazard. Unless you know ''[[DifficultButAwesome exactly]]'' [[DifficultButAwesome what you're doing with it]], [[UselessUsefulSpell the situations where it's useful are outweighed by the situations where it's potentially deadly]]. Since the Teleporter must be carried around in your hands, and you can only carry one item at a time, it's usually just not worth it. You'll probably get more use out of [[BoringYetPractical carrying a rock, instead]]. |
| 43 | *** The Telepack in the sequel is both better and worse about this. Since it's a backpack item, it leaves your hands free for stuff like rocks, shotguns, the Scepter, Hou Yi's Bow, etc., but this also means that it can explode right on top of you if you get hit from behind, on top of the risks of warping into a solid wall, directly above a spike pit, etc. You'll probably get better use out of a Jetpack or Vlad's Cape. |
| 44 | ** Also the [[spoiler:Scepter]] in the remake. It's a nigh-inescapable [[HomingProjectile homing]] wall-phasing [[OneHitKill one-hit-kill]] ranged weapon[[note]]technically, the Scepter "only" does 10 damage, but there are ''very'' few enemies with more than 10 HP, and you have to be playing ''very'' well to have more than 10 HP yourself[[/note]], but you are ''not'' immune to its blasts, which linger around enemy corpses while knocking them around unpredictably, liable to fry you as well. |
| 45 | ** Stealing the Golden Idol. It's worth a lot of money, but you have to survive the trap and take it to the exit or give it to a non-hostile shopkeeper to order to get credit for it. Also, in the mines, depending on the level generation, the boulder can potentially destroy shops or altars, provoking shopkeepers and Kali respectively. The Crystal Skull in the Restless Dead Level summons a ghost instantly if taken instead. |
| 46 | ** The Metal Shield is one of the few items in the game that can reliably kill almost anything instantly via crushing it against the wall. Sounds cathartic, but you're much better off using a different weapon or utility, as it can accidentally crush treasure, items, damsels, [[ShopliftAndDie shopkeepers and their item stock]], and even ''explosives'' against the wall (and no, [[ExplosiveStupidity it does not protect you from the blast]]). Furthermore, in ''Spelunky HD'', it's hidden in a dangerous out-of-the-way area and wielded by an enemy that can just as easily kill ''you'' with it if you aren't careful. Suffice to say, there are several better, more easily-accessible items that can dole out just as much punishment without the risk of accidentally destroying treasure or getting yourself wanted/killed. |
| 47 | * BallisticDiscount: |
| 48 | ** Gun stores keep all weapons fully usable and in the open. For convenience's sake. [[ShopliftAndDie Usually, the shopkeeper wields a shotgun and will blast you into oblivion at the slightest provocation]] — but he isn't immune to the guns. Destroying the store may also get you a discount if your timing is right. |
| 49 | ** Also, if you move fast enough as the spelunker, you can [[DifficultButAwesome disarm the shopkeeper and shoot him]]. If you pick up an item, place it down, then whip him, or throw the item at him and jump quickly, he will turn hostile, but you can just knock the gun out of his hands when you land on him, pick it up and [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange blast him point-blank]], then [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown keep shooting him]] [[DoubleTap to make sure]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill he doesn't get back up]]. |
| 50 | * BambooTechnology: Somehow cavemen are capable of creating motion-sensing arrow traps, blocks of wood that thrust spears/punches out over and over, and rigging giant logs and stones over idols of gold. |
| 51 | * BeeBeeGun: The Mummy spits out a swarm of flies at you, each of which damages you as much as an arrow. |
| 52 | * BeatingADeadPlayer: |
| 53 | ** If you leave a corpse after your death, enemies will still attack, throw, and shoot at your dead body. |
| 54 | ** Psionic blasts from the Scepter are attracted to any enemy, even if they're just a corpse. |
| 55 | * BettingMinigame: Some of the shops are replaced with betting parlors. The classic version has you roll two dice and try to get a number higher than 7. The remake has one similar to ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', probably because it was too easy to [[ShopliftAndDie provoke the shopkeeper if you picked up the wrong die]]. They brought the dice minigame back in the sequel, and it's still very easy to provoke the shopkeeper. |
| 56 | * BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Yetis appear in the ice levels, and are capable of chain-throwing your spelunker to death. Sometimes a larger boss Yeti appears who drops extra goodies when killed. |
| 57 | * BloodMagic: The Kapala. Collecting blood pellets from injured entities (and vomit pellets from mummies) will fill up the skull-shaped goblet, and once full, it will magically grant you a very valuable point of life and empty itself for another go. |
| 58 | * BlackoutBasement: The "I can't see a thing!" levels, which limit your view to a small circle around the Spelunker, are one of the worst hazards in the game. The original game gives you three lit flares, while the remake gives you a single wooden torch. Fortunately in the latter, you can light stationary torches on the ground so you can somewhat see your way through the level should you want to backtrack and pick up that damsel you spotted. Certain human enemies will also be carrying torches. If you manage to douse your torch in water, it can be relit from a wall-mounted burning torch. Also, [[spoiler:obtaining a pair of spectacles expands your range of vision]]. |
| 59 | * BoringYetPractical: Rocks do two ([[{{Nerf}} one in the remake]]) damage per hit, are reusable, are good for triggering traps safely, cannot be destroyed except by being crushed or falling in lava, and can be thrown a pretty good distance. With a little practice, you can destroy most enemies long before they become a threat and finish off those you've already knocked down without having to wait for them to wake up from the stun and lose their MercyInvincibility against your whip. The only downside is that you need to be careful not to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hit yourself on the rebound]]. |
| 60 | * BossAlteringConsequence: Eggplants are seemingly useless items that will break if you don't set them down gently — that is, unless you manage to bring one all the way to the final boss, King Yama. If you throw one at his face, it will transform him into a helpless eggplant monster that can't attack and will die in one hit. |
| 61 | * BottomlessPits: The third major area of the caves is mostly platforms over a yawning abyss. The remake's death journals show that they're ''literally'' bottomless; the player character writes "[[OffscreenInertia Help, I'm still falling]]!" In the sequel the Ice Caves abyss returns accompanied by two instances of bottomless lakes in [[spoiler:Abzu]] and below Tiamat's Throne. |
| 62 | * CapeWings: A cape allows you to glide rather than actively fly, but the principle is the same. Vlad's Cape, however, allows you [[DoubleJump to fly up a little]], with the cape splitting into wings and flapping as it's used. |
| 63 | * ChineseVampire: As weak enemies in the ''Restless Dead'' areas. |
| 64 | * ColorCodedMultiplayer: In ''HD'' and ''2'', each of the 20 playable characters is associated with a color, which can be seen on their heart in the HUD and is the basis of their outfits' color scheme. |
| 65 | * ConfusionFu: |
| 66 | ** Bees fly towards the Spelunker erratically, frequently changing the direction of their movement and slowing down/speeding up. This makes it very easy to miss a GoombaStomp or a whip. |
| 67 | ** Angry shopkeepers jump seemingly at random, with different jump heights too. Uneven terrain means you'll never know if he will jump over the block or hit it and turn around. |
| 68 | * CrateExpectations: Wooden crates found out throughout the levels store some useful stuff. |
| 69 | * ChunkySalsaRule: Falling from the top of the level to the bottom or getting caught in an explosion causes tremendous damage, but can be survived if you've got an unnaturally huge amount of health. Getting squished ([[IndyEscape by a boulder, for example]]), getting frozen and [[LiterallyShatteredLives smashed to pieces]], falling onto {{spikes|OfDoom}} or into {{lava|Pit}}, or getting eaten by a man-eating plant, however, kills you instantly no matter how many hit points you've got. Also, a sufficiently long fall (roughly 28 tiles in the original or 32 tiles in the sequel) will cause 99 damage, which is ''technically'' not an instant kill, but that is enough damage to bring your health from the {{cap}} all the way down to 0. |
| 70 | * CirclingBirdies: Stars in the original, birds in ''HD'' and ''2''. They'll tell if someone is stunned instead of killed. |
| 71 | * ClassicalMovieVampire: How vampires in the game dress, complete with OminousOperaCape. However, when a dead vampire drops said cape, it turns a standard yellow. |
| 72 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: You can stand right next to or over lava and not be burnt up. |
| 73 | * CrystalSkull: Can be found sometimes in the ''Restless Dead'' levels. [[spoiler:Stealing it causes the Ghost to immediately appear.]] |
| 74 | * CurbStompBattle: The player with the Sceptre (10-damage weapon in a game where the majority of entities have single-digit HP) or Shotgun (4 damage per bullet, 6 bullets). Neither is limited by ammo. |
| 75 | ** The Shopkeeper when you do not have a weapon and are relatively unskilled (he has a shotgun, you do not). And even if he loses the shotgun, which can happen, he can still easily pummel you to death. |
| 76 | * CycleOfHurting: Due to the games' virtually nonexistent MercyInvincibility, it's not uncommon to find yourself knocked around by the same enemy due to walls bouncing you back as you helplessly watch your health whittle away to nothing. Two particular offenders are [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yeti]] and angry Shopkeepers. |
| 77 | * DiscOneNuke: Several: |
| 78 | ** The Shotgun can be obtained as early as the second level, if you get lucky with shop generation, yet it's arguably the best all-around weapon in the game. It offers infinite ammo and fires six bullets per spread, with manageable recoil and accuracy. Great for mowing down crowds of weaker foes, taking out Shopkeepers, Mantraps, and other terrors from a distance, or dealing massive damage to bosses at close range. Unfortunately, stealing one from a Shopkeeper will result in them pursing you for (potentially) the rest of the current run, depending on the game version and whether you kill him during your theft. |
| 79 | ** Bombs are there in your inventory from the start, although it takes time to build a decent supply. They're useful for blowing up walls, removing traps, digging up treasure, intentionally pissing off Shopkeepers, draining Piranha-infested water, and countless other tasks. In a pinch, they also make extremely powerful weapons, though difficult to control; having glue helps with that. |
| 80 | * DamselInDistress: Beautiful women (or men, or dogs in the HD version) can be picked up and carried to the level's exit for a healing kiss. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Or you could]] [[FastballSpecial use them as a projectile]]. Or as a HumanSacrifice. |
| 81 | * DemBones: There are heaps of bones all over the ruins. Some of them can still get up and cause trouble for you. |
| 82 | * DescendingCeiling: One of the traps guarding the idols in the ruins section (13-15). |
| 83 | * {{Determinator}}: The Shopkeeper Squad. If ever you kill a shopkeeper, other shopkeepers will be waiting at the end of each stage for the rest of your current run. |
| 84 | * DevelopersForesight: |
| 85 | ** Anything that is stunned and placed on Kali's altar will be sacrificed. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ikKREYSIc This includes the player.]] |
| 86 | ** At the normal end of the game, the spelunker is typically thrown out of the volcano with the giant idol, but should the spelunker have a parachute, it will deploy automatically and save themselves the trouble of face-planting in the sand. |
| 87 | * DifficultButAwesome: |
| 88 | ** A number of things, but one good example is successfully robbing the Black Market. There are '''seven''' shopkeepers in this particular level, but if you're well armed and skilled enough, you can take all of them out and thus treat yourself to dozens of free items (most of them bombs, but you can never have too many of those) at once. One slip-up, and you're likely to be stunlocked to death by shotgun blasts and/or being hurled around. |
| 89 | ** Ghostrunning. If the Ghost passes through a gem [[note]]not the tiny ones[[/note]], it will be transformed into a Diamond worth $5,000. This is the most valuable pickup-able treasure, topped only by the Golden Idol, Crystal Skull, Golden Scarabs, and endgame treasures. Of course, if you do this, you still have to deal with [[OneHitKO the Ghost]]. |
| 90 | * DungeonShop: Six different kinds, all run by well-armed elderly men. Rob/vandalize at your own risk. |
| 91 | * DungeonBypass: Courtesy of the Tunnel Man/Mama Tunnel, shortcuts can be unlocked that skip to later stages in the game. |
| 92 | * EatingTheEnemy: The [[ManEatingPlant Mantraps]] will do this to ''you''. As well as pretty much every other enemy, including frogs, monkeys, cavemen, and angry shopkeepers. (Although the shopkeepers just rip themselves free, destroying the mantrap in the process.) |
| 93 | * EjectorSeat: Flying saucer pilots are able to deploy these when their ship is destroyed unless there's just no time for them to react, allowing them to parachute down to the nearest ledge (or down the bottomless pit below). |
| 94 | * EquipmentBasedProgression: You find equipment and upgrades, but you can also get them by going to a shop or performing a ritual sacrifice. The game is randomly generated, and if you don't find things early, the later levels might be too hard to get through. |
| 95 | * EscortMission: |
| 96 | ** Every time you try to rescue the damsel. Fortunately, she's nearly invulnerable and makes a good human shield (or [[GrievousHarmWithABody weapon]]). You can and pretty much have to carry her around. However, in the remake, she (or he, or it) is [[AdaptationalWimp no longer as durable as she used to be]], and can only take a couple of hits before perishing. |
| 97 | ** In the sequel, one of the requirements for unlocking the tunnel shortcuts is to bring a Hired Hand to Mama Tunnel. Not easy, as they love to run around the level, heedless of any and all hazards it contains. |
| 98 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: Bats, spiders, snakes, cavemen, cultists, yetis... the list goes on and on. |
| 99 | * ExcusePlot: The plot, like everything else in-game, is randomly generated from a list of phrases every time you play. |
| 100 | * FantasyKitchenSink: Giant bugs, cavemen, mummies, aliens, ghosts, yetis, Hindu Gods, and more can be found coexisting in the game (with even more added in the remake). Particularly egregious when attempting to find [[spoiler:The City of Gold]]. You have to [[spoiler:find the Egyptian Udjat Eye from a treasure chest, locate the Black Market in a Jungle to buy the Egyptian Ankh, die next to a Moai statue to get you the Hedjet (Egyptian crown), and then kill either the mummy (in the original) or Anubis (in the remake) to open the City of Gold, which is a primarily {{Mayincatec}} legend]]. |
| 101 | * FastballSpecial: |
| 102 | ** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can throw damsels at your enemies.]] And stunned enemies at other enemies. And the fun you can have with corpses... |
| 103 | ** An item exists solely to make it easier to throw things at other things. |
| 104 | * FastTunnelling: With a pickaxe, it's really easy to knock out a path through the walls. |
| 105 | * FlyingSaucer: That fires green energy bolts and explodes when destroyed. |
| 106 | * {{Forgiveness}}: [[ShopliftandDie Shopkeepers]] can do so. Each action has a certain amount of "anger points". Moving an item out of the shop (or damaging the shop) has a low amount, actually stealing the item into your inventory has a higher anger point value, and naturally killing a shopkeeper has the most. (And if something else does these things, the anger level is lower than if you personally did it.) Each stage you go through without stealing, hurting, or killing a shopkeeper (granted, given they guard the exits, that can be hard) takes one point off that anger. Get back to zero and they forgive you. |
| 107 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: A situation that can randomly appear in the Temple, at first glance at least. The death trap doesn't activate until the idol is picked up, making it more of a Friend ''Then'' Idol Decision. |
| 108 | * GagNose: Spelunker, damsels, and shopkeepers have a red nose. |
| 109 | * GameBreakingBug: [[spoiler:Killing the Black Knight boss sometimes causes the game to label you as a thief, and the shopkeepers will [[ShopliftAndDie react accordingly]].]] |
| 110 | * GayOption: The HD version lets you replace the Princesses you can rescue with Chipendale dancers if you prefer guys. Or if you prefer neither, you can set it to Pugs, because who doesn't want to rescue cute dogs? Or you can set it to be random if you don't have a preference. The Princesses and the Dancers will both kiss you between levels to restore heath. The dogs will lick you to do the same. You can also set your character's gender, so the default option can be the gay option if you choose a female character. |
| 111 | * GiantMook: Several variations that serve as mini-bosses. Most of them have item death drops. |
| 112 | * GiantSpider: Along with regular-sized ones, and spiders that dangle from their webs in the remake. If you look closely at the sprite, though, it's the same size as the Spelunker… |
| 113 | * TheGoomba: As mentioned above, the snake. All it does is slither slowly back and forth. It is perhaps the only enemy that does not actively respond to your presence or do anything to kill you besides continue its regular movement pattern. It has an UndergroundMonkey version in the remake called the Cobra, which spits venom in short intervals, but keeps the same movement pattern. |
| 114 | * GoombaStomp: |
| 115 | ** Just don't try it on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Man-Eating Plants.]] [[spoiler:At least not without Spiked Shoes in the original. In the remake, don't try it at all!]] |
| 116 | ** Spelunkers can [[GoombaSpringboard bounce off enemies to get a little extra height]] or [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou negate fall damage]]. |
| 117 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: Stunned or dead [=NPCs=] can be picked up and thrown at enemies to hurt them. |
| 118 | * GuideDangIt: |
| 119 | ** Unlocking the City of Gold. Unless you decided to look on the game's wiki before playing, you probably won't even know that it ''exists,'' let alone the grueling trials required to unlock it. |
| 120 | ** On a similar note, finding [[spoiler:the Worm]] and [[spoiler:the Underworld]] in the remake. It doesn't help that the second one requires an [[NintendoHard already excruciating trip]] to the City of Gold ''AND'' [[spoiler:requires you to defeat the FinalBoss in a specific spot that's ''randomly generated'' on each playthrough]]. |
| 121 | ** The "WantedMeter". Whenever you rob, attack, or vandalize a shopkeeper's store, ''all of them'' aggro against you and a shopkeeper spawns at the exit for the next few levels. How long they stay hostile depends on what crime you committed and, naturally, you're told nothing about this, your only clue being the "Wanted" posters in the shops. However, this system is averted when a shopkeeper dies. In that case, you have to deal with them ''for the rest of the game.'' And since being wanted spawns dangerous shopkeepers right where you need to go for a couple levels, and the easiest way to survive one is blowing him up... |
| 122 | ** The eggplant run. To get an eggplant, you need to sacrifice a mystery box to Kali. At first glance, the Eggplant does nothing except change the music to a sweet retro tune, but throwing it at the TrueFinalBoss will cause something special to happen. No easy feat, since it's a long journey that is supposed to be impossible to do by yourself (the way the challenge was designed, a second person playing during co-op is supposed to carry the eggplant during a specific part of the game). It ''can'' be done solo, but only by exploiting a glitch. |
| 123 | * HarmlessFreezing: While being frozen on ice is a very dangerous state due to [[LiterallyShatteredLives being vulnerable to getting killed by any hit, or even a tiny fall]] while being unable to act, there's no danger in just being frozen by itself - the block of ice breaks after a couple seconds, with whoever was inside it no worse for wear. |
| 124 | * HaveANiceDeath: When you die, the journal will endlessly replay your last moments, catalog what you were killed by, and have a first-person description of your player's final thoughts. |
| 125 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Any thrown object can rebound and clobber you, and in the remake, shooting off a blast from the Scepter runs a definite risk of getting yourself zapped. |
| 126 | * HumanPopsicle: Ice blocks have a small chance of containing a Caveman frozen inside. Some are just corpses, but some actually wake up from it. |
| 127 | * ImprovisedWeapon: |
| 128 | ** Throw the treasure chest! Throw the key! [[MoneyMauling Throw the gold idol!]] [[FastballSpecial Throw the damsel you're rescuing!]] [[KleptomaniacHero Throw the die you stole from the betting parlor for some reason!]] If you really need to, you can even take off your cape or jetpack and drop it on someone's head. |
| 129 | ** In both games, ropes can be used to attack/kill any enemy above you. In the remake, throwing a rope upwards while a monkey is on your back will kill them. Apparently, these are called "rope-snipes". |
| 130 | * InexplicableTreasureChests: Contain gems or a bomb-trap. In the remake, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs they can do both at the same time]]. |
| 131 | * InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Every Shopkeeper looks exactly the same but each of them have randomly generated names, and you can find multiple of them together. [[spoiler:In the Mothership sub-level in ''Spelunky 2'', it reveals all Shopkeepers are clones.]] |
| 132 | * InfiniteStockForSale: Each shop sells exactly four items, which makes sense since most of the items give their respective effects for the duration of the entire game. |
| 133 | * InventoryManagementPuzzle: You'll often have to juggle items and leave some good ones behind, especially with held items. For instance, do you rescue the damsel or keep your shotgun? If you want to do both, where can you leave your shotgun so that it will be safe until you can pick it up again? |
| 134 | * InstakillMook: Coming into contact with a Mantrap or the Ghost kills you instantly. While Mantraps can themselves be killed or knocked out, [[StalkedByTheBell the Ghost cannot]], and [[ImplacableMan constantly chases you down]] until you leave the current floor. If it shows up, your best bet is to bolt. |
| 135 | * JetPack: One of the rarest, most expensive, and most useful pieces of equipment in the game. It runs out of fuel fairly quickly when in use, but instantly recharges as soon as you land or grab hold of something fixed, even a rope. |
| 136 | * JungleJapes: The second area, levels five through eight. |
| 137 | * KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: This isn't really possible to do with your whip, as it won't deal damage to stunned enemies, but most other weapons don't have that restriction, letting you play this trope straight. Of course, [[CycleOfHurting many of your enemies can do the same thing to you]], so you really can't feel too bad about it. |
| 138 | * KingMook: Most of the game's minibosses are scaled-up, more durable versions of regular enemies who've got an extra trick or two up their sleeves. |
| 139 | * KungFuProofMook: [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yetis]], {{shop|liftAndDie}}keepers, and (in the remake) [[HeavilyArmoredMook green knights]] are immune to the whip. The knights are also immune to {{Goomba Stomp}}s, as are giant frogs and mammoths (with mummies being promoted here in the remake), although spike shoes can remove this immunity. |
| 140 | * LadderPhysics: Which also apply to ropes. |
| 141 | * LedgeBats: Has been known to happen to players who don't clear out bats before advancing. |
| 142 | * LevelEditor: It was originally only present in the original, but thanks to the [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/qin19xqzhr6wli7/Frozlunky.exe Frozlunky Mod]] and subsequent [[http://sashavol.com/frozlunky/editor/ level editor]] that showed up later, it can now be done to the remade Steam version. |
| 143 | * LavaPit: They appear in the Temple, and a massive one beneath Olmec's Lair. In the remake, you can find ([[EleventhHourSuperpower in the ridiculously hard to reach true final level]]) an amulet that renders you immune to them! Better late than never? |
| 144 | ** In the sequel, Volcana, Olmec's Lair again, [[spoiler:Duat]], and Neo-Babylon all feature lava. There's no lava immunity around, and to make it worse, fluid physics are present. Instead of lava simply being deleted when destroying the tank it is in, it can flow around the level, for example flooding the level exit or down the shaft to Vlad's Castle. |
| 145 | * LuckBasedMission: As mentioned in the UnintentionallyUnwinnable example below, the level generator doesn't always keep up to snuff with path creation. This often results in long, unavoidable falls in certain areas or "dead ends" that force you to spend bombs removing obstacles or ropes to climb over them. |
| 146 | * LudicrousGibs: Most enemies explode into blobs of blood upon being killed, and some mini-bosses explode into chunks of flesh. And there's a frog that explodes into flames. There is even an item that catches the gibs and gives you health. |
| 147 | * MacheteMayhem: Machetes appear as an equippable weapon, which, aside from having better upside range (at the cost of horizontal range) can also get rid of spider webs. [[spoiler:There's also the [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Crysknife]], a weapon that allows you to OneHitKill any enemy in the game. And unlike the Machete, it replaces your whip, so you don't need to carry it everywhere.]] |
| 148 | * MadeOfExplodium: See the exploding frogs. Also, in the sequel, any item with "pack" in its name will explode if damaged or set on fire (probably taking you with it). |
| 149 | * MadeOfIron: The shopkeeper. He has 20 HP compared to your default of 4. |
| 150 | * ManEatingPlant: Have a taste for player characters, damsels, humanoid enemies, and Shopkeepers. [[spoiler:They can't digest the last one, though.]] |
| 151 | * MercyInvincibility: It's there, but it's so selective and short you may not even notice. If you accidentally fall next to an enemy, you will be stunned, and you will die. The ''enemies'', on the other hand, have a ''really long'' invincibility phase to your standard whip attack so you can't just whale on them (unless you bring a better weapon). |
| 152 | * {{Metroidvania}}: Not a conventional one by any means due to being linear (except the hidden levels), but the way items you collect facilitate (and sometimes are mandatory for) your progress is very reminiscent of the genre. Of course, they are by no means guaranteed to be around when needed. |
| 153 | * MightyRoar: The Yeti King emits a roar that causes ice blocks to crumble and fall. |
| 154 | * TheMillstone: The hired helps are, in theory, supposed to help you by killing enemies, collecting treasure, and holding objects, but [[ArtificialStupidity their AI is so stupid]] and unpredictable that they more often end up either killing themselves or being a hinderance by dropping objects on your head, activating traps and causing enemies to aggro, or sometimes even outright attacking you without provocation. It's considered good advice to kill them as quickly as possible or just not release them at all because they're rarely worth the trouble. |
| 155 | * MoneyForNothing: Shops appear less often as you progress through the game, but there is a bonus for hoarding enough money when you beat the game, in the original at least. The remake just [[ScoringPoints gives you points]] for the global leader-boards, and a CosmeticAward for acquiring an obscene sum of money. |
| 156 | * MoneyMauling: Golden and Diamond [[spoiler:and the Tusk]] Idols are just as good at pummeling your opponents with as any rock. In the first game even falling gold nuggets and gems were dangerous to non-spelunkers. |
| 157 | * {{Mummy}}: Miniboss in the fourth area who [[BeeBeeGun shoots flies from its mouth with a shotgun-like spread]]. |
| 158 | * MuzzleFlashlight: Shooting a gun will illuminate the area around you for a short time in dark levels. |
| 159 | * NightOfTheLivingMooks: "The dead are restless!" |
| 160 | * NintendoHard: Complete with one life that can be lost quickly. |
| 161 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Fall damage can be prevented in a number of ways, including falling into SoftWater or spider webs, landing on an enemy, or catching a ledge, not to mention parachutes. However, falling off the screen is possible in Area 3, and that results in instant death. |
| 162 | * OffscreenInertia: Most action on a level freezes if it is happening far enough away from the Spelunker. (There are exceptions, including The Ghost.) This was done deliberately to improve game performance-speed. |
| 163 | * OneHitKill: It doesn't matter how much health you have — fall onto [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice spikes]], and you're done. Same deal with running into Mantraps or the Ghost. This can also apply to bombs and the Scepter, as it's unlikely that you'll have enough [=HP=] to survive an explosion or a psychic blast during a normal playthrough. |
| 164 | ** On the plus side, you can reliably survive your own Bombs or getting hit by the Scepter if you have over ten health. Getting caught in a blast was typically fatal in the original game. [[NintendoHard This remains true]] in the remake, but the odds are comparatively better. |
| 165 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: |
| 166 | ** Vampires are particularly challenging foes. They attack on sight, and between their impressive jump height (the highest of any human enemy) and ability to fly by transforming into bats, they can easily get in your face and hurt you badly before you manage to kill them. They sport above average HP, which they can restore by drinking blood, including yours. To make matters worse, they recover quickly from stuns, making them dangerous to fight with the whip alone. Fortunately, one bomb blast or two bullets will kill them instantly, and they drop the valuable Cape. |
| 167 | ** The Kapala allows the player to rack up HP by absorbing enemies' blood. (Or [[spoiler:(blech!) mummy puke]]). |
| 168 | * PermaDeath: You die, you have to start again from level one… unless you pay the Tunnel Man to finish the shortcuts [[spoiler:or acquire the Ankh from the Black Market]]. [[spoiler:But you can't reach the City of Gold or Hell if you take advantage of either outside of the level where you're ''supposed'' to use the Ankh.]] |
| 169 | * PersonalSpaceInvader: There are monkeys that will latch onto you. They can throw away your items or stun you. Especially annoying because the vines they are climbing on are mostly over spike pits that kill you instantly, and getting stunned makes you lose your grip on the vine. |
| 170 | * PlayableMenu: In the original, you take control of the main character as soon as the opening cutscene ends. In the remake, you control the character on the level select screen. |
| 171 | * RandomlyGeneratedLevels: Well, procedurally-generated, to be more precise, but it's certainly randomized enough to keep fresh. |
| 172 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: The Spelunker. It's explained in the remake that the Curse of [[FinalBoss Olmec]] prevents anyone who enters the cave from escaping until they defeat him, and if they perish, they are immediately revived in the entrance chamber. Which explains why characters are able to write in the journal in such an impossible state to do so (brains fried/[[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]]/etc.) |
| 173 | * RewardingVandalism: Smashing pots can reward the player with money. |
| 174 | * RockBeatsLaser: Just see what happens if you throw a rock at flying saucer. But don't get blown up when it crashes afterward. |
| 175 | * {{Roguelike}}: Has the traditional difficulty paired with procedurally-generated levels and some inventory/resource/time management. |
| 176 | * TheScapegoat: If ''anything'' on the current level causes trouble for a shopkeeper, he blames you and comes after you with his shotgun. (One odd example is cobra spit — he'll shrug off getting hit himself, but if the spit destroys any of his stock, out comes the boomstick.) Same with anything that damages an altar — Kali blames you for it. |
| 177 | ** This also applies if anything is stolen from a shop. As seen [[https://youtu.be/5D5jeDp2gss?t=1550 here]], a Tiki man without a boomerang can steal one right under a shopkeeper's nose and the shopkeeper still blames the player. |
| 178 | * SchmuckBait: ''Everything''. The ''game itself'', [[JustOneMoreLevel if you have a busy schedule]]. |
| 179 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:The cavemen in the Olmec level. The intro shows him coming to life and squashing one of his worshippers. The others run for it and disappear from the level.]] |
| 180 | * ShortRangeShotgun: Not a big deal with anything that isn't [[MadeOfIron notably tough]] — the blast spreads out dramatically and deals a ridiculous amount of damage even at long ranges. Still, don't expect to kill a shopkeeper in one blast unless he's right next to you. |
| 181 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: One of the most powerful weapons in the game. Unfortunately, every shopkeeper is toting one. |
| 182 | * ShoutOut: |
| 183 | ** A few to ''Franchise/IndianaJones''. The main player sprite bears a strong resemblance to Indy (other than the red nose). The [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Gold Idol]] is a semi-common item. You can get a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull Crystal Skull]] during a "restless dead" level. And sometimes the text "I hear snakes... [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes I hate snakes]]!" appears at the start of a level, which means there's a snake nest in the level. |
| 184 | ** Getting a ball and chain attached to you? [[VideoGame/NetHack Sure sounds familiar.]] |
| 185 | ** Guess what you find [[Franchise/EvilDead in the grave of "ASH"]]. [[spoiler:[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter A boomstick!]]]] |
| 186 | * ShopliftAndDie: Prepare to get gunned down if you run out with an item in your hands. Or whip the shopkeeper. Or accidentally throw your unwanted item at him when you only wanted to put it down. Also be prepared to have an alert shopkeeper staking out at the next few level exits. Or for the rest of the game if you happened to kill one. Yeah, they don't mess around. |
| 187 | * ShowsDamage: Jaws, a giant piranha, gradually loses skin as it takes damage. |
| 188 | * SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Ice Caves, especially their interior where the Yetis dwell. Starts at level 9 in the original and is level 5-1 in Spelunky 2. |
| 189 | * SmoochOfVictory: Your prize for rescuing a damsel, and it grants you an extra health unit. |
| 190 | * SocializationBonus: ''Spelunky HD'' rewards you with an achievement if you complete the game with at least two alive players. |
| 191 | * SoftWater: That can negate fall damage, but may contain piranhas. |
| 192 | * SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: Hurry music is inverted. The music slows down when running out of time until the ghost appears. In the remake, this is no longer a warning: once the music slows down, it is too late. The ghost appears immediately. |
| 193 | * SpikesOfDoom: But you can walk through them as long as you don't land in them. Most enemies can be killed by them, too. Later on, there are totem poles that thrust spikes out their sides whenever you come near. The ground spikes are one of several ways a spelunker can [[ChunkySalsaRule die instantly regardless of his health]], and the totem poles deal enough damage to kill you instantly if you haven't gotten at least one health boost. |
| 194 | * TheSpiny: {{Man|EatingPlant}}traps are immune to the GoombaStomp, and [[OneHitKill will eat you if you try it]]. [[spoiler:Spike shoes will fix this, but only in the original.]] The remake adds devils, which have horns on their heads, and [[CycleOfHurting can stunlock you to death]] ''even if you're wearing spike shoes''. |
| 195 | * SpringJump: Spring Shoes. |
| 196 | * SpringsSpringsEverywhere: In Area 3, where they're hardly visible when not sprung. They turn into energy-repulsors which behaves the same in the remake, though. |
| 197 | * StalkedByTheBell: The Ghost. You have two and a half minutes in each level (three minutes in the sequel) before it shows up. Possession of the Hedjet will prevent this, but only in the original. |
| 198 | * StealthPun: Monkeys attack you by leaping on your back. |
| 199 | * {{Stellification}}: Getting to [[spoiler:level 99 of the Cosmic Ocean]] causes one to literally become one with the Universe and become a constellation, which can then be seen in the sky above the HubLevel and in certain loading screens. |
| 200 | %%* StickyBomb: As a replacement for standard bombs. |
| 201 | * StuffBlowingUp: Not in the main game itself, but there's a mod for it. This makes the game harder by making everything either explosive or [[IncendiaryExponent or on (harmless) fire]]. This is worth mentioning because how much it changes the game's playstyle by just using this trope. P.S. arrow traps aren't your friends at all. |
| 202 | * SuperNotDrowningSkills: There are many, ''many'' ways you can be killed. Drowning, surprisingly, is not one of them. |
| 203 | * TacticalSuicideBoss: The FinalBoss, Olmec, in the same vein as Bowser from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. |
| 204 | * {{Telefrag}}: Be careful not to move into a wall when using the Teleporter. [[spoiler:Be even more careful to move right into shopkeepers — it doesn't count as a death, as far as punishment is concerned.]] |
| 205 | ** Croc-men encountered in the Temple teleport whenever they are about to be hit. Fortunately, they often end up telefragging themselves. |
| 206 | * TakingYouWithMe: Fire frogs and flying saucers will explode. |
| 207 | * TempleOfDoom: The aptly named Temple, Area 4 in the original and one of two options for level 4 in ''Spelunky 2''. |
| 208 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: It has to be admitted, players are probably much more antagonistic than needed to shopkeepers because of how they pull out their weapon on you. And considering they are most likely just being cautious around somebody who fought their way down, it's almost a SelfFulfillingProphecy. |
| 209 | * TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: Those gold bars look to be bigger than the Spelunker, the gems can be half the size of Spelunker's head, and the CrystalSkull is bigger than his own head! |
| 210 | * UndergroundLevel: The whole game, which happens inside ruins… at least initially. |
| 211 | * UnintentionallyUnwinnable: The level generator tries its best to create a level [[BenevolentArchitecture that can be passed with minimal use of ropes and bombs]]. Unfortunately, a path can sometimes be blocked by a grave or a totem. |
| 212 | * UnwinnableByDesign: Falls into Tough category. It is possible to get stuck when misusing your items. |
| 213 | * UselessUsefulSpell: The teleporter. On the one hand, you can teleport four or so tiles in any cardinal direction, and as such can occasionally avoid using bombs to blow open walls. On the other hand, it's possible to teleport ''inside a wall'', [[{{Telefrag}} killing you instantly]]. Or in front of an arrow trap. Or into a pit, leading to a death fall. |
| 214 | * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: |
| 215 | ** The main use for Damsels is to be rescued, which nets you a chaste kiss and a point of health. But they're also surprisingly aerodynamic, making them useful for setting off traps or killing enemies. Even if they die by your ineptitude, they're still [[FastballSpecial valid throwing weapons]]. They make great sacrifices, too. |
| 216 | ** One popular strategy for dealing with high-end monsters is to attach a Sticky Bomb to a Damsel and let her dash forward. |
| 217 | ** The remake allows you to not only be mean to your team-mates, but you can even sacrifice them to Kali. |
| 218 | ** There's nothing stopping you from pummeling the Tunnel Man in the pre-game lobby, something frustrated players may occasionally find themselves doing after dying for the umpteenth time. [[WhatTheHellHero He'll call you out on your actions when he eventually comes to his senses, though.]] |
| 219 | ** Killing a shopkeeper effectively makes every item free, allowing you to save up your gold. On the other hand... |
| 220 | * VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Killing a shopkeeper causes the others to shoot you on sight and station themselves at level exits ''for the rest of your current playthrough''. |
| 221 | ** Blew up an Altar? Six Spiders thrown in your face. Blew up an Altar the second time? Ball and chain attached to your foot, which restricts your movement unless you carry the ball or find a way to destroy it using lava, the pit, or crushing it (if not, you'll be chained to this for the ''rest of the playthrough''). Blew up an Altar the ''third'' time? Level suddenly turns dark and the Ghost spawns in… and '''[[OhCrap shows up]] ''[[OhCrap immediately]]'' in ''every level'' for ''the rest of the playthrough'''''. |
| 222 | * VirginSacrifice: "You hear prayers to Kali!" [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can also sacrifice damsels yourself.]] |
| 223 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: You of course get a full view of all the [[spoiler:mummy puke]]. On the upside, [[spoiler:if you have the right artifact, you can collect said puke to gain extra HP]]. |
| 224 | * WhatTheHellHero: If you pull it off right, then you can kill shopkeepers and steal their goods — but [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment you'll be a wanted man from there on out]]. |
| 225 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The ruins. The intro establishes that they're located in the Middle East, but the architecture is distinctly Mesoamerican, and there are altars to an Indian goddess. The third area's Yeti and ice suggest the Himalayas, but then there's the [[UsefulNotes/RapaNui Moai statue]] and a volcano at the end, and a number of Egyptian enemies. |
| 226 | ** And then in the remake, [[spoiler:you can go to Hell, but the boss is the Chinese depiction of the Asian god Yama]]. |
| 227 | * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Approaching every problem with bombs is effective as long as you have enough of them. Want the treasure in the walls? Bomb them. Want to cut right to the exit? Bomb your way down. Arrow trap in the way and you don't have a rock? Chuck an inactive bomb down and pick it up again. Or just blow it up. Inconvenient pit of water or lava? Drain it by bombing the bottom. Want that statue, but don't want to set off the traps associated? Bomb it off the platform (in the original at least). Wanna rob the shop? See Ballistic Discount up there (hint: it involves bombs). Fighting boss monsters? One hit kill. Final boss? Bombs make it end more quickly. |
| 228 | * YetAnotherStupidDeath: Believe us, you'll have lots of these, even if you're ''good'' at platformers, roguelikes, or ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy''. |
| 229 | ** Example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msKWy7A8onQ#t=2m0s Getting shot by a shopkeeper]] ''right'' on top of the City of Gold entrance. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by the player shortly after the death. |
| 230 | ** There are lots of others. Being punted by an arrow into a [[ChunkySalsaRule lava pit]] while on 43 hit points, punted by a frog into a spike pit, punted by a Yeti into a bottomless pit... Basically, you want to avoid getting punted. |
| 231 | ** The game even keeps track of how many deaths you've had (up to the first 50 or so) via marks on the wall at the cave entrance. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:''Spelunky Classic'']] |
| 235 | * BraggingRightsReward: The reward for completing all four challenges. |
| 236 | * DistressedDude: If you rescue enough damsels, you can play as her, and the guy becomes this. |
| 237 | * GenderBender: Rescuing 8 damsels opens [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin the Changing Room, which changes the Spelunker]] into a Damsel and ''vice versa.'' The main character is now female. HilarityEnsues. |
| 238 | * FreakyFridayFlip: The Changing Room makes you switch with the Damsel. [[GrandTheftMe You can leave this on for the rest of the game.]] |
| 239 | * GameMod: As of 1.1 the Source code to Spelunky is out, and many mods can be found on the forums. |
| 240 | * HitboxDissonance: The Giant Piranha's hitbox is exclusively its mouth, attacking ''and'' defending. |
| 241 | * InfinityPlusOneSword and EleventhHourSuperpower: The [[MagicStaff scepter]], obtained by killing a relatively easy guaranteed boss in the temple. It launches a homing attack that instantly kills any enemy it touches, and makes the final boss much easier. In the remake, it has been moved to a much harder boss and also nerfed by making it very capable of insta-killing ''you'', both before and after you acquire it. |
| 242 | * InventoryManagementPuzzle: Averted with the mod Yet Another Spelunky Mod, where you can put mostly everything in your inventory except "big" items like the Damsel, corpses, or the Idol. |
| 243 | * MadeOfIron: You might as well use that damsel you're carrying to set off any arrow traps in your way. She'll be fine. |
| 244 | ** For the record, the damsel ''can'' die in the same way that you can, but she's immune to fall damage and takes less damage from certain traps. |
| 245 | * {{Metroidvania}}: As of version 0.99.8, making one of these in the level editor is possible. Several have been completed. |
| 246 | * OneHitKill: Bombs deal 100 damage if you catch enemies [[HoistByHisOwnPetard (or yourself)]] with all ten frames of the blast animation, enough to kill anything other than the FinalBoss in one explosion. In practice, they often launch smaller foes away without dealing the full damage, but they usually manage to insta-kill them regardless. Even a glancing blow (one or two frames) exceeds most enemies' HP. |
| 247 | * PressXToDie: ESC+F1 is the suicide command. [[spoiler:It's actually useful for spelunkers attempting to find the City of Gold; once you acquire the [[AutoRevive Ankh]], you have to kill yourself next to a giant Easter Island head in Area 3, and if you want to spare yourself the frustration, ESC+F1 is the easiest way to do it. You can't do that in the remake, though, as the command kills you regardless of whenever you have the Ankh or not.]] |
| 248 | * ProjectileWebbing: The {{Giant Spider}}s can shoot balls of silk that turn into webbing that can impede player and other mobs. |
| 249 | * SecretCharacter: The damsel and [[spoiler:Tunnel Man]]. The former is functionally equivalent to the Spelunker, but the latter [[DifficultButAwesome drastically changes the way you play the game]]. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:''Spelunky HD'']] |
| 253 | * EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:In 5-1, you can acquire Vlad's Amulet, which allows you to swim in lava and touch Magma Men without injury. It's limited to Hell and makes the area easier, though the drop in difficulty is less than it would have been if it was available in the earlier Temple.]] |
| 254 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Crysknife found in[[spoiler:side of the giant worm]]. |
| 255 | * AmbidextrousSprite: It's subtle, but it's there. Things like the Green Ninja's ying-yang headband, the Purple Pirate's eyepatch, or [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Meat Boy's]]]] bandages, black eye, and missing tooth with be mirrored if you turn. |
| 256 | * AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You don't play the tutorial as the Spelunker (nor any of the initially unlocked adventurers). Instead, you play as Yang, an Asian explorer who traversed the cave long before you. [[spoiler:You can eventually unlock him by getting through Hell.]] |
| 257 | * AntiFrustrationFeatures: |
| 258 | ** Unlike every other item (besides the jetpack), the one-of-a-kind Scepter won't be destroyed in lava, so you can drain the lava it fell into to retrieve it. [[spoiler:You need the Scepter to open the door to the City of Gold and unlock Hell, so a Hell run won't end if the Scepter falls in lava.]] |
| 259 | ** The game never inflicts a BlackoutBasement level on you in the Ice Caves, which are hard enough to [[BottomlessPits traverse successfully]] when you can see what you're doing. |
| 260 | * BagOfSharing: In co-op, the money pool is shared between all players. |
| 261 | * BeeAfraid: The Killer Bee and Queen Bee, complete with their own mini-area in the Jungle. |
| 262 | * BettingMinigame: Besides the examples described above, there's a meta-example of it: ''[[http://spelunkyroulette.sparklinlabs.com/ Spelunky Death Roulette]]'', in which people bet on which will cause the death of people playing live on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_%28website%29 Twitch.tv]]. |
| 263 | -->'''''Obligatory disclaimer''''': ''No real money involved. "Spelunky Bucks" are a fake currency with a very real sentimental value.'' |
| 264 | * {{BFG}}: The Plasma Cannon, longer than the playable characters are tall, and capable of firing a fast-moving, highly explosive projectile that knocks you back several tiles upon being used. |
| 265 | * BlindingCameraFlash: See below under LethalJokeItem. |
| 266 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: Attacking a damsel in the kissing booth in the original would make the shopkeeper say "[[CasualKink Hey, only I can do that]]!" and attack you. In the remake, his line has been changed to, "Hey, you can't do that!" |
| 267 | * BrutalBonusLevel: [[spoiler:The Worm]] and [[spoiler:The Mothership]] both ratchet up the already high difficulty level, though both also feature a (different) powerful weapon ([[spoiler:the Crysknife and the the Plasma Cannon, respectively]]) as a reward if you manage to fight your way through them. The [[spoiler:Haunted Castle]] also qualifies, assuming you try to [[spoiler:claim the Black Knight's shield]]. Heck, the only bonus level that ''doesn't'' earn this label is [[spoiler:The Black Market]], and even that can be bad if you [[spoiler:anger all the shopkeepers]]. [[spoiler:Hell is the fifth area, accessible only if you execute a certain series of steps through the prior areas, and it fully qualifies. Not only do you need to complete an extremely difficult sequence of actions, it's the most dangerous area in the game, full of lava, deadly traps, and demons. Beating this equals to beating the game, usually.]] |
| 268 | * TheCameo: You can rescue [[spoiler:VideoGame/MeatBoy from the bowels of the giant worm]], and he becomes a playable character afterwards. |
| 269 | * ChestMonster: When you go to [[spoiler:Hell]], there are two Damsels. One of them is a succubus, which will jump on your back like a monkey and deal one damage and knock you down if you don't get them off. |
| 270 | ** GlamourFailure: Downplayed and straight. Downplayed: A succubus calls for help roughly twice as often as a real one. Straight: Getting close enough to a succubus may cause it to drop its disguise. |
| 271 | * ClairvoyantSecurityForce: Stealing the Necronomicon from the City of Gold instantly causes Anubis to come back in OneWingedAngel form as Anubis II and spawn armies of red skeletons around you. Fortunately, he has the same amount of HP as his scepter-wielding counterpart and doesn't come back if killed again. |
| 272 | * CrosshairAware: Occasionally, a targeted psychic blast will appear in Deathmatch Mode to attempt to pick off players who don't move or are moving very little (though this can be turned off in the settings). This blast comes from the Alien Queen, who will use it in [[TheMothership the Mothership bonus area]] when you're near her. |
| 273 | * CrossReferencedTitles: One of the Deathmatch arenas from the Ice Caves set is named "Don't Fall!", because the floor of the level is coated in spikes. A later level from the same set is entitled "Do Fall!", because it contains many floating platforms that you can make fall down to potentially crush the other fighters. |
| 274 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: Various changes to how the game game works result in this. |
| 275 | ** You automatically grab ledges now (instead of physically having to hold left or right as you fall), so you can get hung up on ledges more easily, especially with the climbing gloves. |
| 276 | ** The Mantrap enemy: originally you could actually jump on it to kill it if you had a set of spike shoes, but in the remake, attempting to jump on it — even with spike shoes equipped — will result in you getting eaten. |
| 277 | ** Using the whip on a hanging turret knocks it down. Using the [[spoiler:Crysknife]] on a hanging turret causes it to explode. Remember this. |
| 278 | ** Arrows from arrow traps move much faster in this version compared to the classic version. Deliberately triggering the trap and jumping over the arrow is no longer as easy. |
| 279 | * DemotedToExtra: Well, in a sense. Previously, the Damsel and the [[spoiler:Tunnel Man]] were secret playable characters, but were removed from the available roster in the remake. |
| 280 | * DevelopersForesight: When you beat the game [[spoiler:by way of defeating Yama]], a man named Yang appears next to a giant chest containing an enormous gold-filled trophy and initiates a small conversation with the player. However, if the player beats the game ''using Yang himself'', this conversation doesn't happen. |
| 281 | * DifficultButAwesome: The Plasma Cannon. It has horrible recoil (pushes you two blocks away), it's really, really hard to get, and it's very easy to kill yourself with it, as its shots do lethal SplashDamage upon impact. But if you learn to utilize it responsibly, you're suddenly unstoppable. ''Especially'' if you have a jetpack. It is also the only item in the game which provides you with unlimited environment destruction potential. |
| 282 | * DistressedDude: You can configure the game so that one can encounter a male version of the damsel, [[EveryoneIsBi even if you're playing as a male]]. Also, if that's not your cup of tea, you can also replace the damsel with a [[PreciousPuppy precious pug.]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual Or a randomized mix of all three.]] |
| 283 | ** As of a 2014 update, you can now also unlock a sloth damsel. |
| 284 | * DiscOneNuke: |
| 285 | ** Acquiring the [[spoiler:Crysknife]] from a [[spoiler:Worm level]], which is possible as early as the first Jungle level, allows you to mow down most bosses and enemies with impunity. Of course, accomplishing this is [[BrutalBonusLevel easier said than done]]. |
| 286 | ** Also, it is possible (at a 1 in 10,000 chance) for the [[spoiler:Plasma Cannon]] to turn up inside a random crate, even in the Mines. |
| 287 | * DoomedPredecessor: The Tutorial stars Yang, an Asian explorer wearing white clothes who is not otherwise playable or unlockable. It's framed as an ApocalypticLog, and going by how you find no trace of him anywhere else, it seems unlikely he made it. [[spoiler:If you beat Yama, you'll find him alive and well in the treasure room, unlocking him for further play.]] |
| 288 | * EasterEgg: |
| 289 | ** Selecting the Pug Damsel 100 times [[spoiler:will turn it into a Sloth Damsel for the rest of your sitting]]. It changes back if you reboot the game. |
| 290 | ** Each level has a 1/100 chance of playing a {{chiptune}} song unique to the world. All four are named "[World] egg", but none of them seem to have any relation to the eggplant beyond sharing a style. |
| 291 | * EveryoneIsBi[=/=]GayOption: All the damsel types (girl, dude, dog, and [[spoiler:sloth]]) will kiss you, regardless of your adventurer's gender or its own. |
| 292 | * ExplodingBarrel: There aren't barrels, but there are [[http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Powder_Box Powder Boxes.]] |
| 293 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Occasionally in the mine and jungle levels, a small alien will be released when you smash open a pot. |
| 294 | * FreezeRay: One of the new weapons. It has limited range and a low rate of fire, but it freezes 95% of the enemies and they [[OneHitKill shatter instantly with even the slightest hit]] while in this state, even the toughest ones. |
| 295 | * HairTriggerExplosive: TNT blocks will explode violently when hit by ''anything'', even by flying blood drops and shrapnel that are generally harmless. |
| 296 | * HauntedCastle: [[spoiler:A bonus area found in the Restless Dead sublevel, in which you can also find Film/VanHelsing, who becomes a playable character when you free him.]] |
| 297 | * HaveANiceDeath: The Spelunker often writes in his journal about whatever last killed him, or commenting on how close they were to reaching the next area. |
| 298 | -->'''Spelunker:''' An {{a|nnoyingArrows}}rrow has pierced one of my vital organs. |
| 299 | * HeadSwap: Almost all of the game's Spelunkers share a body design with another playable character — the only one who doesn't is the Robot, for obvious reasons. |
| 300 | ** Most of the Spelunkers wear the same outfit of gray-white shoes, pants of their color held with a black belt, and a colored jacket with a white undershirt — easy to see when you look at them [[https://spelunky.fandom.com/wiki/Spelunkers side by side]]. Each one has a distinct head, though, from Colin's blonde beard-mustache to Van Horsing's top hat. The Platform/PlayStation3's XMB background for this game allows you to get a good comparison between the default four characters' outfits outside of sprites. |
| 301 | ** The "Round Boy" and "Round Girl" — later named Little Jay and Valerie Crump respectively in ''2'' — share the same fat body shape, but Jay is black and wears mint green clothes and a baseball cap, while Valerie is Caucasian, wears purple, and has long brunette hair and a hairband. |
| 302 | ** The Jungle Warrior, Cyclops, Viking, Golden Monk, and [[spoiler:Meat Boy]] all share the same bare-chested muscle and speedo. The Jungle Warrior has a tiger pelt on his head; the Cyclops has orange hair, one eye, and horns; the Viking has a helmet plus blonde hair and a mustache; the Golden Monk is completely bald; and [[spoiler:Meat Boy]] has a bandage and black eye. |
| 303 | * HeavilyArmoredMook: The green knights in the Jungle — specifically, [[spoiler:the HauntedCastle]] — are immune to the whip and normal {{Goomba Stomp}}s. Hitting them with any other weapon, or stomping them while wearing spike shoes, will shatter the armor and turn them into ordinary cavemen. |
| 304 | * HornetHole: {{Downplayed|Trope}}: Sometimes a Jungle level will have a beehive area, containing some honey patches that cause items to stick, a number of giant bees, and a queen bee. The queen drops royal jelly when killed, which is the second-most potent source of healing in the game. |
| 305 | * InfinityMinusOneSword: The Scepter and [[spoiler:the Plasma Cannon]] are more powerful than the already fairly {{Game Break|er}}ing Shotgun, but good luck getting either without injury or death! Even if you do manage to get one of those powerful weapons, [[spoiler:it's much easier to accidentally kill yourself with both when compared to the Shotgun, and]] you can only acquire them late in the game when there are only a few levels left. And if you're going for the City of Gold or Hell, both can only be used for two full levels! By contrast, the Shotgun can be found as early as level 1-1 and can last you the whole game if you're careful! |
| 306 | * InfinityPlusOneSword: The [[spoiler:[[AbsurdlySharpBlade Crysknife]], fashioned out of a giant worm tooth,]] is found deep within [[spoiler:[[WombLevel the bowels of a Worm]]]]. You have to go out of your way to get to it, but it essentially {{One Hit Kill}}s almost any enemy in the game, even the more giant ones like the Mammoths in area 3 — and rather than having to be carried, like most weapons, it ''replaces your whip,'' leaving your hands free. |
| 307 | * ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Subverted in the [[spoiler:Hell]] ending, where [[spoiler:Yang]] muses that the experience you got reaching him was the greatest treasure of them all. He appears to just be taking the piss, however, as he immediately follows this with "okay, so gold is pretty nice too!" as a giant golden chalice stuffed with coins promptly erupts from the giant treasure chest behind him. |
| 308 | * LateCharacterSyndrome: Vlad's Cape seems useful on paper, as it grants you a double jump and the ability to glide, and both moves can be refreshed by wall-grabbing with the Climbing Gloves. The problem is that it only shows up in [[spoiler:5-1, the first stage of Hell]], by which point you've probably already found the much more useful and BoringButPractical Jetpack. In the sequel, [[spoiler:Vlad's Cape can be acquired from a secret vampire area in the alternate second area, Volcana, making it available much earlier and giving it more practicality]]. |
| 309 | * LethalJokeItem: |
| 310 | ** If you manage to get [[spoiler:the eggplant]] to the TrueFinalBoss [[spoiler:King Yama]], throwing it at his head will [[spoiler:turn it into a giant eggplant, which does not move or attack and has only one hit point]]. |
| 311 | ** Another good one is the camera. While it seems to have no good uses aside from stunning enemies, it can make a shop robbery very simple[[labelnote:How?]]Move the items out of the way, take the shopkeeper's picture, and pick up his dropped shotgun and use it on him[[/labelnote]], it can light up dark levels for a brief moment, and it can [[spoiler:kill most undead enemies, including those in Hell, in one hit]]. |
| 312 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: The Freeze Ray can freeze almost anything, including Shopkeepers, [[LogicalWeakness Magma men]], snakes, spiders, and of course, [[YetAnotherStupidDeath yourself]]. Unlikely to happen to you, can only happen if a mammoth, a Shopkeeper, or a terrible friend shoots you. |
| 313 | * LordBritishPostulate: The Ghost can be killed; either via prolonged ScratchDamage in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt6mDAQ8tFU lava]] (there is no death animation) or by [[https://youtu.be/Oq75v1EJ6k0?t=28m30s luring it]] into [[BottomlessPits the Abyss.]] This will send it away for the rest of the level, though it will return in the next one. Another very impractical way to kill it are UFO laser blasts. The Ghost has 9999 technical health and UFO laser blasts deal only 1 damage. Streamer and game speedrunner Bananasuarus Rex was the first to kill the ghost in 2013. |
| 314 | * LongSongShortScene: You probably won't hang around in a shop long enough to hear all of any of the 4 songs. |
| 315 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Shield will not only leave you invulnerable to frontal attacks, but you can crush enemies against walls with it. Be careful — you can also crush Damsels, and valuable items. Crushed bombs will explode in your face. |
| 316 | * MonsterCompendium: One of the categories in Yang's journal, which documents any enemy that you kill, or that kills you. |
| 317 | * TheMothership: A BrutalBonusLevel, with turrets, alien tanks, and an ''even bigger'' alien boss who uses the power of CrosshairAware to fry your brains. |
| 318 | * MusicalNod: The deathmatch theme includes part of the original game's cave theme about halfway into the song. |
| 319 | * {{Nerf}}: The Spelunker's Bombs had their damage slashed to a mere ''tenth'' of the original, allowing some of the tougher bosses to survive a blast or two. They can still insta-kill most enemies, but they're no longer the be-all-end-all in terms of raw damage. The explosion also dissipates faster, making enemies harder to hit. |
| 320 | ** On the other hand, you can reliably survive your own bombs if you have over ten health. Getting caught by one in the original could kill you with any amount of health whatsoever if the entire blast hit. |
| 321 | ** The scepter got hit with a case of this between Classic and the remake. On one hand, it's just as powerful as before, able to instantly kill just about everything. On the other hand, "everything" now includes ''you''. If you aren't veeery careful with the scepter, you'll end up dying before you know it. |
| 322 | * PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: If you throw a boomerang, it will make every physics-defying effort it can to get back to you, though it is possible for it to get cut off by obstacles. |
| 323 | * PowerUpLetdown: To anyone familiar with the first game, the Hedjet becomes this. While it still lets you get to the City of Gold, it loses its two other positive qualities from the original (preventing the Ghost from coming and lighting up dark areas without the aid of flares). |
| 324 | ** The former is actually a blessing in disguise for those doing a money run. Otherwise, acquiring the Hedjet would lock them out of ghosting gems into diamonds for the rest of the game unless they incur Kali's wrath to make it spawn. |
| 325 | * ScaryScorpions: A new enemy type that lurks inside the mines... [[BrickJoke And the temple!]] |
| 326 | * SecretCharacter: Eight (sixteen in the PC version) can be found, one of them being [[spoiler:VideoGame/MeatBoy]]. All of them have the exact same abilities and 'stats', but each one of them is quite [[CastOfSnowflakes distinctive]] and [[ColorCodedMultiplayer colorful]]. |
| 327 | * SelfImposedChallenge: The legendary Eggplant Run. It requires one to take the eggplant (a useless {{joke item}} obtainable by sacrificing a mystery box on an altar, it doesn't do anything and it breaks if thrown) all the way to [[spoiler:[[TrueFinalBoss Yama]]]]. This is impossible without either another player or the Hired Help NPC. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ScH1ixOFxo The former has been done successfully]] and as of 10/11/2013, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrPeu5NWk0 Bananasaurus Rex has done a solo Eggplant run.]] |
| 328 | * ShieldBearingMook: The Black Knight carries a shield that can reflect all projectiles — [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMFHwDpkrU#t=18s including sticky bombs]][[note]]starts about 18 seconds in, if the link doesn't skip to that part[[/note]] — and [[OneHitKill can crush creatures and objects, including you, with it]]. |
| 329 | * ShoutOut: The [[spoiler:worm level and its resident Crysknife]] is one to ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. |
| 330 | * SolidGoldPoop: You can sacrifice a Golden Idol to Kali, and she'll send you a Golden Monkey that poops gems and gold nuggets. |
| 331 | * SwallowedWhole: On certain levels, you can [[spoiler:bait a giant worm into doing this to you, leading to a dangerous bonus level inside the worm's body]]. |
| 332 | * TanksForNothing: ZigZagged. TheMothership is guarded by several miniature tanks that fire bombs that can easily blow you to pieces, doubly so because they explode instantly if they hit you before touching the ground instead of stunning you. However, each one is a OneHitPointWonder, and more often than not ends up [[ArtificialStupidity driving straight into the same bomb it just fired]]. |
| 333 | * VariableMix: In Deathmatch mode, the full song only plays during actual battles. On other screens, such as the score tally and the stage select, it only plays the drum section. |
| 334 | * WeaponizedCamera: Introduced in ''HD'', the Camera causes a white box to flash in front of you that [[BlindingCameraFlash disorients and stuns most enemies]] (including the otherwise invincible and infallible Ghost, albeit only for a brief moment) and outright ''kills'' undead enemies such as Skeletons and Vampires. It can also be used to briefly light up dark floors. |
| 335 | * WombLevel: [[spoiler:The Worm level. Hazards include baby worms, [[MegaMicrobes bacteriums]], and acid (which behaves like water, but emits acid bubbles and will damage creatures that linger in it).]] |
| 336 | * WorthlessTreasureTwist: When you meet him in the BrutalBonusLevel, [[spoiler:Yang]] briefly muses that, perhaps, "the journey is its own reward and mastery is the greatest treasure of them all!" [[SubvertedTrope He quickly dismisses the idea]] when a giant chalice full of gold coins erupts from the chest behind him. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:''Spelunky 2'']] |
| 340 | * AllTheWorldsAreAStage: Stages in [[spoiler:the ultra-secret Cosmic Ocean]] may be themed after any of the previous worlds [[spoiler:(including the Sunken City)]] at random, featuring all of their respective enemies and hazards. |
| 341 | * AntiFrustrationFeatures: |
| 342 | ** Waddler, who safely transports items between set levels. Makes the burdens of quests like the [[spoiler:Eggplant or entering Cosmic Ocean]] much more bearable. |
| 343 | ** While the game now features branching paths, the player can reach the City of Gold, [[spoiler:the Sunken City and the Cosmic Ocean]] regardless of the path taken (with the exception of the first of these as it lies inside the Temple of Anubis). |
| 344 | ** Cursed Pots summon the Ghost when broken. There are some precautions against the Ghost getting summoned early without the player ever touching that pot: |
| 345 | *** Cavemen might pick up random items they find on the floor, even booby-trapped Golden Idols, but will ignore Cursed Pots — it would be impossible to retrieve something so fragile from their hands without destroying it. |
| 346 | *** The Volcana level which holds the drill and Vlad's Castle will always generate the Cursed Pot inside Vlad's treasury, safe from the drill. Level generation might put a shop below the drill, it might put a Kali Altar below the drill, it might put both of them and Ana's little dog too below the drill, but never the Ghost Pot. |
| 347 | *** Ice Caves and Neo-Babylon, which feature [[StuffBlowingUp UFOs, mines]] and electric traps that knock around Yetis/Olmites everywhere. Level generation in there is designed to spawn chunks of safe places with pre-programmed Ghost Jar placement. |
| 348 | ** Items required for getting to [[spoiler:the Cosmic Ocean]] are not contingent on accepting Tun's challenges. Skipping out on challenges will certainly lock you out of the Elixir, Clone Gun, and that bag with 24 bombs and 24 ropes, but [[spoiler:Hou Yi's Bow and the Arrow of Light]] are always in there for you to grab. |
| 349 | ** Tun will enact a one-stage-long truce when greeting you above Tiamat's Throne, even if you're wearing the True Crown. Getting there is enough of a problem without getting shot at. |
| 350 | ** The exit door in [[spoiler:Abzu]] doesn't need you to defeat the boss in the area to open it; otherwise, players lacking the necessary tool(s) to defeat her would be completely stuck with the only option left being dying and restarting the run. This permits at least continuing with the regular ending. |
| 351 | * ArcWelding: The Alien Queen from the first game is revealed to be the eldest daughter of [[spoiler:Tiamat, Laḫmu]]. |
| 352 | * ArrowsOnFire: From arrow traps in dark Dwelling stages, from throwing or firing stone arrows across torches or whipping them with the Power Pack. |
| 353 | * ArtificialBrilliance: Hired Hands are a lot more competent this time around. Their movements are very precise and can quickly maneuver around obstacles and enemies in ways a human player can't. Also, if you don't want them to follow you, you can pick them up and put them down, and they'll sleep for a while (the longer you have them around, the more they'll obey). |
| 354 | * ArtificialStupidity: Hired Hands are also extremely aggressive, and will recklessly attack anything around them. They're a liability around anything destructible and have difficulty fighting more than one enemy at a time. |
| 355 | * AscendedExtra: The yellow hard hat playable character from the HD remake is given a full name this time, Tina Flan, and is revealed to be married to the Spelunky Guy. The 'pug' damsel skin is also made into a fully-fledged character this time around named Monty, who was adopted by the Spelunky Guy after the events of the first game. |
| 356 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: If you can reach [[spoiler:level 99 of the Cosmic Ocean]], you end up [[spoiler:literally becoming one with the Universe and transforming into a constellation]]. This can then be seen in the sky above the HubLevel, as well as certain loading screens. |
| 357 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Most of the mounts, with the exception of the turkey and ''maybe'' the Rock Dog, are way more trouble than they're worth. The axolotl has no damaging attacks, and, just like the Teleporter, it's ''very'' easy to accidentally TeleFrag yourself with it. The mech is extremely powerful, but it's incredibly slow, too big to fit in doorways (meaning you can't take it to the next stage), and risks blowing up the rider. The [[spoiler:Qilin shoots fireballs and has infinite flight]], but you'll only get to spend two entire levels with it and it can't be taken into the next area, serving only as a transport to TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon (which is ''possible'' without it, but very difficult). The Rock Dog's only major downside is that if you accidentally jump ''in front'' of them instead of ''on'' them trying to tame them, they tend to trap the player in a brutal CycleOfHurting or send them hurtling into lava. |
| 358 | * AwesomeButTemporary: [[spoiler:The Qilin is by far the best mount in the game, as it attacks by shooting fireballs, is instantly tame, and has infinite flight, but you only have it for two levels before you're forced to give it up in order to advance to the TrueFinalBoss.]] |
| 359 | * BalanceBuff: |
| 360 | ** Vlad's Cape has received a few buffs to make it a viable alternative to the Jetpack. It now appears in Volcana, one of two choices for World 2, instead of in Hell, which is close to the end of the game. The Spring Shoes stack with the double jump, granting even more extra height, and the cape also passively doubles blood drops, making it a great companion to the Kapala. |
| 361 | ** In ''Spelunky HD'', Kali altars were pointless to use after sacrificing enough [=NPCs=] to 'feel invigorated', as she stopped rewarding you with items and healing after that. This time around, she continually spawns Royal Jelly after obtaining the Kapala for every eight 'favor' points you earn from sacrificing [=NPCs=], making her more useful in later levels of better runs. |
| 362 | ** The Tide Pool's Clone Gun, which can clone up to three objects before breaking, was unanimously seen as better than the Temple's nigh-useless Elixir, whose benefits (health and status effect removal) would be useless and/or lost almost immediately if attempting a [[spoiler:Sunken City]] run, so a later patch gave the Elixir several buffs to make it a more viable alternative. The main change was to make it also grant a beneficial status effect, denoted by your character turning purple; in this state, you receive double health from all healing, and the next poison or curse status will be negated at the cost of losing the health amplification buff. Additionally, the buff will not be removed [[ObviousRulePatch upon dying with the Ankh]], otherwise [[spoiler:there wouldn't be much use of it since you need to get yourself sacrificed in the City of Gold to reach Duat]]. |
| 363 | * BattleIntro: Two bosses have cutscenes to introduce them: Olmec and [[spoiler:Tiamat]]. Averted for all other bosses, who just wait for you in their respective realm. |
| 364 | * BearTrap: A new, dangerous obstacle found in the Jungle and beyond. While opened up, anything that steps on it gets [[OneHitKill chunked into]] [[ChunkySalsaRule fine giblets]] instantly. Careful enough players can use this to their advantage, as closed bear traps rearm themselves after a throw. |
| 365 | * BerserkButton: Dead or cooked turkeys for Yang, "serving Chaos" by wearing the True Crown for Tun, taking more than your fair share of the stolen loot for Sparrow. |
| 366 | * BossInMookClothing: Lavamanders can only spawn in at least 2 tile deep lava pools in Volcana, are still rare spawns even with that condition fulfilled, are invincible when heated by lava, and even out of it are still immune to bombs. All that lava they love to soak in is [[OneHitKill obviously lethal]] and they splash you with huge waves of it when they feel bothered by the spelunker. They don't even spawn in [[spoiler:Cosmic Ocean]], so most players will probably have more kills of the final boss or the secret boss than Lavamander kills. Thankfully, you can simply run past them. |
| 367 | * BonusStage: The Moon Challenge offered by Tun. You get a mattock and get to mine for gems, supplies or treasure until it breaks. [[spoiler:That's what it seems to be until you find out the true purpose of that weird bow which spawns inside the challenge area.]] |
| 368 | * BouncyBubbles: Bubbles form the Axolotl can be jumped on if there's something inside of them. |
| 369 | * BreathWeapon: Rock Dogs in the Volcana level can shoot fireballs from their mouths. |
| 370 | * BubbleGun: Axolotls can spit bubbles that do no damage but trap anyone they hit, making them unable to do anything until the bubble breaks from hitting a wall. |
| 371 | * BulletproofHumanShield: The Spelunker can reliably protect themself from arrows (including those fired by angered [=NPCs=] such as Yang or Tun) by holding a body. Stone arrows will break, steel arrows will bounce off and the force of the impact will knock that shield out of your hands, but you'll be unharmed. Doesn't really work with creatures that leave no corpses or protect against shotguns, as they fire multiple bullets per shot. Additionally, works against the flies spawned by Mummies, but without even knocking out the body you're holding. |
| 372 | * CallBack: The design of Madame Tusk, a lady walrus who runs a gambling booth and a VIP club in Neo Babylon, is more than likely a reference to the Walrus Lady NPC found at the end of every set of custom levels in ''Spelunky Classic''. |
| 373 | * ChainPain: Hired Helps in this game now swing a chain instead of a whip, though the difference is merely visual. |
| 374 | * ChangingOfTheGuard: The main protagonist of the second game is Ana, the daughter of the original Spelunky guy. |
| 375 | * ChestMonster: Hermit Crabs in the Tide Pool area can hide under crates and treasure chests, firing toxic bubbles when players move close by. They also double as a AmbushingEnemy, being able to hide underneath solid blocks that look like the scenery around them. |
| 376 | * ConspicuousElectricObstacle: In Neo-Babylon, but gambling parlor shopkeepers, Tun and Madam Tusk use the first type for their own purposes too. |
| 377 | ** One type is a forcefield emitter, which is always paired with a node that seems to act as a shield or receiver for it. Comes in variants of intermittent activation/deactivation periods and permanently on. |
| 378 | ** Second type are nodes which have electric sparks orbiting around them. Only activate when Spelunker is nearby, you can see them at the edge of the screen turning off. |
| 379 | * CycleOfHurting: As always, this is in effect, and this game can enforce it in some pretty nasty ways. In the first stage alone, a Horned Lizard [[RollingAttack rolling into you]] stuns you for long enough that, unless you and it were knocked onto separate platforms, it'll charge you again before you get up. If you're unlucky with the positioning, this will kill you before you can even react. |
| 380 | ** Untamed Rock Dogs will spit fire at you if they see you. It does a lot of damage and knocks you down. There's nothing stopping them from spitting more while you're stunned. Axolotls can do this too, by trapping you in a bubble and dealing minor damage and stunning upon it popping. Nothing stops them from bubbling you again while you're stunned — if you're unlucky, repeat until dead. |
| 381 | * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The game's sixth area, Neo Babylon, is this crossed with EternalEngine with elements of AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield. |
| 382 | * DamageSpongeBoss: Kingu. She's protected by an armored shell that's invulnerable to all damage in instances less than 10 and below it, her body has more health than literally every other boss in the game combined. She's effectively an Excalibur check. Defeating her without it is possible, but just the whip won't suffice. Her offensive capabilites are limited to [[FlunkyBoss spawning low level enemies]] you'll probably dispose of with the Excalibur while wailing on her anyway. |
| 383 | * DamselInDistress: |
| 384 | ** The Damsels from the first game are actually gone this time around, presumably because Ana and several of the new characters are all still kids. Instead, you can choose between Monty (the dog from the first game), a cat, or a [[RodentsOfUnusualSize human-sized hamster]]. |
| 385 | ** While there aren't any Damsels to rescue, it's heavily implied that one of the unlockable characters, [[spoiler:Demi von Diamonds]], is actually the [[spoiler:Damsel from the previous games, judging by her menu sprite matching almost one-to-one with the ''Spelunky Classic'' design. As she's a [[XenaFication playable character this time around]], though, she herself averts this trope, haven [[TookALevelInBadass taken a few levels in badass]]]]. |
| 386 | * DeathIsTheOnlyOption: |
| 387 | ** The only way to enter the secret world [[spoiler:Duat is by sacrificing yourself on the Kali altar in the City of Gold with the Ankh and royal headgear equipped]]. Averted by mistake for its counterpart secret world, [[spoiler:Abzu, that in theory requires you to let yourself get killed and revived with the Ankh as well, but this can by circumvented by knowledge and ''very'' careful gameplay]]. |
| 388 | * DiscountCard: Wearing the Crown causes shopkeepers to [[PrincessForADay recognize you as royalty]] and [[HospitalityForHeroes give you a discount]][[note]]the Crown's counterpart, the Hedjet lacks this benefit, but instead regains its vision-enhancing properties from ''Spelunky Classic''[[/note]]. Shopkeepers also reward you with a 10% discount on future purchases if you buy out all the items in one of their shops. |
| 389 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Throw a dice just a little bit outside of a shop or Madame Tusk's house, and the shopkeeper or bodyguard will not hesitate a second to murder you. For stealing a ''die''. |
| 390 | * DowsingDevice: The glasses, Eye of Udjat, and Hedjet all have the ability to make you see gems and items that are buried in the walls. |
| 391 | * EscortMission: The "eggplant run" in essence. You have to first find an Eggplant by [[LuckBasedMission sacrificing a Present to Kali]], then take this very fragile Eggplant to [[spoiler:the purple altar next to the Moai in the Ice Caves to open a sub-area containing the Eggplant Child, and then take the child to the mother statue in Sunken City to open the entrance to Eggplant World]]. WordOfGod says it's a metaphor for parenthood. |
| 392 | * FloatingInABubble: Axolotls fire bubbles from their mouths, trapping players and enemies inside and slowly floating upwards with them trapped inside. |
| 393 | * FlunkyBoss: |
| 394 | ** Exclusive forms of attack of Anubis 2 (who himself is a DualBoss together with Osiris) and Kingu. The former is much more dangerous than the latter. |
| 395 | ** When first fighting Olmec, he might seem like an aversion — his head crystal, which he used to spawn various creatures in the first game, is not present. In his third phase, however, he begins to launch [=UFOs=]. |
| 396 | ** Tiamat uses her scepter to create a wide selection of different enemies, but can also defend herself with a SuperScream that also launches away paste bombs you stick to her face. |
| 397 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: The 20 playable characters in the game are equal in gender representation, with 10 females[[note]]Ana Spelunky, Margaret Tunnel, Liz Mutton, Nekka the Eagle, LISE Project, Coco von Diamonds, Tina Flan, Valerie Crump, Demi von Diamonds, and Princess Airyn[[/note]] and 10 males[[note]]Colin Northward, Roffy D. Sloth, Alto Singh, Manfred Tunnel, Little Jay, Au, Pilot, Dirk Yamaoka, Guy Spelunky, and Classic Guy[[/note]]. |
| 398 | * GiveMeYourInventoryItem: The game features shortcuts to the levels 1-4, 3-1, and 5-1. They are dug by Mama Tunnel, and until you unlock them, she will wait at the exit of a level, asking you for various items to complete her quest. |
| 399 | * GuideDangIt: Being cursed [[OneHitPointWonder permanently puts you at one hit point]]. Want to get rid of it? There are only three ways — by sacrificing enough [=NPCs=] to Kali and having her remove the curse as one of her loyalty rewards, [[spoiler:finding the Ankh and dying, which respawns you without the curse]], or [[spoiler:completing the Star challenge in the Pyramid levels, which awards you with a curative Elixir]]. The first method is luck-based, as Kali's altars are not guaranteed to spawn in any given level, and the other two methods border on impossible to do with just one hit point. |
| 400 | ** Getting to the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s, the [[spoiler:Sunken City]] and the [[spoiler:Cosmic Ocean]], makes the arduous task of going to [[spoiler:Hell]] in the prior game [[SequelEscalation seem like a walk in the park]]. To wit: |
| 401 | *** You need to acquire either of the royal headgear items from either the Jungle or Volcana, which themselves are only found in secret areas that can only easily be accessed by utilizing the Udjat Eye obtained in the secret chest room of the Dwelling. |
| 402 | *** You also need to acquire the Ankh, obtained in this game by [[spoiler:defeating Olmec]], and, once again, perish in a specific area in either the Tide Pool or the Temple to access another hidden area[[labelnote:Spoiler]]specifically, draining the SchmuckBait lava trap in 4-3 of the Tide Pool to access Abzu, or sacrificing yourself on the altar in the City of Gold to access Duat[[/labelnote]]. You then have to kill the {{superboss}} that resides in either of these areas and obtain another item from them, the [[spoiler:Tablet of Destiny]]. |
| 403 | *** Later on, in Neo Babylon, there is a hidden room containing dozens upon dozens of Ushabti — doll-like funeral statues with differences in features, material they're made of and the symbols on them. You have to [[spoiler:read the journal entry for the Tablet of Destiny, which randomly picks from these attributes every time you pick it up and describes the specific statue you need to carry with you to the next level. Choosing the correct statue and bringing it to the next level releases Qilin, a mount with infinite flight capability, from the statue]]. You then have to [[spoiler:ride Qilin to Queen Tiamat's throne room and fly up past the ceiling of the boss room through several difficult-to-avoid timed laser gates, at the end of which is the entrance to the Sunken City]]. |
| 404 | *** And to reach the [[spoiler:Cosmic Ocean]] requires ''even more'' steps on top of all of this. You have to acquire Hou Yi's Bow from the Moon challenge in either of the second areas, which at first appears to be just a reskinned crossbow, and [[spoiler:take it to a secret chamber in Olmec's boss room, which contains an [=NPC=] named Waddler who stores it for you for later, unless you hate yourself and want to bother with Hired Hands]]. After reaching [[spoiler:the Sunken City]], you then have to [[spoiler:complete the Sun challenge there, which rewards you with an [[SacredBowAndArrows Arrow of Light]]. After retrieving Hou Yi's Bow from Waddler, you have to defeat the TrueFinalBoss, Hundun, and then shoot the Arrow of Light into his eye[[note]]and ''only'' Hou Yi's bow will do; an ordinary crossbow will shatter, stunning the player, upon attempting to fire the Arrow of Light[[/note]]]]. Needless to say, the chance that the average player would stumble their way through this insane sequence of events to get to either of these places is astronomically low. |
| 405 | * HarmfulToMinors: The main Spelunker this time is the daughter of the main Spelunker from the first ''Spelunky'', and it's implied she's teenage age at most. This doesn't stop the game from inflicting the same horrible and brutal punishment on her, including sometimes reducing her to LudicrousGibs. On the other hand, the human damsels have been replaced entirely with pet damsels, probably to avoid the implications of an underage girl getting kisses from adult strangers. |
| 406 | * HealingPotion: The Elixir, which can by obtained by [[spoiler:completing the Star Challenge in the Temple of Anubis]], gives you up to 8 health, cures poison and curse, and amplifies all further healing as well. |
| 407 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: New to this game are rideable NPC mounts, such as turkeys or axolotls, that you can tame, each with their own unique abilities. |
| 408 | * HPToOne: Anything that becomes cursed suffers this. The Witch Doctor's familiars can do this to you. It's possible to curse enemies yourself this way using the Ghost Pot, but this causes the [[InstakillMook Ghost]] to spawn in right afterwards, so make good use of it! What makes matters worse: [[OneHitPointWonder Being Cursed locks your HP to 1]]. Curing the Curse ''does not reverse it.'' Once you sacrifice that Pet to lift the Curse, you're still a OneHitPointWonder until you can do something to gain more — and you just killed the only guaranteed source of HP on the stage to lift it in the first place. |
| 409 | * ImprovisedPlatform: Every crossbow is initially armed with an unbreakable blue arrow. When fired at a wall, it sticks for a few seconds and creates a temporary platform that players can jump onto. |
| 410 | * InfinityMinusOneSword: The [[spoiler:broken Excalibur, obtained by cloning Excalibur with a clone gun]], is not as formidable as the original, but it's still incredibly strong. |
| 411 | * InfinityPlusOneSword: The Excalibur, found in 4-2 of Tide Pool, is ridiculously powerful. It's a little slow and takes time to get used to, but once you have it, you can smash through almost every enemy effortlessly. |
| 412 | * InstantRoast: Turkeys that die by or have their corpse come into contact with fire or explosions turn into cooked turkey dinners that heal one health point. |
| 413 | * InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Played with: all keys explode into scrap when used, but not every lock is the same. The Scarab Key only fits the corresponding Scarab Chest [[spoiler:and the door Mama Tunnel encounters when digging the shortcut to Ice Caves]], normal keys fit in all other doors. The Skeleton Key persists for any number of uses and goes into the inventory like shoe upgrades. Finally, there is the secret door to the [[spoiler:City of Gold, where even the Skeleton Key doesn't work and is only opened by [[MagicStaff Anubis's Scepter]], unfortunately while being consumed]]. |
| 414 | * InterfaceScrew: Octopi in the Tide Pool have an ink shot attack that severely limits your field of view for a few seconds. |
| 415 | * ISeeDeadPeople: One small benefit to being cursed is that you can see "Ghists", smaller, slower ghosts (but they still kill you in one shot if angered [though so does everything else when you're cursed anyway]). Some of them are even shopkeepers. |
| 416 | * KillItWithFire: Fire damage instantly kills Mantraps and Vampires. Powerpack upgrades the whip with fire, which goes around the whip immunity of stunned or naturally whip resistant enemies such as Yetis thanks to that additional fire component. |
| 417 | * KillItWithIce: The Freeze Ray is amazingly effective and any enemy frozen can then be instantly [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] regardless of HP; including bosses like Quillback and Vlad. Like the first game, this is the only way to kill [[LivingLava Magmar]]. |
| 418 | * LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: Averted! Lava flows very viscously in ''2'' and is also opaque [[note]] items dropped in lava outline their location with a faint dimming effect at their location[[/note]. |
| 419 | * LateCharacterSyndrome: There is a hidden mount in this game, [[spoiler:a dragon-like creature named Qilin,]] which has infinite flight and shoots damaging fireballs. Unfortunately, it can only be acquired and tamed after [[GuideDangIt a long and grueling fetch quest]] that requires visiting ''another'' bonus level earlier on, and even then, it only appears in level 6-3, which is right before the FinalBoss. Its only practical purpose is to be used to access the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, the [[spoiler:Sunken City, which, of course, you cannot take it into. Great]]. |
| 420 | * LeaningTowerOfMooks: Olmites often move around their [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas ancient city of the future]] in this way. While alone they are not particularly dangerous, in a tower-like form, the olmites can be an obstacle for a player without experience and/or equipment, especially if the former have golden armor that will protect them against long-range attacks. |
| 421 | * LegacyCharacter: The NPC named Yang in this game is actually one of the original Yang's descendants. |
| 422 | * LethalLavaLand: The Volcana levels, an alternate set of second levels, which feature many of the same obstacles and traps as the [[spoiler:secret Hell level]] from the HD remake. |
| 423 | * LethalJokeItem: The True Crown teleports you at random every 22 seconds, which, aside from the very difficult task of ''obtaining it in the first place'', makes continuing almost impossible. However, you are also awarded 22 bombs every time you're teleported, so if you can handle the crown, it becomes a Game-Breaker. |
| 424 | * LightningBruiser: If you manage to make it to [[spoiler:the Cosmic Ocean]], the Ghost is replaced with a [[spoiler:Celestial Jelly. The Celestial Jelly moves ''much'' faster than the Ghost, and just like it, is completely invulnerable and can one-hit kill the player. Oh, and it guards the exit of each level until three celestial orbs are destroyed, at which point it comes after you; letting the level's time limit expire causes a ''second'' Celestial Jelly to show up. Its only weakness is its inability to handle sharp turns]]. |
| 425 | * LuckBasedMission: |
| 426 | ** Most prominent in the Eggplant Quest: you need both a Kali Altar and a Present Box to start out. Presents cannot be moved through level exits or even through the backlayer entrances - Black Market presents will just tantalize you. |
| 427 | ** If going to Volcana, the Moon Challenge might be located right next to a lava pit that can spawn Magmars. Tun cannot defend herself against them, futilely shooting arrows at LivingLava. She has enough health to survive at least one such "visit", but if you get to her too late you might find her dead. |
| 428 | ** The turkeys Yang looks for might spawn next to a punching trap. It'll be dead by the time you get to it and your only chance is hoping for non-guaranteed extra turkey spawns in this or previous levels. Alternatively the turkeys might just be sealed away somewhere you need to use bombs to get to. |
| 429 | ** Level generation in [[spoiler: Cosmic Ocean]] does not completely guarantee that its objectives will always be accessible. Over the course of the run, there will likely be a few occurences where spending bombs to progress is simply unavoidable. |
| 430 | * LuckManipulationMechanic: If you whip a die after throwing it, it's guaranteed to land on either 1 or 6, which gives you a solid 75% chance to win the game: 50% to win a prize and 25% to win cash. The best way to do this is to throw it at the force field in the gambling parlor, then whip it as it bounces back. The developers confirmed when watching a Twitch streamer perform it that this is a hidden, but entirely-intended mechanic. |
| 431 | * MagicalCamera: The Camera flash still kills bats and undead like vampires and mummies. It is the ''only'' thing that kills ghists as well as the mini-ghost that the Witch Doctor uses. It slows down The Ghost. |
| 432 | * ManBehindTheMan: The final boss of this game is [[spoiler:not Olmec — he serves as the mid-game boss. The actual BigBad this time around is Queen Tiamat, who is revealed to be the leader of an ancient civilization of Olmites, denizens who bear resemblance to Olmec]]. |
| 433 | * MercyInvincibility: In addition to the regular and unreliable invincibility after being damaged, moving between the level layers renders the Spelunker temporarily invulnerable in case there's something bad on the other side. Works even to protect against explosions and the Ghost! |
| 434 | * MistakenForMurderer: If you try to deliver a dead turkey to Yang, he thinks you killed it and goes on the attack. |
| 435 | * {{Nerf}}: |
| 436 | ** Bomb bags now explode when hit with any explosives, fire, or shotgun shots, making robbing shops with them on sale quite a bit more of a risk. The same thing applies to the jetpack (along with the other "pack" wearables introduced), including when you're wearing one, meaning a hit that could deal as little as one damage could now result in a OneHitKill if you have one on. |
| 437 | ** The kickback of a shotgun is now enough to knock you off of ropes and ladders without a Powerpack, similar to the Plasma Cannon, meaning you can't just snipe at threats from relative safety and climb back up if things get too dangerous. |
| 438 | ** Golden Scarabs now give significantly less money, now only giving 125% the value of an Emerald ($1000 for a Scarab vs $800 for an Emerald in the Dwelling), unlike in ''HD'' where a Scarab's value was identical to that of a naturally-occuring Diamond, with both being 625% higher than an Emerald ($5000 for Diamonds and Scarabs vs $800 for an Emerald in the Mines). |
| 439 | ** Paste in general is now much harder to come by. Along with the greatly expanded shop inventories, the giant spiders that are guaranteed to drop a jar of it both spawn less and got moved to The Jungle instead of The Mines/Dwelling, which means you lose out on an opportunity to more reliably get the stuff if you opt to go to Volcana instead. |
| 440 | ** "Ghosting" for high score is now significantly riskier. First off, the Ghost now actually knows how to move in any direction, not just the cardinal and diagonal. If the Ghost remains on the stage for too long, it will eventually split into two faster ghosts. Spend even more time and they'll split into ''four''. Each of them has a special pattern of chasing you, including one that is faster than your run speed. |
| 441 | * PathOfMostResistance: Averted in level 4. Tide Pool is both considerably easier than Temple of Anubis ''and'' gives way better rewards, like Madame Tusk's shop, the Clone Gun over the Elixir, or the option to keep the Ankh. |
| 442 | * PoisonMushroom: |
| 443 | ** Sometimes, a treasure chest contains a bomb of various sizes. While *you* can avoid them pretty easily, their explosions will anger any NPC close by and therefore can ruin your run. |
| 444 | ** The True Crown, obtainable by purposefully destroying multiple altars. Getting it requires being cursed and it will keep teleporting you whether you want it or not. Fittingly, it is a HappyHarlequinHat. |
| 445 | * PowerUpMount: Five different mounts can be found throughout the game, each with their own abilities: |
| 446 | ** Turkeys can use their wings to descend slowly, and turn into a roast that heals 1 HP when killed with fire or bombs. |
| 447 | ** Rock Dogs can shoot fireballs and make the player [[spoiler:(but not their jetpack)]] immune to fire (but not lava). |
| 448 | ** Axolotls can spit trapping bubbles and teleport. |
| 449 | ** Alien mechs are equipped with a jetpack and can bust through walls with their fists and plasma cannon, but are too large to take through the level exit. |
| 450 | ** [[spoiler:The Qilin can shoot fireballs and fly, allowing the player to reach the Sunken City.]] |
| 451 | * PromotedToPlayable: The TimeSkip has been quite kind to several [=NPCs=] from the previous titles, with familiar faces like the Tunnel Man and even the female Damsel becoming playable spelunkers. Although the [[DemotedToExtra opposite]] has also occurred for some, such as Van Horsing becoming a quest-essential [=NPC=] after being playable in ''HD''. |
| 452 | * RareRandomDrop: quite a few, ranging from unlikely to highly improbable. |
| 453 | ** Chests and Presents can contain a wide range of rare items, from a trapped Leprechaun or a Bear Trap up to a [[spoiler:Plasma Cannon]]. |
| 454 | ** A Skeleton key can rarely be obtained by killing skeletons or destroying bone piles. |
| 455 | ** Cave moles can drop a mattock. Similarly fittingly, spiders can drop Spring Shoes. |
| 456 | ** Extremely rarely, mosquitoes in Jungle can drop Hoverpacks. |
| 457 | ** Jianshi Assassins can drop Spike Shoes. |
| 458 | ** Aliens occasionally drop a parachute when their UFO is destroyed. |
| 459 | ** Speaking of parachutes, sometimes the parachute (whether your or from an alien) deploys as a golden parachute, which rains gold during descent. |
| 460 | * RiseToTheChallenge: The secret bonus level [[spoiler:Hundun's Hideaway]] has a rising floor consisting of spikes. It doesn't help that you're chased by its boss either. |
| 461 | * RollingAttack: The main method of attack for the Horned Lizards and the Dwelling area's boss, Quillback. The latter's [[OneHitKill squishes you instantly]] if it connects. |
| 462 | * RouteBoss: |
| 463 | ** If you pick the Volcana route after the Dwelling instead of Jungle, you'll have the choice of fighting Vlad (who is also an OptionalBoss). |
| 464 | ** If you pick the Tide Pool route after Olmec, you'll have the option of fighting Kingu, while if you pick the Temple of Anubis, you'll have the option of fighting Anubis in two of his incarnations and Osiris, either of which is required if you choose to go to [[spoiler:the Sunken City to fight Hundun]]. |
| 465 | * SecretShop: Several special shops can only be found in the back layer of levels to intrepid explorers: |
| 466 | ** The Black Market returns from the first game, though now on the back layer of the jungle instead of its own floor. |
| 467 | ** Mysterious mystic Tun sometimes sets up shop with extremely powerful and expensive items, like the Plasma Cannon. |
| 468 | ** A caveman can also be found selling primitive items like rocks and arrows at very low prices. If you're lucky, he'll be selling a damsel or a cooked turkey. If you're ''really'' lucky, he can sell anything that other shopkeepers can sell — with the same low prices that his "usual" items sell for. Fancy a Plasma Cannon at only $4,000 compared to the $40,000 that Tun sells it for? |
| 469 | ** The most secret shop of all is [[spoiler:the Ghist Shop, which requires you to be cursed to enter, if you can even find the hidden entrance on 1-4 or in Eggplant World. Besides selling a Sack containing huge amounts of bombs and ropes, he will always have a Present for sale]]. |
| 470 | * ShoutOut: If you're unlucky enough to witness the Ghost split into 4 after waiting another minute and a half after it appears, you may notice each of them has its own AI in terms of following you, just like the ghosts in ''VideoGame/PacMan'': The angry one continues to follow you directly (Blinky), the sad one mirrors the angry one's position with you in the middle (Inky), the surprised one circles around and attempts to intercept you (Pinky), leaving the happy one to wander off doing whatever (Clyde). |
| 471 | * ShownTheirWork: When at low health, horned lizards will erratically spray blood particles. Horned lizards do this from their eye sockets to deter predators. |
| 472 | * SkippableBoss: As a hard limit, the only one the player truly needs to defeat to end a run succesfully is a choice between either [[spoiler: Tiamat or Hundun]]. |
| 473 | ** A rare example of a skippable {{superboss}} — if you rescue Van Horsing (an {{Expy}} of Film/VanHelsing) in Volcana and go to Vlad's Castle, Van Horsing will meet you there and execute Vlad immediately when you aggro him, giving you easier access to the Crown and his cape. |
| 474 | ** Quillback and Olmec do not need to die for you to proceed, just use them to dig a passage for the next zone. Vlad, [[spoiler:both versions of]] Anubis, [[spoiler:Osiris]], and [[spoiler:Kingu]] can all be avoided if you're just going for a regular ending. [[spoiler:Tiamat]] is the only mandatory boss you have to defeat to complete a run normally. |
| 475 | ** To get the GoldenEnding, however, [[spoiler:you need to kill every optional boss listed above if you encounter them, sans Quillback, Vlad and Anubis 2 to be able to reach the Sunken City and Hundun]], although you may spare [[spoiler:Queen Tiamat by simply ignoring her and flying up to the top of her boss arena]]. Unless you're capable of getting to the top [[https://spelunky.fandom.com/wiki/Guides:Skips#Qilin_Skip without the Qilin]], which makes all the steps needed to obtain it unnecessary. |
| 476 | * StoryBranching: As opposed to the set level styles of the first game, players can now choose between different areas at certain points in the game depending on which exit they go through. For example, after completing the first area, the Dwelling, depending on which pathway you go through after escaping or fighting the level's boss, you can end up in the traditional second level, the Jungle, or the brand-new Volcana area. |
| 477 | * TeleportationWithDrawbacks: The teleporter item allows spelunkers to teleport through levels with blazing speed, skipping most enemies en route to the goal. However, it's possible to be the victim of a TeleFrag if the device teleports them into a block. The game will attempt to save them by placing them in a free space up to 3 blocks above the teleporting destination, but if it can't find one, they're screwed. |
| 478 | * TheStraightAndArrowPath: Crossbows can be found and used as a weapon. The blue arrow they come with doesn't break and creates an ImprovisedPlatform when it sticks to a wall, although they can also load and fire intact stone arrows that come from arrow traps. They are also [[spoiler:the preferred weapon of choice of most friendly (well, not anymore since you're fighting them) [=NPCs=] besides Shopkeepers. Tun additionally has a coat of poison on her arrows. The bow from the Moon Challenge is also vital to getting to the Cosmic Ocean, though not in an immediately-obvious way.]] Metal arrows instantly kill vampires, including Vlad himself. |
| 479 | ** Stone arrows can do something the silver arrows do not: they can be [[ArrowsOnFire set on fire]], most prominently by being shot through lit torches. This adds another point of damage. To help with lighting torches in the Stars challenge, in the arena there's a crossbow loaded with a stone arrow. |
| 480 | * SuperScream: Getting close to Tiamat or sticking Paste Bombs to her prompts her to yell angrily, which in addition to removing those bombs also deals a point of damage and stuns for a prolonged period of time if the spelunker is caught in its extensive area of effect. Hope you don't fall at the foot of her throne where enemies accumulate. |
| 481 | * TimeSkip: The game is set a few years after the events of the previous one. The Spelunky Guy is now married, has a daughter (who becomes [[ChangingOfTheGuard this game's main protagonist]]), and has set off to the moon with his wife to find more treasure. When neither return, said daughter builds a rocket ship to try and find him, kickstarting the events of this game's story. |
| 482 | * TripToTheMoonPlot: The story takes place in a mystical cave on the moon, although the FantasyKitchenSink layout of the previous game's setting is still very much intact. |
| 483 | * TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Hundun, who resides in the [[BrutalBonusLevel Sunken City]].]] |
| 484 | * {{Tuckerization}}: The fresco on the wall behind the Udjat Eye has a Bear (Baertaffy), Lion ({{LetsPlay/Northernlion}}), Man ([=ManVsGame=]), Fox ([=MichaelAlFox=]), and Red Panda ([=RedPandaGaming=]); each representing a different LetsPlay Youtuber who helped make ''Spelunky'' popular. |
| 485 | * TVHeadRobot: Lise Project is a female robot with a big computer screen for a head. She normally displays a simple feminine face with eyelashes, but her head displays error signals when she is damaged or near the edge of a platform. |
| 486 | * VariableMix: |
| 487 | ** Gone is the three themes for each area and instead there's a single variable theme, most notably in the Dwelling where there's an initial swell at the beginning of the run. |
| 488 | ** Music will calm down if you've stopped moving then kick back into action once you're going again. |
| 489 | ** It'll fade out appropriately into the beating of drums when you reach Quillback. |
| 490 | ** Background areas will heavily muffle the foreground theme unless that area contains a unique track of its own, and even those are variable (e.g. Vlad's Castle will have an initial organ drone as you climb up before the theme starts and a similar drone as a conclusion after you leave). |
| 491 | ** There's special mixes of level themes when you drop to 1 HP. |
| 492 | * VideoGameCaringPotential: Yang asks if you can retrieve his turkeys. If you do, he'll let you take treasure from his family vault. |
| 493 | * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: |
| 494 | ** If you really want to be a monster, you can steal one of Yang's turkeys to use as a mount. He doesn't react well. |
| 495 | *** It gets worse. Kill a turkey with a bomb or any kind of fire, and it drops a roast turkey that restores 1 HP. Turkeys make for reliable mounts, but that free HP can be really, really tempting... |
| 496 | ** As in the first game, you can use the "damsels" you rescue as projectiles or human sacrifices. It's even worse this time around though, as the damsels are your own pets. Mitigated somewhat by the game emphasizing that death does not work normally within the maze. |
| 497 | * VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Ever since King Yama turned into an eggplant, he's been sitting in his throne dejected and defeated as his kingdom turned into Eggplant World. The level only contains peaceful enemies and King Yama doesn't even try to put up a fight.]] |
| 498 | * VoodooDoll: If a Witch Doctor spots you, they pull out one of these, start chanting, and jab into it, which causes you to take damage. |
| 499 | * WitchDoctor: A new, particularly dangerous humanoid enemy encountered in the Jungle. If they catch you in their line of sight, they use a VoodooDoll to jab you and knock you down unavoidably unless you manage to knock them down first. That, however, is a risky endeavor in and of itself, as they have a ghostly skull familiar surrounding them that homes in on you and [[HPToOne curses you]] if it comes into contact. |
| 500 | * {{Wutai}}: The new level Tide Pool is filled with obviously East Asian references, from the music to the pagode doorways, climbable dragon poles and the enemies with Chinese-inspired names like Jiangshi or Pangxie. |
| 501 | * YetAnotherStupidDeath: So you thought the previous game was brutal? ''Spelunky 2'' takes this to the next level. In addition to all the previous deaths in the series: |
| 502 | ** Flying corpses/unconscious bodies can hurt you this time, so it's not uncommon in latter areas to get knocked around by them. Worse yet, they can get set on fire. |
| 503 | ** You can get blown up from your power/hover/teleport/jetpack being set alight (which can sometimes happen from offscreen from a magma man or aforementioned flaming flying corpse happening from offscreen). |
| 504 | ** Speaking of the telepack, it's activated by jumping in midair. Reasonably convenient, unless you press the wrong button and become one with the wall! |
| 505 | ** Don't enter Madame's Palace without being explicitly invited [[spoiler:unless you're prepared to get shot at from all directions]]. |
| 506 | ** In the very first area, horned lizards can stun-lock you into a cycle of hurting. |
| 507 | ** In the final secret area of [[spoiler:The Cosmic Ocean]], level generation for Temple levels lacks safeguards against spawning crush traps in the immediate vicinity of the entrance. Don't let your guard down or risk becoming paste. |
| 508 | ** Those mummified cats in the temple look cute [[spoiler:but beware, their curse will lock your hp to 1]]. |
| 509 | ** Poison will quickly drain your health to zero until you find a cure (usually in the form of a rescued pet). It's a fairly common status effect, particularly around Tide Pool. If you're unlucky enough, breaking open the wrong vase without caution will cause a scorpion to deliver a nasty surprise. |
| 510 | ** Ghost pots can rarely break without your interference (including on levels you need to spend more time on for the secret ending, [[spoiler:like the Black Market, Tide Pool 4-2, or Neo Babylon 6-2]]). |
| 511 | ** NPC characters aren't as trigger happy as in the first game, but many of them will get aggressive when even remotely in the vicinity of bombs or may accidentally shoot you when hit by something else. |
| 512 | ** It's not always possible to predict every lethality. Rarely, something can end your run by crashing into you from offscreen. Not much to do besides laugh it off and start again. |
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| 515 | ->''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msKWy7A8onQ Oh, Spelunky,]] [[NintendoHard why do you hurt me so?]]"'' |
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