First 20 Minutes: Spelunky
If you’ve been looking for a game the will test your abilities as a gamer then you can stop your searching; Spelunky is here and it’s brutal.
There’s nothing easy about Spelunky, the randomised areas ensure that you can’t memorise the paths and the method of throwing you all the way back to the beginning when you mess up feel slightly cruel at first, but once you realise that you’re only back at the beginning because you messed up, it’s hard to stay mad at the game. It’s very similar to Super Meat Boy in that respect.
Check out the first 20 minutes of the hard hitting platformer in the video below, we think you’ll agree that it’s an amazing looking game that might be able to take the crown as most brutal Xbox LIVE Arcade title. Will it?
Spelunky is out now on Xbox LIVE Arcade for a mere 1,200 Microsoft Points. Will you be picking it up? Have you already picked it up? Let us know in the comments below and be sure to keep your eyes on GodisaGeek.com for the review soon!
Martin Baker
By day I play video games, test video games or just simply write about them. By night I fight crime on the streets of London as a masked vigilante known only to a select few ... damn SECRET identity. Could never get the hang of that.
I've been writing about video games for about 10 years now, and playing them for even longer, starting off with a Spectrum ZX passed down to me in about 1988. Yes, I used to play games that came on cassettes. Yes, they were AWESOME!
I've been writing for God is a Geek since October 2010 and loving every minute of it, aside from that I write for my own website and work as a video game tester for Testology. So, yeah, I'm pretty much living the life of a gamer, and I don't intend stopping anytime soon thank you very much.
Unless I run out of money, then we might have a problem.
