This August is a real treat for metroidvania fans. We already have a handful of great new releases like Dead Cells, Hollow Knight‘s next expansion is on the horizon, and Guacamelee 2 is just around the corner. It’s always a thrill to explore new exotic lands and constantly hone a unique set of skills against an array of baddies, and a solid metroidvania scratches both itches. Fewer still scratch as well as Guacamelee, and even within the flood of them, Guacamelee remains one of the most distinctive in the genre.
A class of games with origins as ancient as the NES and such popularity among modern indie developers can be a tight crowd. It’s one of those genres so overstuffed with quality releases that anyone with reasonably limited money and free time can only keep up with a fraction of them. Yet despite its dated memes, Juan the luchador’s quest to suplex an army of skeletons remains one of the most fondly remembered journeys among that crowd. And not just because it’s about a luchador suplexing an army of skeletons, though that’s probably a part of it.
Source: Destructoid How Guacamelee stands out in the metroidvania crowd