In these areas, you’ll find new costumes, monetary rewards, as well as health and stamina upgrades. As you traverse the map, you’ll see chest icons often gated behind colored blocks.
Guacamelee 2 is peppered with challenge rooms, which are the most difficult - and rewarding - parts of of the game. You can roll through to put it out, and then that just eliminates a hazard from wherever you’re fighting.” Find all of the challenges, but consider leaving and returning Guacamelee 2 introduces fire on the ground. “We kind of added these things to the dodge one at a time. You could start a dash punch and then dodge to break out of the dash punch and then do an upper cut right away. “Especially when you’re platforming, you might want to chain together, moves more quickly so you can dodge. “I don’t know if you ever canceled your super moves with dodge, but that’s often really useful, too,” Smith said. In other words, it applies well beyond rolling to avoid enemy attacks or pass through thorny vines. Drinkbox rethought that in Guacamelee 2, where dodging is an essential part of gameplay from the earliest hours.ĭodging lets you move faster, avoid damage, keep your combos alive and even cancel super moves to dish out more damage.
Late in that game, a boss fight required players to dodge, and people tended to struggle because they hadn’t internalized the mechanic. In the original Guacamelee, dodging wan’t essential - until it absolutely was.
Below, you’ll find several tips from one of Guacamelee 2’s creators. We spoke with Drinkbox Studios co-founder and producer Graham Smith about developing and playing the game, and that conversation turned into this guide.
Guacamelee 2 is preoccupied with two things: letting players have flashy fun while periodically challenging them to apply everything they’ve learned to earn big rewards, like chests full of gold as well as health and stamina upgrades.