Guacamelee! 2

Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!

Guacamelee! 2 is a metroidvania, platformer and cartoony game developed and published by DrinkBox Studios.
Released on August 21st 2018 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 3,102 reviews of which 2,824 were positive and 278 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Guacamelee! 2 into these genres:

Metroidvania Platformer Cartoony Local Co-Op Action 2D Co-op Difficult Beat 'em up Adventure Singleplayer Colorful Funny 4 Player Local Side Scroller Action-Adventure Atmospheric Wrestling Exploration 2D Platformer

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 10, 8, 7
Processor: 2 Ghz+
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 5.0 (DX11 support required), 2 GB available graphics memory
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Supports Xbox 360 Controller and other XInput-compatible controllers

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

I can't say enough how enjoyable this game is. There are many memes and references. Fighting is fun, and platforming is challenging, but not so hard that it makes you stop. The story is simple yet solid.

Dec. 2024

This is the second time I play through the game, had to buy it again just because the game is that good. As a metroidvania, as a beat 'em up, and as a platformer this game does everything right, Also as a mexican myself, I can pretty much say that everything about this game, despite being overly stereotypical, does a lot of mexican references right, to the point that makes me proud being a mexican and enjoying through the many references and jokes this game constantly pulls. My only gripe is just how short it takes to beat, and the fact that Hard mode is not available at the start (at least not unless you are aware of the cheat code, which I didn't until I was midway through the game).

Sept. 2024

The game offers a lot in both its combat (lots of attacks to use, with enemy weaknesses tied to specific abilities) and its platforming (multiple mechanics all offering a combination of different challenges). I completed the game solo, so there were some moments in the combat encounters where I was challenged to think about my approach as opposed to button mashing. What was unexpectedly challenging for me were the platforming puzzles - given the vast amount of abilities offered to the player, the game provides a lot of ways to push those abilities to the limit. This game is mostly linear in the sense that backtracking and revisiting of previous areas doesn't happen as aggressively as other Metroidvania titles. The game's premise is fun and quirky, but personally I wasn't expecting much depth in terms of storytelling as the dialogue and cutscenes lean a lot on video game references and light humour. Basically, the game isn't taking itself too seriously on that front. Overall - a solid game. It scratched the itch I had to play a 2D beat-em-up with 'Smash Bros.'-like mechanics, but offered a lot more in the form of its platforming puzzles.

Aug. 2024

Guacamelee 2 is a fun and fast-paced Metroidvania. You unlock several abilities through the course of the game that are used during combat and unlock paths to new locations. It has an interesting mechanic where you will find coloured blocks that will block your path and you will have to use the relevant ability to break it, this helps you to read the map and reduce backtracking, ensuring you will only go back to places that you really need to go. The combat is fast-paced and is not hard at all, the toughest challenges are - actually - the Platformer aspct of the game, and only if you are planning to do the true end and/or 100% completion. One of the issues with the combat in my option is the hit-box, for some reason I feel it is so weird and it makes the combat not as responsive as I whiched for. As for its aesthetic, I found it quite refreshing and funny. It has lots of homages to different famous games and lots of "memes", but I really loved was the Mexican background - though I would say it relies on stereotypes - I find funny and I loved the occasional Spanish word that appear here and there during the conversation. You can play this game coach co-op up to 4 players, I never did that but I can only imagine it would be mayhem - which could be quite cool - similarity to Magicka. It goes without it is an upgrade over Guacamelee 1, improving on every aspect of the game.

April 2024

This is a very good Metroidvania. It is very similar to the previous title, keeping the "mexican" spirit of that game, but also adding some interesting new powers. The key challenges (the lava one specially) was not worth the time for me, considering that when you lose you need to restart from the beginning, so I skipped it (it's more like a side quest tough).

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19.50€

8.7

2,824

278

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Developer

DrinkBox Studios

Publisher

DrinkBox Studios

Release 21 Aug 2018

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