Review: Guacamelee! 2 – A Fun-Packed And Often Relentless Metroidvania

An action-platformer with real punch.

It’s a ballsy developer that starts a game with a boss fight, but that’s precisely what developer Drinkbox Games has done in Guacamelee! 2. The opening scrap is used as a clever device for recapping the climax of the original game, as well as serving as a catch-up for those of us who either didn’t play or finish 2013’s Guacamelee (or the comprehensive Switch remix, Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition). It also sets the tone for a colourful Metroidvania platformer that’s deeply beholden to, yet also a steady progression from, its predecessor.

Seven years on from the events of the original, Guacamelee! 2 finds our hero Juan in a state of retired bliss, living with his family in peaceful Pueblucho. On an errand to purchase more avocados (which he seems to have been overindulging in), Juan discovers the need to re-don his mystical luchador mask and face a fresh inter-dimensional threat.

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