Guacamelee! Gold Edition

 PC
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 292 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 199 out of 292
  2. Mixed: 59 out of 292
  3. Negative: 34 out of 292

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  1. shadowstitch
    Feb 24, 2014
    1
    The graphics are great, the art style is original, and the music is pretty good. Provided you're using a gamepad, the game is fluid and responsive. The writing is funny and the dialogue is clever.

    However, all of this is a smokescreen. By the time you get to the endgame, the difficulty cranks up to hateful levels, unfairly changing established rules and making mandatory level segments    The graphics are great, the art style is original, and the music is pretty good. Provided you're using a gamepad, the game is fluid and responsive. The writing is funny and the dialogue is clever.

    However, all of this is a smokescreen. By the time you get to the endgame, the difficulty cranks up to hateful levels, unfairly changing established rules and making mandatory level segments near impossible for the average gamer. Any "professional reviewer" who gave this game high marks obviously didn't make it past the first hour of gameplay, when things were still fairly manageable.

    You could charitably call this a Metroidvania-style game, but the big difference is that those titles' designers knew how to properly scale difficulty. I got so frustrated with Guacamelee that I simply deleted the game entirely without finishing it. My only regret is wasting a few hours of my life to get that far in the first place -- thankfully I didn't pay actual money for it.    … Expand
  2. jtola3
    Jul 20, 2014
    0
    Rating "Guacamelee! Gold edition" a 0 because of the cheap final boss. The game was being good until then, which feels so much more disappointing.
  3. hellhoundpro
    Aug 25, 2013
    0
    Do not buy this game if you are looking to have fun. The story is atrocious. The graphics are cute but nothing special. The music is god awful throughout the entire game. The controls ARE TERRIBLE if you are looking to play without a controller dont even touch.
  4. ZaD-
    Apr 11, 2015
    0
    I kill the first boss, I get rewards and the stuff, the game sends me automatically back to the hub and I decide to stop here for this time. I was surprised the next launch that I had to do the whole **** again, what kind of game does not autosave after the end of a boss ?! 0/10 would not play again.
  5. desokami
    Jan 19, 2021
    0
    A very bad game. The developers make the whole game easy and only at certain stages does the game become incredibly difficult. And this difficulty lies in the constant jerking off of the same episode, because the developers gave a very narrow range of errors. You spend hours to work it out and any pleasure from the plot, from the design, from the mechanics dies. There remains onlyA very bad game. The developers make the whole game easy and only at certain stages does the game become incredibly difficult. And this difficulty lies in the constant jerking off of the same episode, because the developers gave a very narrow range of errors. You spend hours to work it out and any pleasure from the plot, from the design, from the mechanics dies. There remains only disappointment and reluctance after the passage will ever return to this game.… Expand

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9
#9 Best PC Game of 2013

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88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Worth Playing
    Jan 30, 2014
    98
    It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but the amount of care and polish that went into this title is readily apparent.
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  2. PC Gamer UK
    Nov 6, 2013
    80
    A delight. [Dec 2013, p.95]
  3. GameOver.gr
    Oct 3, 2013
    85
    The PC edition of Guacamelee comes with all the extra content that has come out since its initial release and with all of that lovely, Mexican craziness.
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