
Four of them throw themselves into a pit, where their bursts of buckshot cut each other to ribbons. Two of them throw themselves to their deaths in the fury. One kills the slave he was selling, another kills his own dog. Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Christ.Īll nine shopkeepers hurl themselves into the air and start firing their shotguns in random directions. I jump onto the ladder, scramble up, dive away from the top floor shops, duck behind a mound of earth and cling to the ground. Then my internal simulation of Spelunky’s interacting systems kicks in, and I see the next few seconds flash before my eyes with pure horror.

He’s going to buy a new boomerang! Silly tribesman, you don’t own material wealth! He picks it up.įor a split second, I am amused. There’s a boomerang on sale in this shop actually. I’m reasonably confident he won’t turn round – and even if he does, he dropped his boomerang outside. I just have to tail him at a safe distance and buy the items I need as I pass them. I’m dying to shoot him, but it’s madness to fire in the direction of a shopkeeper. Now he prowls them slowly, looking for me. The snail is crushed, but the tribesmen are wild: by the time I pick myself up, one has thrown himself to his death and the other has jumped into the shops. A boomerang knocks me out of the air, nailbitingly close to a fatal pitcher plant below, and onto the snail. I buy a shotgun from the top floor, then drop down to blow all the tribesmen away in one shot.

Most of it’s on the middle floor, but there are enemies: two boomerang tribesmen watch over the entrance to the shops, and a snail blows acid bubbles up the ladder that could help me bypass them. I have $120,000.īefore I get it, I want all the other equipment I’ll need. The Ankh gives you a second life, and costs $50,000. It’s a network of shops where, if you haven’t angered any shopkeeps thus far, you can buy almost every item in the game, and one that’s available nowhere else: the Ankh.

I barely had to nudge them to get out $40,000 richer, long before the ghost they trigger showed up. A string of gold-studded and jewel-encrusted Mine levels led straight into the Jungle, where two levels in a row left a Bone Idol trivially close to the exit.
