YOUTUBE SPELUNKY 2 GDC 2019 PORTABLE

YOUTUBE SPELUNKY 2 GDC 2019 PORTABLE

Considering Spelunky had struggled at times on the portable machines of its day, I was skeptical the sequel would run smoothly, from beginning to end, on the Switch.įellow Spelunky obsessives, worry not. Spelunky 2 added fancier visuals, liquid physics, and multilayered stages, exhausting some lower-end and midrange PCs. This is the question on the minds of longtime fans. Though the Switch’s screen can’t compare to the quality of the Vita’s OLED screen ( not yet, at least), the game runs notably better on it - especially in the ice caves area, which had a notorious slowdown problem on Sony’s little-portable-that-could.ĭoes Spelunky 2 run well on Nintendo Switch? In a 2019 retrospective, I wrote that “ this refined Spelunky revived an underappreciated genre fostered a community of critics and sleuths, modders and speedrunners and has single-handedly kept my PlayStation Vita charged since it got ported onto the forsaken portable.”įor the first time since Spelunky appeared on the Vita, I feel OK mothballing the beloved gizmo in my box of rarely played retro game systems. It stands on its own as one of the most important games of the past decade. Normally, the first entry in a video game series acts as a rough draft for refined sequels. It’s comparably slower, and fans have filled the internet with tips, tutorials, and guides.

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