Indies Blog: Guacamelee

Next up on our indie-venture is a title known as Guacamelee. This game is a Spanish/Mexican themed beat'em up and metroidvania type title, a combination that isn't usually done so props to this game for having a new innovative gameplay style. You play as Juan a simple hard worker and the president's daughter (aka love interest) is taken and you fight to get her back like a true hero! And within the first 10 minutes of gameplay you get brutally murdered......yeahhhhh. But not to worry in the land of the dead you find a mystical Luchador mask which allows you to fight through the land of the living and the land of the dead to save your love from evil!
Now the plot isn't really important but it's still got some significance and is actually pretty  darn good later on but I won't spoil anything for you first time players out there. The art style is really cool and appealing to look at and the references it occasionally makes to mexican culture is nice. The gameplay is metroidvania exploration mixed with beat'em up as I said before and the fighting and exploration compliment each other like salsa compliments chips. The power ups you get are really fun to use and fight with and get better and better as the game goes on. Also Guacamelee makes a lot of references to other games through posters and how you get the power ups which is an awesome little detail. So over all Guacamelee is a really fun game  and definitely a great pick up on Steam or any console.