Guacamelee!: Gold Edition
"Guacamelee! is a Metroid-vania style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and…
Guacamelee!: Gold Edition is an adventure developed by Drinkbox Studios, released 8 August 2013 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Guacamelee!: Gold Edition is
Guacamelee!: Gold Edition is an adventure game developed by Drinkbox Studios and released in 2013. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Carlos Calaca has kidnapped El Presidente's Daughter, and he plans to sacrifice her in order to merge the World of the Living with the World of the Dead. Juan Aguacate, an agave farmer who stumbles upon a Legendary Luchador mask, must find the strength and courage to become the Hero he's always dreamed of being and put a stop to this. Not for you, not for Calaca, but for El Presidente's Daughter, the most beautiful girl in the entire world."
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 60 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Guacamelee!: Gold Edition holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 24 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 Ghz+, 512 MB RAM and Shader Model 3.0, 256 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Guacamelee!: Gold Edition launched on 8 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV and Europa Universalis IV. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV, Europa Universalis IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Guacamelee!: Gold Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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