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"I started up La-Mulana 2. As a big fan of the first game, I came into this with very high expectations and it's living up to them so far. For those unfamiliar, La-Mulana is a cult classic 2D side-scrolling metroidvania. It made its name by being ruthlessly hard. The difficulty doesn't just come from difficult battles or platforming, though there is some of that too (not I Wanna Be the Boshy difficult, mind you). Much of the difficulty and fun or frustration, depending on your patience and puzzle solving skills, comes from the fact that, unlike a lot of other metroidvanaias, the way to proceed is often unclear. In many other metroidvanias it's pretty standard to come to a ledge that's too high to jump to and quickly deduce that you need an item that will make you jump higher, or come to a blue locked door and deduce that you need a blue key or a weapon that shoots a blue beam. In La-Mulana, there are hints on how and where to progress, but they often take the form of cryptic riddles and it's up to you to 1) find said riddles 2) figure out what said riddles mean and which part of the giant labyrinth they pertain to 3) figure out how to obtain whatever item you may need to satisfy the solution to said riddles. All the while you fight monsters, dodge dastardly traps, and piece together a story of ancient civilizations and...\n \n\n\n\t \n\n\n\tLa-Mulana 2 is more of that, except this time you play as the daughter of the main character in the first game, who was, for all intents and purposes, Indiana Jones.\n \n\n\n\tAnyway, I'm a couple hours into the game. I've beaten several smaller bosses and one guardian so far. The guardian fight was surprisingly easy, I beat it first try, while I died several times before defeating the other bosses. This new area I just reached, a sort of fire and ice area (maybe Nigoro is a George RR Martin fan?) introduces the wonderful insta-kill goodness of lava and, just in case lava didn't suck enough on its own, poison lava.  \n"
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