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07: Death in Roguelikes with Kawa

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Avoid Unavoidable Deaths in Spelunky

Spelunky's so-called unavoidable deaths don't happen that often right. The game doesn't go six hours and then you flip a card or roll a die and if you roll a six it's like and now you're deadYeah I agree with Andy they're not frequent enough but in fact the addition of them is not a bug it's a feature it makes Spelunky better actuallyI act totally yeah see the thing the thing about the like I agree with you about the better but then of course you could say oh but then there's net hack where you can play for 30 hours and and something like that happens although most people would argue that a net hack it's always your fault

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