Suffice it to say you need to get him to drop into the lava at the bottom of the level, and then stand on his head to enter one of the many caves down there. If you’d like help, you can watch this playthrough, starting at 6 minutes. We’re not going to detail Olmec strategies here beyond saying that his levitation orbs can be broken. Step 6: Defeat Olmec and get the Ankh Image: Mossmouth/Blitworks via Polygon The floor should light up to indicate that it’s been stored. Once you’re in there, drop the bow on his pedestal. You may need a couple bombs to reach his cave. Step 5: Store the bow with Waddler in Olmec’s stageįind Waddler here, directly to the right of the entrance of Olmec’s stage: Image: Mossmouth/Blitworks via Polygon Once he’s dead, grab his excellent red cape and the Crown. If you happen to rescue Van Helsing in level 2-1, he will show up and help you take down the king vampire at the top of the tower. Step 4b: Grab the Crown and Vlad’s Cape from the top of the vampire tower If you happen to have many bombs and the drill ends up causing a lot of lava to fall, you can also bomb your way down to the vampire entrance. Reach the vampire lair in the basement of one of the Volcano levels. Step 4a: Activate the drill with the Udjat Eye Image: Mossmouth/Blitworks via Polygon A bow can be found inside this challenge, so keep an eye out for it and don’t lose it. This challenge requires that you use a pickaxe to dig for treasure. Step 3: Find the bow in the Moon Challenge You can complete this true ending Easter egg by heading to the Jungle as well, but we consider the Volcano method to be dramatically easier.

Step 2: Head to the Volcano level at the end of the Mines Just bring the Gold Key to the cave with the fancy chest in it, and snag the Udjat Eye. And with that, here we go! Step 1: Grab the Udjat Eye in the Mines Image: Mossmouth/Blitworks via Polygon This will also exclude any obvious exploits, which are likely to be removed in future patches. Rather than listing all of them here, we’re going to list what we consider to be the easiest path. Important: There are a number of paths you can take to reach the “true” ending of Spelunky 2. We realize that some folks just don’t have the time to commit to sleuthing out a long and elaborate Easter egg like this, and for those people, we’re going to walk you through the steps. So if you’re just starting out and think you can skip right to the true ending, think again. Getting to these worlds is very tricky, requiring an intense familiarity with the game and its mechanics. But fans of Spelunky know that the “final” boss is never the Final boss, and there’s plenty more to do once you’ve returned safely with your hoard of moon gold.Īs with Spleunky HD’s secret Hell level, there is a secret path in Spelunky 2 that leads you to new worlds. Just beating the final boss of the game takes comical levels of dedication and practice. Spelunky 2 is difficult, to put it mildly.

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