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Warning: May contain crystal skulls!

La Mulana, a challenging free-form platformer in ancient Mayan ruins, is now available on GOG.com for only $9.99. That's 33% off the regular price until Thursday, October 11 at 10:59 AM GMT.

The ancient Mayan city of La-Mulana is said to hold innumerous secrets. The mysterious tribe guarding it from the outside world claims that the ancient knowledge locked within the forgotten tombs holds the key to understanding the purpose and origin of life itself. A daring young archeologist by the name of Lameza Kosugi--an Indiana Jones lookalike with Japanese roots--takes on the quest to unravel the mystery of the foreboding ruins. With his trusty whip (standard archeology-issue) and a vintage "Mobile Super X" laptop, he ventures into the unknown. Some say that he might be the chosen one. Otherwise the tribe of protectors wouldn't let him go anywhere near the ruins. True question remains: does he really have what it takes to face the treacherous traps, menacing monsters, and gigantic guardians of La-Mulana?

The original low-res version of La Mulana met with critical acclaim as one of the most difficult and elaborate indie platformers of the 2000s. Its high-res remake delivers the same challenge and scale but this time with colorful pixel-art graphics your eyes can feast upon. Gamers worldwide fell in love with La-Mulana's free-form archeological action/exploration gameplay. Now it's your turn to put on an adventurer's hat, grab that handy whip, and set off for the huge Mayan ruins, that hold the secret of the origin of life on Earth. Don't miss out on one of the greatest challenges for the fans of platformer genre!

Search every corner of the ancient ruins, reach seemingly unreachable platforms, and defeat many fearsome guardians to uncover the secret of La Mulana, for the launch promo price of only $9.99!
I've never heard of this one but it looks pretty neat
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GOG.com: Warning: May contain crystal skulls!
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jamyskis: As opposed to lost arks or temples of doom?
Well the fourth one was the only one primarily set in South America. :P
Fuck yes :o

*wishlisted*
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SirPrimalform: The original version was very 8-bit computer looking. This is definitely more 16-bit looking (actually I'd say even more colours than that). I think it is a bit higher res than the original, but not by much so it was a bit of a weird thing for GOG to say.
That's the thing - it seems to use the 16-bit 4,096 colour palette style that we saw in a lot of later-gen Amiga games like Nemac IV, Capital Punishment and so on without using the higher resolution provided by SVGA at the time.

It's too colourful to really be 16-bit style, and too cartoony and low-res to be PC SVGA DOS-era.
Damn, already bought it on Playism two months ago. If i knew it was coming to gog, i would have gotten it here of course.
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SirPrimalform: Well the fourth one was the only one primarily set in South America. :P
Anything that references the fourth Indiana Jones film needs a health warning!

(Just kidding, I rather liked IJATKotCS.)
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Jekhar: Damn, already bought it on Playism two months ago. If i knew it was coming to gog, i would have gotten it here of course.
Don't think you really would have gained anything. The Playism version is DRM-free too.
Post edited October 04, 2012 by jamyskis
Judging by the trailer the gameplay looks neat, but the translation is bad. Really bad.

EDIT: was I temporarily drunk while typing this? so many spelling errors in a simple sentence. irony, ho!
Post edited October 04, 2012 by WBGhiro
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WBGhiro: Judging by the trailer the gampley looks neat, but the ranslation is bad. Really bad.
That was intentional, just for the trailer. The translation in-game is fine.
Protagonist looks similar to Rick Dangerous :-P

I'm certain it will land on my shelf at certain moment but not before I have all classics I want from GOG.
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SirPrimalform: The original version was very 8-bit computer looking. This is definitely more 16-bit looking (actually I'd say even more colours than that). I think it is a bit higher res than the original, but not by much so it was a bit of a weird thing for GOG to say.
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jamyskis: That's the thing - it seems to use the 16-bit 4,096 colour palette style that we saw in a lot of later-gen Amiga games like Nemac IV, Capital Punishment and so on without using the higher resolution provided by SVGA at the time.

It's too colourful to really be 16-bit style, and too cartoony and low-res to be PC SVGA DOS-era.
Yeah, I see what you mean. PC games tended towards 640x400x8 rather than 320x200x16. The original has its charms, but I have to run it in a virtual machine because of a bizarre W7 slowdown bug (it runs full speed in an emulated XP machine on the same computer).
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WBGhiro: Judging by the trailer the gampley looks neat, but the ranslation is bad. Really bad.
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SCPM: That was intentional, just for the trailer. The translation in-game is fine.
Why on earth would someone do an intentionally bad translation for trailer, which is supposed to be a representative of the game?
Wait, the game is publisher by Active Gaming Media?

I thought that was an indie title?
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tburger: Protagonist looks similar to Rick Dangerous :-P

I'm certain it will land on my shelf at certain moment but not before I have all classics I want from GOG.
and also like Spelunky... the indie developers nowadays, no originality :D
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Fenixp: Why on earth would someone do an intentionally bad translation for trailer, which is supposed to be a representative of the game?
The same kind of people that shut down a game library for two days for marketing?
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SimonG: Wait, the game is publisher by Active Gaming Media?

I thought that was an indie title?
I do know that Nigoro were feeling intimidated in dealing with English speaking DDs, so perhaps they voluntarily went through a publisher in their dealing with GOG.