Hola, ¿cómo estas? We’ve just taken a big swig of tequila and woken up in a strange world filled with nefarious skeletal baddies and colourfully-masked heroes. It’s okay though, we came back to the real world with five codes for today’s best PSN offering: Guacamelee!
In case you’ve not been paying attention, Guacamelee! scored 9/10 when I reviewed it. It’s a Mexican, Dia de Los Muertos, themed platform brawler with a light upgrade system and evolving pathways (that’s a fancy way of saying “Metroid-vania”).
So, you’ve got a PlayStation 3 or a PlayStation Vita (or both, it’s totally cross-play/-buy/-save), and you’re ready to pull on a luchador mask and go nuts, how do you win one of the five EU PSN codes for the game?
Just leave a comment below telling us what your Mexican wrestler name would be and we’ll pick our five favourites at around 4PM. Feel free to give us a little back story, some info on their fighting style, etc. If you’re lucky enough to win, your code will be emailed to the address you registered with TSA when you signed up.
The editor’s decision is final and our usual T&Cs apply, so no fighting with the referee. Please note that codes have to be redeemed on a PS3 – regardless of the version required.
Update: Phew, this was quite a popular one, huh? We can’t really blame you, and if you’re not one of the five winners listed below, we’d thoroughly recommend that you pick up the game anyway – especially if you’re a PlayStation Plus member!
Here’s the list of winners. If you’re listed, you can expect an email from me with your code in the next five minutes or so:
- NemesisND1derboy, who built his character’s origins brilliantly.
- hanmik, who immediately followed the entry above with a satirical take on a recent games media controversy.
- ProjectJAY, who made a smart play on words – across two languages, no less!
- quinkill, who took the time to write (or translate?) his entry entirely into Spanish!
- Takyu, who based his entry on tequila and on a style of Kung Fu – two of my favourite things.
redsquirrel87
Mine would be “Los burritos tronando!” xD
robbond
El Jelly Belly. Using my cavernous belly button to trap weak opponents in a pit of smelly doom
ShapeThrower
Mine would be “El hombre asaltado por tequila mono” or the man mugged by tequila monkey ……
Never drinking tequila again !!!
bunimomike
My mysterious fighter would fight as a normal wrestler 90% of the time then finally reveal his special move as he clobbers every goon to the ground with his hilarious-sized, ground-scraping penis. *wap wap wap* Sadly, the PS3’s hardware isn’t capable of rendering the viscous-fluid dynamics my wonderment requires and would bring it to its knees… which is exactly how I like my victims!
My name? El Burro….but, you can call me The Donkey.
nukester
Brazo Retardo
BrendanCalls
Competencia Ganador
Won a competition to take his place amongst the best Lucha Libre’s in the world.
nemesisND1derboy
1992, in the streets of Mexico City. A young woman walks hurriedly towards a back alley, a hood draped over her head, obscuring her face from passersby. In her hands she carries a bundle of rags, or at least that’s how it seemed to the other poor citizens of Mexico City who walked these streets.
In fact, this bundle of rags housed a young Mexican boy, an illegitimate child born to the young woman only 2 days previously. Black hair, with green eyes, just like his mother.
The young woman soon arrived at her destination, a chicken coop on the outskirts if this run down area. She lay the child on a pile of hay in the corner, said a prayer, and ran before anyone could see her.
The next morning, the chickens awoke to find this young child in their territory. Bewildered, the chickens believed him to be one of their own, and the child grew to love his new chicken family.
He grew with them, learned the ways of the chicken: how to squawk, to walk, to peck. However, there was one problem with this oddball of the chicken family: He had no wings. try as he might, he could not get his arms to act like the wings of a chicken. In time, the other chickens made fun of him and shunned him. In time he realised that he could no longer live with his adopted family.
After living on the streets for a while, he was found by a local hero, a wrestler named El Polo. El Polo taught him the ways of a wrestler, and soon the boy even surpassed his mentor. His unorthodox chicken-like fighting style earned him a nickname:
Phillip Costigan; “El Pollo De TestÃculo”. The Chicken’s Testicle.
At least that’s how I envision myself as a Mexican wrestler.
hanmik
Mine would be named “El dorito Presidente”. He is a retired Games Journalist who turned to wrestling after he got framed, for Playing Halo 4 while he was selling Doritos to underaged gamers.
He had some problems finding his fight style in the beginning, but after 3 month heavy training in “Doritos Boot Camp” he found his own special fight style. He called it “Journo´s revenge”. His finishing move is a “borrowed” from the Undertaker, where he piledrives his victim, and the he bows over the unconscious person and pulls out his microphone an starts rating the match. His latest opponent only recieved a 3/10, because he was wearing a Mario T-Shirt.
MaxiM
El Grande Kabanos, obviously ;]
colmshan1990
El MarÃa Harney.
Because if you didn’t already know that there would be nothing more terrifying than the former Irish Minister of Health dressed as a luchador then you clearly haven’t googled ‘Mary Harney.’
Special move: A body slam. Obviously.