Spelunky 2 - Cosmic Ocean 7-99 (Volcana-Temple/Duat route)

Minor audio issues here and there on the second recording session (levels 7-1 to 7-20).
Bigger issues for 2 minutes between 56:00-58:22.
Everything else sounds great.
My 4th Cosmic Ocean 7-99.
Many of the early Cosmic Ocean levels were surprisingly rough. And so many Temple levels.
Alien Compass was so helpful. This was only like 3rd or 4th time I've ever had in CO.
If I didn't have it already this would have been the "Millionare" achievement as well.
This was my 103rd visit to Cosmic Ocean and 4th clear. By this point I had played Spelunky 2 for about 449h.
About 4 hours and only 1 more Cosmic Ocean run since my third 7-99. The only fail in between was the daily challenge in which I lost the Ankh in the Temple. I wanted to go through Duat so Quilin skip wouldn't have helped.
When the game first came out I played about until I reached the Cosmic Ocean for the first time(7-5 being my best) and did a lot of other stuff of course.
Then about year later I played for some weeks. Got a lot better with the game. My new best was 7-70.
Then over a year later(about 1-2 months ago) started again.
Took some weeks to start getting new records. And then finally 7-99 through Volcana - Tide Pool.
Few days after I already found myself trying for Jungle-Temple route even though I originally planned to do 7-99 only once.
After that I still felt like playing and after only three more days of playing I got the remaining two routes. So glad I kept playing!
I switched the character to the next one every day I played.
So I didn't really choose which characters won. I tried my best with all of them.
The 7-99 winners are:
1 Pilot
2 Valerie Crump
3 Demi Von Diamonds
4 Princess Airyn (this run)
5 Dirk Yamaoka
6 Ana Spelunky
7 Alto Singh
8 Nekka the Eagle
9 Margaret Tunnel
At 3:32:25 I beat up all the previous winners, because why not.
Stats so far:
Win # / Cosmic Ocean visits / Deaths / Total Playtime
1 / 82 / 411 / 386h
2 / 100 / 463 / 438h
3 / 102 / 469 / 445h
4 / 103 / 470 / 449h
5 / 104 / 470 / 453h
6 / 107 / 480 / 462h
7 / 114 / 498 / 477h
8 / 116 / 501 / 483h (Eggplant)
9 / 129 / 522 / 515h
-death count is XBOX version only so it's only good for seeing the difference between wins. But the total playtime includes all versions I've played.
My other 7-99 runs and much more:
• Spelunky 2
My best runs so far:
VOLCANA - TIDE POOL
7-99 (normal)
7-99 (daily 2023-10-30)
7-99 (daily 2023-11-02)
7-99 (daily 2023-11-06)
7-98 (normal)
7-91 (normal)
7-83 (normal)
7-81 (normal)
7-71 (normal)
7-70 (normal) x3
7-66 (daily)
7-65 (normal) x2
7-61 (normal)
7-59 (normal) x2
JUNGLE - TEMPLE
7-99 (normal)
7-85 (normal)
7-74 (normal)
7-69 (normal)
7-60 (daily)
7-58 (normal)
7-53 (daily)
7-43 (daily)
7-36 (normal)
7-30 (normal)
JUNGLE - TIDE POOL
7-99 (normal)
7-66 (normal)
VOLCANA - TEMPLE
7-99 (normal)
I can record 1 hour max at once. So this run had 5 separate recordings combined.
I took a few minute break and switched the recording to a new one at the beginning of 7-1, 7-20, 7-52 and 7-83.
For this video I cut those breaks into seconds.
0:00 Menus/Hub
0:18 1-1 Dwelling
7:31 2-1 Volcana
13:37 Vlad's Castle
16:10 3-1 Olmec's Lair
20:00 4-1 Temple
24:50 4-3 The City of Gold
26:15 4-4 Duat
30:21 5-1 Ice Caves
32:53 The Mothership
33:34 6-1 Neo Babylon
37:29 6-4 Tiamat's Throne
38:42 7-1 Sunken City
44:06 7-4 Hundun's Hideaway
46:02 7-5 Cosmic Ocean
57:17 7-10 Cosmic Ocean
1:15:40 7-20 Cosmic Ocean
1:33:46 7-30 Cosmic Ocean
1:50:07 7-40 Cosmic Ocean
2:04:33 7-50 Cosmic Ocean
2:20:44 7-60 Cosmic Ocean
2:37:48 7-70 Cosmic Ocean
2:53:48 7-80 Cosmic Ocean
3:14:05 7-90 Cosmic Ocean
3:25:22 7-98 Cosmic Ocean(last level)
3:26:47 7-99 Cosmic Ocean Ends(constellation)
3:27:31 End Credits
3:32:22 Constellation view from hub
3:33:17 Player Profile
3:33:42 My 1st Constellation
3:33:58 My 2nd Constellation
3:34:14 My 3rd(previous) Constellation
3:34:32 My 4th(this one) Constellation
Played and recorded on Xbox Series X.

[@pdxbla]

8:50 I wanted the Alien Compass for this run. Skipping Van Horsing wasn't an option.
11:16 god bless this turkey.
30:55 almost died. Really easy kill. Surprised I let that happen.
Was interesting to hear those sound effects. I've only seen it do one jump before.
32:54 First time in the Mothership in forever. For completion's sake I couldn't skip it this time.
Also I feel more comfortable without the Plasma Gun. But I felt like I should to use it few times for the video.
48:48 the trap won that one.
1:04:08 whoopsie = chaos.
1:04:44 most people would choose boomerang.
1:33:18 third orb breaking off screen. These situations are where the Alien Compass is extremely useful.
1:50:19 that was kind of cool. Didn't expect that.
1:51:10 skilled Octopy.
1:55:58 this would have been a brand new way to fail for me.
1:56:59 apparently the exit was too easy. So Derek did a last minute adjustment for the position of that orb. Still easy.
2:10:57 today I just refuse to die.
2:11:53 another third orb breaking off screen.
2:21:38 interesting exit.
2:24:00 I heard it, but I didn't think it was right there. Got lucky.
2:30:15 the Mattick wasn't worth the risk. Luckily I didn't die there.
2:30:40 another death refusal. It's how you beat Cosmic Ocean. Just refuse to die.
2:45:49 no I won't die today.
3:02:54 the amount of Parachutes I've seen.
Felt like the game was telling me "This is your final warning! Take it or you will die to fall damage."
3:07:02 should have killed the bats first.
3:10:29 took me a second to realize what happened. Not a common mistake.
3:16:46 better late than never.
3:20:55 still refuse to die. This was probably the luckiest moment after my own mistake on this run. At 7-95!
3:33:42 all my 7-99 victories and Constellations so far.

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1:50:19 scared the shit out of me ngl
Man if that ended up as a death, that'd be some great Spelunk'd footage

[@pdxbla]

I switched the character to the next one every day I played.
So I didn't really choose which characters won. I tried my best with all of them.
The 7-99 winners are:
1 Pilot
2 Valerie Crump
3 Demi Von Diamonds
4 Princess Airyn
At 3:32:25 I beat up all the previous winners, because why not.