
At certain points of reputation, you get an item. Sacrificing stuff on the altar gives you what is essentially reputation with Kali. The bloody altars to Kali that appear randomly throughout your journey are very important.Try to limit running to only when vital when you're starting out the game or a new area. Change your default movement speed to walk and use R to run.If you are rushing through, you also probably aren't getting everything that's easily accessible on the level. If you start to go too fast, you'll get arrows to the face or get enemies jumping in your face. Push up against the 3:00 mark if you have to in order to make the most of your time and make sure you aren't speeding through levels.


The ghost in Spelunky 2 is faster than in Spelunky HD, and he can split into smaller ghosts and attack you from either direction!.If you are playing co-op, you have 30 seconds less per member of your team that is dead. The clover increases the time before the ghost comes by 2:00. There's no time limit on levels, but at the 3:00 mark, a spooky ghost appears and begins to chase you.Many of the secret areas in the game (the Black Market, Vlad's Castle, etc.) are on this back layer in normal stages and aren't stages of their own as they are in Spelunky HD.You can use this knowledge to map out secret chambers.

If you look at where they are on the back layer, the doors are in the same location on the front. This is important because though the back layer is many times made up of several non-contiguous rooms, you can often see other rooms and doors to those rooms. If we were to map the levels block by block, the front and back layers would share a distinct blocks on the grid. Each stage in Spelunky 2 has what is essentially two "layers", a front layer which holds the entrance and exit to the next level, and a back layer which is entered through various doors and tunnels, some of which are hidden behind terrain.
