Drinkbox Studios' Guacamelee has just about reached the end of its long journey towards a release date. The Metroidvania beat-em-up platformer about a superpowered Mexican luchador is currently undergoing Sony's stringent certification process before being given the green light. In the meantime, Drinkbox co-founder Graham Smith and level designer Chris McQuinn took me on one last tour of the Mexican pueblo to show some previously unrevealed footage.

For this round of Guacamelee, Smith took me through a tour of the game's opening minutes in the town of Pueblucho. "You don't start as a luchadore or as a hero, you start off as Juan, the agave farmer," says McQuinn, as I observe Juan waking up in his basement and exploring his house. Juan performs menial tasks for the townspeople, as part of a tutorial scenario, before visiting El Presidente and reuniting with El Presidente's daughter, who Juan has known since childhood.

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With Guacamelee's release on PS3 and PS Vita imminent, developer Drinkbox Studios took a moment to praise Sony's continuing efforts to reach out to developers--smaller indie studios, in particular.

"The only obstacle to going to their platforms is that you have to have the technical ability to write a console game," said Drinkbox co-founder Graham Smith. "The submission process is straightforward--if you have a game idea, you send it to them. If they like it, they'll let you release it on their platforms. For other platforms, it's not that easy."

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