Ashley gets a bad rap by being called racist. Her concerns about aliens on the ship is based on military security, not race. Several points in the game she expresses disgust with actual racists, and her mistrust of turians is specifically tied to the First Contact War being so recent. It bums me out that Vinny is shaping Alex's impressions of her based on misconceptions. :/
Actually she's is pretty space racist as main characters go. Presley is the only other crew member who could be held up as 'worse' than Ashley.
I have been doing a full playthrough myself and she's pretty tense about non-humans for the majority of the first game. In the second game she straight up blames you for working with aliens over humans in the same breath she bad mouths your choice of working with Cerberus.
Ashley is sadly pigeon holed as the conservative jar head from the beginning and it doesn't really change until the 3rd game. I like her character more than Kaidan only because she's colorful while he's the whitest toast there is. Just... man she's annoyingly racist (specist?).
I loved the first Guacamelee and this seems like more of that, which isn't a bad thing. Was the first one considered a hard game? I didn't think it was at all.
If you wanted to get all the special powers and upgrades it was pretty difficult due to the use of all buttons plus timing. It felt very much like a fighting game but less intuitive button combos.
I feel like I recall that the designer wanted it to use fighting game style controls when asked in interview.
Guac was always such a technical platformer that it kept people from playing. Making it even more focused on technical execution seems risky but the hardcore fans will enjoy it I bet.
I was kinda hoping for a Splosion Man style co-op game in my heart but I guess I'll never see that again. That remains my all time favorite co-op technical platformer (even with the terrible network sync issues).
@parsnip: US Presidents have their own coins designed (they are ceremonial and not real currency) and hand them to people they think are deserving. It's done discreetly and often people who get them don't talk about it. Kinda like some secret presidential hero's club.
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