I did to practice the later levels. I'd say I spent the first 25% of my time from the start trying to open the shortcuts. Then I spent 25% of my time using the shortcuts thinking it was a way to get better at the later levels which I rarely reached. Since then I've never used them, including to beat Olmec today.
I discovered that trying to play the dungeons or Olmec starting from the shortcut was useless because you didn't have any items (compass, bombs, paste, etc.) to use and getting past the mummies, anubis and Olmec with no items was near impossible. And even if I did do it, it wasn't how you'd do it in a real run anyway.
I've been playing almost daily for about 2 months now. I played almost 2 months of dailies before and then quit because I was kind of afraid I'd wear out my Vita I was playing so much! After a while I just figured that if it died playing Spelunky that was just was what it was born to do.
Oddly, I didn't find getting that gold key to level 12 to be all that hard. It only took me a few tries. I figure I partially just got lucky, no idea how much trouble I'd have doing it again.
I should mention I haven't watched videos specifically to get me tips except for one on how to kill shopkeepers. I avoid the later Scoops ones where he goes to hell, or the worm or such. I got the worm to open once by chance and haven't figured out how to do it again. And please don't tell me how.
I did get the ankh special once by chance, but I messed it up, I went right back into the mouth after I came out and so didn't see anything new! I figured out how I did it, so I know I can do it again, but have avoided it. I'll look at trying the side missions soon.
Out of curiosity, did you use shortcuts? I remember spending most of my early Spelunky days with that gold key challenge. Once I had that, I had Olmec in a couple days.
I put the game down, then started dailies once the Vita version hit.
Don't. Fall. In. The daily hole.
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