There will never be another game as good as Cave Story

You can never own a physical version of Cave Story, only watered down Nicalis ports. To desire a physical version of a game that is cherished for being freely distributed reveals a deeply sick materialist consumer mindset that I hope you one day overcome.

Hyper Light Drifter is a good contender.

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Fagola

Again, nothing wrong with wanting to own a physical game collection.

I don't understand your argument. I bought this game this year

its called undertale, boomer.

I actually started replaying Cave Story earlier this morning. I was surprised how satisfying the core gameplay was.
Some of the jumping is a bit awkward, but overall the movementspeed, camera and especially shooting is really, really nice.
It's been years and years since I last played it and I never managed to beat Hell. Guess I'll try to get back to that shit eventually.

What's the difference between the Cave Story+ port to the Switch and the "real version"?

I know user, it hurts. This game makes me so fucking nostalgic despite having played it when I was already 13 or something like that.

>beautiful OST
>intriguing world
>metroidvania + crazy action and weapons

Knowing that a single person made it all makes it feel magical, like a handicraft of an artisan.

I also had a huge crush on Curly Brace which doesn't help.

Lack of soul.

Can you explain?

one of my fav games even if i gave up at sacred ground after the room with the falling rocks

sword and the bubble gun pretty much
didnt have the spur

>metroidvania

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That kind of soul is long gone. Enjoy your kickstarter cash grabs filled to the brim with cringey in-game "backer bonuses"

Ignoring all the dumb changes like the water physics and the turning tiles black, it simply runs faster.

He's memeing. Cave Story+ introduces some newish content(challenges, playable Curly) all while retaining the OG Cave Story look and sound as options.
I personally like the new visuals, but I hate the music, so I always set the music to original. It's a perfect example of a well-made enhanced port.

Where are the mimiga Sue lewds?

>no spur
>bubble gun
fucking hell, did you have machine gun or snake?

Botch job just like your abortion

I'm still mad about all the cut content, the game felt unfinished without it.

>metroidvania
it's a mix of metroidvania and linear platform, that's what I meant. There's still some upgrades and branching paths in the game, not many but there are.

>not even my final form finall boss fight

Nah, fuck off.

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It only took me like 5 tries.

i didnt bother with the machine gun cause i put all the exp into the bubble gun for the room with falling rocks
i then collected remaining exp for the rocket launcher
nope i didnt have the snake

>Ignoring all the dumb changes like the water physics and the turning tiles black
Could you elaborate on this? It's the first time I heard about changes.

>Try to save that guy
>he dies
>ignore him
>survives
What kind of logic is this?

You could have at least traded the sword for the thunder gun. That's what everyone who didn't have a Spur did.

Redpill me on your shitty game.

the way you get the best ending is so fucking dumb, I agree.

But the best ending is the one where you ditch rabbit island.

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Kero Blaster

I still haven't found a single game with jump momentum as clean as Cave Story. The Booster is also really fucking cool.

I'm pretty sure it's optional, but it screws with the visual design of the levels a lot and generally looks ugly and makes the caves look hollow

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give me Sayonori vibes

Why was so good gameplay-wise?

respectable taste, but your statement is, in fact, false

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>Zangyou mode
That's the point where I remembered I was playing a game by the same guy that brought us Blood Stained Sanctuary.

also gets rid of pixel's beautiful tile artwork.

Toroko!

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The physics and the music

Oh, wow. I've never actually thought about that before. It actually does look shittier.

Is that Iji?

Is Jenka's nightmare still the only good fangame?

You can skip cutscenes on the Switch version.

i want to __MARRY___ sue!

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I liked Lunar Shadow, even if it's technically unfinished and completely unrelated to Cave Story's setting.

>there are actually dozens and dozens of games that are better than Cave Story
>PC gamers don't realize this
feels good to be a console GOD.

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yep

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I can't beat ballos, I literally fucking can't
I can consistently beat hell but I need to get lucky with statue drops and 2nd phase heart drops. Even with 1.8 life bars I want to kill myself. Should I have kept the sword and just used spur/sword because I went for nemesis and I fucking hate it

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ballos is easy as fuck

Nicalis version is unironicly better unless you are a soul/nostalgia faggot

just watch a youtube video of some guy beating it and just do what he does for the fight
literally what got me through it

tfw you get the normal ending for the first time and as the camera pans by the core you see Curly's body in the exact same place

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What does Curly have if you get the Nemesis?

Guy was willing to die if you save him thinking that his mission is done. Ignoring him gave him the strength to push on from dying a meaningless death.

>You could have at least traded the sword for the thunder gun. That's what everyone who didn't have a Spur did.
it's actually better that he didn't trade them since curly gets the nemesis anyway and that way there's no chance of "upgrading" it to rubber duck gun

I hate the nemesis too. It's too annoying to avoid the doritos.

Why would Quote do that?

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How much is unfinished? Can I finish the game?

Iji 2 fuckin wen

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>Robot panties

It was good. I liked the 2d metroids and hollow knight a lot more though.

What could have been...

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No.

I'm glad the pretentious indie hipster platformer genre imploded.

Main game is finished, yes. There's even an ending. All that is unfinished is like one or two areas that clearly were meant to go beyond the one-two rooms they actually have.
It's an actual metroidvania to boot. Skipping the first boss for longs ammount of time actually replaces it with stronger versions and the writing (which isn't stellar) actually accomodates for the huge variety of routes you can take.

I want to burry my face in between Misery's thighs

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I just wanted another cavestory-esque game to play. Pretty bummed that the years took their toll on Podunkian and he eventually just stopped working on it. It didn't help that some Cavestory fans got so riled up over it that they hacked his site and bragged on the CS fansite forums over it.

It's a sincere composite of everything Pixel enjoyed when he was growing up. it isn't a direct rip/remake of Metroid, Mega Man, Blaster Master etc, but instead uses their influence to make something new. The story's progression is good, the characters are memorable and the setting is mysterious.

Pixel spent five years on this thing because he wanted it to be as good as possible, then he released it for free.

They were in the walls! They were clearly lost

I got the ending where you leave with sue but i didn't unlock anything. How do i get the best ending?

Seems interesting, I'll give it a try

tfw played countless vidya since cave story but none are as good

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Nope

There will be plenty more overrated indie pixelshit dont worry OP. It's a decent game. Nothing more nothing less.

>bootleg undertale
Yeah no

youtube.com/watch?v=Vtxp70tVHyM

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Never seen such a lack of soul in a game before.

It's part of an entire genre of games, didn't you know that?

I associate the black wind with
youtube.com/watch?v=1IViy2CFrms
Boy oh boy this is a pretty noticeable difficulty bump if you're going for the true ending.

>How do i get the best ending?
When prof. booster falls down the hole, don't help him. Just jump over the gap. Jump at the red pixel on the ground
Before starting the fight with the core, grab the cable just below the core and pick up curly once the fight is done
Take her to the hut in the next section, read the book, drain the water out of her and pick her back up when she passes out
At the mimiga farm, talk to the green dragon man thing next the curly until he tells you about the mushroom. Then go fight him at the mimiga graveyard and bring him back to curly
In reality, only the first step is needed to open up hell, the rest is just so curly shows up down there which, if she has the nemesis, makes it much easier desu

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>In reality, only the first step is needed to open up hell
Wait what, really? First time I hear this. Pretty sure I couldn't enter Hell that time I forgot to talk to Curly again to get the Iron Bond

I think you need to get curly to do hell.

ok ignore that last bit then. I've never actually tried and was kinda talking out of my ass

>In reality, only the first step is needed to open up hell, the rest is just so curly shows up down there
wrong, you need her to go there or else the door to the hut will be locked
what you actually need is the iron bond which you need to talk to curly twice after she gets her memories back to get it

Especially for an indie game from 2004, I think it holds up amazingly well and it is still one of my favorite games

That being said there are definitely better games out there

This game is on PC
I've played it, gets pretty boring after a few hours.

You're supposed to leave the first screen

I got up to the Frog transformation

It's okay to be lost

Kero Blaster is superior

>mfw I want the Switch version for 16:9 but it's 30 fucking dollars

15 right now, it's half off on the eShop. Wouldn't buy it otherwise.

Screw that, use NX Engine-evo!
github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo

I don't know if this is still happening, but the physical copy I bought also had a keychain and a little cd with some famitracker song remixes. Still a bit expensive, but at least there's something other than the game

old hag

NX Engine evo is a slow ass piece of shit with unbearable screen tearing and lag. There is a mod for the original cave story that lets you play the game in 16:9 exclusive full-screen mode at 60 fps (you can turn that off if you want). Reminder: do NOT give money to Nicalis!
cavestory.org/forums/threads/dll-mod-loader-ogg-music-mod.13879/

Yeah...when does this get good?

When you get the Scrambler.

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When I started Iji, it started out by giving me a fucking tutorial, and even that didn't help me understand what the fuck I'm supposed to do exactly, so I just left it at that.

Curly lewds, thats why i came to this thread.

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I can respect that

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curly is wife material

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How would a cave story sequel happen? Not saying I want one but I’d just like to wonder what it’d be about.

Prequel where you play as a Mimiga fucking invader robots' shit up

I don't see a sequel working out well, prequel has a lot more potential.

Cave Story is one of my favorite games of all time, I played the shit of off the freeware version, but when it released on Steam, I bought. Then I learn that the guy that made it isnt making money off of it, so I bought it used on the Switch. I fucking love the game, but I hate what the publisher was doing to the same. That new OST they added is fucking awful.

>Those Curly clones in the Wind Fortress

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Cutie Brace

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How many rabbits did she and Quote mow down before their brains got scrambled?

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There are a few weird choices even in the original version's soundtrack (The extremely high pitched whine in Scorching Back is just short of ear agony) but you're right for the most part

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Daily reminder that this game is totally free.

What do you mean before their brains got scrambled? From the beginning they were sent with the express purpose of destroying the crown, not killing mimigas.

I don't know how it would be in terms of story but I do find it interesting how there's a world advanced enough to have robots which also contains a magical floating island that has yet to be truly studied or conquered.
Makes me think there's other magical shit out there people have spent more time on, and with robots. Sounds like fun times to me.

did I mention I like robots?

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And that Pixel doesn't make any money from the shitty ports

Overrated garbage

If only it were possible to literally just give him money

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get kero blaster, it's also better

Kero Blaster was far better than Cave Story.

kero blaster is just as good if not better, depending on what you liked about cave story

the hivemind at work

The results are in: Frogs are better than robots.

Why does Pixel love frogs so much?

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Frogs are just top tier, that's all. There's not nearly enough playable frogs in vidya.

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Virgin Cave Story
>Portfolio filler
>tech demo
>slap dash ideas with little consistency
>not really sure what genre it wants to be
>excels in none of them
>story hastily scribbled together to tie together level transitions
>not really an exploration platformer, not really much of an action platformer
>half-baked artwork
>"fake" end just reveals the 15% of the game if you go past it
>characters have few defining traits beyond their portraits
>haphazardly connects the world together with teleporters that provide no geographic consistency

Chad Kero Blaster
>Loving tribute to 20 year old comic
>features established characters
>witty and funny commentary on work culture in Japan
>simple mechanics explored thoroughly in brilliant level designs
>no excess fat in the game, everything has a purpose and is built to exploit it to its absolute limit
>"fake" end is 50% more game, an even deeper exploration of the satire of Japanese work culture
>provides interesting back story to the events of the main game, extensive characterization
>upbeat and kick ass music
>seamlessly connects the world together in its final stretch
>artwork is a loving tribute to classic MSX2 games

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>ame wasn't in kero blaster
why

Yfw there will never be a game with this much soul.

post cute robots

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>Nothing wrong with giving money to Nicalis

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>tfw we will never get more kero blaster content

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