Cave Story - Doukutsu Monogari

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Cave Story is a freeware sidescrolling action/adventure/platformer title with leanings towards Wonderboy and recent sidescrolling Castlevania titles. You control a little amnesiac who runs around helping out these rabbit-ish creatures called Mimigas while trying to find your way out of the giant cave inside the floating island which makes up the game's setting.

You can expand your health meter by collecting Life Capsules in similar fashion to Metroid games, while you can get stronger by collecting energy to boost your firearms' output. Each weapon can be built up to the maximum level (3) fairly quickly, but taking damage will drain energy from its experience meter, sometimes causing it to level down. Given how quickly they power up this only tends to be an issue during boss fights, and even then there's usually plenty of opportunities for collecting more weapon energy.

The game has loads of secrets, too. Shih Tzu and I haven't found everything, and we've each played it through a couple of times (not to mention having read the script.) It's pretty awesome that way.

For a freeware Japanese platformer, it's fairly lengthy and has quite a large amount of text. I'd guesstimate that each playthrough, provided you knew what you were doing, would take about 4-6 hours. Tack on an extra couple of hours if you don't know what you're doing, possibly for extreme problems with nasty bosses (which this game has plenty of, especially towards the end.) We're also talking three very different endings, plenty of plot, and quite a cast of charming characters. It really is a superb little gem.

Please note that the patch will work with Cave Story 1.0.0.5 _and_ 1.0.0.6, including any glitchy previous versions of the patch. Should future versions of the game be released, I shall do my best to update the patch to be compatable with them.

Also, for those of you having problems finding and extracting the game, click the "Download the Game" link above. The first link of the three at the bottom is the game itself. The second is OrgView, a music player for the game's music, for which I've included a translation patch along side the standard Cave Story translation installer. (Optional.) WinRAR can handle .lzh files with ease.

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I discovered this game the other day, thinking it was just a lame Metroid rip-off.

Wrong! How wrong, I was!

It's actually an excellent Metroid knock-off, its gameplay differs a bit from Metroid, though. The game is also story driven (Nothing incredible, but it's cool enough to make mention of it). Anyway, its fun, very addicting and free.

Gamepad recommanded, you can play with keyboard, though.

PS: Don't talk about the graphics. Just don't...
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what's wrong with the graphics though?
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what's wrong with the graphics though?

maybe it has AA off? :lol: its hard to pinpoint really.... screens are breathtaking...
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Best...Graphics...Evar
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Is it compatable with SLI?

:P
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Is it compatable with SLI?

:P I hope so i'd think this would bring my rig to its knees
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I SAID DON'T TALK ABOUT THE GRAPHICS.

It's like you should never feed a Mogaï after midnight. Or you should not cross the streams!

Why? BECAUSE IT'S BAD! A BAD THING TO DO!

This games owns Doom 3, it owns it twice! Did someone start a thread saying "I must be a complete moron but I liked Cave Story"? No, of course not, because Cave Story rocks, and nobody (Who isn't stupid, that is) said otherwise!

Now, download it, play it, love it. Cave Story! 320x240 pixels of fun. Recognize!

I know what's fun, trust me. I have a patent on this stuff.
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