A Summary of Good Things

I just beat this game, Cave Story, and all I can say is play it as soon as possible. It was quite possibly the most satisfying gaming experience I have ever had. Yeah, so it's one of those old looking platforming games, but it combines elements from all the best Japanese games of old. It's like playing a fusion of Metroid and Castlevania, except it's a 100% awesome. The art is stylish, especially on the large bosses. The music is enjoyable. The story is probably the best part, aside from the game play. Amazingly for a platforming style game, it even has three endings. The gameplay is rather generic, but it has enough twists to make it interesting and absorbing. Besides all this, it's a pretty hardcore game.

I played it twice. The first time took 6 hours and the second time took 3. The second time I did everything so that I could get the good ending by doing the secret level. The problem is, I can't beat the secret level...

















Being the secret level and all, it's significantly more difficult than the normal game, but I wasn't expecting mandatory booster pack mastery >_>. If you can't tell, I'm about to fall to my death, because I wasn't efficient enough with the fuel.

















Second time around I make it up to that ledge. I wonder what lies beyond that drop...
















This I can handle.

















Haha... tricky. Turns out I had use little enough fuel above to barely propel me onto this ledge. Another death.

















Aww, look! It's Curly. She nearly dies to save your life. Or rather, in the crappier endings she either ends up dead or amnesic.

















Yes, that is her strapped to my back. This section of the level is terrifying. There are blocks falling everywhere, and these stupid little Cupids.

















Well, I tried to slowly kill everything, but...

















Screw that I'm getting out of here! That block you see me flying haphazardly towrads ultimately ended in another untimely demise. I do know what lies beyond that hallway, since I've gotten there once, but not while taking screenshots. Actually screenshots are rather distracting.

If one of you wants to try this level out, here is the save file. http://mkbunday.googlepages.com/Profile.dat It's easier than going through all the work for the secret ending that way. If any of you manage to beat it, I will crown you video gaming god.

Hmm, and two new bands I just discovered. The first is Small Sins which a small electronica band. This is probably their best song.

http://www.myspace.com/thewhitestboyalive


Their other songs are okay, but not superb.

The second is The Whitest Boy Alive, which besides having an awesome name is awesome.