Freeware Awesomeness: Cave Story

[Millipede]

"Cave Story is a freeware sidescrolling action/adventure/platformer title with leanings
towards Wonderboy and recent sidescrolling Castlevania titles.

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 :)"

I've only been playing this for a few minutes and already it seems pretty amazing. It's
being released on wiiware fairly soon, and seems to be well known in freeware circles,
but I thought I would share anyways. Good stuff like this too often goes unnoticed.

download (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/binaries/index.html) (it's the guy with the red pants)
english translation patch (http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory) (v1.03 patch)

screenshot! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Cavestory.png)

[Atomic Dog]

5 Days a Stranger, 6 Days a Sacrifice, and 7 Days a Skeptic are better.

[PassivePretentiousness]

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/slowpoke.gif

[Nekofrog]

5 Days a Stranger, 6 Days a Sacrifice, and 7 Days a Skeptic are better.

This.

Very much this.

Yahtzee needs to go back to making adventure games yesterday.

[suzumebachi]

goes unnoticed.
why (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01524/) hello (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01825/) there (http://kwix.shackspace.com/cavestory/index.html)! welcome (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6531) to (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13165) overclocked (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6713) remix (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=cave+story+site%3Aocremix.org)!

[OverCoat]

dude I'm the first track on the CAVE STORY REMIX PROJECT I don't think it goes unnoticed


I think it's just that it's already been noticed and everyone's already beat it so no one needs to talk about it very much anymore

[DarkeSword]

Pretty sure most people on OCR know about Cave Story.

Also, as I have said on a number of occasions, topics about video games belong in Community. Why is this so difficult to understand?

[Platonist]

well, yes we've heard about it.
but it's still a very very great game.
always one of the first things i install when reworking my system

[Dyne]

"Cave Story is a freeware sidescrolling action/adventure/platformer title with leanings
towards Wonderboy and recent sidescrolling Castlevania titles.

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 :)"

I've only been playing this for a few minutes and already it seems pretty amazing. It's
being released on wiiware fairly soon, and seems to be well known in freeware circles,
but I thought I would share anyways. Good stuff like this too often goes unnoticed.

download (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/binaries/index.html) (it's the guy with the red pants)
english translation patch (http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory) (v1.03 patch)

screenshot! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Cavestory.png)

Gee, you're late to the party. But hey, it happens.

Pretty sure most people on OCR know about Cave Story.

Also, as I have said on a number of occasions, topics about video games belong in Community. Why is this so difficult to understand?

Just two words DarkeSword: Ban Hammer. ;-) Okay, maybe not. Honestly, I think it's because no one reads the "Please Read First" etc... threads. The ones always stickied to the tops of forums that are trafficked frequently. It's quite silly in the end, and no big deal, people just learn a little quicker than others.

[prophetik]

ahh, he's new. don't rag him too bad.

[evktalo]

5 Days a Stranger, 6 Days a Sacrifice, and 7 Days a Skeptic are better.

..different genre though..

I have been meaning to check those out.

--Eino

[Sinewav]

5 Days a Stranger, 6 Days a Sacrifice, and 7 Days a Skeptic are better.

Played 5 Days a Stranger, and it was awesome. Never got around to the other ones though. How do they line up against the first one?

[Gario]

Pretty sure most people on OCR know about Cave Story.Heh, I actually didn't know about it until you made mention of it on one of the threads I was in a few months back, DS (don't remember which, exactly)... I don't mind that it's getting a little extra advertisement, myself - even if most the people here know about it already.

Then again, that's not my call, either :tomatoface:.

[prophetik]

i personally didn't hear about it until i dl'd the cave story remix project, listened to it a bit, and then decided to give the game a try. really interesting style - first platformer i'd played in a while.

[glasfen]

Heh, I actually didn't know about it until you made mention of it on one of the threads I was in a few months back, DS (don't remember which, exactly)...

Likewise. I wouldn't have played it a month ago if the thread hadn't popped up. I'm glad I saw it! Just in time for the first CS ReMix.

[Stargem]

I would suggest giving La-Mulana a spin. Nice soundtrack, strong gameplay.

http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana

[ZealPath]

I've certainly heard the name Cave Story before but I always assumed it was some little known RPG with a decent soundtrack, maybe I should like... play it.

[Sinewav]

I would suggest giving La-Mulana a spin. Nice soundtrack, strong gameplay.

http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana

Certainly well made, but I had trouble getting into it, at least the first time around. Maybe I should try it out again.

[Dr.Flintlock]

5 Days a Stranger, 6 Days a Sacrifice, and 7 Days a Skeptic are better.

As much as I liked all 3 of those, I liked Trilby's Notes the best. The creepy flashback sequences and silent hill-esque hotel were pretty stellar in my opinion. Still, lovecraftian horror gets me regardless. All Hail Chzo!

(/random tangeant)

On the topic of cave story, I'm waiting for the slightly updated Wiiware version that'll be releasing for 10 bucks (hopefully) soon.

[cobaltstarfire]

I get the impression something must have snagged, or they decided to wait till E3.

Cause the last progress update they did on the blog was along the lines of 'we're hoping to get it out late April early May'

Well it's June now and I still don't see any Cave Story. >(

They did keep talking about adding extra downloadable content in the future, so you can consider it as more than just an minor upgrade unless the downloadable stuff sucks.

[Arrow]

They specifically said "sometime in Q2 2009" the last time, so technically they won't have missed their newest deadline until June's over.

[Millipede]

Gee, you're late to the party. But hey, it happens.

I live in the middle of nowhere and the fastest internet available (until very recently) is 26.4kbps dial-up.

Sorry for posting in the wrong section.

[DarkeSword]

Sorry for posting in the wrong section.

Yeah don't worry about it. My "why is this difficult to understand" was more of a general lamentation than a specific criticism directed at you.:tomatoface: