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Poo Bear
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Location: Sheffield, UK
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 Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:25 am Post subject: The cave story |
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Yet another fantastic totally free platform adventure game, will these damn students* never learn !! It's another Japanese one so you need to download the game and then download and apply the English translation patch.
Get the game here:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/FreeSoft/Doukutsu.html
Get the translation patch here:
http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
I still think "Akuji the demon" is the best so far, but I haven't played this one enough yet to be sure. |
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Oooh! Impressive. I'm really enjoying this. The spinning lizard boss is really nasty. I'm going to have a hard time not losing sleep to play this. I think I must be getting somewhere near the end now, but that thing says there's three different endings... I hope I'm not on track to a bad one. Some sad things have happened, but I don't *think* I could have avoided them. |
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Finished it, eventually. Those last few bosses are a nightmare! I think I've missed something important. I can't help but think that somebody wasn't supposed to die. Still, I've a few ideas of things I might have missed to try on the second time through. Anybody else tried it much? |
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Poo Bear
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I'm nowhere near finishing, it's really good, but a bit hard  |
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Haha! I have found the "Snake" weapon. It appears to be nowhere near worth the sacrifice required to obtain it... |
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| But it goes through walls! I see... |
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Argh! I'm almost finished it again (the lightning/chicken gun is just weird) and I've realised I need to start over again to be able to get a different hidden weapon. But I'm *really* hoping there's a hidden ending that'll let me save... well, that would be telling.
Open mysteries:
Spoiler (highlight to read): * Mushroom above the graveyard asks if I have business with him, but refuses to help me no matter what I say.
* Sculptor in statue room won't talk to me, with or without mask.
* There's a door in the room before the statue room that I can't get at.
* I can't figure out how to open the chest in the clock room. I tried resetting the computer clock to 3 o'clock (am and pm), like the clock symbol, but it didn't do anything. Maybe I need to sit there a really long time.
* I couldn't activate the teleporter where you meet Prof. Booster in the labyrinth.
* There's a point where it suggests there's a Booster v2.0 upgrade, but I never found it. |
PS - I can't use list tags inside spoiler tags, because the list tag seems to override the background colour. |
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Fost
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Weeble
Starscape Jedi
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I found that, and then regretted it. I thought I wasn't far off finishing everything. How wrong I was.
Having discovered the critical bits I'd missed (really only the secret of the Booster v2.0, from which other things flowed), I'm now stuck on the hell level. It's one of the hardest levels I've encountered in a modern game. I've gotten to what I *think* is the last boss three times in perhaps thirty or so attempts. I don't think I hurt him for more than 40% of his health. More than once I've forgotten to apply my own maxim - "if it doesn't take up at least half the screen, it's not the final boss," and then discovered I'm not finished yet. I cannot emphasise enough how a) good and b) hard this game is. |
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