You have died.

[prog]

Cave Story has a lot of great stuff in it but I just don't know what this Pixel person was thinking with the end. It's almost a parody of how a lot of platformers have an endboss that's twice as hard as anything that's come before.

A four-stage endboss with a three-bosses-at-once-plus-summoning last stage, without any opportunities for saves or even healing, is a bit much. It's also a real let-down after hours of delightful exploration paced by only somewhat narsty boss fights. This isn't worth getting angry over. baleeted

(I might play it some more if you can skip past the cinematics. Hard boss fights with unskippable cinematics in is bad design. Yugh.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Coincidentally enough I started playing Cave Story yesterday. I'm facing the final boss right now. Nostalgia's getting the better of me and I'm prepared to forgive the insanely hard sequence of boss battles precisely because it's the FINAL BATTLE, man, it's supposed to be hard!!

I wouldn't forgive this kind of thing in any other genre though. I have a large Weak spot for platformers with bunny people.

I can't seem to find too much information, but this seems to be the work of one person? Nice to be reminded that it IS possible.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

OOPS, my dear wife keeps using my PC and logging me out. Sorry about that.

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, it's by one person
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukutsu_Monogatari