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It's definitely a dark game. Without giving too much away, characters do die, which is sad, but it's often the manner in which they die that's really heartbreaking. Even more than that, though, things just generally don't go well for the protagonists. Unless you get the best ending, there's this...

Oh goodness, Pinky's father says "Huzzah" in this translation. Is Nicalis trolling us?

1'55"9. From what I can tell, there really aren't many potential shortcuts in this stage (besides boosting through the spikes at the very beginning).

It looks like Machine Gun Challenge is unlocked by default (you don't need to get the Machine Gun in the main game), so I'm guessing it's relatively easy because it's supposed to be something new players could get into. And yes, the leaderboard issue seems to be widespread.

Do the leaderboards still not work for anyone else? I wonder what the issue is. And some of my new replays are still encountering the same problems we had in beta testing (running and jumping into a wall the first room in Machine Gun/Nemesis Challenge, getting killed by Naked Curlys in Wind...

So the update just went live this morning. It has the Halloween art, which is really funny from what I've seen so far, the Machine Gun Challenge level, and leaderboard/replay support. I don't know if anyone else has checked it out so far, but for me, the game closes whenever I try to open the...

The patch fixed all of the sound issues, which was a pleasant surprise. The timer-pause issue is still there, along with the post-damage invincibility quirk and some graphical snafoos (mini-cores disappearing when Misery shows up before the normal final boss / Jack standing in the doorway in...

On paper, this should be the definitive version (it doesn't have the achievements, updated graphics, or updated music, but it does have the Jukebox). But it's honestly really sloppy in its execution. I hope a timely patch is released to fix these issues (not just Curly Story).

The Wind Fortress timer bug? In the current beta, it is fixed. Hopefully Nicalis will be able to release the update soon.

1 Tyrone 2 GIRakaCHEEZER 3 xristosx 4 ShinyElectricBlueTiger 5 Hiino 6 Dunc2403 7 Noxid 8 Cave Story 9 cultr1 10 CommanderJersey 11 emayer I'm definitely not good enough to set any best times, but I'd like to help out regardless.

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Does it crash at a particular point in the game, upon startup, or is it just random?

Hard Mode isn't what the game was designed around. The placement of the save points and health refills provides an appropriate, fair challenge given the "normal" amount of health a player would have in the standard difficulty. If you're suggesting that more save points should be added in a mode...

You can't compare Cave Story to Super Meat Boy in that way. Every hazard in SMB is a one-hit kill. That's a game about pinpoint precision and fast paced platforming, contained within relatively short levels. Given the frequency a good player in Super Meat Boy is likely to die, it wouldn't make...

Yes, you're very likely to miss out on the best weapons and the best ending on your first playthrough unless you know what's coming. I don't see that as a flaw, however, especially since the game almost explicitly tells you at later points in the game that you should have held out. Like with the...