Cave Story Officially RELEASED for WiiWare

I'm actually not saying she looks fat at all. I think she looks quite slim. What really bothers me is that face... /me shudders

 

Hmm, the new sign graphic looks interesting... that doesn't look like Japanese writing, though, does it?

 

how ironic that the only thing I loved about the modification is the signboard. (and what Jester Frog mentioned with a spoiler tag)

The blocks and rocks in that gif look quite good.

 

Hmm, the new sign graphic looks interesting... that doesn't look like Japanese writing, though, does it?

It's called Mimiga Writing!
This may prove that Mimiga ruled the island.

 

Of course it doesn't look like Japanese writing. It looks like squiggles to represent writing. You can't have all the signs, which all say something different, have the same words actually visible on them. That's a pretty common technique, as far as I know.

 

Well of course it's not words. But it doesn't look even vaguely Japanese to me.

 

Well I'd say it looks vaguely japanese.
The first part looks like a hiragana "u", and the last part looks like a hiragana "n". The middle part looks illegible tho, possibly the two lines being a Kanji "ni", but that'd be stretching it.
Still, it's supposed to look completely illegible.

 

Of course it's supposed to look illegible.

That way, the same sprite can be used for ALL signboards

 

After some days, we got an blog update.

This time by Tiffany, a programer of Wii Cave Story.
Who tells a bit about her (i think it's an her with that name, but you never know ) work on the game.

And it comes with an extra screen of Sand Zone.

here's the link

 

And here's something relevant to the link Jay City posted.

And yet more relevant stuff posted by someone disappointed by shrinkage.

 

Hmm... Wonder where that person got the sprite art for the Polar Star? I haven't found a screenshot with the updated gun...

 

And yet more relevant stuff posted by someone disappointed by shrinkage.

Is that new Polar Star created by Pixel/Nicalis for the game?
Or it's just fan-made by a anal-fan to complain about the lack of updated graphics of weapons on screen shots?

EDIT: Look whats Tyrone is workin on...

 

Yay, blurred out story! (Like we don't already know it...)

 

That polar star is prolly fan-made. Moreover, I don't like it at all. It's longer than the old one and doesn't resemble the revolver-like gun...

Actually, it's not longer, but it's somewhat edited to make it look longer.. I hope someone understands what I mean lol

 

Have you guys looked at the Sand Zone screenshot posted?

The HUD is there.

oh and they have no bubbler lol

 

^ I was talking about the weapon that Quote have on his hands, not the weapon HUD

 

That one's probably a fan-edit.

 

http://nicalis.com/blog/2009/02/14/mcnewsy-news/

Tiffany posted a screenshot of the updated HUB and the new design of the bubbler.
Also some stuff about the in-game music.

PS: Don't say stupid stuff about the music, ok, like some comments on the official blog.

 

Two screenshots, in fact. They look wonderful!

 

Heh, looks like Cave Story is evolving from a hybrid NES/SNES game to just a SNES one! (seriously, that font was SO overused during that era!)

Here's to hoping that the MIDI they use turns out to be a masterpiece like Twilight Princess!