What the heck is Balrog?

Oct 17, 2007 at 7:10 AM
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HEH!?!?!? But I can show you a screenie! He has a handle in the first boss fight in Mimiga Village in the Original Cave Story!!! :p

Or at least i think so...

Oh yeah and why is there a green version of Balrog? Never seen one appearing anywhere in the game lol. Maybe some modder could use it? :D
 
Oct 17, 2007 at 8:08 AM
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Metalogz said:
Oh yeah and why is there a green version of Balrog? Never seen one appearing anywhere in the game lol. Maybe some modder could use it? :p
Grasstown, when he turns into balfrog.
 
Oct 29, 2007 at 3:41 AM
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I always thought of him as a luchbox, but I just realized that Japanese lunchboxes look different from American ones as someone said earlier in the thread.
 
Oct 29, 2007 at 3:50 AM
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I always thought of Balrog as a square-shaped robot who gets pushed around a lot. Turns out that I was right.
 
Oct 30, 2007 at 1:13 AM
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I thought he was a TV.
Same here. But then again, My first assumption as a weird looking Lego block.
 
Oct 30, 2007 at 1:21 AM
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Oct 30, 2007 at 10:42 AM
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Wait.. After I played the game many times to check out if he had a handle.. I found something out...

He DIDN"T HAVE A HANDLE ON HIS HEAD! You know when you first had to fight him with only a Polar Star? Yeah That time I thought he had a handle ontop of his head. That was because he was standing infront of a door... And the door's top mad him look like he had a handle... LOL :D
 
Oct 30, 2007 at 3:40 PM
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Lunch boxes don't need handles... japanese ones that is.
Balrog, the toasting, robotic bentoubako.
 
Oct 30, 2007 at 10:36 PM
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Tadashi said:
Lunch boxes don't need handles... japanese ones that is.
Balrog, the toasting, robotic bentoubako.
I don't know Japanese so can you tell me what "bentoubako" means (assuming that it is a Japanese word), or is it just a Japanese lunchbox?
 
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Nov 2, 2007 at 2:44 PM
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I don't know Japanese so can you tell me what "bentoubako" means (assuming that it is a Japanese word), or is it just a Japanese lunchbox?

It's simple a japanese lunchbox, with bentoubako being the box itself.
 
Sep 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

he's a frog in a lunchbox and misery opens it in grasstown... or at least a frog in a plain box.
 
Sep 22, 2010 at 4:10 AM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

Balrog is a bar of soap.
Pixel said so in an interview.

NOW CLOSE THIS DAMN THREAD ALREADY :/
 
Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 AM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess!
 
Sep 22, 2010 at 4:52 AM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

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he's a frog in a lunchbox and misery opens it in grasstown... or at least a frog in a plain box.

Nice almost 3 year bump.

cultr1 said:
Balrog is a bar of soap.
Pixel said so in an interview.

He said he based his design on a bar of soap, he never said he was a bar of soap.

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Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess!

Quoting CD-i never gets old.
 
Sep 22, 2010 at 5:23 AM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

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He said he based his design on a bar of soap, he never said he was a bar of soap.

This directly implies that he is soap though. And what with pooh black turning into bubbles.

But also this:

"Once you put eyes, arms, and legs on a bar of soap, it's not really a bar of soap anymore, is it?"
 
Sep 22, 2010 at 5:44 AM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

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This directly implies that he is soap though.

No it doesn't. A character having their design based on something doesn't mean they are that thing.

I could make a character based on Kanpachi but human, does that make him a Mimiga? No it does not, I just simply used Kanpachi as a base for my character, nothing more, nothing less.


Anyway, the cheater's way out of what Balrog is to simply say Balrog is Balrog.
 
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

A mutant toaster made entirely of soap with a food compartment?
 
Sep 25, 2010 at 11:01 PM
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Re: Balrog: Mutant Toaster or Mutant Lunchbox?

If he is soap, does that mean the Doctor uses him to clean himself?

-shudder-
 
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