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Cave Story (2004)

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Part 7: Time to Wake Up

And here it is, the final video of this series, the great culmination of a long journey, so let's jump to the ranting already

Alright so, the final sections/areas are interesting in a bad way

Sand Zone?: This is like "Egg Corridor 2" so it's more deadly and dangerous, but did somebody told Zarrotsu that spamming enemies isn't good level desing? my god, a lot of parrots, bones, sand crocs, spikes, this is how you don't do a challenge, there's a line between Challenge and Hard for the sake of being hard, and this my dude it's hard for being hard but it's not as stupid as the 'Boss Rush'
Final Suto Fight: This one is just the 3 balrog phases combined in one with the addition of Ma Pignon, it's ok
Boss Rush: Oh boy, an old friend of mine yet again. This room is optional and essentially what old Kirby 'Boss endurance' modes did wrong, For one, this is meant to be done in a NG+ file of the game and i have no patience nor the interest on doing another run of this hack, and even if i do that, i seem to lack the skill to defeat this Boss rush with 99HP (NG+) so why bother? on top of that, every time you kill a boss you only gain 2HP back, that wouldn't be that bad if it weren't for the brilliant idea of putting 2 bosses together trying to stop me, when i first recorded the secret rooms video i did 18 attempts of the boss rush only to be frustrated at the end at the point where i had to use 3 life pots for how bad designed this boss rush was, at least there's a reward, reward that you see in action in the actual final boss of the game only
Last Cave (Hidden): This is challenging and quite fun to navigate not gonna lie, it's actually a good final stretch for the game
Quote Fight: It's the Misery fight from the vanilla game, not much to say here
Arcadia: Final challenge and very well balanced too, the first section is not that special, it's just B2 from the original slightly changed, Second section is quite interesting being a remix of the third room of the vanilla Sacred Grounds, third section is my favorite being a vertical section, climbing to the top watching your steps, not much to complain here and finally the Final Boss, It's the vanilla doctor, the vanilla first phase of ballos and the final match against Genesis and Oblivion, the third phase is the most interesting of the three, being a semi shoot'em up like in the iron head fight this is an interesting concept with some minor details, like the character turning around suddenly or the bats hitting you because the lack of perception doesn't help but it's not that big of a deal

Overall this was a fun Mod to revisit a third time, it's one of the few (If not the only) major hack/mod of the game that was finished, i can applaud the dedication and effort put into this 'Remake' definitively, and i can safely say this is a neat mod, the shine parts of the mod overshadows the negatives i can say, after all i only find 3 sections (Not being optional) kinda bad, being the "aqueduct, the labyrinth and the Sand Zone?"
Maybe if back then there was more feedback to help improve this hack would be a different story, as for now, i had fun playing this mod

That's all, See ya

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