Game:

Cave Story (2004)

Duration: 3:29:55

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Played By: Kuukunen

So this is my first longplay. I have beaten this game twice before years ago, but since I like the game, now I figured longplay might be worth it.

First I did a practice run, writing down the route, who I should talk to (and how many times) etc. I also practised the bosses a bit, to get the boss battles a bit smoother. Overall, I did try to make it pretty quick and smooth, sometimes maybe bordering on a speedrun, but speed wasn't the primary objective and I usually stop to show off enemies, cool things or just have fun.

The actual run involves some video editing. I played in one go until the jump at 1:39:36, where falling down will ruin everything. I did practise it a bit, but after such a long time, it kind of wears off, so I didn't make it on my first try. After that the no-editing run was ruined and I edited ~10 more times. Mainly for smoothness, dying was never a problem. Although, I guessed I wouldn't beat the boss battle at 1:59:54 anyway in a fast way and without getting hit, which is needed for the Alien Medal.

The game also has multiple endings. Bad, normal and true endings. I will show each ending. You should notice when the endings are shown at 2:16:11 and 3:11:12 from the silly VCR rewind effect.

And speaking of the true ending, I guess I just have to say a few words about the Sacred Grounds. :)
In case someone has been speedrunning it, I was NOT trying to be fast, for the most part. If I just flew through the place, you wouldn't see where enemies come from, etc. I was more simulating the first run people might have through it. Which, by the way, is actually much harder than semi-speedrunning, because you have to fight. Not to mention for the sake of the video, I had to clock a run where the story messages are shown. So after I studied the layout a bit, for every time I had to quit and reload to reset the messages. (The already shown messages aren't shown if you're retrying normally.)

So in the end, it was fun. I hope someone gets something out of it. Even though it's a bit long, it's quite varied. Most of it is actually story etc. Since I was playing through it pretty fast, I made a test video with cutscenes etc. cut out. The gameplay-only video ended up being only hour and a half vs. the three and half hours of the whole play.

Thanks for reading. -
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