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Thursday, October 04, 2007

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The Underside Trailer Want. Now. NOW. NOOOOOOW! That's looking really nice. The music is superb too - whoever made it has really captured Pixel's Cave Story musical style.

Still... nah, it looks great. So any idea when this is likely to be finished? 2008?

Oh and hello Graham, how's Wizball coming along? I hope I haven't missed the launch of that... COMPLETE AND ENTIRE CAVE STORY RIPOFF. It looks too much like Cave Story to think of it as an "inspired on" game. It's dangerously alike. really though anonymous guys, simply stating it looks like cave story and giving the impression that it's a bad thing is just begging the question.

so what if it looks like cave story?

you might as well have posted 'First' (well, fourth and fifth) Everyone needs to shut up about it looking like Cave Story. It's blatantly obvious it looks similar, but who gives a shit? Seriously, there are plenty of games out there that copy other games ideas, at least this one is going to play differently. I doubt Pod would let the game turn into a clone of Cave Story, he's got more imagination than that. Graphics alone don't decide what a game's like. The story, the characters and the gameworld will decide on whether or not this is a Cave Story clone. If it weren't, you could call Metroid and Castlevania Cave Story clones as well (or the other way around: Cave Story a Metriod/Castlevania clone)

So far, the characters seem different enough and the gameplay feels different, like Cave Story being more action-RPG, while this being more platformer. It's quite shallow to call a game a clone of another if it uses just a similar graphical style. So is this a Cave Story mod?

Never liked mods. This looks great. Seems to play a bit differently from Cave Story. I hope it's just as fun, though. Anonymous #5 here again.
If I say it looks like Cave Story, it's because it shares A LOT of similarities, not just gameplay issues (which I don't know about since I haven't played it). To say a few:

- Small and cute characters.
- Little numbers pop up whenever you maim or kill an enemy.
- Very similar small HUD on the top left corner.
- Chiptune music.
- NPC companion.
- General feel.

Tell me this is a Cave Story mod, or a very influenced game, and I'll say "this is good work". Tell me it is an original game and I will have a hard time believing it. The guy freely admits where his influences come from. Jesus even the music has the same melodies and progressions. It's not like he's trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, or he'd be a bit more subtle. Yeah, he's treading the fine line between creating a great work that will stand on its own and simply riding on Pixel's coat tails, but I think the game looks like it plays well enough to place it in the former category. In answer to you, James, the Wizball final beta went out today. News Oooh, Sandbox of God remake! I hope it'll feature better graphics. That was pretty much the only thing that could be improved on that game. This doesn't look like Cave Story in the very slightest! Looks like the forum thread for Sandbox of God is only available to registered users... Oh, forgot to add that Simon Parzer is the same person who ported Cave Story to the GP2X, which is linux based. So it would make sense that he would make a linux port as well... Wow, new Dwarf Fortress! Can't wait, list of changes must be humongous. Yeah. From what I've read it may as well be a different game. Looks like it will be a lot more complicated... *more* complicated? How, exactly, is that possible?! Damn, i almost shit my pants, i thought someone made a remake of Sid Meier's Covert Action, but Covert Action 2 happened to be just a puny flash game...DAMN i want a remake of Covert Action !!! Oops a mistake... thanks for the correction though.

and sorry to hear about your pants lol Graham, added are complete freedom in fortress placement, layers (so, 3D dungeon digging - this is the main thing), and water flow (so no more seasonal flooding). Loads of other stuff too. You lost him at fortress placement lol Think you might be right ;) The Underside Full screen mode gimme a 640x480 screen with a big white border and the game inside.
How can I fix that?
Could I play in a 320x240 mode? Press Alt-Enter to go into full screen display.

This game is pretty mean with the jumps, mostly due to the speed of the character's falling.

I'd like a save point right when Route 66 starts. Full screen mode doesn't give me a 320x240 resolution, but a bigger one with a little screen with the game at the center and a large white border. :/
Did you experience the same problem, josh? Yeah, when I hit the "Maximize Window" button, it makes the window increase in size, but the actual game screen is still just a little 320x240 rectangle with a big, white background.

Try holding Alt and tapping Enter. For me, it changes the screen resolution to 320x240. When I press Alt-Tab to switch between applications, Windows is still in that resolution. in full screen mode i get black (and not white :)) border. also game screen is scaled horizontally but not vertically. otherwise the game is rather fun. is this the finished game. i heard something of a preview just last week. It's a preview, it ends a bit past the first boss.

I enjoyed it. The first boss was a bit tough for me, maybe I'm just getting old and slow. Naw, probably not old and slow - just outta practice. The boss was really hard at first but then you get the pattern down just like a Megaman boss. The game looks like it'll shape up to be very fun and challenging. It really plays like Metroid+Megaman with Cave Story quirks.

Hint: Don't let the boss throw you up in the air. too tough.
Cave Story was tough but it lured me into it with easy and simple gameplay at the beginning.
But this one just BAM!! you are dead.Sorry. Had potential. Only for those who dont have a life. I don't think it was too though, yet my computer couldn't run it smoothly, so maybe that helped.

I also got the 640x480 res. With that white border in full screen mode.

I wish there were less signs. Too much of them, and too much dialogs too.

Not bad, but not nearly as good as Cave Story.

Also, it's dumb to use ogg for chip music, make some .mod's or .it's! I agree with Adam. I didn't like the tutorial style introduction, Cave Story didn't need it, why would this? But then it throws you right into the deep end. The corridor scenes just bored me, with no levelling up to do it makes encounters that less interesting.
The soundtrack was very mixed. Some nice tracks mixed with a horrendous title song. I fell over and lost my jumping shoes? Bad mechanic right there.
Some graphics look off too. Namely the outside backdrops and sprites. Like they tried to copy A Game With a Kitty too, but failed with the ugly colours.

A nice attempt but overall just not as good as Pixels masterpiece. I didn't think it was that bad or too tough. The tutorial area wasn't too intrusive, you aren't forced to stop and read the signs. Some games require you to follow a painfully slow extensive tutorial of obvious controls (eg. "room 1: walk left or right, room 2: jump and push direction keys to move while jumping", etc). The monsters were easy to kill or avoid, you only die instantly on the spikes, if I remember correctly that also happens in Cave Story.

The way you lose your hi-jump shoes is a bit cheap though. I liked playing it and am looking forward to the full release. Boy, I sure do love blatant Cave Story ripoffs.
Actually I'm quite serious, you don't imagine how much I ached for more after I finished it. Don't listen to these hater, I ****ing loved it. It's like Earthbound and Cave Story got together and had a child, please don't give ever give up on this...I want more! Also, those of you saying the way you lose the jump shoes was cheap, you obviously don't understand the game's humor...

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