Rubes Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 If you're into the 2-D side scroller games and you really like old-school Japanese game design, check out Doukutsu Monogatari ("Cave Story"). It's a freeware game (hard to believe, but it's true) that has versions for Mac and Windows. It was originally made in Japanese, but recently there have been English translations available. I haven't been a big arcade-type 2-D scroller-type gamer for many years, but this one really should be checked out if you haven't seen it before. It's got 80's-style graphics and music, but it's just really well done. From one web site: The developer, Pixel spent five years making this game as fun and as great as it is by adding solid controls, smooth gameplay, a great cast of characters and dialogue, an interesting plot, good music and beautiful old-school 2-D artwork. And on top of all this added multiple endings, several boss battles, tons of items to collect, all kinds of added secret bonuses and special challenges, various and considerably different methods of playing through the game depending on your actions, competition ranking features and an extremely high replay value. For a freeware game it is fairly lengthy too. Cave Story is by far the best freeware game I have ever had the honor of playing through and certainly one of the best games I’ve played. Check it out and download it here. You have to first download the game, and then the English translator patcher. The control keys are as follows: q - inventory w - map (you have to find it first) a - previous weapon (first you have to find more than one weapon) s - next weapon (first you have to find more than one weapon) z - jump / select / speed up dialogue x - shoot (first you have to find a gun) The arrow keys do multiple things, including movement and aiming your weapon. The most important one is the down arrow. It causes you to "interact" with whatever you are standing in front of. If it's a door, you go through the door; if it's a person, you interact with the person; if it's an object, you look at or use the object. The arrow keys also are used for movement and aiming your weapon. So: down arrow - go through doors, interact with people/ objects, aim weapon down (only while jumping) up arrow - aim weapon up left arrow - go left/aim left right arrow - go right/aim right tab - toggles fullscreen (very nice) One important note is that the Z key is used to make selections, like on the main menu. It's also used to advance dialogue when it pauses. Finally, if you hold down the Z key during dialogue, it speeds up the dialogue. This is a very cool game. Enjoy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 It was originally made in Japanese, but recently there have been English translations available. 452326[/snapback] How's the Engrish Transration? For great justice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted September 24, 2005 Author Share Posted September 24, 2005 How's the Engrish Transration? For great justice! 452351[/snapback] Let's just say, I haven't yet found any good ones like your avatar's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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