What did you assume when you first started playing Cave Story?

I pretty much thought the same as DC, To be honest.

 

Although there is nothing interesting for me, one of the people I introduces this game assumed you could only shoot sideways. He had been playing too much IWBTG.

 

I think I might've assumed that too...

 

I spent like an hour trying to find out how to get the Jellyfish Juice before I realized you could shoot upwards. No joke.

Though I'm not really the type to make assumptions, so I just took in what the story gave me and put the pieces together as more obvious facts were presented. Everything else 'till then was just "?".

I dunno, it's been years. Maybe I just don't remember anything like that.

 

Everything else 'till then was just "?".

Ya ho. A friend of mine taught this trick when we used to play the broken language version of Pokemon Gold, so I applied it here.

 

Same thing as most of you. I thought Quote was Sue ( He's 8-bit! How can I tell!), and Kazuma was the doctor, tricking you into finding him. But, seeing the beginning animation again, I figured Misery was Sue, and seeing the balrog papercraft file, I figured that Balrog was a talking plane (IDK) being held hostage.

 

I thought you started with the Roffle Gun aka Machine Gun.
Boy was I dissapointed.
Damneth ye Matt!

Oh yeah.
I hung out with a friend the other day, and I showed him Cave Story.
His first death was to the Door.
He's addicted now.
x3
I'll try and lure him to the forums.

 

I spent like an hour trying to find out how to get the Jellyfish Juice before I realized you could shoot upwards. No joke.

Heh, it also took me forever to find the jellyfish juice but for a different reason. I saw those two jellies floating outside Chaco's house, and thought I was supposed to get the juice from them. When that didn't work, I went back into Chaco's house and talked to her to see if she had any advice. She said something like "aim for the big sucker" so I figured the reason shooting those two jellies hadn't worked was because I just hadn't aimed well enough. I tried forever shooting those two jellies before it occurred to me to explore the rest of Grasstown.

Another dumb assumption I made was that you couldn't "interact" with a moving character by pressing the down arrow. This screwed me up royally when trying to retrieve Jenka's puppy that was running around all the time. I thought that once it started running, it was impossible to catch, so I thought that the way you were supposed to get it was by "sneaking up" on it and moving/shooting as little as possible so as not to disturb it into running away.

 

Never ocurred to me that Quote was a robot at the beggining (but his pale skin color was still strange XD)
And i tought that the caves were on "Earth" and not in a floating island.

And i tought also that curly had to die and that i couldn't save her ;_;

 

Oh yeah, it took me a while to figure out the whole "floating in the sky" thing as well. At first I thought it was a misprint when Jenka was talking about the enraged Mimigas "descending to the surface where Humans live" (I thought it was supposed to be ascending)

 

Heh, it also took me forever to find the jellyfish juice but for a different reason. I saw those two jellies floating outside Chaco's house, and thought I was supposed to get the juice from them. When that didn't work, I went back into Chaco's house and talked to her to see if she had any advice. She said something like "aim for the big sucker" so I figured the reason shooting those two jellies hadn't worked was because I just hadn't aimed well enough. I tried forever shooting those two jellies before it occurred to me to explore the rest of Grasstown.

Happened to me as well.

 

I thought that Quote's sprite was looking sideways (instead of slightly forward) and I died six times trying to get the Polar Star.

 

I thought that Quote's sprite was looking sideways (instead of slightly forward) and I died six times trying to get the Polar Star.

Everyone dies at those spikes at least once. And everyone knows what spikes I am talking about.

 

I remember: I also assumed that in the undead core fight, enraged sue and misery couldn't be killed, so I just dodged them and focused on killing the undead core.

 

Wait, so they can be killed?? O_o

hehe, I still assumed they couldn't be killed until I read that post.

 

Everyone dies at those spikes at least once. And everyone knows what spikes I am talking about.

I had never died at those spikes, until I read this post.

 

Like, you read it and loaded up Cave Story to see if you could die from them? That's a little... Odd?

 

No and no.

 

Wait, so they can be killed?? O_o

hehe, I still assumed they couldn't be killed until I read that post.

Yes they can. If you kill Misery, though, you can't get any powerups. On the other hand, her orange fish won't fly around annoying you.

 

I had never died at those spikes, until I read this post.

It's a curse