Because sometimes the word filter is a bit annoying. For convenience I'm just going to double the d.

Anyways due to school I obviously haven't been playing Cave Story as much seeing as I'm STILL stuck on my 3hp run in the same darned place, because mutated Sue hates me. But by some odd twist of the internets I ended up watching videos of people playing the game recently and came across a very interesting Cave Story modd, called "Jenka's Nightmare." Along with many other modds like Cave Story diabolically hard mode with a first cave that is now as hard as the final level of normal Cave Story. Well maybe not as hard. But you get the picture.

So obviously I didn't download diabolically hard because I'm not much of a gamer, got a slow learning curve with games, and I know I'd die horrifically far too many times for it to be worth the agony. So I downloaded Jenka's Nightmare, which, while harder than Cave Story, is still reasonable.

Now I gotta say nothing can replace Pixel. That guy's level design was just brilliant, and, well, the graphics were all created with his original design in mind, too, which doesn't really have any affect on the level layout since it's meant to be on the same island but makes bosses rather awkward. But where was I? Oh yeah. Pixel. Great guy. Amazing platformer puzzles, with just the right bit of challenge to fit your learning curve, dense layouts that always have something going on, good enemy placement, knows when to give you a break, and has rules of consistency that do help by telling you, yeah, THIS is a moving block, you know?

It's also annoying seeing all those out-of-reach life capsules that presumably you just gotta wait until you have the booster to return and get. *sigh*...

Anyway. I'm in the labyrinth. And kinda stuck. The new mini-Monster X sprite is pretty cute tho. And yaaay you're friends again no evil boss battle like last time...

The bosses too. I mean, first boss fight in Cave Story, the guy could probably be taken out with three hits of one of the stronger weapons you get later in the game. Well, say two, three hits by super missile, one hit by Spur? Anyway, the first boss in Jenka's Nightmare has three mini-bosses revolving around it, they do 4 damage, and you have 7 HP unless you managed to hax your way up to one of the out-of-reach life capsules.

Plus, the bosses just loose their originality because after all, it's just modding of Pixel's original ones... but oh well.

And I so wanna know what was in that darned chest after the Grasstown boss! Do those chests not actually have anything in them, are completely inaccessible, and are just placed to taunt us?