Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari)

[guyjin]

http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/

An awesome neo-old-school run and gunner for the PC. I'm a couple hours into it, and it's great! It's originally Japanese, but there's an English patch available from the site above.

The installation is non-obvious; you just unpack the program into a folder, the patch into another, and run the patch.
Also note that it ignores all keyboard presses except the ones it permits. I originally thought something was wrong when I couldn't get it to start; it wants you to press fire or jump (z or x by default) to start, and not, say, enter.

[TR0N]

I've know of the game it's been out for many years.

It's also supose to hit the wii ware some time this year.

[Keranu]

Played a few hours into it before but never finished it (I really should!). Really fun game.

[Nintega]

You just found out about the game now? 

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