I love how this theme enhances the feelings of defeat and emptyness when you fail to save Curly, but also does the same in enhancing the feelings of hope when you actually get to save her. One of my fav tracks of the OST for sure!
This song is truly a masterpiece. This entire game is, really. I don't understand why this doesn't have a huge fan base playing this game, because moments like these honestly bring me to tears. This song was SO moving and fit perfectly into the game. It either conveyed a heroic and inspiring theme because you saved the girl, and you are on to leave the labyrinth, or it meant utter despair and sadness, because you didn't save the girl, and you watched her drown to save yours. The last time I actually fully played Cave Story was years ago, but every once in a while I find myself coming back to the OST playlist, because it has by far the best soundtrack of any game I've ever heard in my entire life. I still get chills down my entire body when I hear this song as memories of joy, hope, victory, heroity, inspiration, defeat, sadness, loss, despair, and acceptance all rush back to me in a single second. There is no true description of what this song makes you feel, and it would definitely not be the same if you didn't play the game to this song. Oh my gosh, Cave Story is one of the few and very rare things that are too beautiful for this earth
huge fanbases kill games, this is why im happy Cave Story isnt that of a popular game nowdays, it still has alot of people being a fan of it, but not that much to kill it
When this song hit, I realized that all of the music was resonating with me and fitting the emotions of the story perfectly. After a fun romp with Curly, we fought that horrifying core. When the room flooded, I scrambled to save Curly. She was like me; there was no way I'd leave her behind. When I got here and heard the song, it really felt like I had come out of a big battle scraped and bruised carrying a barely alive Curly, with me desperate to know she's okay. The water shoving me away from where I needed to go furthered this sense of helplessness. Cave Story is truly special
I can't tell you how many times it took me to make the jump in labrynth so that I would skip Prof. Booster. I made this infamous jumop on my first try.
On one of the grass tiles there's a red line. You're supposed to get a running start and jump once you're at the line. If done correctly you should make it.
In my first playthrough I tried to pick her body up (I even tried using the rope!) but I somehow couldn’t for whatever idiotic reason and I just remember staring at her dead body for like a minute before I left and this felt like a depressing area like I had failed completely despite winning the battle. It was even more depressing once I realized she really wasn’t coming back and I got normal ending and I was her only hope of making it out alive...At least it made the true ending feel all the more satisfying!
I know this comment is a bit old but god, same. I spent the rest of the game like "there's no way she is dead, they wouldn't do that" expecting her to show up at the end somehow alright and it never happened, I think it was the fact everyone else died on a cloud of smoke while her body stays there. But still, I don't think I've ever experienced a game that made me go through denial so potently
So fun fact. 1st playthrough I didn't know about the tow rope so no Curly 2nd playthrough I got Curly to the cabin but I left her in bed without doing anything else. Had to reset 3rd playthrough I got Curly to the bed, read the notebook, drained the water, and let her rest. And then I didn't pick her up before leaving the cabin. Another reset.
I just made a perfect landing on my first attempt getting to the Cabin. Only reading through the comments do I now remember all the times I had to reload years ago.
Flowing like time Can’t go back, rewind I must Keep going The lives lost are A part of the cost of The burden I carry Rushing streams push me through it all Friend upon my back, I can’t fall Too much at stake to surrender Her life at risk of ending, but there Must be a way to give her life A single ray of glowing light Within this sea of death and failure I have got to repay her For the thing That she did To save me At my darkest hour, lowest point A single rope Bound by hope Conjoining us By the hip, at the very joint Heavy flowing water going out Through the island’s worlds galore Save the creatures stop the doctor Or else this world will be no more Make the leap now So I can free all the ones Still alive Though I face hardships My mechanical heart is Still beating Still alive Face the tyrant and his monsters Save the surface from the slaughter Born by flower made of crimson Harvest from the Demon’s Prison The Witch Jenka had a brother With power unlike no other Ballos was the name that I heard Rushing through my mind like water Save her life End the strife Find the truth Don’t let them get loose, eyes red, fury true Man of Magic Lore so Tragic Can’t Imagine Such a fate for a tormented soul Heavy flowing water going out Through the island’s worlds galore Find the tormented soul sealed away Or else this world will be no more
@speedtester7 you have to check her 2 times but first the PC in there then the secound book shelf 2 times thats when you drain her and check twice then BOOM saved curly :)
There's not much reason for the "best" ending to be as exacting and obscure as it is, besides for its own sake. It's pretty likely that Pixel just added the whole sequence in Sacred Grounds at the last minute because his testers wanted more of a challenge, and given how head-scratching a lot of the bits of the best ending are, I imagine that was last-minute too. Nowadays it's one of the most well-known parts of the game, so...again, not much reason to lock it off behind super hard jumps in a game where you would otherwise just reset and try again.
Wait, Quote, whattahell?! Really, anyone is forget to save curly? (But you got Tow Rope, got curly and go in L-Waterway, but leaved place where you can save her, and you got message like "Curly is dead"?)
