The biggest secret of Cave Story is: the good ending

Another tip: If you want the upgrade that would trigger the sisters fight, if you’re quick enough, you can open the chest, and boost over to the exit window before the fight is triggered. However, it’s a bit hard to pull off, you’d be missing out on the save point and health regen, and it may only work on the freeware version. But many speed runners use this trick, and it’s quite helpful. ;)

I feel like if you're going to keep Misery alive you might as well not bother with Sue either. Sue barely ever seems to even hit me and when she's down Misery spawns the rockets. The rockets have singlehandedly killed me more than anything else in that fight

You missed some secret dialogue you get if you go out of your way to talk to different characters while wearing the mimiga mask. I specifically remember Curly and Booster say something different, but Misery also has slightly different dialogue as well. Good luck getting there with the mask though, as that means going through the last cave without the booster.

6:46 I remember this happening in one of my playthroughs as a kid. It was the first time any piece of media ever made me cry, and to this day is only one of two games to have done that

In the waterway if you miss the cabin, the currents will flush you to the end of the level with no turning back anywhere. I saw the drowning message quite a few times because of that. From my perspective it's weird that a slim minority of players have ever messed up there.

Oh my gosh, I got the Arms Barrier through knockback without even knowing there was a different way to do it!

I'm just gonna save this one: Blue Quote in Easy/Normal playthrough. Hold L button… B->Y->B->Y->B->B->B->⬆️

Lets go Nerdieo! back at it again! With another banger of a video!

If you somehow enter the first cave again after leaving without the machine gun or booster and go to the room where you get the polar star there will be a sign that says "OUT"

Could you please give me the list of background music in this video ? Especially the one from 0:00 to around 4:30, and the one from 9:20 to 14:30. Thanks! Edit: Nerdieo replied on Discord, these are "Quote's theme" and "Training room" from Blade Strangers.

Yyeesss thank you for more cave story videos

another tip: if you get the missle upgrade and dart to the exit you can skip the sisters fight and still get the missles. im not sure if the save point is there when you go back though

Sick man! Thanks for this!

Okay, so i don't know if that's more of a secret or a glitch, but i've been grinding hard mode cave story lately, and right now i'm stuck in the last boss rush on the balcony. Earlier today, while fighting Misery, i've managed to kill her basically on the same frame i've died, and something strange happened. On my game over screen i saw that large energy crystal (the exp triangle thingy) dropped from her, which never happens normally.

I'm glad people are still playing this game.

if you somehow manage to get to first cave after you first get out of it and before you go through waterway back to village, instead of hermit there would be sign with written on it "Out."

If you're fast enough, you can skip the Sister's fight while getting the missile upgrades

One of my favourite tricks in the game is one I saw speedrunners use. They boost through the Labyrinth Fight air currents by manually rapid-firing the Machinegun upwards. Apparently, this only works on the freeware version because of the lower framerate or something like that. In terms of casual gameplay, the saddest tip of them all is "keep Blade at Lv.2", because it actually hits slightly behind you, and the ability to fire as soon as your first shot hits completely melts bosses at close range. Very uncool, but true. No King ghost if you wanna maximise that dps. Oh, and this is completely unrelated, but the introduction to this video just reminds me how much I dislike Ridiculon's remixes for the Cave Story stages in Blade Strangers. I feel you could do something really dramatic and cool with the "Balcony" melody, but Ridiculon just opted for a generic sounding electric guitar segment and awkwardly wove a sped up version of the original melody into it. It's a shame. EDIT: Actually, I think the electric guitar is supposed to be imitating the ambient melody we hear at the start of "Balcony" before the main part kicks in, but again, sped up. I still think it sounds pretty bad, but at least it's trying to play off the original.

The cheat codes aren't particularly useful to me as I only play freeware, but it's cool that they exist. The one thing in this video I didn't know besides that, though, was the "Curly's life force has terminated" text. I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned before, and since to me playthroughs are a binary of booster 0.8 or 2.0, in which I always either save or leave curly behind, I hadn't encountered it. It makes me sad to think that's there.

At monster x I create a program that slows down the game this is really helpful in boss fights how it works is by pausing and unpausing it really quickly it also does not pull up the pause menu it doesn't OS level

After watching this video I decided to give the 1.5x speed on hard mode a go, and wow is it a rollercoaster! You do get accustomed to how fast Quote moves and shoots, but the bosses are pure pain, I'm personally only up to the core at the moment and I feel like I'm either going to become a TAS trying to effectively hit all the bullets or get a repetitive strain injury from trying to keep to 3 cycles 😅 (I'm going for the spur although the machine gun is probably a better choice for this battle) An interesting thing I found is that Rabid Toroko feels a lot harder by comparison when going this fast as she hops around almost as much as a real life rabbit, and it got me to effectively try using the strafe function in the game letting me do some extra damage while I dodge the blocks Overall I wish there was a guide or just a playthrough with the added speed, and to see if there's any different strategies to accommodate for this optional and hidden difficulty spike 💖

I know a lot about Cave Story but didn’t know any of the cheat codes.

at 9:53 I thought that was the intended way to get it lol so I did that every time I played threw the game

No mention of the Beast Fang? I wish that the Prinny hat made it into newer versions- even if it had to be made into a non-trademarked "penguin" hat for cool doods.

10:15 If you are REALLY FAST you can take the chest and skip the boss

what version of cs are you playing?

what about if you play in pixels birthday in cs+ on switch

5:15 lol I born in 04.08.07 (DMY)

After watching this video I am still confused as to how I got the Halloween skin by accident when I played this on my 3ds when I was around 14.

The curlys life force seeping one.. I would get that all the time... Oh my God I suckk

TCB🌠 HOW DID YOU GET THE TYPE OF CAVE STORY THAT GUY I WEARING A CHRISTMAS HAT

You forgot Dog Stacking in the + and Switch ports ;D

the worst thing about cave story + for switch is that it doesnt have easy and hard mode for curly.. and hence it doent have those curly sprites

Sucks that you can't use the multi-player skins in single-player. Guess that means no Samus Curley Playthrough.

Died right at the start of the gameplay. GG.

Not getting the rope , help plz

Bro what i played mobile version and this thing you show me is new to me

Me playing through the game for the first time on hard mode with 3hp and thinking about how most of these don't apply to me oop

I love sleeping with Chako

idk