http://idlermag.com Refusing to apologize for the things we enjoy Thu, 24 May 2012 13:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://idlermag.com/2012/05/15/cave-story-lets-get-retro/#comment-3742 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:01:24 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9714#comment-3742 [...] expression of one man. We all love the game’s weirdness (or in Daniel’s words, the “WTF factor”), which is something that can only come from the vision and imagination of singular [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/23/cave-story-the-zig-zag-world/#comment-3741 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:01:19 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9819#comment-3741 [...] have to admit that I am way behind Daniel and Gavin in my playthrough of Cave Story because I have been clocking a lot of hours into Diablo III, which [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/22/cave-story-power-up/#comment-3740 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:01:16 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9761#comment-3740 [...] have to admit that I am way behind Daniel and Gavin in my playthrough of Cave Story because I have been clocking a lot of hours into Diablo [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/23/keeping-it-weird-a-night-with-maria-bamford/#comment-3736 Wed, 23 May 2012 14:14:42 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9851#comment-3736 I love her. Met her after the show and she was really nice and thoughtful and real.

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/23/keeping-it-weird-a-night-with-maria-bamford/#comment-3735 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:59:56 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9851#comment-3735 I saw her live, and thought she was really good.

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/16/cave-story-platform-mechanics/#comment-3734 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:04:57 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9717#comment-3734 [...] far, we know that Daniel is enthusiastic about Cave Story‘s power-ups, and Kevin is a bit skeptical about the jumping mechanics (which is a pretty big problem for a platformer). I’m curious to know, though, on the whole [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/22/cave-story-power-up/#comment-3733 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:04:54 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9761#comment-3733 [...] far, we know that Daniel is enthusiastic about Cave Story‘s power-ups, and Kevin is a bit skeptical about the jumping mechanics (which is a pretty big problem for a [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2011/11/15/earthbound-taking-dads-advice/#comment-3732 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:04:51 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=7771#comment-3732 [...] to look back on how the robot works as a blank slate/player identification character compared to Ness from EarthBound. (My initial take is that the robot works a lot better, but I need to do some noodling as to why [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2010/11/18/mario-gets-old/#comment-3731 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:04:49 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1818#comment-3731 [...] player to navigate in one direction, often from left to right. The basic model would be, of course, Super Mario Bros., which doesn’t even let you backtrack once the screen has scrolled to the right, but even [...]

]]> http://idlermag.com/2012/05/17/cave-story-jumping-into-story/#comment-3730 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:04:46 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=9731#comment-3730 [...] Last week, I promised that this week’s post would be about narrative in Cave Story, but I’m going to put that off a bit, in part because the game is doing a great job of doling out the story bit by bit in ways that are keeping me interested as a player, and making me feel that I’m not really going to be able to say anything substantial until I can talk about the beginning, middle, and the end all at once. Right now, I know that I’m a robot left over from a war 10 years ago in which people attacked an island and its Mimiga inhabitants. Backed into a corner, the Mimiga ate certain red flowers, and became vicious fighting machines. Now, there are few Mimiga and fewer robots, an evil doctor who wants to exploit the Mimiga, and a good professor who wants to stop him. The whys and wherefores are still up in the air, but it’s becoming clear that everyone knows everyone else. Well, except for me, that is. [...]

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