Does the dog die?
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Cave Story
Video Game • 2004 • Action
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SourpussMaggie
While the majority of dogs in the game are seen alive, one of their siblings(?) is deceased and talks to Quote as a ghost shortly before the true ending’s final boss fight.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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funnybeleth
There's an easter egg where the player can sleep in Chako's bed after meeting her and interacting with her fireplace. When you wake up, Chako is sleeping in the bed, and there's lipstick stashed in your inventory.
While this easter egg does allude to some sort of sexual scenario, initially choosing to sleep in the bed does not prompt any unique text. As such, the player doesn't know this will happen without prior knowledge of the easter egg, and the player character himself doesn't react either way. As a kid I assumed Chako just climbed into the bed while he was asleep, which... yeah.
This scenario can be avoided entirely by not sleeping in Chako's bed after you initially interact with her fireplace.
While this easter egg does allude to some sort of sexual scenario, initially choosing to sleep in the bed does not prompt any unique text. As such, the player doesn't know this will happen without prior knowledge of the easter egg, and the player character himself doesn't react either way. As a kid I assumed Chako just climbed into the bed while he was asleep, which... yeah.
This scenario can be avoided entirely by not sleeping in Chako's bed after you initially interact with her fireplace.
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Is there domestic violence?
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funnybeleth
While Cave Story isn't a visually graphic game, various children are injured, killed, enslaved, and transformed into monsters during the narrative.
The player is expected to injure/kill two different child characters during separate boss battles.
The player is expected to injure/kill two different child characters during separate boss battles.
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AvrielMimiga
While Technically not drugs, the red flowers are used on the mimiga multiple times
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Razgriz04
Completely created using 8bit graphics
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funnybeleth
Plenty of enemies are based on real-life animals. Most of them die in a cartoonish puff of smoke and aren't given personalities to get attached to.
Despite being bipedal and sapient, mimiga are small and look a lot like lop-eared rabbits; they're a bit less humanoid-looking than most 'furry' characters. Many mimiga are killed, some by the player.
Despite being bipedal and sapient, mimiga are small and look a lot like lop-eared rabbits; they're a bit less humanoid-looking than most 'furry' characters. Many mimiga are killed, some by the player.
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Are animals abused?
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AvrielMimiga
Mimiga are abused all for the gain of the doctor
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Is there a dead animal?
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funnybeleth
Plenty of enemies are based on real-life animals. Most of them die in a cartoonish puff of smoke and aren't given personalities to get attached to.
Despite being bipedal and sapient, mimiga are small and look a lot like lop-eared rabbits; they're a bit less humanoid-looking than most 'furry' characters. Many mimiga are killed, some by the player.
There is a ghost of a dog who speaks to you before the game's third ending.
Despite being bipedal and sapient, mimiga are small and look a lot like lop-eared rabbits; they're a bit less humanoid-looking than most 'furry' characters. Many mimiga are killed, some by the player.
There is a ghost of a dog who speaks to you before the game's third ending.
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Is an animal sad?
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SourpussMaggie
many
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Are rabbits harmed?
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baliebox4916
the mimigas resemble lop bunnies and are fed red flowers that turn them savage with red bloodshot eyes, after that you have no choice but to fight them
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Does a cat die?
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funnybeleth
One of the bosses happens to be a cat inside of a large machine... it is unknown whether it dies after being defeated; it simply falls out of the machine and disappears off-screen.
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Does a dragon die?
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SourpussMaggie
An entire level of the game (“Egg Corridor?”) is basically devoted to dead, dying, or undead dragons. The dragons who are alive largely seem to have been hatched prematurely, or are otherwise in pain. The player kills numerous dragons in this level, though given the context it’s probably best to put them out of their misery.
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Are there bugs?
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Razgriz04
Anthropomorphic bugs called "Gaudi" live in the Labyrinth and are found both as NPCs and enemies.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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funnybeleth
Characters use swords, but there's no graphic depiction of cutting or bleeding; enemies simply explode into clouds after being defeated.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Razgriz04
It is implied that crazed mimiga will attack and eat other mimiga.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Razgriz04
The player can be crushed by several enemies and obstacles but this just causes the standard "death" animation to play, which is a small explosion.
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Is there body horror?
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SourpussMaggie
The transformative effects of the Red Flowers could be described as this. Both final bosses feature heavy use of more overt body horror.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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AvrielMimiga
you can fall of the island
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Children
Does a kid die?
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AvrielMimiga
We don't know how old she is, but assuming from her size and her sweet innocent nature, we can tell Toroko is young
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Death
Does a major character die?
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SourpussMaggie
Some can be saved from death in certain endings while others will die tragically no matter the player's actions.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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AvrielMimiga
Toroko is Mistaken for Sue and is Thus kidnapped by the Witch, Misery
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SourpussMaggie
A character sacrifices himself, but it doesn’t seem like he’d intended to die going in.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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funnybeleth
3rd ending, right before the credits. It's scripted into a cutscene, and everything turns out okay after a moment.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Razgriz04
Several enemies die in a flash of "light" but it just involves the screen slowly turning white.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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SourpussMaggie
Possibly implied by the amount of corpses in "Egg Corridor?"
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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SourpussMaggie
Not human, but "Egg Corridor?" features many newborn and/or prematurely born dragons.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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SourpussMaggie
Most characters' sexualities aren't elaborated on at all
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Are there fat jokes?
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funnybeleth
Mahin is a large mimiga who spends most of his time eating, which is highlighted in the game's credits text. Despite this, he doesn't appear very often.
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Does the black guy die first?
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SourpussMaggie
Sue is shown to be black when she is briefly turned into a human in the game’s credits sequence, but there are no routes where she is the first character to die in any capacity.
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Is there bestiality?
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SourpussMaggie
In an obscure easter egg, the player is implied to have slept with a bipedal rabbit-like creature. However, this character is an adult of roughly human sentience, and the player character is [SPOILER] a robot, so whether this qualifies as bestiality is debatable.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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funnybeleth
There is an easter egg which implies the player character might've slept with an NPC. You can go to sleep in her bed and wake up beside her with lipstick in your inventory. It's nothing graphic, though, and you can simply avoid it altogether by not sleeping in Chako's bed after you initially meet her and look into her fireplace.
There is another easter egg where you can find a tunnel in a wall and acquire one character's 'panties' from a chest. You have to go out of your way to find them in Curly's room.
There is another easter egg where you can find a tunnel in a wall and acquire one character's 'panties' from a chest. You have to go out of your way to find them in Curly's room.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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SourpussMaggie
Of the game’s three endings, one of them is very dour and another is very bittersweet.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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SourpussMaggie
(SPOILERS AHEAD) Curly will drown in order to save the player character unless an obtuse, permanently miss-able series of steps is taken to save her, which is required for the game's best ending.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Anonymous
Mostly bloodless, but there are some instances of blood. This includes injured baby dragons with blood coming from their eyes, and a boss melting into blood (the limited graphics make it look like red dots)
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Is there gun violence?
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SourpussMaggie
The player uses a variety of guns, though none of them are particularly realistic.
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