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Prefered weapon in Cave Story.

Hey people, I want to play through Cave Story again and try to beat my old time in the Sacred Ground (7 50'4) which I got with the machine gun. Which of the 3 weapons would you guys suggest to me to use; the machine gun, spur, or snake? Also which weapon do you guys prefer in general? I love the machine gun because its really strong and you can fly with it. I would of kept using it but I really want to try something new.
Definitely not the Machine Gun. It may allow you to fly, but overall, its damage is less over a certain amount of time. The machine gun's projectiles don't always hit their target, making most of the missiles go to waste. Not only that, it has to recharge. The first time through, I took the machine gun, and I knew that I took the wrong weapon.

For speedruns, I would say take the Snake. (IIRC) it can shoot through walls, allowing yourself to breeze through the Deleet doors faster, and it is like the Polar Star in a way, it allows you to shoot projectiles. I think that it is pretty strong, and compared to the Spur, it has no recharge time to shoot more powerful projectiles.

I personally enjoy the Spur, this is because it can shoot a ray of a projectile at once. It is strong, except as said, it has a charge time for bigger shots. It is the most powerful weapon in the game, except its cons kinda deteriorate the weapon a bit.

Also at the title, my preferred weapon is the Nemesis. It shoots ducks.



Snake. Really useful, helps you run through the game a lot quicker. If you're gonna go for the snake though you should go Nemesis instead of blade, at least if you're doing Sacred Ground. Sure, if you get Snake you lose the fireball but after grasstown it's mostly useless anyway.

Bubbler. Yes, I said it, the Bubbler. At first it sucks, but when you level it up, it acts like a cool shield/weapon, which I like.
I love the spur because I get some crazy adrenaline rush whenever I'm mashing the shoot button like hell on my controller.

However, most evidence points to snake being the best weapon if you just wanna get the best time, so go ahead and do whatever you want.
Originally posted by Volke
Bubbler. Yes, I said it, the Bubbler. At first it sucks, but when you level it up, it acts like a cool shield/weapon, which I like.

Bubbler would be awesome if its level 2 version still shot projectiles when the bubbles pop. Only level 3 is its good form so it's a failure in my book.

Spur is my favourite. Non-level dependant and powerful. I've never used the snake so I can't say how good that is.
Spur, definitely. I does incredible damage at LV MAX, and still does quite a lot if you don't fully charge it.
The LV3 upgraded missiles do loads of damage, but the fact that they are limited reduces their use a bit.
Also I didn't like the snake when I tried it, since its first two levels aren't strong enough to do any real damage with, getting it to level 3 can be annoying when your weapons get reset to level 1, and even at full power it doesn't pierce "armored" enemies (like the Butes holding a sword, or everything except the eyes in Ballos's second form).
Nemesis.
If you master it you can't die with it.
I would say the Bubbler and the Spur.
Its a pain to get the spur but it really pays off in the end.

Bubbler is awesome way to breeze through some of the first bosses, blafrog comes to mind...
I have already decided to use the Snake though, Its not as good as I hoped it would be but its pretty handy. And I don't even know what the Nemesis is how do you get that? Also is Curly supposed to be missing after you fight that fish boss in the waterway? Its been a while I may have forgotten how the whole process to the Sacred Ground is.
[Edit] Never mind all that I got the Nemesis and made it to the Sacred Ground and beat Ballos (I don't see what the big deal is he's really easy, I had more trouble with the Undead Core). But for whatever reason, I wasn't being timed. So all of that was just one big waste of time. -_-
You didn't get timed because you forgot to get the Nikumaru Counter, silly!
Spur, and Blade comes after it. Spur because, obviously, it's powerful and doesn't need triangles. Blade because I like to use it, although its range isn't very wide, specially on level 2. Still, it is very helpful on the Labyrinth.
Now I need to change my old avatar. Or not.



For me it's the Machine Gun, it was my main weapon on my first playthrough of Cave Story. Plus it deals tons of damage in a short amount of time at the expense of a ammo loss.



Spur, Bubbler, and Missile Launcher V2 LV.3

Spur is for when you have a amount of enemies coming at you, and you need a big wall to kill them all. Bubbler for when you're surrounded by alot of enemies, and the Missile Launcher for killing them bosses super fast.