History VideoGame / JenkasNightmare

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[[caption-width-right:320:Oh, another [[ThePowerOfCreation demi-god]]. Come on, game, [[TheHero Quote]]'s dealt with [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds THOSE]] before!]]


'''''Jenka's Nightmare''''' is a FanSequel to the popular indie game ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', and was created by Mark "shmitz" Major in 2009. The game was made to approximately 66-75% completion, and was then abandoned. The game was a direct sequel to the original game's secret ending, so expect this article to be {{Spoiler}} heavy.

Many people would later try their hands at making changes and their own endings to Jenka's Nightmare in an attempt to finish what shmitz started. A notable attempt at this completion was made in 2011 by "[=MagicDoors=]", with their own unique ending to the game that received mixed reception.

In December of 2012, Zachary "[=ZarroTsu=]" Baillie quickly picked up the mod himself, and set out to reboot the mod entirely from scratch, using the original mod's story and setting as a base. It is presently active, and is now considered by many to be the definitive version of the game.

[[TheHero Quote]], [[TheLancer Curly]], and [[BoisterousBruiser Balrog]] have spent several months enjoying their new lives away from the island after the events of the previous story, and the defeat of [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate The Doctor]] and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Ballos]]. Suddenly, and without warning, [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive they are teleported back to the island]] by a desperate and defeated [[HermitGuru Jenka]], and immediately separated.

From the get-go it's evident that the entire island has been physically changed by some [[ThePowerOfCreation strange]] [[SphereOfDestruction forces]] acting on the island. What has happened to the island after the previous events? It's up to Quote to find his friends and figure out the mystery behind these new forces, meeting old allies and new enemies along the way.

[[http://www.cavestory.org/forums/index.php?/topic/5050-jenkas-nightmare-2nd-demo/ Game discussion and download links can be found here.]]

The tropes listed below are exclusive to ''Jenka's Nightmare''; tropes specific to the characters and events in the original game will not be included. (Tropes from the original game that are redefined by the new content in ''Jenka's Nightmare'' may be, however.)

* AirAidedAcrobatics: While a trope of the original game, the Mod's version of [[GreenHillZone Grasstown]] not only continues the trope but inflates it. Toward the end of Grasstown, you're required to use a series of computer consoles to turn on and off a series of fans so you can climb a series of pillars to reach the warehouse at the far right of the map.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: All of the new enemies and bosses in the game use the same AI as the original game would allow. [[spoiler:In fact, one of the early bosses, [[RecurringBoss Suto]], is almost identical to Balrog!]]
* AlasPoorVillain: It's implied that the entire mess is caused by [[spoiler: Jenka mourning Ballo's death and subconsciously trying to destroy the island to erase all memory of him]].
* ApocalypticLog: In the [[spoiler: Abandoned Facility, you find a series of logs written by someone from a group of humans that were doing research on the island while trying to coexist with the Mimiga. It...doesn't end well]].
** [[spoiler: There's also a hidden diary in Booster's Workshop that helps bridge the gap between ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' and this game. Obviously, that doesn't end well either]].
* AuthorAvatar: [[spoiler:At any point in the game where you could 'sequence break' with some effort, instead of going to the next map you'll be sent to a 'Secret Room'. Inside this secret room is the present modding author, [=ZarroTsu=], seen to be working on the game while in the game.]]
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler: Your first encounter with Misery ends with her attacking you, but the fight is almost immediately stopped by Booster]].
* BagOfSpilling: Despite the storyline picking up right from the ending of [[BonusLevelOfHell Sacred Grounds]] in the original, Quote once again begins alone, in a cave, unarmed. Presumably [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by him being unarmed when Jenka teleports the trio, leaving all his hard-won equipment behind... though that doesn't explain the recession back to 6 HP.
* BrutalBonusLevel: Three so far. To get to them, [[spoiler: you have to defeat Monster X while/instead of fighting it.]]
** The first one is available in ''Labyrinth L''. [[spoiler: You need to first travel down a long pitfall full of [[LiftOfDoom moving blocks]]. After you pick up the DismantledMacGuffin piece, [[DrowningPit the room immediately fills with water]], and you have to not only climb back out, but do so with hindered JumpPhysics.]]
** The second one is available beyond the door in ''Misery's Abode''. [[spoiler: VentPhysics require you have a [[PlatformHell mastery over precision jumping]] to keep your horizontal momentum across the entire room. Once you get the DismantledMacGuffin piece, a [[KaizoTrap Save Point]] will spawn, allowing you to try to leave until your will is left [[ControllableHelplessness hopelessly broken]].]]
*** Alternatively, [[spoiler: you can completely cheap it out with the level 3 Machine Gun]].
** The third one is available at the top end of the ''Corridor''. [[spoiler: This takes you right back into the Seal Chamber from the original, where you then have to fight Misery ''and'' Ballos at the same time, though thankfully only his second form]].
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: Bro Pignon and his gang, the fourth Suto fight, and the Ballos/Misery [[DualBoss tagteam]]]].
* BulletHell: Deconstructor comes close. It is a reskin of the Night Spirit enemies from the first game's Outer Wall, its bubbles replaced by launched [[ThisIsADrill drills]]. At the same time it's bobbing up and down and shooting those, hordes of Baby Polish (the smaller version of the blade-wheel or gear-shaped enemies in Sand Zone) are swarming in en-masse from behind. You either have to do a lot of jumping and dodging and evading with the Booster, or MacrossMissileMassacre with the Rocket Launcher and hope the explosions clear the area around you.
* ButThouMust: [[spoiler:[[ThisWasHisTrueForm Monster X]]]] will ask you to get him some Critter Juice, and proceed to loop his dialog through a number of different branches so long as you keep saying 'No'.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Quote, Curly, and Balrog were far away from the island trying to live new lives when Jenka suddenly teleported them back (although, admittedly, the island is seen within viewing distance of their new house). Sue is brought along as well, much to her displeasure.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: [[RecurringBoss Suto]] joins the trope.
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: The fights against Genesis and Oblivion. Fittingly, they both get the Core's battle theme]].

** [[spoiler:In one instance, he's wandering around Sand Zone and is suddenly swallowed whole by a rush of sand filling the area. It never occurs to him to jump out of the way, despite his ability to fly through ceilings.]]
** [[spoiler:In another instance immediately after you rescue him, he tosses aside a boulder which not only traps him and Quote in a room together, but also causes the floor under them to collapse, separating the two of them all over again.]]
* DismantledMacGuffin: [[spoiler: The Mirror Fragments]].
* FanSequel
* FlunkyBoss:
** In the third fight with [[RecurringBoss Suto]], [[spoiler:your primary target is a very, very large White Critter.]]
** [[spoiler:Bro Pignon, a boss on the side-quest to reobtain the Spur, has four other Pignons in the room that leap around. [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith They act identically to the Collins from the original game.]]]]

* IllKillYou: Suto gets extremely peeved after his continued losing streak.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: If you play the game through its NewGamePlus function, loading an old profile wherein you still had the Polar Star at the Prefab House before [[BonusLevelOfHell Sacred Grounds]], the eventual conclusion to the Spur subplot will also reward you with the [[ItemAmplifier Turbocharge]]. [[spoiler: A little known fact about the [[ItemAmplifier Turbocharge]]: It makes the Spur charge twice as fast too!]]
* KingMook: [[MotherOfAThousandYoung The Great White Critter]]
* LostForever: The Nikumaru Counter. [[spoiler: It is available on the Underside of the island. If you go to the Sanctuary immediately, it becomes LostForever as soon as you fall down the OneWayTrip beyond the area's entrance. If you don't go to the Sanctuary immediately, you can return to the Underside to get there - but missing the counter again just makes it LostForever-er.]]
* LowLevelAdvantage: Loading an old profile for the NewGamePlus feature, while donning minimal HP, will let you collect all the life capsules you missed before (with some minor PowerDegeneration, mind you). Doing so will net you the most HP after you build your way up from being a OneHitPointWonder.
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: NewGamePlus, accessed by carrying over a save file from the end of ''VideoGame/CaveStory''.
* NoobCave: The Pipeworks, the first "real" area of the game.
* NoGearLevel: After battling [[RecurringBoss Suto]] for the second time in Grasstown, Quote falls down a long shaft and loses his weapons. He is unarmed and defenseless for a brief segment until stumbling across the Fireball, waiting in a chest in a house built under the island.
* PaletteSwap: [[RecurringBoss Suto]].
* TheMaze: ''Three'' of them: [[spoiler: the Guardian's Maze, the Devil's Garden]], and the Labyrinth, which is an actual labyrinth this time.
* ThePowerOfCreation: Genesis.
* Really700YearsOld: The Cthulhu claim to be even older than Jenka.
* SolveTheSoupCans:
** In the [[spoiler:Sanctuary]], the player is required to run around a maze being followed by a strange flame that will teleport you out if it meets up with you in the same room.
*** [[spoiler:In the original game this was almost certainly a GuideDangIt moment, as not only was the solution completely unexplained, but the rooms were much more broken up and it was difficult to determine when and how the flame would move next.]]
** In Sand Zone, the player is required to shuffle three teleporters around to get around Sand Zone. [[spoiler:In order to progress, they need to set any two teleporters to one another, and take the third. This wasn't explained in the original either. At least, not very well...]]

''the forward path behind us...'' [[/note]]
** A robot in the "Dead End" spells it out a little more.
* SecretLevel: [[spoiler: The Sanctuary, accessed by interacting with a Mimiga statue near the end of the Underside]].
* [[SequelDifficultySpike Fan-Sequel Difficulty Spike]]: Noticeably harder than the original, but not by much. As Shmitz once said on the subject, if you've beaten the [[BrutalBonusLevel Sacred Grounds]], you should be fine.
* SphereOfDestruction: Oblivion.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: [[spoiler:Excalibur, a weapon that can be found in a Sanctuary hidden under the island, can be shown to Jack in Grasstown to evoke some additional story.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Suto gets more and more unhinged each time you fight him. [[spoiler: By the 4th fight, he's just repeatably screaming at you to die]].
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** In the Labyrinth, the player can easily get lost in a looping maze. One hint of the maze's solution is a poem muttered by a Cthulhu:

''the forward path behind us...''

** [[spoiler: There's also a hidden diary in Booster's Workshop that helps bridge the gap between CaveStory and this game. Obviously, that doesn't end well either]].

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: NewGamePlus, accessed by carrying over a save file from the end of CaveStory.

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: NewGamePlus.
* NewGamePlus: Accessed by carrying over a save file from the end of CaveStory.

* TheMaze: ''Three'' of them: [[spoiler: the Guardian's Maze, the Devil's Garden]], and the Labyrinth, which is an actual Labyrinth this time.

* TheMaze: ''Three'' of them: [[spoiler: the Guardian's Maze, the Devil's Garden]], and the Labyrinth, which is actually a Labyrinth this time.

* FanSequel: To Cave Story's true ending.

'''''Jenka's Nightmare''''' is a [[GameMod fan-made sequel]] to the popular indie game ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', and was created by Mark "shmitz" Major in 2009. The game was made to approximately 66-75% completion, and was then abandoned. The game was a direct sequel to the original game's secret ending, so expect this article to be {{Spoiler}} heavy.

* NewGamePlus

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler: Your first encounter with Misery ends with her attacking Quote in a jealous rage, but the fight is almost immediately stopped by Booster]].

** [[spoiler: There's also a hidden diary in Booster's Workshop that bridges the gap between CaveStory and this game. Obviously, that doesn't end well either]].

** [[spoiler: There's also a hidden diary in Booster's Workshop, bridging the gap between CaveStory and this game. Obviously, that doesn't end well either]].

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: Bro Pignon and his gang, the fourth Suto fight, and the Ballos/Misery tagteam]].

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: Bro Pignon and his gang and the Ballos/Misery tagteam]].

* ApocalypticLog: In the [[spoiler: Abandoned Facility, you find a series of logs written by someone from a group of humans doing research on the island while trying to coexist with the Mimiga. It...doesn't end well]].

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Quote, Curly, and Balrog were far away from the island trying to live new lives when Jenka suddenly teleported them back (although, admittedly, the island is seen within viewing distance of their new house).

* VentPhysics: Aside from the [[spoiler: BrutalBonusLevel]] mentioned above, Grasstown also features a lot of this. You even have to have to turn certain fans on and off to get at some secrets. [[spoiler: Namely, a life capsule and the Whimsical Star]].

* DismantledMacGuffinPiece: [[spoiler: The Mirror Fragments]].

* BrutalBonusLevel: Two so far. To get to either of them, [[spoiler: You have to defeat Monster X while/instead of fighting it.]]