History VideoGame / JenkasNightmare

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. As of May 4th, 2014, Jenka's Nightmare is finally complete, and is considered to have gone far above and beyond [=MagicDoors=]' attempt. As of January 18th, 2015, the version is 3.0.0.1. The game, as of now, has recieved its final major update, and any future updates are tentatively bugfixes.

* BonusBoss:
** [[spoiler:Bro Pignon and his gang]], and [[spoiler:the fourth Suto fight]] thereafter.
** [[spoiler:All of the bosses after the fake ending.]]
** [[spoiler:And one more for finding the Super Secret Room, combined with a BossRush.]]

* CheckpointStarvation[=/=]DifficultySpike: Just like in the original game, both tropes come into full effect from Plantation onwards.

** In the Sand Zone, [[folder:it seems as though the boss of the area will be Misery. When you get to her, the boss theme starts playing... but Booster comes in and stops the fight before it begins. The actual boss, The Deconstructor, is fought a little later on with almost no warning]].

* AdultFear / MamaBear: Curly looks distressed for the most of the game becuase she's worried about the Colons, four orphaned mimiga children that she took care of, in the original game, which due to the circumstances she unwillingly left behind.
* AirAidedAcrobatics: While in the original game, the mod's version of [[GreenHillZone Grasstown]] expands upon it spectacularly. 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.
** And then you have to fight the boss while also using/competing with fans for horizontal momentum.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Genesis is to creation as Oblivion is to destruction. [[MeaningfulName Not that it was too hard to figure that out.]]

* AwesomeButTemporary: Due to what happens after the second fight against Suto, any weapons you have are gone forever. Kind of expected with your starter weapon, yes, but this also includes [[PermanentlyMissableContent any ammo expansions for the Snake and the Missile Launcher acquired until this point]]. The former can be trivialized by having the Snake Capsule from a NG+ file, as it upgrades the weapon to the Hydra, with infinite ammo. The latter? Not so much.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The final part of the Spur sidequest sets up for a fight against [[spoiler:King Pignon, but he ends up being the flunky to Suto's FlunkyBoss]].

** [[spoiler:Bro Pignon and his gang]], and the [[spoiler:fourth Suto fight thereafter]].

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Quote, Curly, and Balrog were far away from the island trying to live new lives when [[spoiler:Jenka suddenly teleported them back]]. [[spoiler:Sue]] is brought along as well, much to [[spoiler:her]] displeasure.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The RecurringBoss, Suto, joins the trope.

* ClimaxBoss: The fights against [[spoiler:Genesis and Oblivion]]. Fittingly, they both get The Core's battle theme.
* CutsceneBoss: Your first encounter with Misery ends with her attacking you, [[spoiler:but the fight is almost immediately stopped by Booster]].

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Happens to Quote during the true ending.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Genesis and Oblivion.
* FlunkyBoss:
** In the third fight with [[RecurringBoss Suto]], your primary target is [[spoiler:a very, very large white [[KingMook critter]]]].
** [[spoiler:Bro Pignon]], a boss on the side-quest to [[spoiler:re-obtain the Spur]], has three (four before the current version) other [[spoiler:Pignons]] in the room that leap around the room. [[spoiler:[[AFormYouAreComfortableWith They act just like the Colins from the original game]].]]
** [[spoiler:The last Suto fight has Bro Pignon helping him out.]]

* [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon]]: [[spoiler:The Doctor is ultimately revealed to be behind everything.]]
* HeroicMime: just like in the original game, Quote appears as such for the player, but not for the other characters. The Magic Journal that the player can get in the Mimiga Village [[spoiler:and the Little Man from the first game, if brought over with the NewGamePlus feature]] can mitigate this effect a bit.

* IllKillYou: Suto gets '''extremely''' peeved after his continued losing streak.
* ISurrenderSuckers: The last fight with [[spoiler:Suto ends with Suto jumping away with the usual "Fought off Suto!" message...only for him to immediately crash down again for the fight's last phase]].

* [[spoiler:ItsPersonal]]:
** Curly Brace, see AdultFear above. The player can find out about the four orphans on the way to the GoldenEnding. [[spoiler:They're still around, all right, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy in their frenzied form]], thanks to the Doctor's influence. They're the miniboss of the Last Cave (Hidden). [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption You're given no other choice but to proceed]].]]
** Double whammy. During Arcadia, it's revealed that Curly, due to her amnesia recovery from the previous game, remembered even more than she let out at first. [[spoiler:Both her and Quote are creations from Dr. Sakamoto, Sue's grand-grandfather. They were left with his son, Daisuke Sakamoto, before the events that provoked the war on the floating island. Who was assassinated by Fuyuhiko Date, The Doctor, for getting in the way of his master plan to invade the island and usurp the Demon Crown and whatever power comes with it. [[RelativeButton Curly looks more than happy to be given the chance to confront him]].]]
* KingMook: The [[spoiler:[[MotherOfAThousandYoung Great White Critter]]]]. [[spoiler:Heavy Press]] also makes a return.

** Normal ending: [[spoiler:After defeating Jenka's Nightmare, talk to Curly in the observatory and agree that there's nothing left to do on the island. Quote, Curly, and Balrog will leave the island together]].
** TrueEnding: [[spoiler:After defeating Jenka's Nightmare, go to Jenka's house. [[HijackedByGanon The Doctor reveals his presence]] and attacks Quote, leaving Curly to go through the BrutalBonusLevel and TrueFinalBoss to defeat him once and for all]].

* PaletteSwap: [[RecurringBoss Suto]] is an obvious one.
* ThePowerOfCreation: Genesis.
* PowerOfTheVoid: Oblivion.

* RecurringBoss: Suto replaces Balrog as this.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}.]] Right in front of [[spoiler:Misery's house]], there is a save point and a health/ammo refill station. [[spoiler:When you go in, she gets angry at you, rises into the air the way she did at the beginning of her boss fight in the original, her boss health meter appears at the bottom of the screen... and then Booster shows up and talks her out of attacking you, and you don't actually fight her at all.]]

* [[spoiler:TrueFinalBoss]]: [[spoiler:Tristitia.]]
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The fight against [[spoiler:Oblivion]] [[spoiler:and the final fight against Tristitia.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Suto gets more and more unhinged each time you fight him. By the 4th fight, [[spoiler:he's repeatedly screaming at you to die. And he gets even worse in the fifth]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: Suto, more or less. He has a lot of pent-up rage he intends to show off:
** The second fight with Suto is the earliest instance. VentPhysics blow you around, and his energy balls take multiple hits to destroy — many more if your weapon gets powered down mid-fight.
** The fight with [[spoiler:the [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Great White Critter]]]], who happens to have Suto helping her, as well. If you fail to avoid Suto himself, not only will you take damage from his grapple, you're very likely to be thrown into [[spoiler:the Great White Critter]] as well, taking additional damage in the process. [[note]]Although, the direction he throws you is simply the opposite as the direction he grabbed you from.[[/note]]

* ISurrenderSucker: The last fight with [[spoiler:Suto ends with Suto jumping away with the usual "Fought off Suto!" message...only for him to immediately crash down again for the fight's last phase.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Bro Pignon and his gang]], and the [[spoiler:fourth Suto fight thereafter]].

* [[spoiler:ItsPersonal]]: Curly Brace, see AdultFear above. The player can find out about the four orphans on the way to the GoldenEnding. [[spoiler:They're still around, all right, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy in their frenzied form]], thanks to the Doctor's influence. They're the miniboss of the Last Cave (Hidden). [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption You're given no other choice but to proceed]].]]

* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The fight against [[spoiler:Oblivion]].
** [[spoiler:The final fight against Tristitia.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgBffK9Phg Labyrinth Fight]] being reused for [[spoiler: the pathetically dilapidated and broken-down remains of the Egg Corridor]] from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' proper.

* SoundtrackDissonance: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgBffK9Phg Labyrinth Fight]] being reused for [[spoiler: the pathetically broken-down remains of the Egg Corridor]] from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' proper.

* Permanently

* AdultFear / MamaBear: Curly looks distressed for the most of the game becuase she's worried about the Colons, four orphaned mimiga children that she took care of, in the original game, which due to the circunstances she unwillingly left behind.

* AlasPoorVillain: It's implied that the entire mess is caused by [[spoiler:Jenka mourning Ballos' death, and subconsciously trying to destroy the island to erase the memory of his actions. Eventually subverted: see HijackedByGanon below.]]
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler:The true ending has you playing as Curly Brace trying to rescue Quote]].

* ApocalypticLog: There's a hidden diary in Booster's Workshop that helps bridge the gap between Jenka's Nightmare and ''VideoGame/CaveStory''. [[spoiler:Obviously, it didn't end very well]].
** In the [[RuinsForRuinsSake Abandoned Facility]], you find a series of logs written by someone from a group that was doing research on the island, while trying to coexist with the Mimiga. [[spoiler:It... didn't end well, either]].
* AuthorAvatar: [[spoiler:At any point in the game where you could [[SequenceBreaking Sequence Break]] with some effort, instead of going to the next logical map, you'll be sent to a "[[DevelopersRoom Secret Room]]". Inside this secret room is the present modding author, [=ZarroTsu=], seen to be working on the game while in the game]].

** [[spoiler:All of the bosses after the fake ending]].
** [[spoiler: And one more for finding the Super Secret Room, combined with a BossRush]].

* CheckpointStarvation / DifficultySpike: Just like in the original game, both tropes come into full effect from Plantation onwards.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: [[spoiler:Excalibur]]. While it could also fall under the DiskOneNuke trope, a considerable drawback is the range - made even smaller than the original game's version of the weapon. This is somewhat improved as of version 3.0.0.0, but not by much.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Happens to Quote during the true ending]].

** [[spoiler:Several SequenceBreaking situations result instead with a "[[DevelopersRoom Secret Room]]"]].
** Did you forgot to deliver the [[spoiler:Litte Man]] to [[spoiler:his family]] in the original game? With the NewGamePlus functionality, you can still finish this [[{{Pun}} little]] quest. [[spoiler:It'll even be an acceptable alternative to bring over the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Nemesis]] to this game, but unlike the traditional method - bring him over in the first game, then come to visit him during this one - he'll also act like a [[OverlyLongGag minor]] ExpositionFairy whenever checked in the inventory, after some key events in the game. Like chastising you for robbing the Polar Star [[MythologyGag again]], giving his own input about the bosses and sidequests, and so on. He'll even remind you when it's possible to reach his home and deliver him to his family!]]

** [[spoiler:Bro Pignon]], a boss on the side-quest to [[spoiler:re-obtain the Spur]], has three (four before the current version) other [[spoiler:Pignons]] in the room that leap around the room. [[spoiler:[[AFormYouAreComfortableWith They act just like the Colins from the original game]]]].
** [[spoiler:The last Suto fight has Bro Pignon helping him out]].

* [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon]]: [[spoiler:The Doctor is ultimately revealed to behind everything]].

* [[spoiler:ItsPersonal]]: Curly Brace, see AdultFear above. The player can find about the four orphans on the way to the GoldenEnding. [[spoiler:They're still around all right, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy in their frenzied form]], thanks to the Doctor's influence. They're the miniboss of the Last Cave (Hidden). [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption You're given no other choice but to proceed]].]]

** [[spoiler:The [[TheLostWoods Devil's Garden]]]].

*** 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. [[GuideDangIt At least, not very well]]...

** [[spoiler: The Super Secret Room, accessed by finding the five other secret rooms, then entering Jenka's fireplace]].

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}.]] Right in front of [[spoiler: Misery's house]], there is a save point and a health/ammo refill station. [[spoiler: When you go in, she gets angry at you, rises into the air the way she did at the beginning of her boss fight in the original, her boss health meter appears at the bottom of the screen... and then Booster shows up and talks her out of attacking you, and you don't actually fight her at all.]]

* TooAwesomeToUse: Similar to the Life Pot (which also makes a return), the [[spoiler:Munitions Clip]] is a single-use item. What does it do? [[spoiler:Instantly restore ALL weapon ammo]].
** If you had a Life Pot one in your NG+ profile (which you likely did), you begin the game with it. It's still single-use, but you can still receive the regular one later on, if you use it first.
* [[spoiler:TrueFinalBoss]]: [[spoiler:Tristitia]].

** [[spoiler:The final fight against Tristitia]].
* VillainOverride: Misery complains that upon trying to get close to Jenka, she gets transformed into "[T]hat... THING", a reference to her twisted form from the original ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s final boss

** The second fight with Suto is the earliest instance. VentPhysics blow you around, and his energy balls take multiple hits to destroy -- many more if your weapon gets powered down mid-fight.

'''''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.

---> [[note]]''Round and round, the clock hand spins;''\\

''the forward path behind us...''[[/note]]

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, and was considered by many to be the 'true' ending to Jenka's Nightmare.

The mod occurs after the events of the original game's secret ending, so '''one can expect this article to be {{Spoiler}} heavy.''' To avoid abusing the {{Spoiler}} tag for the entire article, however, '''All information from the original game will be treated as 'known'.''' It is highly suggested that you complete the original game before reading this article.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:

** You can ignore [[spoiler:Sue and Curly after returning from the Labyrinth]], and only meet up with them after having beaten one of the {{ClimaxBoss}}es. Doing so changes the meet-up dialog.

** Did you forgot to deliver the [[spoiler:Litte Man]] to [[spoiler:his family]] in the original game? With the NewGamePlus functionality, you can still finish this [[JustForPun little]] quest. [[spoiler:It'll even be an acceptable alternative to bring over the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Nemesis]] to this game, but unlike the traditional method - bring him over in the first game, then come to visit him during this one - he'll also act like a [[OverlyLongGag minor]] ExpositionFairy whenever checked in the inventory, after some key events in the game. Like chastising you for robbing the Polar Star [[MythologyGag again]], giving his own input about the bosses and sidequests, and so on. He'll even remind you when it's possible to reach his home and deliver him to his family!]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: It's implied that the entire mess is caused by [[spoiler:Jenka mourning Ballos' death, and subconsciously trying to destroy the island to erase the memory of his actions]].

* [[spoiler:ItsPersonal]]: Curly Brace, see AdultFear above. The player can find about the four orphans on the way to the GoldenEnding. [[spoiler:They're still around all right, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy in their frenzied form.]] They're the miniboss of the Last Cave (Hidden). [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption You're given no other choice but to proceed]].]]