Cave Story - Curly Brace optional Sidestory part (3/4) - Welcome to Hell (partial playtrough)
Channel: MT
Date: 2022-12-07

In the "last" boss fight it is important that you do not use your life pot. Instead talk with the colored Mimiga to get a few extra hearts.

After defeating the core go back to the saving point. The door to the cabin will be open if you saved Curly Brace.

The area in the hole is called Sacred Grounds, but the sign below the entrance says "Welcome to Hell" and it is really difficult. You won't get a save point from now on and first you need to go trough a series of corridors with deadly traps. Then you need to fight off the first boss, called "heavy press". Then comes the last boss with 4 stages (so in total there are 5 bosses). The last boss is Ballos, the brother of the witch-woman Jenka. Remember her and her puppies from the Sand Zone?

I was not able to defeat Ballos and the video you see here are two attempts to defeat Hell. After your first attempt the text explaining the background story does not appear in the following attempts, so I had to use one attempt that showed the text and another in which I was able to defeat the heavy press.

I think it would make sense to defeat the heavy press and then use the life pot. But for training you should use the life pot at any stage, like I did.

I used the guide by Justin Morgan. The suggestion to use Nemesis for the heavy press somewhat works, but not as good as I hoped.
https://www.cavestory.org/guides/cave_story_faq.txt

You can download the game for free here:
https://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php

0:00 Defeat the Core
7:10 Go back to the Prefab House
8:06 Welcome to Hell
23:24 Heavy Press bossfight
25:43 Ballos bossfight (failed attempt)