Oh, Curly~!

By: Derek Yu

On: March 20th, 2009

Curly Brace

An article in The Escapist reveals that the Cave Story Wii team is aiming for an April release of the game. Nicalis is interested in adding DLC to the game in the months following the release, possibly including a Boss Rush Mode and other fan-requested modes.

“It’s really exciting, and I do my best to keep it all in. But I’m a little bit anxious with all the expectation behind the game,” [Pixel] admits. “I’m really grateful to be able to bring it to a console. And I’m really happy that Tyrone found the game when he did and decided to put the effort to make it come to WiiWare.”

But this post was mostly an excuse to post the epic Cave Story Anthem video that Annabelle Kennedy made, as well as the Curly Brace fan art by Niklas “Arne” Jansson.

Posted in Community, Platformers, Videos, Wii | Tags: AnnabelleKennedy, Arne, Nicalis, Pixel

http://0xdeadc0de.org/ Eclipse

wow Annabelle, that video was awesome, was that your synthetized voice? or are you a robot too?
Jer

Thank you for finding an excuse to post that epic anthem. Great work, Annabelle.
Dominic White

That was a Vocaloid doing the singing. Miku, I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-1-xDWfFnk&fmt=18
gerry

Awesome! I think the voice is actually Hatsune Miku.
Not Nicolas/Nifflas/Niklas/Neeklars

So many variations of the same phonetic.
http://metanetsoftware.com/blog raigan

yeah, I’d love to know how that voice was made, it’s pretty awesome!
Peevish

Pretty sure it’s a vocoder. Also, pretty sure it’s fuckyeah awesome.
http://www.b-mcc.com/ BMcC

Sounds like vocoder to me, yeah. Autotune may be involved.
BeamSplashX

Don’t you see? Annabelle IS Hatsune Miku!
Leroy

Sorry, song was awful. Awful voice, too.
Annabelle

I’m sorry you didn’t like it Leroy.. I hope i do better next time!

And the Vocaloid I used wasnt Miku, i used Luka.
Anonymous

Boss rush and bonus modes are going to be DLC? I was hoping that they would be bundled into the Cave Story ExperienceÂ© and not added after the fact.

In fact, wasn’t there some kind of vague mention that the Wii mode would be the base game with better music, better graphics, and That Little Bit Extra?
http://attractmo.de Adam

That was a lot of fun. Nice job, Annabelle!
falsion

Vocaloid is a TTS synthesis program that can simulate singing.

You basically type what you want it to say, and give it the notes to sing. It’s available in several voices, including anime voices as well.
Garbled

You can tell Ms. Vocaloid is Japanese. She turned “the” into “za”.
Tyrone

The video and Niklas’ Curly are awesome.
http://metanetsoftware.com/blog raigan

thanks to everyone for identifying vocaloid!
Josh

Amazing stuff Annabelle! I love it! I grabbed the MP3, but there was no ID3 tag! You should always try to tag your mp3s so that you get proper credit when things get virally spread across this world wide webs, as I’m sure this mp3 is about to be (:
Deacon Blues

Ugh. You can’t get any more obnoxious than vocaloid music.
Johan

I think the video is *perfect* – at once majestic and heartwrenching. The imperfections of the Vocaloid song are essential in setting the mood. Super job!
Johan

I mean, “we have to go the ex-tra mile” brings me somewhat close to tears.