Category Request: 100%
4 years ago

100% is a category first defined by myself, which aims at "completion" of the game by collecting the maximum amount of items, weapons and updates achievable in a single playthru of Cave Story. The run focuses on checking and activating all item locations. Current definition can be found here: https://pastebin.com/rAuZUTZH

Category is compatible with all versions of the game, but it has been most ran on Switch, as it is the fastest release of the game for speedrunning purposes.

This is the most active full game category of Cave Story+ to this date, with two active runners which hold top positions in the Best Ending leaderboard thanks to these runs. It has also had presence in speedrun marathons, having been ran at CSM4 and RRLAT 2.8, and being scheduled for PUWP 2019. As such, I request a leaderboard for the category, moving all its runs to it.

thunderzap7 likes this
New York, USA

Other 100% runner chiming in here, also asking that 100% be added. It's a very fun category that shows most of what Cave Story has to offer. Has some pretty stressful moments, specifically Ironhead, making it quite entertaining to watch as well.

United States

Given that there are already multiple runners running that category, I'd vote that we allow that category to exist. That said, I don't particularly like it being called "100%", especially since "100%" has had conflicting definitions by multiple players over the years, with some arguing that a 100% completion of the game is flat-out impossible. Maybe "Max%" or "Max Completion" or something like that would be a more appropriate name for the category?

RepentMF likes this

In that case, as the category was inspired by 100% in Super Mario RPG: https://sites.google.com/site/supermariorpgspeedruns/home/100

I'd like to propose naming it Most of the Stuff (100%)