Cave Story Game Information

Game Information

Overall Rank: 578

Average Rating: 4.3/5

# of Ratings: 2

US Release Date: 03/22/2010

JP Release Date: 2011

Platform: Nintendo Network

Genres: Action (2D Platformer, Action/Adventure)

ESRB Rating: E10+

Multiplayer: No

Developer: Nicalis

Publisher: Nicalis

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Nelson Schneider
Nelson Schneider
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Rating of
4.5/5

One Man's Vision

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/20/2011

“Cave Story” is the magnum opus of amateur game designer, Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya who initially released it as a freeware title for PC in 2004. Pixel spent 5 years working on the original game and fan-translator Andrew Davis assembled an English-language patch in 2005. I first became aware of “Cave Story” in 2006 and even went so far as to download a copy of the game and translation, but then never played it. Everything I'd read about “Cave Story” sounded brilliant: an old-school “Metroid” clone with endearing characters and a smart story, all painstakingly created and assembled by one person. Yet the simple fact that it was a PC game, and thus would deny me the experience of playing it on my TV with a controller, made me set it aside in an obscure folder filled with …

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