It reminded me of why I enjoy playing videogames. It was a wonderful and addicting experience playing through it and I hope anyone reading this who has not already played this game will give it a shot. So if you are a fan of any of these titles, then you are in for a real treat. Pixel's art style and character design and boss battles are very reminiscent of Treasure games, like Gunstar Heroes, which happens to be one of my personal favourite games of all time.

Some that come to mind are Metroid, Castlevania, Megaman, Blaster Master and Monster Mash. The gameplay plays like a combination of various NES/Famicom games. Cave Story is by far the best freeware game I have ever had the honour of playing through and certainly one of the best games I've played. For a freeware game it is fairly lengthy too. And on top of all this added multiple endings, several boss battles, tons of items to collect, all kinds of added secret bonuses and special challenges, various and considerably different methods of playing through the game depending on your actions, competition ranking features and an extremely high replay value. The developer, Pixel spent five years making this game as fun and as great as it is by adding solid controls, smooth gameplay, a great cast of characters and dialogue, an interesting plot, good music and beautiful old-school 2-D artwork. There are so many wonderful and classic gaming elements, that I cannot even begin to describe just one quality well enough to say 'It is for this one reason alone that Cave Story is a great game.' There is just so much effort, originality and ingenuity behind this game and it really shows more and more as you play through it. It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations and has an official translation for commercial releases such as Cave Story+.Ĭave Story is really one of those games that can be considered a masterpiece of game design.

Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel.

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