Quote visits a storeroom in the Sand Zone to recover the flowers but finds that Toroko was forced to eat a red flower by the doctor, making her rabid.Īfter Quote defeats Rabid Toroko, Misery warps him to the Labyrinth along with Curly. Here, the witch Jenka explains the Doctor's plan to use red flowers to weaponize the Mimiga. He then travels to the Sand Zone, where he finds his companion Curly Brace. Quote first visits the Egg Corridor to find Sue, and then Bushlands to rescue her brother Kazuma. Soon enough, the Doctor's minions Balrog and Misery arrive to take the Mimiga Toroko away, mistaking her for Sue Sakamoto. The townspeople tell Quote about a Doctor kidnapping Mimiga. After awakening in a cave with amnesia, he takes the Polar Star from the Hermit Gunsmith and falls into Mimiga Village. The player controls Quote, an armed scouting robot who was sent to the Island ten years before the events of the game. A comparison of all the official ports and remakes can be found at version differences. A Christmas celebration game for it was released with a really different gamestyle, Cave Story's Secret Santa, on December 10th, 2021. However, the Nintendo Switch port was released on June 20th, 2017.
One of the more recent releases was on the Nintendo 3DS eShop this was, at the time, likely the last, as Pixel had stated that he wishes to avoid working with publishers in the future.
A 3DS remake with a new 2.5D aesthetic was released in November 2011 along with Cave Story+, a remake for PC and Mac on Steam. With collaboration from Pixel, Nicalis released extended versions of the game to Nintendo's WiiWare and DSiWare services in 2010.
Most text in the original Cave Story is Japanese, but a translation patch for the game is distributed by Aeon Genesis.Ĭave Story has seen various official and unofficial ports to other video game platforms. The game was and continues to be met with near-universal critical acclaim, and many consider it to be the quintessential indie game, citing its one-man development team and influence on the gaming world. It was created by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya over a five-year period and independently published in December 2004.
Most can though, it usually loads things from the item menu.PC, DSi, 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii, PSP, XboxĬave Story (洞窟物語 or Doukutsu Monogatari in Romaji) is a free action-adventure platform game for the PC. There are a few interesting side effects for when certain events are triggered that aren't in the script, some of which can't be predicted. Essentially the game thinks you're in the room you were before. When the menu is closed, it reopens the script that it had stored. When the room is exited, it doesn't close the menu and loads the item menu with the current room's script. The reason this happens is that the game stores the current room's script when loading the item menu script. It is possible to obtain unlimited health, find the Beast Fang, and even teleport back to the side room in the original Egg Corridor, with the Corridor still fully accessible using this. In any given area, if you open your inventory then pause the game while still in the inventory and choose another save file, the objects you can interact with in the new area will revert to the ones of the area you were previously in. There exists at least one major glitch in the game.
A soundtrack remade by Danny Baranowsky of Super Meat Boy and Canabalt fame.Classic Mode (Characters and enemies are replaced by 3D versions of the original game's sprites).Story Mode (Characters and enemies have new 3D models).