
Defeating enemies sometimes yields yellow triangular objects, which give experience points to weapons when collected. When the player collects multiple weapons, they may be toggled at any time with the press of a button. The player progresses by navigating platform game puzzles and shooting enemies with the equipped weapon. The player controls the on-screen character directly using a keyboard or gamepad. The yellow triangles represent experience points to be picked up. The heads-up display in the top left displays an equipped weapon, weapon level, and current health.

Quote speaks to non-player characters scattered around the game world in order to learn more about the world and its inhabitants.Ĭave Story 's simple controls allow for movement, jumping, and shooting. The character gains access to new areas as he powers up his weapons by collecting triangular experience crystals and solves various platforming puzzles. The fast-paced gameplay of Cave Story revolves around Quote, a robot who wakes up suffering amnesia and who must explore and blast his way through cavernous areas in order to figure out his backstory and escape from the cave.

A port of Cave Story+ for the Nintendo Switch was released in June 2017. A 3D remake of the game, titled Cave Story 3D, was developed by Nicalis and published by NIS America for the Nintendo 3DS in November 2011. An enhanced version, Cave Story+, was released for Steam in November 2011, and the original game was released for the Nintendo 3DS in October 2012 with added content. Independent developer Nicalis worked with Amaya to port the game to WiiWare and DSiWare in 2010. Cave Story is considered by many as the quintessential indie game because of its one-person development team and influence on the gaming world. It received widespread critical acclaim for many polished aspects of its design, such as its compelling characters, setting, story, and gameplay. After its initial self-published release, the game slowly gained popularity on the internet. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such as Metroid and Castlevania (both released in 1986).
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It was developed over five years by Japanese developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time. It's interesting to note Ridiculon also preformed the soundtrack for four other indie games, The End is Nigh, Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac and The Legend of Bum-Bo.Cave Story, originally released as Dōkutsu Monogatari, is a 2004 Metroidvania platform-adventure game for Microsoft Windows. These tracks feature heavy guitar and drums. This is an arrangement composed by metal band Ridiculon for Cave Story+ on the Nintendo Switch. You need the Cave Story.dls soundfont for the tracks to sound correct.Ī cover of the original Cave Story soundtrack made to sound like something on a NES made by RushJet1. The MIDI masters of all Cave Story+ tracks can be found here (or a earlier version here with minute differences and can be considered a mirror).

This soundtrack is included as an optional soundtrack for Cave Story+ on Steam, and as an optional soundtrack for the Wiiware version (in the Wiiware version it is selected as the default soundtrack on start up).

Yann himself has also lamented the final version of the soundtrack in a TIGForums post. However, according to the website Tiny Cartridge, these problems were due to improper editing on the game tester's part. Some criticisms include straying too far away from the classic melodies, lack of bass, and weird pitch and looping in the tracks. This is an arrangement of the soundtrack by Yann van der Cruyssen, used as the default soundtrack in the WiiWare and Switch versions. This soundtrack was used for Cave Story 3D, and was also included as the default soundtrack for Cave Story+. It contains remastered/remade music pieces from the original soundtrack, with mainly electronic instrumentation. The soundtrack was later remastered by indie game music writer Danny Baranowsky.
