A fun, simple, yet atmospheric platformer, Cave Story should be given a lot more credit, over a decade after its initial release. This game still holds up tremendously well and is super inspiring. I love the lore, the character designs, the music, the gameplay variety! For only being about 8 hours or so, it’s paced really well on top of that.

Only problems I really have are with the crazy difficulty spike at the end. The normal three bosses were enough to have me frustrated, but this whole playthru I was trying to fulfill the requirements for the perfect ending. Fairly easily to fulfill them, but the problem is the final “cave” at the end with a boss fight that has three phases with no saving or health refills.

Yeah hell no. I’m good with the normal ending. I’ll just look it up on YouTube. 😭

Edit: okay I actually went back and replayed the entire game just to unlock the spur and do some extra side content. This game really allows itself to be replayed. I’d say it was worth doing for the spur alone this gun is sickkkk

Also doing the final sanctuary to beat Ballos was so hard but so extremely worth it. Such a fun boss fight