This is my favorite video game. Do I think it's the best video game? No. Despite that, it's still my favorite. I appreciate everything about it, and while some things like characters can be weaker compared to other games, for what it is (a game that's only supposed to last a few hours) I think it fits perfectly. I'd even argue that it's more important for a character to make an impact if their time's short than to just be there, and that's sort of how Cave Story does it.

Knowing where everything already is just makes things better on replay for me. I've played the game enough times to know all of that, and you'd think it would get tiring, but it doesn't, aside from the dog fetch quest and the Jellyfish Juice stuff in Grasstown. I can turn my brain off and blast stuff. It's pretty fun.

Important thing to note is that Cave Story was made by only one person through the course of about 5-6 years if I'm remembering correctly. Even today, that's rather impressive, and if it's not, then that's because of how much things have changed. Cave Story was the game to cause that change. Pixel wanted to make a game and he stuck with it. developing it all the while learning how to do it all, which isn't to say he didn't have experience making games prior, but that he never made a game the size of Cave Story prior. Respect to that. Respect to ZUN as well.

If you want to make a video game by yourself, you can. It'll take many years, but the point is that with time and effort, you can do the same, as long as you've got passion. I'm not one of those people, but those people do exist. To walk near a flame, Toby Fox has played the game and enjoyed it a lot.

So yeah, I like this game