The review you score yourself!
These quizzes contain fewer words than your average video game review, but they are just as hard to write, if not harder, and this one is not exception. I spent hours trying to generate an algorithm that would guide readers to the questions that would apply to them based on what version of Cave Story they already own,♉ but that ended up being impossible. There is no clear path there.
The only two versions of Cave Story that have not been completely replaced at this point are the WiiWare and DSiWare ports. They have nothing in them that isn’t available in a more recent iteration of the game. The 3DS retail version, published by NISA, has the polygon-based backgrounds, the prinny hat, and a couple of unique areas that aren’t found in any other port. The 3DS eShop version is the only way to play some (but not all) of the unique Cave Story+ content on a portable while retaining the visual style of the original free version of the game from 2004. Likewise, Cave Story+ on Ste༒🌺am is the only way to play that content with the visual style of the original.
So Cave Story+ on Switch doesn’t have the option to play with all of Daisuke ‘Pixel’ Amaya’s original, more minimalist artwork, but it does have all the other features of the Steam build, plus the jukebox mode from the DSiWare port, and all new content and features. It also has some fantastic bonuses if you buy the launch edition at retail, including a beautiful, wordy 32-page instruction booklet, as CD soundtrack, a blind box distribution keychain and a little Switch cartridge holding bag.
If you need more info than that, and our multiple reviews of past releases of the game aren’t enough to guide you, take the quiz below. It should help you decide if this, the sixth officially sold release of Cave Story, is worth your dollar.
#1 Do you already own Cave Story?
Y🌞ES ~ -50 NO ~ 0 and Go to question #4
#꧋2 Do you only own the 3DS boxed retail version (polygon graphics style꧋)?
YES ~ -50 Go to🍰 question #9 NO ~ 0
#3 Do you own the 3DS eSꦡhop version and/or the Steam versi♋on of the game?
YES ~♉ -50 Go to question #10 NO ~ 0 Go to quest෴ion #12
#4 Do you like 2D action platformers?
YES ~ +200 ꩵ &nbsܫp; NO ~ -200
#5 Do you like action games with broad but balanced difficulty ꦕcurves that start relatively easy and end super hard?
YES ~ +50 &nbs💙p;NO ~ -50
#6 Do you like the idea of branching nar🅘rative paths that ?
YES ~ +50 ; &♑nbsp; &🦂nbsp; NO ~ -50
#7 Do you like replaying games to discover multiple weapons, endings, and secre🍎ts?
YES 🔴~ +50 NO ~ -50
#8 Do you li🔥ke upbeat, shar♕p music in the style of Koji Kondo and Yuzo Koshiro?
YES ~ +50 ; ⭕; NO ~ -50
#9 Do yoꦡu like games with detailed 2D sprites with minimal animation f🌊rames?
YES ~ +75 🐈 NO ~ -75
#10 Do y🦂ou want to play some bonus challenge levels that have their own onཧline leaderboards?
YES ~ +50 ; ♌; NO ~ -0
#11 Do 🎐you love it when games have special holiday events that change al��l and ?
YES ~ +50 &nb✅sp; NO ~ -0
#12 Are🅰 you interested in getting free updaꦬtes featuring and new playable characters?
YES ~ +50 ꧙ &ꩲnbsp; NO ~ -0
#13 Do you like ?
YES ~ +10 ♒ &��nbsp; NO ~ -0
#14 Do you want to 𓄧see some fu𒉰n effects added to some weapons and environmental objects?
YES ~ +10 ♏; NO ~ -0
#15 Do you like saving time by and ?
YES ~ +10 &nb﷽sp; 🌱; NO ~ -0
⛄#16 Are you interested in hearing different arrange💯ments of the soundtrack, including an all new arrangement using the Famicom sound chip?
YES ~ +50 &൩nbsp; NO ~ -0
#17 Do you want a physical, limited edi🌳tion CD of the Famicom style arranged soundtrack?
YES ~ +50 ♔; NO ~ -0
#18 Do you want a 32-page instruction booklet featuring high-quality art, writing, and a🐟 special coded spoilers section?
YES ~ +50 &nb🦩sp; NO ~ -0
#19 Do you like key chains?
YES ~ +25 &n📖bsp; ; &nb꧅sp; NO ~ -0 You heartless monster
SCORING:
0 or less: Surprise! Don’t buy it.
0-99: If you have to choose b⛦etween death and buying this game, buy the game𒆙 I guess.
100-299: If you are bored, rich, and are ready to buy a game that you’ll probably never finish, then go for it.
300-399: Pick it up if you can afford it right now. If not, wait for a sale. Just don’t let all the other games coming out between now and then distract you in the meantime.
300-349: Get the launch edition while you still can. You’ll get your money’s worth.
350 or more: You’re going to love this thing HARD.
Published: Jun 26, 2017 10:00 am