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Cave Story Box ArtCave Story is a 3D side-scrolling adventure with verve and charm. There is also a remake of a PC game that is since 2004, when only amateur developer Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya, he was first on the Internet.The original was and is an indie gem with gas, and its strength is a blessing and a burden for the 3DS version, a number of adjustments that idealizes a great game is always a great game, but what is recommended, the original software for free?

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The action, similar to the 2D Metroid games, still fun retro flavor. You play an amnesiac hero who wakes up in a world that is inhabited by the cave Mimiga holiday that people living with the fear that the doctor who was kidnapped for use in an evil system. To save the Mimiga, discover their identity, and escape the cave in the world, you need to navigate cavernous levels, jumping between platforms and blowing a good variety of hostile creatures.

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The designs of the caves are connected by teleporters and hub levels mostly unchanged from the elegant and varied designs of 2-D PC game. There are more differences than you would expect from a network of underground caves, including grasslands, desert ruins and academic institutions, each with different types of enemies (jumping spots, ghostly tablets, men expect cockroaches) and littered with beautiful rooms safe.

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His arsenal is as excellent as always, with the equally excellent three-tier system of leveling weapon. The fireball, which begins as a small thing, but the level three bounds shoots balls of blue flame. At level three, retired from the basic machine gun allows you to float a shot - a satisfactory outcome for the negotiations on raised platforms and deadly traps. To upgrade weapons by collecting crystals shower defeated the bad energy, and improvements in the short term, but lost even faster than that, when struck, you lose health points and weapon level. The result is an elegant and dynamic weapons, whose power comes when you play well and when it come to the ruthless drains.

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Cave Story stops train punch with the first battles against the bosses, the escalating confrontation with the Balrog warming clumsy love, a subordinate of the physician, the rest of the busiest increasingly angry monster. These challenges are serious, but worthy require extremely fast and hard for the most difficult encounters, the amount of humiliation attempts.

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Controls are very good, the circle of 3DS and round face buttons translated to read the small sliding, jumping airship, which worked so well in the original PC. If the accuracy of platforms sometimes feels more complicated, the problem is not that of the controls, but the screen size: thin strips were wide piece of one inch on a computer screen is very little on the small screen on the 3DS. The touch-screen, now is your inventory and a glance at the map given useful.

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The new visual effects major development environments edge pixels of Cave Story, the conversion of their levels of 8-bit depth and detail.The characters are too small to become a solid 3-D avatars, but if you prefer the old look, there is a commitment on the classic mode, falling back sprites familiar in the new 3D environments. The metamorphosis is not entirely free. The rich look, changing again the same clarity as the levels of rock paintings in the PC game. And in a few specific points, the new deep, dark colors, it can be difficult to know what platform and what is in the foreground or background of the priest.

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There is a story of mystery, in stark contrast to the silly voices and an exhibition piece by piece. There is no objection to the beginning, so that at first no idea of ​​how the protagonist of free memory, with the seriousness of the act and the creation of complexity as it progresses. Here, especially, feel the work of a man Cave Story is, its particular history and ruthless surprising given five years after the vision of a single creator.

Besides the 3D makeover and new music (remixed versions of the original light of joyful themes), it was not much added to this version of Cave Story. It is to explore some new sites, even if it is not essential supplements and Time Attack mode, a certain part of the game Cave Story can unlock fans extra stuff to, but discovered the new arrivals, that "There is very little to do there there are several hours of play time on his first pass.

You can not recommend this version of Cave Story on everyone, but it is a worthy and beautiful adaptation of a great game anyway. WiiWare and DSiWare go when releases, and prefer to make their platforms with the keyboard, analog stick, Cave Story 3D is a great way to find a game that deserves your attention.

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