Cave Story+ (2017)
Reviewed on the Nintendo Switch I feel like reviewing Cave Story is like reviewing Citizen Kane: you're not allowed to hate it, and if you do, you hate any subsequent games inspired by it. That may be a little bit of an over-exaggeration, but in a world where opinion is becoming scarcer and scarcer in place of a unified "you're either with us or against us" mentality, I'm always weary of reviewing a popular product. Cave Story, as far as I'm aware, was one of the original Metroidvanias (outside of Castlevania and Metroid of course) and pioneered the absolute storm of unabashedly unoriginal Metroidvanias we see today littering the switch eshop (thanks Cave Story...). It's a game I've played about six times, and I want to go through those six times and explain my journey with Cave Story, in what will eventually (I hope) turn into a review. VIRGIN TO PRO-ISH My first time with Cave Story was way back when I was a little kid. My friend, who had a be