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Game #5137
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee  Doukutsu Monogatari   (a.k.a. Cave Story)  View all Top Dogs in this genre
Action   Platformer

Rating: 8.91 (581 votes)

Doukutsu Monogatari box cover

Doukutsu Monogatari screenshot
Doukutsu Monotagari ("Cave Story" in English) is an excellent freeware side-scrolling platformer/adventure game from Pixel, Japanese maker of the also-superb Ikachan (reviewed elsewhere on this website). Formerly a Japanese-only title, it's now available in a full English version, thanks to the excellent translation effort by AGTP, the translation group. AGTP not only translated the whole game, but gave a great mini-review in the README file of their patch, so I would like to quote that here:

"[Cave Story has] ...leanings towards Wonderboy and recent sidescrolling Castlevania titles. You control a little amnesiac who runs around helping out these rabbit-ish creatures called Mimigas while trying to find your way out of the giant cave inside the floating island which makes up the game's setting.

You can expand your health meter by collecting Life Capsules in similar fashion to Metroid games, while you can get stronger by collecting energy to boost your firearms' output. Each weapon can be built up to the maximum level (3) fairly quickly, but taking damage will drain energy from its experience meter, sometimes causing it to level down. Given how quickly they power up this only tends to be an issue during boss fights, and even then there's usually plenty of opportunities for collecting more weapon energy.

The game has loads of secrets, too. Shih Tzu and I haven't found everything, and we've each played it through a couple of times (not to mention having read the script). It's pretty awesome that way.

For a freeware Japanese platformer, it's fairly lengthy and has quite a large amount of text. I'd guesstimate that each playthrough, provided you knew what you were doing, would take about 4-6 hours. Tack on an extra couple of hours if you don't know what you're doing, possibly for extreme problems with nasty bosses (which this game has plenty of, especially towards the end). We're also talking three very different endings, plenty of plot, and quite a cast of charming characters. It really is a superb little gem :)" A must-play for every fan of action/adventure games.

Reviewed by: Underdogs
Designer: Pixel
Developer: Freeware
Publisher: Freeware
Year: 2004
Software Copyright: Pixel
Theme: Anime
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements:  
Where to get it:
Related Links: Cave Story Fansite
Links:    
If you like this game, try: Ikachan, Gish, Seiklus

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