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Message: [QUOTE="ciro64, post: 39558, member: 61046"] [LIST] [*]Cave Story is a game about a robot boy who lost his memories and must find his way to get know the exotic world around him. [*]Quote is a mute protagonist. The story is told by exploring the world, hearing the dialogue from other characters and watching occasional cutscenes. Over time, you grow attached to some of these characters and what they stand for, while also feeling motivated to defeat the villains. [*]Many weapons and power-ups are optional and most of them aren't mandatory to progress. [*]Weapons have a level system to them: they level up by collecting triangles that comes from enemies that act as experience points, and you level down by losing those points when you get hit. Only one weapon requires ammo that doesn't regenerate. [*]Progression is mostly achieved by completing a quest inside areas. Some of them are more linear than others. These quests often requires talking to characters and taking items to them. The order you tackle these areas are linear. There is some back tracking (including some open and optional backtracking) in the late game. [/LIST] If I were to bring Metroid instead, all of those points would say different things. Which is why metroidvania purists don't consider Cave Story to be one. But I get why you would feel they look alike too much, because the similarities are there, if even some are just on a superficial level. Based on a few posts I've read from you, you seem to be the type of person who cares for the novelty factor in games first and foremost. And that's a fine taste to have. And I do agree it's important that we have games that aims for this. Usually, I'm on the other side of the spectrum. For example, I don't play Ex-Zodiac [B]because it's not close enough to Star Fox.[/B] ? I look for the little differences and similarities between games of the same genre. Hell, pick me two Super Mario World romhacks and I'd see them as separate games. It's okay to feel one way or another. What gets to me is when people draw some arbitrary line and want to impose it on others, like treating every new AAA open-world or narrative driven game as the next big thing, but when it comes to mascot platformers they think all of them are the same. [/QUOTE]

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