Where this would usually be cause to celebrate, I can't help but think that anything added to this game is going to bring it down. Here's some news from the port's team:
We’re still working away at Cave Story trying to make sure it’s faithful to Amaya-san’s original while adding a few things for the console release. One of these new additions, I’m happy to announce is Download Content. I think we received enough e-mails demanding it that we’re doing our best to include some new surprises in the WiiWare release. You’re going to have to wait for more info on that.
Even hearing the phrase "graphical facelift" makes me cringe. One of the game's biggest appeals is it's charictaristically pixellated style. Hopefully they won't change things too much. I'll let Tim Rogers at Action Button articulate why I don't want anything in this game to be "retouched" or "improved" or "facelifted":
Cave Story’s existence as a 100% independent product is, in a way, both the cause and effect of its immortally perfect game design. We have applauded, as of late, game developers with “common sense”. In this very review, we have mentioned the spreadsheet mentality of the Modern Large Game Publisher. The parenthetical sentence in which we say that game companies actually hire people to tell them that “Sports games appeal to sports fans” was more than a rhetorical device: it was a report of fact. There’s an objective truth hidden, somewhere deep inside Cave Story’s kiddy pool of mechanics: that videogames can and will be planned and polished, though the absolute conviction of one man is exponentially more powerful than the givings-up, sighings, and signing-on-the-line-which-is-dotted-ing of a committee of professional quitters.
Cave Story is just fine the way it is. Adding to it would only dillute its excellence. For those of you who have yet to play the game, I suggest you download and play it RIGHT. NOW.
(via Kotaku)
Related Links:
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