Cave Story 3D is an adventure developed by Nicalis, Inc., released 8 November 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Cave Story 3D is
Cave Story 3D is an adventure game developed by Nicalis, Inc. and released in 2011. It was published by Nippon Ichi Software. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Cave Story is a 2004 Metroidvania game developed by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya. It was released on December 20, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. The game revolves around Quote, a robot who wakes up suffering from amnesia and explores in diverse cavernous areas in order to uncover his backstory and escape from the cave. The character gains access to new areas as he powers up his weapons by collecting triangular experience crystals and solves various platforming puzzles. Quote speaks to non-player characters scattered around the game world in order to learn more about the world and its inhabitants. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Cave Story 3D holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Cave Story 3D launched on 8 November 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Minecraft: Java Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition.
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