CAVE STORY SWITCH REVIEW UPGRADE
You explore underground caves, do a lot of tricky platforming, upgrade your weapons, and search for. But if you want the nifty European retail release, which comes with a full-colour instruction manual, Nicalis has plans to bring that over this autumn. Cave Story plays like a hybrid of Metroid and Blaster Master. That's the whole package!Ĭave Story+ hasn't officially made its way to European Switches yet, though one could import the title from across the pond given the console's region-free status. After all, it will offer extra content, portability, co-op, and the retro look for those concerned about authenticity. The Bubbler gun is now called The Bubbline, a location of a dog in the Sand Zone has been changed along with your ability to now carry multiple dogs at once, and the long corridor between the final boss rush and the entrance to that area has been. With the option for Cave Story's vintage aesthetic in effect, this should tip the scales in Nintendo's favour, making the Switch release truly the game's definitive version. The story mode of Cave Story+ is almost exactly the same game with a few very minor changes. "August is technically three weeks away!" "Submission to Nintendo takes a little time to get approved!" Nicalis tweeted. JTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.
CAVE STORY SWITCH REVIEW UPDATE
Well worry no longer, as Nicalis is patching the option for ye olde graphics in! As stated on the publisher's Twitter, this feature will arrive in a free update this August.įree update for #CaveStory+ with classic graphics in August! Game available now at retail and eShop #NintendoSwitch /ZeyzACLOZH- Nicalis, Inc. “Without the ability to toggle between art, Cave Story+ for the Switch almost feels like Cave Story-, and not the definitive version it was touted as.” “Cave Story+ on the Switch isn't the best version of the game,” USgamer's Caty McCarthy claimed. However, some diehard Cave Story fans, like our friends over at USgamer, considered this Switch release to be a step back from the PC version of Cave Story+ that allowed players to switch between the game's updated graphics and its original "classic" aesthetic. This recent edition launched last month in North America with some new features like extra stages, new items, and a planned local co-op mode to be added later this summer. Earlier this year porting company and publisher Nicalis announced that it would be bringing the definitive version of Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's cult classic platformer Cave Story to Nintendo Switch.