TBF, I’m older than you and never got the love for it. Not trashing it, simple didn’t click with me, and I don’t see how it was influential. As a what, Metroidvania? I’d argue Axiom Verge was far more influential.
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tons and tons and tons of indie devs of my generation and a bit older have the same origin story of "i didn't realize you could make games that good on your own until i played cave story." the indie scene as we know it would be completely unrecognizable without cave story
also i know there are lots of other indie metroidvanias these days, but that scene straight up did not exist before cave story. that was the game that proved indies could make good metroidvanias. it's the reason the scene exists at all
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