Opening Statement:

Playing Cave Story (Dōkutsu Monogatari for you hopeless purists out there) on the Wii will most likely conjure up strong feelings of nostalgia within gamers who were around in the 8-bit era.  It’s like discovering a great NES title for the first time, or stumbling across a slice of fried gold long since missed.  The only difference being that Cave Story is no retro throwback title, it’s not a series relaunch, or a cheap cash-in on the success of Mega Man 9 or Dark Void Zero.  Cave Story, if you must know, was doing the old school thing before old school was even in vogue.  This game is a labour of love, crafted by a single gamer back in 2004.  It enjoyed cult success as a freeware PC title, but does that mean it’s not worth forking over 12 bucks to play it as an actual console title?  That’s a question for Will Smith.