Doukutsu Monogatari -- Initial Impressions.

Doukutsu Monogatari is the Japanese title for a home-brewed Windows game. The English name would be Cave Story. Cave Story is fan made. A couple of Japanese guys who loved sidescrolling action RPGs decided to make their own since they don't make them very much anymore, even in Japan. Luckily a couple of English speaking people played through the original Japanese version when it was released to the Net and liked it enough to translate and create a language patch for the game. The game looks, plays, and has a story told in an 8-bit fashion. I'll be playing through it with keyboard only. The game is really fun so far, a couple hours in through the town of Grassland. I'll get into full details on everything as I go...

Next time will cover gameplay.