A long history of nothingness for me, but whatever.. Earliest memory I have is back when I was 15, I bumped into some furry mimiga pr0nz on some unspecified website which I care too little about to recall. Those images had "Cave_story" in the tags - obviously I had no idea wtf a cave story was, and so I paid it little heed, but the two words obviously stuck. Over the years I kept coming across mimiga fan art, mostly poorly-drawn fan-made characters, reference sheets and such; but they all mentioned "cave story" in their image descriptions. I was intrigued during this 2-3 year period, but never went digging for more information on the game. Not sure why, though I kinda wish that I had.
About a year ago, I spotted Cave Story in the Wii shop and I skimmed through the description, looked at the pictures ... "So it's about rabbit people being terrorized by a 'sky dragon?' Eh, I don't like rabbits.. and judging by the screenshots it doesn't look so great." I shrugged it off (yet again,) but I also learned that the original version was free. A few months after that, i'd just finished reading some random novel (which I rarely do because books like to dick with my emotions.) I needed something to get my mind off the damn book, and I had some free time on my hands so I googled Cave Story, found this website and started playing..
I finish the PC version after 7 or 8 hours, realizing I hadn't known shit about the game all those years, and then I instantly turned on the Wii and purchased it so that I could play it a second time. (I got the standard ending, and felt like a jerk when I realized you could prevent curly from drowning - The old codger fell down the chasm, and despite having the L3 machine gun with me I jumped down to make sure that he was alright.. Thus accidentally killing him.) >.>;
So it may have taken me 5 and a half years to get here, but that game has been lingering around me for as long as I can remember.
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The first time I actually played it, I was wondering "why the hell am I a person and not a bunny thing?" So my expectations were all wrong, and by the time i'd reached the Egg Corridor I was pretty much hooked. Sue is definitely my favourite, but I think Toroko was the one who sold me; she was the first one I took a liking to, the first to die, and the only one who's death actually made me feel something. After she died I clung to Sue for the remainder of the game, I really didn't want her to suffer the same fate.
So the first 30 minutes was mostly a learning experience. The first half was mostly care-free run & gun enthusiasm, and after I killed Toroko it put things into perspective for me - gtfo the Labyrinth, find Sue, haul ass off the island. So that's what I tried to do for the remainder of the game.