Borrowings

I'm sure I'm not the first person to point out the obvious; but one of the first things I remember from when I first played Cave Story was the tune that played when I collected that first life capsule in the First Cave. It's Metroid! Now I was never a big Metroid fan but if I'm not mistaken, isn't just about everything about the Life Capsules from their name and the way they look, to the box that pops up when you collect one, to the fanfale that plays almost exactly like Metroid? I was thinking, this probably isn't the only place he got inspiration from other games, just probably one of the most obvious. Has anyone noticed anything else like enemy designs, or graphics, or whatever that seem to be partially borrowed from some other game?

 

I'm pretty sure this has already been pointed out multiple times.

 

Not that I've seen.

 

Metroid is, by the looks, one of Amaya's inspirations for Cave Story.

@Celtic Minstrel: You only just noticed this now?! *shakes head in disapproval*

 

Ikachan.
But then again, he did make it.

 

Ikachan.
But then again, he did make it.

If I recall, Pixel made Ikachan during Cave Story's development and used an earlier version of the Cave Story engine.

 

@Celtic Minstrel: You only just noticed this now?! *shakes head in disapproval*

No, I've never noticed it even now. It'd kind of hard to notice, considering I haven't played Metroid.

 

Yay .

 

No, I've never noticed it even now. It'd kind of hard to notice, considering I haven't played Metroid.

I've never played Metroid, either, but in just about every review/description of Cave Story I've read, it says something like "wow, very similar to Metroid/Castlevania"