First Impressions - The Cave

If you've never heard of Ron Gilbert, you've either a) never played Maniac Mansion or the original Monkey Island games b) never cared to read who made these games or c) don't give two shits about adventure games from the 80's through 90's. Well you should give tons of shit for this game, why? Because it kicks ass.

Well not as much as this game but that's because you can play as a kid on roller blades 

and everyone knows roller blades kick ass. And this has nothing to do with

puzzles or platforming but you should still play this game too.

This game has a very familiar gameplay style, it reminds me a lot of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. A platformer with puzzles, simple and addicting gameplay that anyone can pick up and play. So the game stars nine characters, eight of which are playable, The Knight, The Hillbilly, The Time Traveler, The Scientist, The Twins, the Adventurer, and The Monk. The ninth character is The Cave itself, which almost makes it seem like something from M. Night Shyamalan.  "Wait so the cave talks and is a character?  I wish I came up with that instead of plants killing people." All these characters play almost all identically except they all have one special ability. For example the Hillbilly can hold his breath underwater indefinitely while the Scientist can hack into computers. All these lead into some interesting puzzle solving and different paths that you can or cannot take. Sadly I still haven't made it through my first play through of this game, but I know this will lead to many more playthroughs. This game has been released on pretty much everything, PSN, Wii U, Xbox Arcade and Steam. So get it, it's $15 well spent. So get it or else you're an asshole. There I said it, if you don't enjoy having a good time and decide not to play this you're an asshole...or you don't actually have the means to play this which I apologize for saying you're an asshole.