Recent reviews by Chad

i had to painstakingly play through the game twice to unlock all the achievements. and still didnt get all the achievements.
story: 8/10
art 8/10
world and exploration 7/10
programming 0/10

some puzzle have logical flaws (ironically) and there is no way -at all- to get in touch with the devs for reporting issues or getting support at all. their current solution is to point to islands-of-insight (dot) zendesk (dot) com which does not load. at all. This is a shame for the game itself is wonderful, gorgeous and a fun challenge. it would be nice to be able to actually report these game-progress-hindering bugs.

fantastic game, great devs! the launch issues were well communicated and solutions were pushed out frequently and swiftly. having an incredible amount of fun playing through the story as a casual player

Latest patch (optional) is a little rough around the edges but ignoring the bugs its a fun and refreshing (modern) take on Q2.

nothing more tormenting than a game crashing after wasting 30 of your precious minutes. the game deserves the name.

Lost spectacularly and had fun doing so.
Also hit a camera-drone with the ball. A damn drone! Yeah that's programmed in!

the melee combat is a joke.
spent 20 minutes chasing a goat with a spear because hitting things is not a priority for the spear, according to the devs.
also once killed, the goat dropped absolutely nothing.
just wow.
this game never left beta huh

abandoned project. play the original instead from the original creators webpage cavestory org.

heccins yes

angry review
- "new game" deletes your save permanently; dont let siblings or friends play this game on your steam account
- enemies dance more than they "look at" something broken making hitting them a game of chance. dont break something as a distraction it will make the game harder
- dont miss. EVER. it will alert every guard on the map and attract them to your position for some reason. doesnt matter if you use a silencer or not. if you *miss* you are spotted. if you hit everything is fine though. the logic here is trash
- sometimes you just miss. there is no helping it. a perfect 1200 alignment, 1200 distance, perfect on-scope aim. miss. the game is just designed to be a pain in in the hind
- every boss has super-human health. every. single. one. you will never one-shot them.
- enemy snipers have the benefit of instaspotting you. for some reason they dont need to check if you are a friendly or not. they see you, you are spotted. again this alerts the entire map to your location
- every "kill x by explosion" or anything other than a bullet requires explosive ammo (and two hits because super human bosses) because despite every level having tens of explosives no actual target will get even remotely close to them except one which makes this challenge utterly pointless and annoying because you are literally repeating the old gameplay but with different bullets
- everything you do takes forever. loot, pick up body. pseudo realistic maybe. fun? no.
- you cannot move when you interrogate or ambush someone. during this forced cutscene of 20 seconds you are an open target and visible to everyone. if only the game would let you drag the target back just one meter into the bush.. but nope. fun game...
- when you are eventually and unavoidably spotted, every enemy will instantly know where you are within a split second because calling for your friends is naturally your #1 priority over, say, running for your life to avoid a bullet. gee. its like these developers studied real life. stunning. at least a game such as metal gear had the decency to add some radio chatter giving you a chance to correct a mistake (i.e. shooting radio or killing them before they had the time to relay anything) but not in this game
- whenever you replay a campaign to grab more challenge points and achievements you have to restart the game over and over because "restart mission" is so damn bugged it will *sometimes* put you back at the end of the campaign instead of where you just were. even if you were at the very beginning. dogcrap

its a piece of ♥♥♥♥ game with devs or (lets not blame programmers) product managers who do not respect the players time at all. the only fun aspect of this game is the idea of it. not worth the money. buy on sale if you must.

also yes i lost all my save progress because of the last point in my list which irritated me so much because of the long forced loading times of exiting and reloading the campaign instead of simply "reloading the map" (which is bugged, see the last point above) i accidentally new-game'd and lost all save progress adding salt to the injury. you know because its fun for CI to kick a man while he's down

you cannot recover a lost save file according to ci support