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Cave Story. What a fresh new game. Wait a sec. It isn’t new? What do you mean? When did it come out? 2004? What?! How did I miss this gem?

It’s all the best of 8-bitness without having the annoyance of blowing on NES carts. What is a home-brew homage to many different games, including Metroid and a long-lost Sierra game, Zeliard, brings to the modern age a bit of that nostalgia for simpler times. It feels 8-bit, but it isn’t quite as rough around the edges.

[via: Play This Thing]

Over on Destructoid, a 2-part series comparing CRPGs (computer …) to tabletop RPGs.

What makes a RPG fun? What makes you get absorbed in it? Character, of course. Story, depth and the personalities of the characters involved. In this first part, Destructoid explores character.