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Our holy scripture; our veritable Indie Manifesto as it were, as writ by one of the greatest (if not the greatest) gamesmiths of our time. I speak, of course, of Daisuke Amaya (real name: Studio Pixel). His masterwork, Doukutsu Monogatari (Which when untangled from the shackles of the Nihongo tongue, translates roughly as Cave Story), is the single document that liberated our lost souls from the tyranny of consumerist culture. Cave Story is, for all intents and purposes, our Declaration of Indiependence; the inciting force behind our rejection of ’British East India Gameplay’ for statements of ‘Haughty Artistic Merit.’ Amaya, the benevolent host of our Nintendo Tea Party.
Before Cave Story, there was no indie games community. People would sit around thinking, “this game – this game rips off –” and then mentally redact that Youtube comment, unable to come up with a suitable answer. It is only because of Cave Story that we are one nation, under the proud banner,”lol cave story ripoff.”
To compare Amaya to God would be a fallacy — God made the mistake of 9/11. Amaya is no mere God. Amaya is the perfect indiety. On the first day, Amaya created the Heavens and the Earth. Upon this Earth he created Caves, and within these Caves he breathed Life — a Story of sorts. He could not speak directly with his Life — being that he spoke the Nihongo tongue — an archaic language too wrought with subtleties for our pitiful Gaijin minds. And so he blessed a man named with the Independent Spirit, the spiritual manifestation of his unending grace. This man’s name was Shih Tzu, and he would become his liason — the final piece in the Holy Triforce — Amaya, The Independent Spirit, and Shih Tzu — through which he would bless the Earth with his writings — his Cave Story.
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