Adventure game legend Ron Gilbert and Double Fine’s The Cave is a fully traversable open world echoing Metroid and Castlevania. The game stars three differently able bodied characters and the ever-shifting setting of a talking cave.
The game centers around seven characters; the monk, the adventurer, the hillbilly, the scientist, the twins, the knight, and the time traveler. Each of the characters is searching for something in the cave; what that is exactly, Gilbert has not said. The cave represents the darkness in each character and they have to face said darkness in order to move on.
Players will choose three characters and will control only those three for the rest of the game (sounds like high re-playability). The game offers a single-player mode were switching between characters is done with the controller. It is also playable via local co-op.
The game is a classic side-scrolling 2D puzzle platformer. Puzzles will require the player to shift control from one character to another for a sense of team work to solve them. Each character has one unique ability that come in handy during that character’s designated section of the cave.
Even though the cave is open to all characters, some areas are designed for each specific character. Those areas contain the darkness within that specific character. The Knight’s area is a castle with a princess on the top and a dragon below. In order to pass the area, the Knight could use his special ability called “guardian angel” which protects him from hard. This will allow him to distract the dragon and let another character sneaks behind said dragon and reach the sections objective.
(Via Kotaku)