 oh oh I am starving I haven't eaten in a week I gotta do something about this I'm starting to hallucinate I'm feeling delirious you know for a second I actually thought to myself the 8-bit Eric YouTube channel wasn't that bad wasn't that bad what is wrong with me I gotta go to that fridge open it up one more time and lower my standards and eat the first thing I see before I do something really stupid 8-bit Eric how is this all I have an opened packet of crackers oh come on this doesn't go in the fridge who put canned beans in here oh there's a yogurt that expired January 17 alright that's just great so I have nothing to eat that's seriously everything in my fridge a can of beans and a terrible Nintendo switch game this is not radical I mean they can't be this bad in January my last video did pretty good let's see how much that made are you serious oh well thank goodness for the patreons it has to be something else I could do this month to try and pay bills I mean wait when did this game get on my switch cave blazes on the Nintendo okay why are you looking at me like that you could tell couldn't you you could tell that that wasn't me at the start of the video it was actually wolf den that honor me he can't slip anything past these guys look the only reason I used wolf den not copied not I didn't steal it I borrowed it because like I didn't think you guys be able to tell the difference I mean when we look so similar I find you got me while we do look pretty similar we're completely different entities hmm what does that remind me of cave blazes is actually a lot like dead cells come on man seriously you can't go jumping the gun ahead of me like that and not only take my title but twist it in the other direction now what click baby title am I gonna yeah who am I kidding I got loads let me start from the beginning cave blazes released today on the e-shop and it's a very very addicting game and it is it really is a lot like dead cells but unlike me plagiarizing and copying wolf down at the start of this video cave blazes did not copy dead cells despite how similar it is in fact cave blazes actually released the same month as dead cells in May of 2017 now it did release two weeks after dead cells but I mean come on I don't know much about video game development I don't think two weeks is enough time to see someone else's idea steal it and then throw it out on steam no actually it just so happens both these developers saw a need in the market for an action rogue like platformer and decided to capitalize and we see this happen with movies all the time like Armageddon the deep impact babe and Gordy the prestige and the illusionist chasing liberty and first daughter volcano and Dante's peak ants and bugs life Turner and Hooch and canine friends with benefits no strings attached shark tail and finding Nemo mirror mirror snow white red planet mission to Mars top gun iron eagle the wild and Madagascar strip tees and show goes the Truman show and net TV the cave the descent cop out the other guys and it's a similar thing with dead cells and cave blazes hmm I apologize for my voice Kim got me sick again this is the second time in like a month I'm so frustrated so yes while they may have released around the same time and they may be very similar games there's actually a lot of differences in cave blazes that makes it its own unique experience to start with just the look and presentation of cave blazes gives this action roguelike platformer a completely different feel it doesn't confine your gameplay to narrow pathways rather you find yourself in a massive cave to explore with different twists and turns every single time you die and restart the game because of the huge areas you have it allows you to fire your bow in any direction and you do that using the right thumb stick so if you're going around using your bow a lot it actually feels kind of like a twin stick shooter so the game always starts you in your little base of operations where you have access to a few different modes and options for example you can customize your character which I love everything from your hair to your beard to your outfit you can customize it all and how do you get all of these customizations by playing the game every time you do a playthrough it tallies up your gold and your kills and then when you die and trust me yeah well a lot it'll tally up that playthrough and hopefully if you didn't suck too much you'll actually get to unlock some things which is actually a very rewarding system and it makes the deaths a little less painful the deaths really sting I hate when I'm actually doing okay in a playthrough and a death comes out of nowhere there's a moment where your heart dies and your soul gets crushed but then you see that little bar pop up and you start unlocking things and you think ah well I'll customize my character and I'll go back in for another round you can also access the perks you unlock along the way in this hub area and the perks you equip will drastically change the flow of the game one of the perks allows me to shoot arrows into a wall and then it will create like a trip wire beam and if any enemy walks into that they'll take a hit of damage so any playthrough I have that equipped you'll actually see me intentionally missing enemies and trying to set up trip wires and playing a lot more stealthily and waiting for the enemies to come to me and kill themselves on the booby traps I set up which is completely different to playing with something like a melee buff where you're running in with your sword and swinging like crazy suddenly I'm playing or stealthy and sitting off in the distance and if the game already didn't have a ton of replay ability that right there extends that even further this could easily be your next Nintendo switch addiction I've only had the game for a couple days now but I have been playing it non-stop and the kicker here is that it's actually insanely cheap for its price 14.99 this is an absolute steal and once you play this and you dive into it and discover how much content there is and how many hours of gameplay there is and how fun it is to play you're gonna end up looking back at your credit card statement and make sure you weren't dreaming when you paid 14.99 for it now in my opinion this game is painfully difficult and just when you think you're getting the hang of it you're finally getting to those boss fights a little more frequently and you're finally able to actually take one of the bosses down with relative ease as soon as you're thrown into the next part of the game the difficulty level seems to be stepped up by a billion and you have to start getting good at it all over again but of course when you die in that part you go back to the start and it's luck of the draw as to how well you're gonna do next time and if you're even gonna get to that first boss again and I really appreciate the fact that you do not have to wait long to get upgrades and abilities as you play obviously when you start to run you start bare bones nothing essentials you have your sword in your bow and that's it but again you don't have to wait until the second level or the third level or the boss fight to actually get an upgrade no they just start throwing the match you and you have a ton to pick and choose between you can get items from smashing open crates or chests or killing enemies you'll also find statues that'll have certain items locked behind them and you'll have to use the gold you've been collecting along the way to break them out and equip them also with those statues you can find ones that you can pay to fully heal yourself and then you find really interesting ones where you pay with your own health which is a huge risk but the reward is that it will give you a really strong ability the only downside is you never know what the ability is gonna be until you've paid your health and the abilities you can find lying all over the place sometimes I'll be an area where you can pick one of three abilities or sometimes the abilities will just be scattered all over the place you also get specific abilities for defeating specific bosses like one of the bosses gives you a double jump which are that's the best one but obviously the abilities plays a big part in making this game so addicting because it feels amazing stacking all of these abilities on top of each other and then you start to combine that with all the cool items you find along the way finding a new sword or bow that has better damage or maybe effects like poison or fire or even just screw those weapons and finding completely different ones like an axe or a shotgun even if you took this same player with the same playthrough and made him do it twice with two different perks you're suddenly gonna create two very different play styles and two very different run-throughs the possibilities seem to be endless and that's why you always want to dive back in just to see what's different the next time it gets addicting because you kind of just want to walk through that door and just see what's on the other side you might tell yourself I'm not gonna play a whole nother round I'm not gonna get to the boss or anything I just want to see what's right out that door maybe there's a cool weapon but no matter what it is it sucks you in and it makes you want to keep going and something I really like about this game is you don't only have this one mode to play in if you decide to mix things up there's a couple other things you can do like the daily challenges once a day you can attempt these and they'll throw crazy stipulations at you and it just helps to mix up the gameplay but if you feel like something different that isn't limited to once a day there's also an arena mode and this mode is really cool so it pits you just in one area and enemies will keep spawning and of course it's stupidly difficult but if you can manage to get through the wave of enemies you'll be presented with a bunch of items to choose from you only get to pick one which can be very frustrating but that's part of the challenge I always feel like I need to heal over anything else but then I end up going into the next round with no actual improvements to myself and I get my butt kicked anyway every time you beat a wave you improve yourself a little bit more you're becoming stronger and stronger but of course the enemies and the waves are getting harder and harder and if you die you get to go straight back in and try again it's just another very addicting mode and honestly just this mode in itself you could have released just this on the e-shop for 10 bucks and I still would have bought it and had a lot of fun with it to the fact that it's just an additional mode on top of an already very complete package that's only $15 is starting to see why I find so much value in this title so that's the incredibly addicting and stupidly cheap cave blazers on Nintendo Switch I honestly plan to talk about it longer than this but my voice is killing me I just have to stop and hey this gives you a chance to explore the rest of the game for yourself anyway what do you guys think about cave blazers