Free Will and Robots - A Cave Story Analysis

Okay, this piece requires a bit of explanation.

I just finished my AP English Literature class, and my teacher's idea for a final project was to have us write anything we wanted, demonstrating how we have grown as a writer over our school career. Now, AP English Lit is all about analyzing book after book after short story after poem, and basically the entire year I thought it would be really cool if we could, instead, analyze a different type of media that wasn't written on paper.

And so, for my final I decided to write an analysis on the awesome video game Cave Story.

Fair warning: now only will this analysis have substantial spoilers but it will also probably be a little bit different from my, er, typical diction. I was going for a more "professional" tone while writing it, so it may be a little dry in that sense. It will also have way less jokes, so there's that.

So without further ado, I present my analysis of Cave Story!