Cave Adventure R

Good day!
Today is the Rpgmakeroldclassicgameday... well no, ok.I must admit that this Cave Adventure R is not really an old rpgmaker2003 of the past, but a game originally made by El_WaKa for the "A Golden Week of RPG Maker 2003" 2015 event and re-released in 2021 in an updated version.

The event was about Rpgmaker 2003 so you can expect a classic Rmk3 Rtp game that consists in a classic dungeon delving adventure against Rmk3 Rtp monsters. So if you like old-style rpgmaker exploration and battles you will feel right at home, if you are looking for something different... well you are in the wrong place!


I wonder what the zombied need. Braaaaaains?

The game starts introducing immediately our four characters of this short (1 dungeon for 30/40 minutes) adventure game: Alex, the classic Rmk2000 and Rmk2003 hero and his friends, the blue haired Zack, the blonde Albert and Burns with his headband and spiky hair. These guys want to become rich so they enter a cave to find treasures, and that's all, not a long or complex story, all is very basic as the dialogues, and there is nothing wrong with this. Anyway are these rumors about the treasure real or some kind of invention? Our heroes like to brag about some great deeds they actually never did... so who knows if the treasure does really exist! Play and find out, it's a game that won't take you more than one hour to complete...

Concerning battles, our friend El_WaKa made the things easy for us, and that's appropriate since this is a lighthearted adventure (and not the Rpgmaker verison of DArk Souls), because the party is automatically healed and restored after each battle! This clearly means that you can spam all your strongest attacks with no qualms!


OUCH! Poor Zack, these tritons hit fast and hard! But I've a burning spell ready to counter-attack!

But if you want to have an even easier time you can also grind killing slime after slime and be able to defeat easily every creature encountered, but mind that new skills (like the heal and thunder spells) are learned finding books around (anyway not that you really need them if you will get very strong).
Besides battles there are also some classic boulder pushing puzzles, so we can exercise brains besides brawn. Anyway the thing that surprised me is that Cave Adventure R has more than one ending, and well, there's some humor here! Some of these puns are about Rpgmaker and its limitations, but hey, why I'm not surprised?

Concerning graphics and sounds I've already mentioned the RTPs, but this is a game ABOUT the rpgmaker RTPS so I guess there is nothing more to say about monsters, characters or assets in general. What else? Oh the game is decentlyt mapped and I found no errors or mistakes of note so that's good.


Oh! Too bad... anyway before leaving I've still to write the...

Final Verdict
Cave Adventure R is a nice compact game that will probably appeal those old-time players (UHM!) that are nostalgic of the golden age of Rpgmaker2003. The puns were fun to me, the pacifist zombies and the Four Slimes of Apocalypse while not really memorable encounters will at least provide some enjoyable moments of fun!
Overall this is in my opinion an ok game!