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Metroidvanias - Finest of all Genres
Raijin Quickfoot
I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
The only genre I love as much as JRPG’s are Metroidvanias. Give me all of them! ALL OF THEM!!!
I just started Ender Lilies and it’s fantastic.
Other examples of the amazing genre
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Axiom Verge
Chasm
Bloodstained
Hollow Knight
Guacamelee
Blasphemous
And oh so many more.
You can recognize a Metroidvania by its side scrolling nonlinear platforming gameplay, it’s large connected map, multiple weapons, leveling and power up system.
Anyway…they’re the best and we should talk about the best ones we’ve played and the best ones coming out in the future!!
I just started Ender Lilies and it’s fantastic.
Other examples of the amazing genre
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Axiom Verge
Chasm
Bloodstained
Hollow Knight
Guacamelee
Blasphemous
And oh so many more.
You can recognize a Metroidvania by its side scrolling nonlinear platforming gameplay, it’s large connected map, multiple weapons, leveling and power up system.
Anyway…they’re the best and we should talk about the best ones we’ve played and the best ones coming out in the future!!
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Ender Lilies has a lot in common with Hollow Knight for sure
I'm excited for Silksong and Metroid Dread.
I absolutely do not have the patience for the insane extra stuff in Hollow Knight.
Anyone else played that?
Good tit slapping with leaf action.
momodora: reverie under the moonlight?
Other good mentions:
SteamWorld Dig 2
Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
I guess Super Metroid counts, barely
Salt and Sanctuary certainly is
Anything post 2 cells is bullshit, though.
No different than adding color-blind options or closed captioning (in philosophy, obviously in programming practice there are more challenges).
I feel like a key feature of metroidvanias is gating of parts of the map via new powers (double jump, wall jump, bombs, etc). Dark Souls doesn’t really do that. Later games the interconnected nature of the world is lessened as well.
Did you not see the “and oh so many more” comment?!?
I've fallen off it twice now. I think I'm about a third of the way through. The difficulty isn't the problem for me actually, it's the artificial stuff they do to try to make it harder, like the crap of having to find a guy to sell you the ability to map an area, and then that map only keeps its data if you sit on a bench. It's a game that nails atmosphere and gameplay but hurts itself by trying too hard to be Dark Souls difficult.
I think it's called "the Vagrant" but too lazy to search and confirm.
I'm replaying through Hollow Knight right now
It's also extremely queer!
I really loved Timespinner.
I absolutely suck at action gameplay, just the goddamned worse
But I was able to experience all of Hollow Knight, including doing the White Palace (plus whatever the super hard path was) at 2 FPS because my system was having memory issues but I didn’t want to restart
The game is challenging, but has at least 3 compensating factors:
1. It’s genuinely fun as fuck just to move in the game, so corpse/shade retrieval runs aren’t too bad (early Metroid games did not have fun movement like this, the exploration was fun, but floaty Samus is not fun….SotN and the GBA Metroids are about when they figured out the physics, so just moving in these types of games is fun)
2. For the most part, good bench/save spot and shade positioning (very crucial for me doing the aforementioned laggy as fuck White Palacing)
3. There’s always a charm combo for that
Don’t be scared off of it, it’s worth the challenge and you’ll end up feeling much better about your action gaming abilities after (until you pop into a fighting game at least)
There's one sequence in there that took me exactly one fewer try than I had the health to attempt.
a couple minor frustrating parts but otherwise game was great. ive been sitting on the ps4 physical version for ages in the backlog
i forgot about timespinner though i wanted to play that
Would you want to demonstrate the historical progression of the genre (so starting off with something like Super Metroid, then including Castlevania:SOTN, for example)?
Lets see some general recommendations.
oh you too? that's funny I literally just played through it for the first time a week or two ago as well
Man, that fucking game sucked me in immediately and I played through it twice in a row
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