Now bring Radiant Silvergun to the switch.
Later episodes of FFVIIT will come faster
Uh huhâŚ
Instead of 20 years weâll only have to wait 10
Whatâs funny to me is thatâs not even what I was talking about. I was talking about the pre-loaded expectations that come with naming a genre after a specific thing. The Wolf Clone comment is a perfect example of why. We donât call then Wolf/DOOM clones anymore because itâs reductive to the genre, boiling them down to all being like DOOM when that wasnât true even when DOOM was the hot shit. Same for Wolfenstein 3D.
Then you get other issues like with how the term Souls-Like screwed Sekiro over pretty badly as everyone keeps comparing it to Souls games when itâs almost nothing like them at all and wasnât trying to be like them either. Just has some director quirks and specific design he likes to use in his games like check point locations. Sekiro is not a souls game and comparing it to them does it a huge fucking disservice and fucks up peopleâs expectations of the game going into it. They expect a big exploration fulfilling adventure with tons of weapons and gear and lots of rpg skill stating, not an action game with light exploration elements and surface level rpg mechanics and 1 weapon and 0 gear.
Garbage terms imo. Not only are they pretty bad descriptors of genre, but they do harm to a lot of the product people use those terms on.
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Is Axiom Verge a Metriodvania game?
Most definitely game took metroid as an inspiration
Well Axion Verge took inspiration from Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night and added itâs own spin.
So, Super Metroid is a Metroidvania game then?
What about the Prime games? Is it Metroidvania if itâs 3D?
I think my favorite Metroidvania game is Super Castlevania IV. The music, the graphics, the improved movement and whip mechanics, and just the overall tone of the game are all excellent. I fucking love that game.
Itâs not a metroidvania gameâŚ
Lol, what?
Castlevania split into two main groups, IGA style with RPG elements and old style action platformers. Super Castlevania 4 is the old style.
When most people say castlevania is a metroidvania they are referring to the style IGA did from Symphony of the night onwards
So not all Castlevania games are Metroidcastlevania games?
Dude Metroidvania games are games where you can backtrack a la metroid and you have RPG elements like leveling up, equipping items or buying stuff off an NPC like symphony of the night. The old snes games are just âplatformersâ
What about the original Metroid? Thatâs an old NES game. But you backtrack and power up and shit.
I think youâre just trolling but he means the older Castlevania games.