I made a thread about it basically talked to myself for a couple weeks
Unsighted: The Metroidvainia thats better than Metroid Dred
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Animal House
Superstar
Damn must’ve been buried I was up on this like you but I never saw anyone talking about it so I kept it to myselfI made a thread about it basically talked to myself for a couple weeks
I saw this game before this. I was always going to go back for it on a sale but this smear campaign on dread is a bit much 
Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
Hey, I was doing God's work trying to keep your little thread up on the first page, fool.I made a thread about it basically talked to myself for a couple weeks
Metroid isn't a metroidvania, it doesn't have any castlevania elements to it
Metroid is just metroid it's not a combination of two games
Metroid is just metroid it's not a combination of two games
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Excellent catch on misuse of the portmanteau
Know that I see this game it's not even metroidvania, it's more like a Zelda clone
game isn't even comparable to metroid
just because you can move through map screens freely doesn't make it a metroidvania lmao
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
It looks more like hyper light drifter to me, which I guess yeah, its more zeldavania
@Master Teacher and @Gizmo_Duck confused on what makes a “metroidvania”
It’s about progression. In that you gain equipment/powers to unlock new areas and shortcuts around the map.
It’s about progression. In that you gain equipment/powers to unlock new areas and shortcuts around the map.
You could do that on Zelda on NES, that's not metroidvania
Now it doesn't, Metroidvania is Metroid and Castlevania put together
There is one metroid game that is a metroid vania, this game in the OP isn't a metroidvania it doesn't play like metroid and castlevania put together
its literally called metroidvania that's exactly what the name means lmao
Zelda is different in that you are just unlocking the new areas.
In Metroidvania games there’s new equipment and a new gameplay element usually involving some type of combat or platforming, that by the end of the game you are able to move freeely and quickly around the map.
No it’s not. You don’t even understand why the term was coined. It’s cause progression is the same in both games. So when you mention one you have to mention the other. There’s no “put together” cause they are one in the same.
Have absolutely no idea what you are talking about brehs
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Zelda is different in that you are just unlocking the new areas.
In Metroidvania games there’s new equipment and a new gameplay element usually involving some type of combat or platforming, that by the end of the game you are able to move freeely and quickly around the map.
No it’s not. You don’t even understand why the term was coined. It’s cause progression is the same in both games. So when you mention one you have to mention the other. There’s no “put together” cause they are one in the same.
Have absolutely no idea what you are talking about brehs
Zelda has skill gates also, I’m not really sure what you’re arguing. Metroidvanias tend to be 2d platformers first and foremost. I’ve never heard a game that wasn’t described as one.
So everybody else wrong and @Gizmo_Duck is right
Lots of games are described as Metroidvania that are not side scrollers.
I mean you see dozens of gamers and the gamer press describing this game this way, even the devs of the game classify it that way.
The perspective doesn’t matter. The term references the progression and how you open up the map.
Just like you can have a 2d soulslike even though the original souls games are 3D
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
So everybody else wrong and @Gizmo_Duck is right
Lots of games are described as Metroidvania that are not side scrollers.
I mean you see dozens of gamers and the gamer press describing this game this way, even the devs of the game classify it that way.
The perspective doesn’t matter. The term references the progression and how you open up the map.
Just like you can have a 2d soulslike even though the original souls games are 3D
A lot of people say a lot of dumb shyt in the press and the audience follows suit. Like how everyone calls everything a darksouls of ____ now. Or says every open world game is BoTW. People have a hard time disassociating popularity of a game with the actual genre it falls into.
The progression system that exist in Metroid exist in Zelda also. You know when you get bombs and can now blow up rocks that lead you to another part of the map, or hookshot, or strength gloves. Thats all gated progression and this game has more in common with Zelda and its mechanics than it does Metroid or castlevania.
Once again, i know its cool to include Metroid dread in everything now to get clicks but theres no similarities beyond that
It’s a made up word. Obviously it’s defined by the community. Don’t matter what you personally think
The big difference is that Zelda games tend to be a big (kinda) empty map with specific dungeons that use each new skill. But it’s not necessarily the skills themselves that open the areas. In Metroidvanias the entire map is like a puzzle you will learn/earn your way around. And most powers are based around a new traversal or combat method.
Yes unsighted has some similarities to Zelda. But the progression and the way the map works is purely Metroidvania.
Again. @Gizmo_Duck possess wisdom that the rest of the gaming community does not