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Anonymous10/19/25, 05:24No.723612876Metroidvania Fatigue
I can't do it anymore bros... I just can't... Meaningless corridors with trash enemies meant as padding all being labelled as "exploration", Backtracking to the same areas over and over every time you get new powers, zero insta kill traps, no well thought out enemy placement, dumb retarded enemies who serve as punching bags, MC power creep sets in within a few hours of playing the game, skill set divided into upgradable / acquirable fragments giving the illusion of some RPG progression....
WHAT KIND OF DOGSHIT GENRE IS THIS?
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Anon10/19/25, 05:45No.723613806
Then don't play them. No one is twisting your arm.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:57No.723614414
No need to pretend. Your moaning is directed at a single game, not an entire genre. Which game is it? It better not begin with S. Otherwise I'm gonna whip your tryhard ass black and blue.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:59No.723614502
Metroidvanias are basically an easy-bake game design template. If you run down the checklist, you cover a lot of bases - action with an easy to curate escalation curve, actual level design through platforming and light puzzles, exploration that's right inbetween being too guided and being too open-ended, player progression that occurs at a natural pace through ability acquisition. It really is a template at this point, all you need is maybe a half-unique gimmick of your own and an aesthetic that you want to run with and from there, just slot together the basic pieces until you have your IKEA ready 7/10 game, maybe even an 8/10 if you're actually good at making it. There's really been no reason to move beyond the standards set by Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night, the ideas still work today.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:21No.723615431
/v/tards will really complain about padding in one breath and then complain the game doesn't pad its runtime with instakill traps in the next
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Anon10/19/25, 06:21No.723615460
>mfw I have to spend 5 hours in the grass biome in order to reach the ice biome and then backtrack back to the lava biome because the ice biome needs a double jump
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Anon10/19/25, 06:24No.723615604
Congratulations, you are now Hetrosexual.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:26No.723615651
You either get it or you don't. And I don't
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Anon10/19/25, 07:47No.723619071
Well gentlemen, the discussion has petered out and I believe it is time for me to go to sleep. I can confidently claim that my understanding of why people like this genre is somewhat better now by the discussions that were held here. Thanks anons.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:20No.723620431
Pretty much every Metroidvania these days is just a bad version of either Super Metroid or Symphony of the Night made by some guy who thinks he's going to be the next Team Pixel or Cherry. They stick too closely to the formula without understanding what makes those games work. I "beat" Cave Story recently (I got to the final boss but haven't defeated it, yet) and that's a good example of a game that's considered a Metroidvania but breaks away from the mold and isn't just a bad Souptroid clone.>zero insta kill traps
Kind of an odd thing to criticize, but Shantae on the GBC has that (though it has plenty of your other criticisms). Bottomless pits and killer spikes a-la Megaman. Lives system too. It's kind of like Simon's Quest.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:24No.723622662
I dunno, I just play actual Metroid for my fix
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Anon10/19/25, 09:28No.723622814
Play super metroid x fusion bwos. It is the best metroid game in a long time.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:43No.723623363
>fatigue
>less than one relevant game per year>spongebob
o nevermind, you are just a tertiary complaining about his youtube feed. It was never about playing.