I know this is far from a hot take but this game is so fucking good.

I loved Super Metroid and any game that reminds me of it, but this seriously feels like Super Metroid plus an extra two decades worth of game design and technological progress.

  • followmarko [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Welcome to the world of modern metroidvanias. Hollow Knight is a great game and has probably the best ambiance and art style of any of the modern metroidvanias. I would also recommend:

    • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (I personally loved this one)
    • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (theres also the first one that I didn't play)

    Some not exactly metroidvanias but good progressive platformers:

    • Bastion
    • Celeste

    And maybe some others I played last year that I can't think of. I will update if so.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Super Meatboy is pretty solid

      And Bastion isn't really a platformer, it's like a moba or something. Transistor is also good (same studio) and takes the Bastion gameplay and turns it into a sorta realtime tactics thing.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        I mean, the M in Moba stands for "multiplayer", so that's definitely not Bastion

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Then a soba? The way you're using abilities in a cool down against time of ads is very similar to the gameplay of something like league of legends.