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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this game a souls like, or a metroidvania? I've seen two different articles now that call it different genres.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 9 points 10 months ago

It’s a metroidvania with souls-like aspects. I really wish they’d stop referring to those games as souls-likes, too. If anything, call them “Hollow-likes” since they’re like Hollow Knight.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both of these genres aren't well defined words, and because games can vary so much in mechanics and presentation, they only need to share some qualities to be understood as such

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Metroidvania is extremely well defined.

If the map is gated by movement/combat abilities, used identically to how you use them in actual combat, it's a metroidvania. If it's gated by anything else, it isn't.