How is it still unsurpassed by any metroidvania?

How is it still unsurpassed by any metroidvania?

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>metroidvania
Ask me how I know you're a fucking smoothbrain retard

igavania sounds retarded
i prefer to use the word our language has naturally come to instead of some marketing-speak

Dark Souls

um excuse me

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hollow knight unironically. the only thing you could use to argue against it is that the artstyle doesn't appeal to you vs SotN's beautiful pixel art and locales and that HK only has one weapon and 3 spells but literally everything is better. everything. it's not even a contest

When did people start using "metroidvania" as an actual term to describe a genre?

That game is 3d dummy.

They are exploration platformers.

so?
most metroidvanias are 2D but that doesn't mean they have to be

By that logic resident evil a game that predates symphony of the night is also a metroidvania

>All Zelda's are metroidvanias now

They're called Jet Set Willy-likes

great souls like platformer

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get with the times hombre, calling them metroidvanias is soooo pre-pandemic

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searction

hollowlike

>metroidvania
Hate this retarted plebbit term made up by Hollow Niggers to validify their garbage game for poors.

Control is better

Definitely was a term before Hollow Knight

iirc it came from a review of Dawn of Sorrow and spiraled from there