Why the fuck did they pick out the dumbass name metroidvania instead of something more simple like adventure platformer?

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That would almost capture it but OP doesn't know how words work and thinks they're picked intentionally. Most shit like this is accidental. Someone 'coins' it and others parrot them.

Yeah. I'm okay with the term "metroidvania" even though I think it's stupid, because everyone knows exactly what you mean when you say it.

You mean SymphonyOfTheNight-likes?

>simple
>2 words, more letters

I imagine most people feel this way. We know a better term could be made, but everyone just uses metroidvania anyway because it's just what people have used for years.

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I believe you mean Hollowlikes, as that is the term given to games that try to be like the extremely popular Hollow Knight.

Kurovadis belongs in god tier

I played super metroid and it was SHIT.

There's platforming in all of these "metroidvania" style games because maps have exits from the top of the screen and the bottom, you're always climbing on platforms. Unless you're playing some kind of top down metroidvania, which should probably have a different name.

They're called Castleroids.

Didn't Sakamoto call them Search-Action games?

Yeah, we get it, you are SO different and special, you zoomer.
Post a better game in the genre released around the early 90's, you fuck.

Nintendo gave the genre a name during Dread promotion, I can't remember what it actually was though. Action Exploration, or something like that.

SotN.

I prefer something like "exploration game"

Exploration platformer is more fitting. You explore to find the hidden goodies, an act which separates it from platformers like mario whereyou just move forward to world 9-9 which is where the princess is

So what is this? The Lodoss War game?

Metroidvania describes the genre so much better than "adventure platformer". I can't think of a more vague, boring idea for a genre name than "adventure platformer"

The Japanese call them "Search Action"

non-linear platformer aka "lost niggas with a blue map"

That's a game that came in the next gen, and even so, SotN isn't better by a landslide, much less with how half the game is "same place but upside down".

Yes.

semi-nonlinear action platformer with item based progression isn't as catchy as "Metroidvania"

Wheres terraria?

momodera is garbage. who the fuck made this list?

don't the japs call them exploration platformers

deal with it nerd, same with "action games with a autosave-only system and whenever you die you drops your currency at that location and have to pick them back up" being "soulslike", or "Isometric view, fixed camera action rpg where you can control your dude with just your mouse" being "diabloclone"

>SotN isn't better
According to who? because if I see correctly most metroidvanias are far more castlevania than they are metroid inspired.

I did.

Release your new 4 hour long game already then, hurry up.