Thread 718986290

more like backtracking: the genre

>>718986290 (OP)
most mediocre slop ive ever played, played a ton of metroidvanias but hollow knight just felt the most limiting when it came to combat options for example. a nice artstyle dosent save a shallow game

>>718986290 (OP)
Never played a metroidvania game before?

>>718986290 (OP)
sorry guys I posted the wrong image

>>718986290 (OP)
>ghost the entire fanbase for almost 10 years
>Sequel became a vaporware meme
>Drop the trailer 3 weeks before release
>People ask you WTF why did they not respond to questions about a sequel for literal years
>"Tee hee, we were busy making the game"
God I wanna boycott this shit just from the arrogance and ineptitude of these fuckers.

>>718986659
pirate it from gog

>>718986290 (OP)
>Side Quests: The Game

>>718986290 (OP)
>What is a metroidvania for $500, Alex

SEX WITH MY GIRLFRIEND (male), PHANTOM, WHILST HO--Wait, this is a Hollow Knight thread, not a Silksong thread.
My mistake, carry on shitting on the game like a retard.

METROIDvania : The Game

>>718986743
hey when we start having silksong threads in 2 weeks I'd prefer if you didn't post this every single time. thank you.

>>718986290 (OP)
I love Metroid games, but the backtracking in Hollow Knight just annoyed me. It seemed like I was always having to go back and forth from the far side of the world to the other, to the two places where you use your specific ability. Maybe I just don't know the game as well as I do Zero Mission or some such, but Metroid games feel way smoother in their backtracking.

>>718986750
what's an example of a metroidVANIA (outside of the vania series)

>>718986880
Bloodstained huehuehuehue

Almost nobody who has hollow knight on their favorite games list has played any Castlevania or Metroid it's ridiculous

play Nine Sols if you want a metroidvania-like with no backtracking. it's the best game in the genre despite not even technically being one.

>>718986823
It must be done.

>>718986290 (OP)
I backtracked your mom's bootyhole all the way down my benis

>>718987083
i've seen you shill it before, maybe i'll actually give it a shot

>>718987603
do it anon, it is genuinely god tier

>>718986835
This
Those travel bugs are in some awful spots too

>>718986290 (OP)
Yet you backtrack to your house at the end of every day. Hmm. Strange.

>>718987083
>despite not even technically being one.
??? you're going to have to sell me more on it before I download furshit

>>718987603
You should.
Sadly, you missed out on all the great threads we had about it

>>718987779
>implying OP ever leaves his house

>>718986290 (OP)
Noooo, you don't understand, wasting hours of your life going to the same areas and trying to orient yourself if important!

>>718987780
I assume he means how it's almost entirely linear. It's pretty much a 2D Sekiro with a Metroidvania style map, but there's not much running back to old areas with new powers.

>>718986290 (OP)
That's one of the key Metroidvania ingredients

>>718986290 (OP)
Metroidvania is the sloppiest genre

>>718986880
Vania's only claim to fame is that they copied metroid so much the fans came up with a term to describe the castlevania games that copied metroid. Hell, there were already other Metroid inspired games during the NES that had RPG elements like Faxanadu and Rygar

>>718987603
>>718987780
It's literally just a linear 2D sekiro with stiff animations. Even the final boss is a ripoff of Isshin. It's shit.

>>718986290 (OP)
Unless you get somehow get lost to the point of not realizing where you can make progress, there is very little backtracking in Hollow Knight.
Whenever you get a new ability you just fast travel to the closest point that allows you to beeline straight towards new progress and new areas and it's usually a very short and simple procedure there before you're already in a new area consuming new content.