Metroidvania

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Metroidvania is a subgenre of video games focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration. The term, popularized by video game critic Jeremy Parish, is a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania.

This is a cloned community from Reddit. I intend to hand over mod support to the original mods should they choose to migrate to Lemmy.

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Welcome to Metroidvania! What are you currently playing? (self.metroidvania)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by betternotbigger to c/metroidvania

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It's my favorite gaming genre by far. I'm currently finishing a run in Lone Fungus which has become a surprise hit for me.

What are you playing?

Note to Reddit /r/metroidvania mods:

I noticed there was no metroidvania community here yet so I decided to create one. If the original mods of that community want to join send me a message. I do not want to be a mod, I just wanted to see my favorite community on Lemmy.

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[–] ChristinWhite 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for creating the community, r/metroidvania is one of the subs I miss most from Reddit, I was hoping some of the community would eventually show up here.

I’ve been playing Control a lot recently and am loving it so far. I’ve also got Ori and the Blind Forest in my rotation, sure seems like a masterpiece.

[–] betternotbigger 3 points 1 year ago

It's not super active but eventually it will grow. Glad to see you here! I'm doing my fifth run of Hollow Knight right now.