Omfg I can't believe I forgot about this one. Ecco the Dolphin metroidvania!
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Check out “Aquaria”. Not quite the same thing, but a Metroidvania playing as a mermaid with song powers. Lots of boss fights! And you can even breech the surface when you get there!
Splatoon. You could definitely come up with plenty of cool movement abilities to unlock. And in general I just want to see the IP explored in all kinds of directions. If the franchise had debuted a generation earlier, I keep imagining what kind of straight-to-handheld companion title it would've gotten.
It already exists, but the sands of time Metroidvania "Lost Crowns" was surprisingly good.
Great list. Donkey Kong Country is especially appealing for me. Let's throw mario in there too while we're at it. I think that could work well.
I'd like to see a red dead redemption set in the early wild west.
Punch-Out!
Lol, that'd be interesting. Would the whole thing take place in that semi-first-person perspective?
Imagine Little Mac training animation with his coach.
He trains by roaming the city, confronting street gangs, fleeing dangerous dogs and finding training rooms to recruit opponents to qualify for the real fights...
Commander Keen metroidvania?
Duuuude! Megaman would also be AMAZING as a Metroidvania!
If you're not aware, Megaman Zero series, and Megaman ZX games are pretty much metroidvanias.
There's also the fanmade Megaman X Corrupted which is reimagining the Megaman X games as a metroidvania.
HELL YEAH! A SONIC METROIDVANIA!! 🔥🔥🔥
I guess Sonic Adventure 1 has a little bit of this, with the hub worlds. New abilities can allow you to reach new places in the hub worlds
Sonic Adventure 1 is my favorite Sonic game. I was thinking more along the lines of a 2d sidescrolling Sonic metroidvania though.
Yeah, a Sonic metroidvania with gameplay akin to Ori and the Blind Forest would be absolutely top-tier. Ori was largely focused on movement instead of combat, just like the side-scrolling Sonic games typically have been.
Yeah! That's why I KNOW a full Metroidvania sonic game would be the greatest thing ever!
SA1 is still my favorite in the series
On my top 5 for sure.
Resident evil 2d Metroidvania.
The game is already genre adjacent. It would work so well.
Biohazard might as well be a metroidvania.
Earthworm Jim
Please someone do anything with this franchise. I can even tolerate an open world live service game of Earthworm Jim.
Isn't the creator/owner problematic?
Jesus Christ, is there any bit of nostalgia left that's not tainted by those lunatics?
At least I still Harry Potter.
It is? Fuck
Yeah, I guess he's really transphobic and every time someone reaches out to talk about Earthworm Jim, he gets really weird and political.
Dunno, but if that's true, then ideally the rights would be bought and used by people who don't suck, or maybe there could be a spiritual successor.
Tomb raider in 2d metrodivania would be cool.
Same with maybe Doom?
Tomb Raider would be perfect for a metroidvania. Good suggestion.
The Lost Vikings as a Metroidvania would be ridiculous.
3 characters have to spit up & collect things so they can come back together and use their combined efforts to progress...
Yeah, I didn't consider that. The game would probably have to design the map in a way that keeps all the characters relatively nearby, or introduce a mechanic for them to converge more seamlessly, like maybe having save rooms that teleport all of them together or something.
Trine is the modern day Lost Vikings. You just switch characters on the fly.
I'm just picturing big chambers like Super Metroid, and the characters moving around testing things to see what happens, then putting it together. (Maybe a zoom out button, or the map screen being relatively detailed.) So it could be very similar to the original, just "more". You'd just need a few sets of puzzles in every chamber, for when they backtrack and revisit areas. Mind you I'm not saying it's easy to "just" design good levels and puzzles, especially in such a large scale, just that it's easy for me to imagine it being fun.
Oooh, another one: Demon's Crest.
My first thoughts were Final Fantasy because you have all the enemies you need. And they've already branched out into monster catching and Souls-like. So might as well.
My second thought was X-men because the Genesis games were already kinda built for that.