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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.

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Community Top 3 Metroidvanias (self.metroidvania)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by betternotbigger to c/metroidvania
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Simple, reply with your top 3 MVs, and feel free to edit it as time goes on! I'll pin this to the channel until it becomes difficult to parse!

Example:

  1. Super Metroid
  2. Metroid Dread
  3. Symphony of the Night

(these aren't my top 3)

Feel free to elaborate on why or keep it simple! My top 3 changes quite frequently.

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[–] simple 3 points 2 years ago
  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Ori Will of the Wisps
  3. Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
[–] Spat_U_Later 3 points 2 years ago
  1. Metroid Prime
  2. Metroid Dread
  3. Gato Roboto
[–] RaulitoElLobito 3 points 1 year ago
  1. Castlevania SoTN
  2. Hollow Knight
  3. Blasphemous
[–] FrostKing 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it weird to be a Metroidvania enthusiast who hasn't been able to finish a Castlevania game? I like them, but they don't draw me in like others.

  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Metroid Zero Mission
  3. Metroid Fusion

Honorable mention: Tomb Raider (2013) Didn't know it was a Metroidvania until reading this thread.

[–] betternotbigger 1 points 1 year ago

No not at all! I'm in the same boat. I didn't know either... def going to check it out now.

[–] Artranjunk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Super Metroid
  3. Aquaria / Dust: An Elysian Tail (can't decide)

UPDATE 1:

  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Super Metroid
  3. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

UPDATE 2:

  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Blasphemous 1
  3. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
[–] betternotbigger 2 points 2 years ago
  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Aeterna Noctis
  3. Grime

Sometimes I want to take Hollow Knight out of my top 3 but I've replayed it around 4x times and it's easy to see why it's so popular. It just has so much attention to detail that other MVs lack even if they are very good. I tend to not want to include it because I'm hoping others branch out to discover all the other MVs out there.

[–] corLeone 1 points 1 year ago
  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Symphony of the Night
  3. Metroid Dread
[–] ViscloReader 1 points 1 year ago
  1. Super Metroid
  2. Hollow knight
  3. Metroid Dread