Japanese:
>2D side scrolling exploration action games
Americans:
>metroidvania
Which term do you like more?
castlemania
>>378097789
Super Metroid > Castlevania: OoE/PoR/DoS/AoS > Symphony of the Night > Zero Mission/Fusion > everything else
Has any game besides Metroid Prime successfully translated the Metroidvania formula to 3D?
Metroidvania is the term. It's not perfect but everyone knows what it means, it's not going to change for no reason. Stop trying to force tansaku with these threads
>>378097789
i just call all of them side scrollers
>>378097789
metroid-like
>>378097976
castletroid
What's next OP? Calling beat-em-ups belt scrollers?
Different languages invent different terms for the same thing, how exciting.
>>378099472
>Different languages invent different terms for the same thing, how exciting.
A prime example being the french calling potatoes "apples of the earth"
>>378101036
Honestly, fuck the French.
>>378101036
>>378101125
>yfw the French call "bytes" "octets" because they didn't want to use the same word as us