This is the best metroidvania ive ever played

It's definitely one of the best. I'd put it in second tier just below SM and SotN along with AoS.

I just finished the game yesterday and I loved it too. I feel kind of dumb for not waiting on the new update that just went up today.
I haven't checked but I hope they added a better way to travel to and from the lower areas quickly because that was a real pain in the late game.

You guys are duuuuum. This is a gay ass game fof gay ass faggots.

How about you put the name of it somewhere in your post so my filters will catch it you shilling asshole.

It's really up there for sure. Super Metroid is hard to beat, but I've had years to build that game into something more via nostalgia.

Better than SOTN for sure.

>tfw living in the golden age of metroidvanias

Tons of promising titles on the horizon, feels good man.

Hey guys,

Just a quick thing.

Could you stop liking things I don't like?

Thanks

>>386088394
>Tons of promising titles on the horizon, feels good man.
Nothing other than Ghost Song and Blasphemous for me, really. Only two with art that actually looks good.

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I dont remotely understand the appeal of metroidvanias.

>An entire genre based around that frustrating feeling of the game losing direction and me just desperately poking around hoping to progress but as an entire genre

>>386089129
>Hmm I need a special item to access this area, must be something interesting
>Come back later after getting said item and it is interesting

Not that hard to see the appeal. It creates an immersive environment where the world isn't just a treadmill of going from place to place but actually exploring and interacting with the world.

>>386088934
I'm also really looking forward to Death’s Gambit.

There's like five other titles I'm less excited for but might be OK. The Beyond Human demo was pretty fun.

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>>386088394
>Better than SOTN for sure.

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*sigh* bapenada

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Since we are shilling indieshit metroidvanias here, Sundered turned out to be pretty good. I bought it blindly because I liked their earlier game Jotun but after the first 40min I was starting to regret it. Then I played some more just to see if it got better and now I'm like 12 hours deep in it with like 60% completed in my save.

>>386089453
100% and I loved SOTN.

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>>386089807
ok? that doesn't really factor into it for me, because i loved sotn too and think hollow knight is pretty shit

>>386089570
i think you mean Bafanada

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>mfw no Switch version yet

FFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>386089440
>Death’s Gambit
Looks pretty good. Any ETA on this?

>>386086749
This is the most shilled game on /v/ in the last 5 years

>>386090010
That sucks Anon, sorry you didn't like it.

I just found the gameplay a lot better. SOTN had more variety, but it's so piss easy(probably the only time the lack of difficulty has ever hurt a game for me) that combat ends up feeling like a chore. The bosses and moment to moment combat in Hollow Knight just felt better designed.

SOTN had significantly better music for sure though, and I really liked some of the stuff Hollow Knight has. Makes it look bad in comparison though.

>>386089708
t. shill

>>386090331

At least it isn't the devs shilling
It's the primary playtester

>>386090323
"2017". Although it's an indie title, so there's a good chance it won't make it.

I forgot about Chasm too. I've yet to play it as I don't back Kickstarters, but I remember really liking what I saw out of it.

You mentioned Ghost Song already, but that just made me go and watch the videos of it and holy shit I need that game to be out bad.

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>>386090360
why are you apologizing to me? you don't have anything to do with hollow knight, so it's not your responsibility

what a strange attitude you have, anon

>>386090597
>being this passive aggressive

dont be bitchy anon

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>>386090863
don't tell me what to do, mind your own business fool

hollow knight combat is really really boring, i've played for a couple of hours and honestly i'd rather go back and replay any of the DSVanias over completing this right now

>>386090331
That's one big claim you've got there.

Salt and Sanctuary is better

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>>386091483
this is another shitty game

is this /kusoge/ general or something

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>>386086749
Dead Cells and Salt & Sanctuary are two of my favorite metroidvanias to this date. (THat I played within the last year and some change)
I tried to get into Hollow Knight but it was just difficult to get into. (Not the game, just got bored after a while)

>>386091483
I really enjoyed that game, but it felt like the color palette being all desaturated made everything feel kind of samey at points(although I suppose this same criticism can be leveled at Hollow Knight).

Wonder what the dev is doing next.

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shush
you'll summon the la mulana faggot

>>386089708
I was really curious about this one, I like the artstyle a lot but I don't do many metroidvanias. But I also kinda like any developer who just gives their first game out for free to hype up the new one

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What is your most hated enemy?
I can't stand these fucklords. Their shot prediction is out of this world sometimes.

>hovers away from you
>snipes you out of the air while you're trying to platform over death pits
>fire spread shot point blank when you try to jump for it

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What's so special about it?

Without the artstyle it's a generic metroid attempt, the platforming is easy and uninspired, the levels are ok I guess, the enemy patterns don't shake up enough and the bosses are pure easy shit

As far as Metroidvanias go this one is pretty shit, the OST is garbage too.

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>>386086749

Either this or La Mulana for me.

I remember being pretty dismissive of it when I saw just the artstyle and the hype, but it ended up being one of my favorites.

I hate everything about White/Dung Defender

>>386093360
it has the best routing of any metroidvania i've played, in launch threads everyone discovered areas and items in a different order

>>386093578
>in launch threads everyone discovered areas and items in a different order
that could happen with tons of games though, metroidvania or not

that ain't special anon

>>386093150
Well I've been having a blast. Some Lovecraft fanboy might find it bad that you are slaying mythos creatures left and right but the story seems to imply that humans aren't pushovers here. The fighting seems to reward aggression, well at least with my perk combos.

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>>386086749
i want this on switch

when's it coming out on switch

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>>386093360
> the OST is garbage too.

don't make so it obvious

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>>386086749
Yeah, it alright.

>>386094927
Nice, I'll give it another look

>>386095242
Not the guy you're replying to, but I'm almost done with my first playthrough of Sundered. It's a really good game once you get your first set of abilities, and some of the later ones can change up the way you approach enemies and the environment. There's also potential upgrades to these abilities that you can choose to utilize.

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>only like 4 items/abilities that matter for exploration
>best metroidvania

>>386095657
It's so nice to see you kids happy with a new game

>>386086749
>be 35

watching people praise hollow knight is like watching people put out a fire with cups of water when they just have to break the glass for the extinguisher

the extinguisher in this case being the super nintendo

>>386089129
I like metroidvania's but this statement pretty much sums up every experience I've had with them, save Aria of Sorrow.

>>386090360
>but it's so piss easy(probably the only time the lack of difficulty has ever hurt a game for me)

funny how you say this but you had the beryl circlet, you had the crissaegrim, etc

you just found all those items on accident of course, like every single other person here.

hollow knight isn't fun to play. the character isn't fun to be. he isn't responsive. he doesn't have cool moves. he doesn't look cool.

Anyone beat the two new bosses yet?
Had to reinstall Windows so all my save data is fucked and I have restart.

>>386097589
Yeah, they're not that tough. I expected a much harder fight from Zote

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>>386098307
>not that tough

You can fight them more than once, you know. A lot more. It's a struggle.

>>386097287
>tfw I had basically quit gaming entirely
>play this and feel like a deep nostalgia and also a real desire to explore
>Immersed completely, feel something in a game I hadn't felt in a really long time.
>every game feels even shittier now because I realize it isn't impossible to make quality games anymore and there is no excuse for all the bland big budget shit that is churned out.
>Play Prey 2017, never played the first one. ?>Really liked it, people shitting on it left and right.
I'm only 25 and my favorite game of all time is still Super Metroid, but I don't get what you mean. Super Nintendo has like 5 games that hold up, 6 if you like Donkey Kong.

>>386098827
>Super Nintendo has like 5 games that hold up

hahah, no dude. anyway, if you want to REALLY love video games, go play ori and the blind forest now. You will mentally thank me later. You'll be like "thanks anon" trust me

>>386098827
It's called contrarianism.

Someone said that Momodora was shorter but way more fun, is that true?

>>386099150
momodora has very very good game design but it preoccupies itself with being hard and this made me get tired of it

it's like, SNES hard, feels like a megaman X game with bad intentions or something.

>>386093204
Literally the hardest enemy in the colosseum.

>>386098929
I think I am realizing that I value immersion and exploration more than any other factor in a game. The people I know irl that didn't like Prey just wanted to rush through it and got frustrated but I had a lot of fun pacing myself.

>>386099779
that game is agonizing to me

it was like 1 step away from being an all time niche cult classic like VTMB, but they fucked up

>enemies are annoying to fight
>there are only two enemies
>enemy making you tense that anything could be an enemy has the same effect as a level timer in games. the constant anxiety feeling isn't welcome or wanted and interferes with exploring

+5 enemies, less morphs, more creative uses of some of the skill slots they added, and you have a game that is getting 9s in every publication and winning GOTYs.

They didn't crest the hill. And cresting the hill is what's important to a game achieving that "good" feeling. It's why PUBG has more players than all the games it came from combined. They crested the hill and now it feels good.

>>386098913
>Zelda LTTP
>Super Metroid
>Earthbound
>Secret of Mana
>Final Fantasy
Anything else is dated trash

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>>386093204
What's up dude I'm in a tunnel and you can't get above me

>>386100128
>plays actraiser
>THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!

you can have whatever opinion you want kiddo