Come up with a better name for this genre.

>>386489674
Castletroid

>>386489674
SuperMetroidofTheNight-Like since all these games have nothing in common with any metroid or castlevania game except those 2.

>>386489771
Holy shit

>>386489674

action exploration

>>386490952
>except those 2.
Except also Metroid 2, Zero Mission, Fusion, Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin.

Platformer in which progression is tied to exploration.
It's a subgenre you retard, the genre is platformer.

>>386491334
>rehashes of super metroid and symphony of the night

>>386489674
Collection-exploration platformer.
Or >>386491060

>>386491580
>sequels are rehashes
sigh

>>386489674

The Japanese call these "2D side scrolling exploration action games". Thus, people have started to use "tansaku" (Japanese for exploration).

>>386489674
gay castle explorer adventure hobby

>>386489674
metroid likes

>>386491580
wait, so if they have nothing in common how are they rehashes?

castle other m

>>386489771
>>386491000
I always called them Castleroids until Metroidvania took hold a few years ago

>>386493280
i'm gonna call u a castroid starting now because you seem cas-trated xD

>>386489674
Backtracking

Exploratory Action

>>386493376
Thats some reddit tier humor there guy

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>>386493708
niceme.me

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>>386489674
Progression-platformer.

Same with M&M Dark Messiah being "first-person slasher" over an RPG, Touhou being a "bullet hell" over a regular topdown game, DayZ being a "survival shooter" over a CoD FPS, or Smash being "platform-fighter" over traditional. They're subgenres, easy to name really.

>>386489771
I wish this was the norm-name, it's pretty metal.

both of them are sidescrollers.
Symphony is a sidescroller with RPG elements.

>>386493929
>Progression-platformer
As opposed to platformers where you don't progress?

Open2d

>>386494092
Character-progression (i.e. abilities, arsenal, new areas accessible, etc), not just going forward.

I dunno, I'm sure there's a better name to give besides that or 'vania's.

>>386491580
>Metroid 2
>Super Metroid rehash

>>386489674
big mappy unlock abunch

>MetroVania
easier to pronounce.

>>386489674
I never liked how this name infringes on two copyrights.

>>386489674
Lefty righty filly mapy!
Sometimes shooty sometimes slapy!

>>386489674
back and forth simulator

Adventure-platformer.

>>386496583
jesus christ, anon. I'm dead.

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>>386489674
Super Metroid-like is just as bad and would be a lot more honest.

The criteria for what makes a good Metroidvania game seems to be nothing but "how close is it to Super Metroid?" The genre is fucked.

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Metrovania

>>386489674
Metroid-like

Tansaku

>>386493280
No you didn't

Metrovania

>>386493929
How do you feel about the CUHRAYZEE label?

>>386494201
>>386493929
The terminology reminds me of "role-playing games."

"What, you don't play a role in action games?"

See what I mean?

>>386491060
this, metroidvania is a subgenre of action adventure so avtion exploration makes sense