kevwaffles posted...
It is a nebulous classification for sure. Anything with a semblance of open concept gets filed as a Metroidvania. But your only roadblocks are the path itself and what you can boil down to a glorified key for a glorified door, except often without the glorified part. Then there's DS3 that flies in the face of even that, so there's definitely at least some distinction between the two to be made.
Yeah I agree. I can see the argument but Dark Souls doesn't really do movement upgrades and that's a pretty important part of the Metroidvania DNA. Not having a map is also fairly damning tbh
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