Lurker > Kenri

I continue to Route 37 and catch a Spinark, which I named Kenri. This is your punishment for your lack of faith in ctes the Sunkern!

I even have heard of people disliking mint because it tastes soapy (as in a common aroma associated with soap)

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I don't have a lot of interest in Stellar Blade, but apparently people have decided this game is the new mascot for the PRO Gamegate movement so I'll be very intermid typing I realized this was one seriously LMS ass post I am so sorry.

It's funny, I usually consider this one of my more liked types when generalizing, but when it's laid out like this, every gen has something that I don't like counterbalancing the good ones. Not immediately sure which one to vote for.

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Everyone who knows Trump is a conman criminal

There was a decent amount of Biden Dementia buzz before. All that disappeared after the State of the Union. Now it's all Hunter all the time because they have nothing else.

the simplest way is that Metroidvania means the same thing as "Search Action", which more accurates describes the unifying gameplay principles between Metroid and SotN.

But even besides that when I'm mowing down enemies in a long hallway or slowly jumping through a clock tower dodging Medusa heads, that's all Castlevania, little if any Metroid.

dark souls is when there's a dodge roll.

Fire-type STAB is a thing.

Gen IV Fire is definitely the first time I was consciously aware that "wow, this typing just sucks this gen." Though, less from an aesthetic perspective and more of "I really need fire types and I have nothing."

Exceptions that prove the rule

But those 2 games are wildly different. The only similarity is they are action games where you can explore. Yet gamers HATE the term Exploration Action, even though it most precisely describes the similarities between all these vastly dissimilar games.

Gamers are obsessed with genres being concise and complete descriptions, but sometimes it just doesn't work.

____like are actually good terms though because it IS referring to a specific game. If a game is like Dark Souls then yes it's a Soulslike. Roguelikes often aren't actually like Rogue, but that's another issue (and the clarity of the term does mean that Roguelite became more common). You can have Simslikes, Mariolikes, WoWlikes, whatever. It's all pretty clear.

Metroidvania is the worst term because it obscures the meaning of SOTNlike. If a game is even tangentially related to Metroid or Castlevania, they call it Metroidvania. They treat it like a union of the two genres instead of an intersection.

officially as per like 2005 wikipedia entry conventions, metroidvanias are explicitly 2d platformers to differentiate it from zelda and 3d stuff (and castleroids/castloids are explicitly the term for igarashi's games circa sotn though i guess that term died a fiery death the moment igavania got coined instead)