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| NeatoAnAccount 08/07/21 4:40:34 PM #56: | >Ok now explain how Metroidvania conveys genre in a vaccum. Or RPG or FPS. Metroidvania conveys genre because metroidvania is a word in the language english that means "game like metroid" You may as well be asking "explain how the word 'candy' conveys meaning in a vacuum." It just does. That's how language works: a bunch of people start saying something, so now that thing they say is part of the language. If we called Metroidvanias "coathanger baklavas" ("Just finished SotN so now I'm looking for a new coathanger baklava") then that would be the correct term to use instead of something more "descriptive," because a tiny little genre name doesn't tell you what kind of game it is unless you already know lots of games in that genre and others so you can compare them. --- Neato, an account ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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