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If we accept this, then RPG is also not a genre.
The previous section hints at something pretty important, but maybe non-obvious: I assert that MetroidVania is not a genre, it’s a framework - a way of structuring games and most specifically the worlds they take place in.
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This realization that ‘MetroidVania’ is not a genre helps explain why a game like Batman: Arkham Asylum can be thought of as a MetroidVania where its sequels wouldn’t be, even though almost all aspects of the gameplay are very similar.
Never thought about that second quote like that before, but it explains why I loved Asylum and noped out of City after like, an hour or two
Why the downvotes?
Moronic ideas deserve them. What do you think downvotes are for?
For toxic ideas? Good ideas can’t come about if you punish the “moronic” ideas too harshly.
