Which involves jumping, dashing, upgrading and fighting your way through an ever-growing collection of locations, each more astoundingly beautiful than the last. You play as Ori, a glowing woodland spirit, accompanied by a floating orb called Sein, who are attempting to discover why their world is being overtaken by a withering corruption. It’s revised version, released a year later, improved and expanded the game with new areas, new abilities, and rather crucially, added difficulty levels, broadening the appeal of this most gorgeous and evocative of games. One of the most sublime and perfectly executed metroidvanias, Ori & The Blind Forest emphasised exploration and achievement over difficulty on its original release, and in doing so rather divided the MV audience.
Ori And The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition It’s still a little loose around the edges, a little scrappy, and the boss fights are often crazy difficulty spikes, but it’s spirit and verve make it stand out in an often very straight-faced genre. That last one added new levels and abilities, and even four-player co-op. First came Guacamelee!, then Guac Gold, and finally Super Turbo Championship Edition. The recent announcement of a Guacamelee 2 is great news, because if anything else it means developers DrinkBox will have escaped their apparent loop of remaking the first one. The Mexican-themed colour bonanza focuses on tactical 2D close-up fighting, adding in an array of moves that nudge on the edges of the beat-em-up genre. Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition Some passionately argue it's a Metroidvania, others - correctly - point out that it's a roguelite platformer, with a growing skillset. Although by far the most controversial non-inclusion inside the RPS Treehouse is Dead Cells. So no, Dark Souls and its compatriots are not in here, and nor is Batman and his Arkham adventures. And we've not yet unlocked the mine-dodging ability.
We've done our best not to conflate things too much with games that better fit into the 'roguelike/lite' category, nor indeed those that are better described as simply ' platform games'. It's fair to say we've gone for a fairly conservative interpretation of the genre, sticking to games that represent the classic model of a large game world to explore, with areas unlocked and returned to as new abilities are gained. The important thing to remember is that we're right. Hence, we suspect this could be one of the more controversial lists, when it leaves out a favourite game that someone else might argue fits the remit, but we decided did not.
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With its very name coming from an amalgamation of two actually quite different Nintendo-based game series - Metroid and Castlevania - quite what qualifies is always up for debate. The Metroidvania is perhaps one of the more tricky genres to nail down.
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