/vr/ - Retro Games

All metroidvanias are relativily easy compared to other platformers. If this guy couldn't figure that out and puts it as 'ball kicking hard' I don't see how he can be an expert. 'Gloomy atismphere' is also a questionable category. The genre's library is no more or less gloomy then other side-scrollers.

He also looks like a hipster faggot.

>why does it seem like it was a genre Western game developers never did

An 'action rpg' is just an action game with stat ups. Westerns have been doing that forever with their non-turn based dungeon-crawlers, both the first person and overhead ones. You either didn't think your question through at all or have a horrible understanding of gaming history. Either way you're an idiot.