16 bit metroidvanias

[Anonymous No.7875968]

Can be 8 bit too like Simons quest and Faxanadu

[Anonymous No.7875973]

>>7875968
Why are they called Metroidvanias when they have more in common with Metroid than Castlevania, why not just call them Metroid clones?

[Anonymous No.7875981]

>>7875973
Because OP is underage

[Anonymous No.7875983]

>>7875973
Because the first game to really capitalize on the Metroid formula and expand upon it (that wasn't a Metroid game itself) was a Castlevania game. Other metroidvanias aren't necessarily doing the Metroid thing—they are doing the Castlevania doing the Metroid thing.

[Anonymous No.7875986]

>>7875973
The idea of them being clones is ridiculous. There's like 5 or 6 different possible structures for progression in games, and Metroid just happened to be one of the earliest video games to use its particular structure. I love Metroid, but comparison between it and every other game with a similar progression needs to stop.

[Anonymous No.7876016]

>>7875973

[Anonymous No.7876042]

>>7875973
They're called Willyvanias

[Anonymous No.7876102]

>>7875968
But far well put development game in mind unlike CV2

[Anonymous No.7876258]

Super adventure Island 2, Phantom 2040

[Anonymous No.7876275]

>>7876016

[Anonymous No.7876943]

>>7875973
They're called Search Action games, anon

[Anonymous No.7877062]

>>7875973
Because Castlevania was one of the earliest franchises to capitalize on the "free-roaming" platformer formula.
Before SOTN, and even before Castlevania 2, the MSX version of Castlevania 1, known as Vampire Killer, contained these elements.
The term itself is used to describe exploration driven platformers with some degree of narrative.
Some Metroidvanias include RPG elements, but the core progression is exactly the same as in a traditional Metroidvania.

Some early NES games that can be qualified as such:
Battle of Olympus
Zelda 2 (Minus the Map)
Wai Wai World by Konami
Jikuu Yuuden - Debias
Majou Densetsu II
Cosmo Police Galivan
The Goonies II
Dr. Chaos - Jigoku no Tobira

SNES Games:
Magical Pop'n
Phantom 2040
Demon's crest

Lesser known examples:
Zillion on the Master System
TMNT 3 on the Gameboy
Hunter x Hunter on the Gameboy Color

[Anonymous No.7878317]

>>7876943
>Not Action Adventure

[Anonymous No.7878330]

what about the egg guy

[Anonymous No.7878724]

>>7875973
>Metroidclonias.

[Anonymous No.7878780]

>>7876016
cannot say this guy is wrong.
Castlevania was more arcade-y but once they went Metroidvania they truly went full autist on this formula.

This is like the Ys games that used to be solo Adol now it is Adol and his gang, not the same format we all loved. Fun for 2 games but now that everyone of them that comes out is the same it gets old real fast.

[Anonymous No.7878784]

>>7877062
Zillion was cool as fuck and Wai Wai world is like a dream come true

[Anonymous No.7878792]

>>7875973
Magical PopN isnt even a metroidvania, even the quasimedtroidvania games like PoR, Monstwer World and Shantae have some backtracking a bit more exploration, Magical Pop'n is just a regular sidescroller with some minor nor linear level design, but still staged based.

Sorry but i am quite still aggravated how much the term metroidvania had been missused.

PIC RELATED: how many of these are NOT actual metroidvanias (in4 NOT RETRO REEEE)

[Anonymous No.7879474]

>>7875973
Better question is, are you prepared to lose your sanity over it?

[Anonymous No.7879493]

>>7875968
wikipedia says this is 8 bits.

[Anonymous No.7879641]

>>7875968
This game isn't even a metroidvania.

[Anonymous No.7879813]

>>7879641
Neither is Faxanadu

[Anonymous No.7880567]

>>7875973
>Why are they called Metroidvanias
blame this faggot.
>>7876016
k but both those movies suck tho.

[Anonymous No.7880652]

Are the rpg kunio-kun games metroidvania?

[Anonymous No.7881001]

>>7875968
This isn't a metroidvania AT ALL.

[Anonymous No.7881003]

>>7880567
Do you realize the term Metroidvania existed like a good decade BEFORE Jeremy even started to think about making it to Youtube?

[Anonymous No.7881013]

>>7881003
He coined it on his blog a decade before he started making YouTube videos.

[Anonymous No.7881084]

>>7881013
He popularized the term, but it (and the term "castleroid") had been used even earlier, in the gaming forums of the early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.7881126]

>>7879641
>>7879813
>>7881001
The level design after the first is non linear but more in thr style of Monster World, yet it is still stage based with no stage backtracking.

(Also has some TERRIBLE slow down)

[Anonymous No.7881426]

>>7876275
He ain’t wrong.

[Anonymous No.7883156]

>>7878792
It is fucking depressing that I've only played 9 games out of that entire picture. I'm surprised Monster World III (SMS) is not included, though.

[Anonymous No.7883164]

>>7879493
more like 7 bits

[Anonymous No.7883170]

>>7875968
>Can be 8 bit too
okay

[Anonymous No.7883184]

Just watched some cunt on YouTube call Wonderboy in Monsterland a metroidvania. Fuck this gay earth

[Anonymous No.7883197]

So I've been playing La Mulana. How far can I reasonably expect to get without a guide? Managed to kill one boss so far and I've made decent progress in a few areas. I've got two of those red gems you need to summon a boss. I feel like all I need to do is find whatever will let me interact with all the orb indentations I've seen all over the ruins and I'll have mostly cracked the game.

[Anonymous No.7883440]

>>7876016
>Go-Bots
based

[Anonymous No.7883452]

>>7883156
I played 12, and only manage to beat 4 castlevanias and Super Metroid.

[Anonymous No.7883558]

>>7875983
>Because the first game to really capitalize on the Metroid formula and expand upon it (that wasn't a Metroid game itself) was a Castlevania game
lol this isn't even remotely true

[Anonymous No.7884153]

>>7883197
La-Mulana is quite evil and has many "how the fuck did you expect me to know to do this?!" moments, but I absolutely loved the ever loving shit out of it
Probably one of the most open one of the genre, you can truly always do a shitload of stuff, you just haven't found out how yet
My personal recommendations is to go around attempting to find stuff to advance, but when you start getting bored with no progressions, just look at a guide for a specific puzzle that's been bothering you

[Anonymous No.7885862]

>>7884153
Is there a good way to farm money? Stocking up on more than one box of pistol ammo really isn't seeming realistic right now

[Anonymous No.7885914]

>>7875973
>Why are they called Metroidvanias when they have more in common with Metroid than Castlevania, why not just call them Metroid clones?

Castlevania was the original Metroidvania. It was called that because of the similarities with Super Metroid. But there have always been 2D sidescoller adventure games.

[Anonymous No.7886000]

>>7883452
For me, I've wiped out Super Metroid (who hasn't?), MW4, Bloodstained, Metroid Fusion, SOTN and Muramasa. If you haven't played a monster world game, I highly recommend emulating MB III: A Dragons Trap on the SMS. In my opinion, it is the best 8-bit game to ever grace the earth. The remake doesn't do it any justice for it, with the graphics look like a shitty flash game on Newgrounds.