Epyo the Great posted...
SotN's the right choice for main castlevania representative.
I still think people go overboard on comparing it to super metroid, because really the only idea the games share is that they're both platformers with an automap. Besides that, they're on opposite ends of the spectrum in most aspects i can think of:
* The gameplay is extremely different (controls, equipment systems, shooting vs melee, sotn's magic systems, puzzle vs action),
* The overall presentation is completely different (story vs exposition, inclusion of characters, type of fantasy involved),
* The graphical style is completely different (tile based vs gothic art)
* The zone structure is very different (quantity, size, setting, all are opposites),
* and come to think about it, the automaps are very different as well.
This. We might as well be comparing RE4 to Metroid games in that case (seriously, that's how it felt to me when I played RE4 for the first time a few months ago - it felt like a Metroid game where the emphasis on puzzle solving, bright colors, and space tech flair were replaced with all-out action, "photorealism", and a rural setting).
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