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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

so are they at all like metroidvanias?

I probably should have clarified what I meant by "Interconnected"

Basically instead of selecting a stage and completing it, you select missions from a home base and complete them. In between missions, you are basically free to roam around this base and find ways to enter the stages to backtrack and pick up cyber elves you missed. Nothing is blocking progress other then incomplete missions.

Granted, the early games (specifically the first) didn't really do this well, but it got better as the series progressed. And like T0ffee said, ZX and ZX Advent are more like metroidvanias in their execution, although I still really wouldn't classify them as that.