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| Topic | Hollow Knight is better than any Castlevania or Metroid game |
| masterpug53 12/23/18 10:56:32 AM #11: | Erm, no. Excellent game, but... - too one-note in tonal variety. Consistency is good and a game doesn't have to be as off-the-wall as SotN to be fun, but Super Metroid had very well-defined shifts between zones in terms of music, art style, and vibe. Hollow Knight has somber dark tunnels, somber dark mossy cave, somber dark rainy city, etc. - past the halfway point of the game, the devs got in the bad habit of taking the sadism of their boss fights and platforming challenges one step past the point of enjoyability, to the point where I lost interest in finishing the game right at the end because I simply didn't have any patience left for it. - people have complained for years about metroidvania games hiding cool shit behind nondescript breakable walls. Hollow Knight doubles down majorly on this, hiding things far more unique than missile tanks behind thoroughly unremarkable walls. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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