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transience posted...

Maybe it's because the thing I like the most in a 'vania is the feeling of traversal and feeling more powerful as I get more and more stuff. Hollow Knight doesn't really go down that path. Your movement abilities aren't that good. It's much more of a mechanics based, combat heavy one of those instead of, I don't know, an Ori.

Haha, all this stuff is exactly why I like Hollow Knight -- I feel like it does traversal and feeling more powerful super well, and compared to lot of more modern Metroidvanias I don't think it's particularly combat heavy (or rather, it is, but has tons of platforming and stuff too, where lots of indie MVs are just combat). Definitely the indie Metroidvania that's best captured the magic of games like SotN and Metroid Prime for me.