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UF8 posted...

to a lesser degree the same goes for soulslike or roguelike

____like are actually good terms though because it IS referring to a specific game. If a game is like Dark Souls then yes it's a Soulslike. Roguelikes often aren't actually like Rogue, but that's another issue (and the clarity of the term does mean that Roguelite became more common). You can have Simslikes, Mariolikes, WoWlikes, whatever. It's all pretty clear.

Metroidvania is the worst term because it obscures the meaning of SOTNlike. If a game is even tangentially related to Metroid or Castlevania, they call it Metroidvania. They treat it like a union of the two genres instead of an intersection.