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Cotton_Eye_Joe
02/06/25 9:31:38 PM
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It gives way too much credit to Castlevania.


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TheDurinator
02/06/25 9:34:52 PM
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SOTN is one of the best games ever made
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MagiMarthKoopa
02/06/25 9:35:30 PM
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It was supposed to just refer to the metroid-like Castlevania games at first, but then gamers kept misusing it and now every 2d sidescroller is a metroidvania
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Mr_Crispy
02/06/25 9:35:35 PM
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because the term was coined specifically to describe Symphony of the Night and the rest of the later Castlevania games in contrast to the 'classic' games.

The other term going around for those games at the time was 'Igavania'.

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Mearcstapa
02/06/25 9:37:03 PM
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They should be called Castleroids

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HylianFox
02/06/25 9:37:56 PM
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Castlevania started out totally linear

Then it become more open-world like Metroid, hence "Metroidvania"

Then the term became applied to any Metroid-like game.

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YoungMutual
02/06/25 9:39:01 PM
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because you turn 360 degrees and then go away

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VeggetaX
02/06/25 9:39:59 PM
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I always that they call Castlevania games "Metroidvania" to differentiate the classic Castlevania to the more modern RPG adventure ones. Turns out I was the minority in thinking this.

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Siculu
02/06/25 9:40:08 PM
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TheDurinator posted...
SOTN is one of the best games ever made

This. And then the handheld ones would contribute too. Particularly the excellent Aria and Dawn of Sorrow.

MagiMarthKoopa posted...
It was supposed to just refer to the metroid-like Castlevania games at first, but then gamers kept misusing it and now every 2d sidescroller is a metroidvania

Also this. Once Metroidvania became a genre, these have since been called Igavanias.

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_Blur_
02/06/25 9:40:31 PM
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Yeah they should just be called Metroid-likes

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BlazinBlue88
02/06/25 10:05:56 PM
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YoungMutual posted...
because you turn 360 degrees and then go away
Because you Metroid 360 degrees and Vania away.

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ssjevot
02/06/25 10:08:01 PM
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VeggetaX posted...
I always that they call Castlevania games "Metroidvania" to differentiate the classic Castlevania to the more modern RPG adventure ones. Turns out I was the minority in thinking this.

Castlevania fans still do this. Classicvania and Metroidvania are both used to differentiate them.

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kiwimyweewee
02/06/25 10:13:18 PM
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Cause it sounds cool.

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Silver_Ogre
02/06/25 11:41:59 PM
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Mearcstapa posted...
They should be called Castleroids
They used to be. I'm not sure exactly when Metroidvania overtook it.
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