• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    Both of these genres aren’t well defined words, and because games can vary so much in mechanics and presentation, they only need to share some qualities to be understood as such

    • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      10 months ago

      Metroidvania is extremely well defined.

      If the map is gated by movement/combat abilities, used identically to how you use them in actual combat, it’s a metroidvania. If it’s gated by anything else, it isn’t.