Metroidvania
- Comes from the names of two games that do a similar thing
- We don’t call FPS games “Doom clones” anymore
- Imagine if we called real-time strategy games “Warconquers” or platformers “Sonarios”
- Doesn’t mean anything
- I don’t care that it’s come into common usage
- Bad
- Stop it
“Where the fuck do I go kind of games”
- I got it from the Angry Video Game Nerd
- Aptly describes the experience of play
- Kind of a mouthful
“Search action”
- From a description of a Touhou game
- Actually explains what you’re doing
- Concise
- Possibly too broad
“Maze games”
- Just describes what they are
- They are mazes
- Potential confusion with things like Pac-Man but come on it’s 2019
“Castleroid”
- …
- Fuck you
“Metroidlikes”
- I guess we do this with Roguelikes already
- I forget that Rogue was actually a game most of the time
- “Roguelike” is also a bad term
“Hunter gatherers”
- You’re hunting and gathering items
- Nice synergy with Metroid being a bounty hunter
- Already taken by pre-industrial humans
- Civilization was a mistake
“Gatecrashers”
- I made this up
- These games are all about unlocking gated areas
- I’ll be the first to admit that it’s bad
- I wouldn’t use it
- And I wouldn’t suggest you do either
- Good day
