I played this but did not finish it. Got stumped at one point and didn't get back to it. If it's only 10 hours I should really revisit. I have it for PS4 but should probably buy in a Switch sale.
Definitely not 25 hours. You might have looked at the wrong game on HLTB. A regular run through the game should be roughly 10 hours. I recommend giving it another shot.
You're right. I was looking at the Google result. Thanks. I'm going to snag this next Switch sale.
It's good. Way less Dark Souls influence than Hollow Knight tho.
I dropped the game because of it... >.>
Salt and Sanctuary, Valdis Story and Blasphemous are far better Metroidvania games.
Two of those are just side scrolling Souls likes. Not Metroidvania at all.
Absolutely not. All 3 of those are Metroidvanias through and through. S&S is also Souls-like but it's still a Metroidvania, Blasphemous is absolutely not a Souls-like at all.
No. It has Souls mechanics. It's a Soulslike. No game that emulates Souls is a Metroidvania. If you're looking to play a MV, and you end up dodging a giant monster attacking twice then dodging again over and over and get a YOU DIED screen, that's totally not the same thing.
Ah yes, because games cannot be hybrids. If you have RPG mechanics, your game cannot have action combat. This is flawless logic. /s
I'd assume all versions run fine since it's not a very demanding game, so it'd be whichever you prefer (e.g. Switch if you want portability, PC if not, etc). It was free on EGS a while back so you might have a copy of it for PC already.
It depends on what you prefer and what you like about Hollow Knight. As a Souls fan I do prefer Salt and Sanctuary over the rest. If you want more fast-paced action combat and some RPG-lite mechanics, Valdis Story. If you'd rather keep the dark fantasy setting but want to avoid the RPG/Souls-like aspect, I'd recommend Blasphemous.
Wut. I have no idea what you're even saying anymore, but all of this post seems to be replying to something literally no one in this thread has said.
Not sure what you're reading then.
You won't find Axiom Verge to be nearly as graceful or fluid as those games. Most of it's innovation/interest comes from how you manipulate the game world, not the combat itself.
What? All I said was that I didn't find it that great and then recommended games I thought were better in the same genre to someone who asked, then you proceeded to lecture me about how these games aren't actually in the same genre using spurious arguments. You don't have to agree with my picks but your #notruemetroidvania derail is getting grating so please stop.
The Kilver's ability to hit through walls renders basically everything else useless outside of few specific scenarios; it really shouldn't have been the only weapon capable of doing that.
They're all metroidvanias, for sure, although Blasphemous is a weird one IMO due to how it does that backtracking with traversal upgrades part. As far as I remember, every single movement ability upgrade in the game is entirely optional - and while they do give you access to new abilities as well, those too are usually more movement-based and also optional. So it kind of plays out more like a straight action platformer, but turns into a metroidvania if you do optional side exploration, which is really unique and I'm not sure I've ever encountered that before in a game. I'd still call it a metroidvania overall, and I'm not meaning to argue or anything - I'm not entirely sure what my point is here, I guess I just wanted to mention how interesting I find that game's structure :).
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