Feels like S&S is a rather poor substitute to castlevania with its current art direction and ost.
It's also lacking a map which someone who loved SotN could miss...
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What is the absolute closest game to SotN on the Switch?
- Thread starter AndrewDean84
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It's also lacking a map which someone who loved SotN could miss...
On Switch there aren't that many good releases yet even if there's Yoku's Island was incredibly refreshing and Salt&Sanctuary which is coming. There's also Shantae and the pirate's curse which is great. I can't tell you for the monster boys because I haven't played them.
If you have a PC, there are plenty of stellar indie metroidvanias that didn't get as much attention as they would nowadays.
>Aquaria
>Environmental Station Alpha
>Valdis Story
>La-Mulana 1 and 2
>Rabi-Ribi
On emulator you can easily play the castlevanias
>Aria of Sorrow
>Circle of the Moon
>Harmony of Dissonance
For DS, there's
>Portrait of Ruin
>Down of Sorrow
>Order of Eclesia
Among the other less known metroidvanias, there's Kirby and labyrinth of mirrors which is incredibly refreshing.
Also, less traditionnaly "metroidvanias" there are
>Rain World which is an incredible 2D non linear platformer (super hard though)
>Teslagrad which has every elements of the metroidvanias but is a bit too railroaded.
>Cave Story which is the same
If you have a PC, there are plenty of stellar indie metroidvanias that didn't get as much attention as they would nowadays.
>Aquaria
>Environmental Station Alpha
>Valdis Story
>La-Mulana 1 and 2
>Rabi-Ribi
On emulator you can easily play the castlevanias
>Aria of Sorrow
>Circle of the Moon
>Harmony of Dissonance
For DS, there's
>Portrait of Ruin
>Down of Sorrow
>Order of Eclesia
Among the other less known metroidvanias, there's Kirby and labyrinth of mirrors which is incredibly refreshing.
Also, less traditionnaly "metroidvanias" there are
>Rain World which is an incredible 2D non linear platformer (super hard though)
>Teslagrad which has every elements of the metroidvanias but is a bit too railroaded.
>Cave Story which is the same
I just booted up Axiom Verge last night so that from a mechanics point of view. If you want the feel of SOTN then Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.
Chasm by far. It's also very disappointing though. It plays and feels just like the SotN Metroidvanias. The devs modeled it's game play, movement and attack animations directly after it. The game itself is procedurally generated and not in a good or interesting way. That's not to say the level design is terrible, but it's uninspired and cookie cutter.
