Any good metroidvania recommendations?

[Valestein]

Finished the Blaster Master Zero trilogy and am kicking myself for not having played them sooner.

Is that even a metroidvania?

I played both Bloodstained games by the same studio and they were pretty god tier.

yes, more or less

Yeah, Blaster Master has open maps with areas and paths that can't be accessed without acquiring a certain items, so...yes

 

[Arthandas]

yes, more or less

Yeah, Blaster Master has open maps with areas and paths that can't be accessed without acquiring a certain items, so...yes

 

[Grauken]

one MV I recently played was Islets. It's nice with a cute style. Play it on hard difficulty from the start to get even a bit of challenge. Has solid exploration, around 10 hours gameplay, lots of bosses, including some shmup bullet hell bosses and an interesting mechanic where you connect 5 islands together to open new paths. The main story is a bit daft and childish though and the writing more perfunctory than compelling

 

[Jenkem]

Enjoying HAAK quite a bit. Lots of fun upgrades keep getting thrown in even late in the game. I have some issues with it but it's fairly solid game.

I'm playing this as well.

Spoiler

Did you kill the Fatty?

Edit: The game clearly cannot be finished with KB + M, in fact I doubt they fully tested it.

Yeah, I'm pretty much near the end I think. Saved just before the fight with the antagonist. Still have lots of quests to do and 1 or 2 areas I've never been to so not sure if I'm actually near the end but I'm fairly late in the game.

I've been using a controller, so no idea about KB + M but from reading the patch notes it seems like they added it in recently or something, not sure..

 

[Valestein]

yes, more or less

Yeah, Blaster Master has open maps with areas and paths that can't be accessed without acquiring a certain items, so...yes

Furthermore, the key difference between BM and other metroidvanias are the vehicle vs on-foot sections that have their own unique forms of play and their own bits of exploration, boss fighting and item gathering.

In other news, I've been playing Aeterna Noctis and there's some pretty challenging bosses in this.

 

[Machocruz]

Finished the Blaster Master Zero trilogy and am kicking myself for not having played them sooner.

Is that even a metroidvania?

I played both Bloodstained games by the same studio and they were pretty god tier.

Yes and it's fucking awesome. Even the janky NES original, which was my favorite game of this kind for a while, outside of Super and SotN.

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Blaster_Master/Items_and_Upgrades - a list of the weapons and abilities you get in the first game. The Zero games give you even more .

 

[Valestein]

The Zero games have some dope tunes too.

 

[Arthandas]

Is there a hard mode in BM?
Bloodstained 1 wasn't too tough but they really cranked up the difficulty with 2, I heard it's a theme with their games - each sequel is more difficult than the previous part.

 

[Arthandas]

I did my own research and there is a hard mode. Too bad it's only available after beating a normal game which is a total fucking cakewalk from what I've seen.

 

[JDR13]

Is Ritual of the Night as good as the reviews claim?

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Good but very short.

 

[JDR13]

Good but very short.

Not necessarily a bad thing in my book. Sometimes I'm looking for a shorter game.

 

[Valestein]

Been playing through Aeterna Noctis(in "Aeterna" mode) and it's up there with Death's Gambit: Afterlife as one of my top metroid-likes, even despite some tantrums I've thrown because of it.

Some boss highlights:




The doppleganger fight in particular was a real ballbuster.



P.S. the Robot's boss theme is kickass:

 

[welly321]

play on noctis mode. there is no better feeling than conquering aeterna noctis on that mode.

 

[Valestein]

play on noctis mode. there is no better feeling than conquering aeterna noctis on that mode.

Saving that for a second mode. We'll see if my controller can survive Aeterna mode as it is....

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[WaterDrinker]

Is Ritual of the Night as good as the reviews claim?

It's like the best metroidvania in years mate. Some people will claim Hollow Knight is but I will claim those people are full of shit. RotN is basically SotN perfected.

 

[Grauken]

Is Ritual of the Night as good as the reviews claim?

It's like the best metroidvania in years mate. Some people will claim Hollow Knight is but I will claim those people are full of shit. RotN is basically SotN perfected.

Lol no. It's a competent but average metroidvania. Doesn't even come close to SotN

 

[WaterDrinker]

Bloodstained is a friggin masterpiece. Go kick rocks ya bum.

 

[Grauken]

Bloodstained is a friggin masterpiece. Go kick rocks ya bum.

Sounds like you don't drink water but the paint dripping from your walls

 

[WaterDrinker]

Bloodstained is a friggin masterpiece. Go kick rocks ya bum.

Sounds like you don't drink water but the paint dripping from your walls

You wouldn't know a sexy metroidvania if it handed you a piece of paper with it's phone number on it, slapped you on the ass, and flirtingly walked away. Bloodstained delivers everything you could possibly want from a spiritual successor to Symphony of the Night. What else comes remotely close in this day and age?

 

[ChaDargo]

What do people think of https://store.steampowered.com/app/1669420/Islets/ ?

 

[Grauken]

Bloodstained is a friggin masterpiece. Go kick rocks ya bum.

Sounds like you don't drink water but the paint dripping from your walls

You wouldn't know a sexy metroidvania if it handed you a piece of paper with it's phone number on it, slapped you on the ass, and flirtingly walked away. Bloodstained delivers everything you could possibly want from a spiritual successor to Symphony of the Night. What else comes remotely close in this day and age?

I played more metroidvania than you even know exist