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Yes, yes, YESSS!! That's the word!! I hope it becomes as popular as "soulsborne" or "souls-like" from now on!

1:48 just do that with the term metroidvania. I dare you.

Interesting how you all are so clever about non existing genre terms. Yet you lack any interest or intellect to use actual genre terms to begin with. Lets say you were talking about action adventures instead of metroidvanias. What would that make of metroidbrainia? It would make it an even more immersive action adventure? Maybe the games you call metroidbrainias are not even good video games to begin with. Maybe you believe you area brainiac when you are just a smartass.

Dude, watch Signs again with an analytical mind. You know what, I know your biggest issue with it and I’ll give you the explanation: the Aliens did not know what water was, they had never encountered it before. Think about it, water is super rare, if they knew what water did to them do you think they would’ve landed on Earth? You can see the fucking water from space lol

Malenia did nothing wrong.

I disagree with almost all of your points in the most part, and a lot of people are already explaining why, but ill comment the stuff i havent see a lot. Ammo System: It's a misconception that the dark beam should only be used in the light world and vice versa. Both weapons can be remarkably effective in both worlds-especially the dark beam, which is highly potent against small- and mid-sized enemies. Although the limited ammo can be annoying, it’s balanced by the immense power of both beams. Their high damage and utility make them valuable, the light beam charge shot deals the exact damage as the plasma beam from MP1, and that beam its an end game weapon, but here you get it in the early game, but careless use can quickly deplete your ammo. However, as you progress through the game and gain more skill and knowledge on how to use the beams; health and ammo upgrades, you can rely on these beams longer and spend more time out of safe zones, making you feel increasingly powerful. The Annihilator Beam is the highest DPS weapon in the game, unrestricted by range or speed. While it drains ammo quickly, by the time you acquire it, you should have collected all available ammo expansions and be familiar with the recharge station locations-there’s at least one in each world. As for the key-hunting system, while not perfect, many complaints arise from SKILL/READING issues. Metroid Prime 2 is a sequel, so it expects players to carry over knowledge from the previous game, including the habit of scanning everything. Key clues are scattered in the lore, marked in blue, you will realize that the game gives SO many clues about the key and how to ing hides them so by when you start hunting them you should have an clear idea of how to find them for example and luminoth body in the first 30% of the game in a room that looks that there is an item but there is nothing and the player feels underwhelmed by that because you expected to find something in there, says that the key feels so close but he cant see it, guiding you towards their locations. If you’re attentive, finding the keys is straightforward, expect for 1, and the game’s light travel system further reduces the time needed to revisit each world.

Beating Melania is beating Melania even if you summon. That said I agree that since she’s a completely optional challenge boss it’s fine that her design punishes summoning.

This video is kinda late... Yk, talking so much about how she's the hardest boss after the DLC dropped lmao

Great video, and I couldnt agree more. Some years ago I read this "game genere anallisis" that talked about how videogames is the only narrative medium that categorizes its generes into tecniques and not into narrative themes or artistic movements. How cinema's generes are based on what is the film about or its setting, like horror, drama or western, and its style or artistic movements, like the german impresionism, Hollywoods golden age or dogma cinema. The same can be seen in dancing, music, painting etc. No one would called the Mona Lisa "an sfumato piece" dispite being the most iconic painting with that technique, we would call it a reinassance portrait, artistic movement + theme. We dont call it "distorted guitar" wer call it Rock music. And therefore is weird that we call games "first person shooter" or "plataformers" when within the same genere we can have horror themes or andventure themes. And it often makes it very difficul for players to find games that are similar to what they like. If you liked Obra Dinn your first impulse won't be to play Animal Well cause they are mechanically oposite. I think its a great debate, and one that we should bring up more often :)

You really got near to the heart of the matter in the last minute or so of the video. Metroidbrainia sounds good and it sounds like another genre that already exists and is well liked. Thus, like it or not, the name stuck despite its inaccuracies.

obradin is not a metroibania, is a dectetive game. That is another genre. Metroidbranias (I prefer brainwania) use the knowledge as a KEY power up that is used to open new areas in non linear exploration.

brainwania

MP was the great sequel we though the franchise deserved, but the lore was not really that different from its 2D predecessors. Echoes on the other hand offers a unique and dark experience with its very own story arc, thereby expanding the older Metroid lore. I always preferred it because it was more creative in so many ways.

Really loved the video, corruption review maybe?

This was a very good video.

15:24 I actually never learned this ability until watching this video! Even though I figured out bubble chaining on my own. Instead, I learned that crouching on a bubble brings you downward, which you seem to have NOT learned. That's super interesting.

Lets just call them Zeldabrania lol if they all drew inspirations from Zelda at some point, its more accurate than saying Metroid.

Animal Well? A "metroidbrainia"? It looks like a Metroid-inspired puzzle game, so... "Puzzloid"...?

"Discoverage"? 😆 Or maybe just "Knowledge Discovery" game. "Discovery-gate" games? I think the act of discovery/revelation aspect is important enough that it needs to be in the name, and adding "knowledge" specifies it's not collectables you're discovering. Whereas I feel mystery isn't as fitting, being too specific. While it's true that there has to be some "mystery" for you to discover, a lot of times it's more of a "rules of the world" sort of mystery. I think as a genre, "mystery" is much more heavily associated with specific scenario mysteries like who killed this person or what happened in this building. I don't think "mystery" is entirely unfitting, but I think it has specific implications that don't always fit.

Another great video, Snulch Come on, Algorithm! Do your thing!

I'd love to see your take on Promised Consort Radahn

Ever since Echoes, I've always wanted a game about the Federation Marines and their fight against the space pirates... but instead we got a sorry excuse of a Metroid Prime on the 3DS.

fact is, games have been pathetically easy for at least 20 years now--often including the hardest difficulty

it's basically a trans-thing

What would you say is good boss design? I feel like lots of games struggle with this, but lots nail it. Like, what specifically is *good* boss design? What makes bosses in Ultrakill better than bosses in Crash Bandicoot? All I’m saying is that that it would be a good video idea.

Can't you just throw an ice pot to stop water dance, or was it patched?

2 am? Yeah I got time for this-

Historical context, the metroidbrania subreddit was literally created when someone in r/TheWitness made a thread asking what the name of the genre for The Witness is, and a reply joking that it should be called Metroidbrainia spawned the sub

A subgenre is supposed to just be a succinct way of saying “if you liked x game because of y, this game also has y”. They aren’t hard classifications, just associative descriptors. When I hear “metroidvania”, I don’t think of 2d platforming, because 2d platforming isn’t the interesting part. I think of branching/backtracking navigation with ability gates. When I hear “metroidbrainia”, I think branching/backtracking navigation, but with *knowledge* gates. I also think “all my favorite games have been called metroidbrainias, so I’ll probably love this one.” And that’s the whole point of coining a new subgenre term.

Apolgies in advance, this is gonna be real wordy. It all comes back to gamers’ need to classify subgenres of games as some kinda derivative work. Sometimes, it works out, like the terms “metroidvania” or “rouguelike”. Sometime, the names are…less good. Like metroidbrainias could be called something descriptive and accurate, but names like that won’t catch on. Instead, you get a name that is pretty easy to understand, conveys the core concept well enough (replacing metroidvania’s lock and key system with mental locks and keys), even though it pays no respect to the actual origins of the term. Imo, “Soulslike” is an example of another genre name that gets abused, as it tends to be used for any game with a dodgeroll. Hell, Fraudeo Kojima himself tried pulling this bullshit when he tried to label every walking sim as “Strand-types”. What I really want is a subgenre to catch “game that’s focused on assembling the plot/lore as you play as a major aspect of design”, cuz honestly I’m tired of trying to find games like Outer Wilds and having the metroidbrainia community tell me to play fucking Toki Tori 2. STOP CALLING IT A METROIDBRAINIA. IT’S LITERALLY JUST A “PUZZLE GAME”. And like, imo, aside from Outer Wilds, the other two games that embody this concept are Void Stranger (brutal sokoban game with storytelling as beautiful as it is schizophrenic), and La Mulana, an extremely brutal metroidvania where solving puzzles is intertwined with deciphering the game’s lore, something which, as one review stated, had them “sifting through pages of handwritten notes at 4 AM, trying to piece together lore like a conspiracy corkboard”. Ironically, while based on your own definition, La Mulana would be the quintessential metroidbrainia, many people in the metroidbrainia community actually say it doesn’t qualify as one because “it actually has metroidvania type gameplay”.

it doesnt go deep though

Gamers not labeling a series of barely connected games under a braindead label challenge: Impossible

I got to a point where I'd uncovered most of the map but wasn't sure where to go next. 3 hours of trawling the map later and I gave up. Good game but too easy hit a dead end, and I love Metroidvanias.

The reason is that it's catchy, so we would need another catchy name to replace it. "Knowledge-based" sounds a bit awkward. Discovery game sounds more like an actual genre.

I think videos game are not good at telling you a story but exelle at let YOU tell a story; When you have the tool to understand freely the game and get immersed, that’s a good momentum But if the game force you to do, watch or read some thing you already figuring out, that stop the momentum So a good pacing is when the game have this natural flow, who put you to the point A to point B

That's okay, I respect your opinion to like GooGaagaaTroid Prime 1. Us Chad's will enjoy the superior MP2

First of all things stop the fast talking Ben Shapiro bs. Second, yes, Metroid Prime is an action adventure only then in 3D. Despite its shooting mechanism it was not an ego shooter. Many people got that wrong and categorized and rated the game wrong because of that. Stupid people be stupid. But ignorance can be healed. Before Metroid Prime went into development the studio behind it had at first indeed no idea what they were doing. Until Nintendo stepped in and lead them on their way to develop Prime. Prime 2 was just so dark and moody. Some people could not handle that. But it also stood the test of time. With Prime 3 being the weakest of the trilogy, even that game is a great one.

Gotta admit, you can say whatever you want about Prime 1, but Prime 2 has infinitely better bosses that are really fun to fight. Also, really glad to find someone else that loves Corruption :)

2:13 you should be locked up for storing your gamecube games like that lol

I saw someone called them "knowledge based unlocks" or "KBUs", I like it, even if it's a bit clunky Also you can't really complain about the ldsl thing given "souls-like" is about as bad and has been around for years lol, "wilds-like" is fine in my eyes

I loved Phazon Mines difficulty spike.

It's funny I don't mind calling Tunic a metroibrainia at all even though it doesn't look like a metroid. Whereas Outer Wilds doesn't work for me at all. Outer Wilds like Obra Dinn reminds me of Myst, you can skip the whole game once you have the knowledge. While Tunic or Animal Well like the metroidvania you can only save time with knowledge. If you speedrun the game it can still be quite long. The metroidbrainia side, from metroidvania, is that the knowledge is used like a key. Not to skip the whole game.

Knowledge based game = game with progression through knowledge

shmups are the most perfect genre in this regard.

Puzzle mystery. Enigma. The entire game is a puzzle and a mystery, with hidden secrets. There are nested puzzles or hidden puzzles, riddles wrapped in mysteries wrapped in enigmas. And the thing with puzzles is that they are inherently knowledge checkpoints. Enigmania. Puzzlenigma. Secretfest. I like Revelation: maybe Revelatory.

OLD SNULCH IS HERE TO CRASH THE PARTY

Dude echos is way better than prime

I mean labels often drift from their origin. Metroid-like is just an inferior name to metroidvania. We should change the other "like" genres to Rouguevania and Soulsvania just cuz.

what i love about hollow knight pacing is that they don't bother you with boring long dialogue trying to make the player empathize with the characters is the player who makes the decision to get intrested into knowing about the lore and characters and that makes me 100x more intrested in everything.