Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Replacing the term "Metroidvania"

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Replacing the term "Metroidvania"

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Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

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Replacing Metroidvania

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A playful dissection of the popular genre term and how video games can move on to better, more descriptive phrases.

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If we accept this, then RPG is also not a genre.

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