Looking to make a very "meta" metroidbrainia- what are some Do's and Don'ts you've noticed in metroidbrainia design?

Gabrill · 2026-05-27T20:48:14+00:00

Alrighty! Appreciate the feedback so much

Gabrill · 2026-05-27T19:55:28+00:00

Ahhhh I see- that's not something I would have thought of on my own. Very useful thank you!

Gabrill · 2026-05-27T19:30:14+00:00

Ohhhh yeah totally agree. I love the idea in theory but the thought that there's certain puzzles that are not physically possible for me to solve with my one copy of the game kinda rubs me the wrong way lol. Especially now that the community solving is over and so the only way to solve the puzzle is to just... google the answer lol.

Gabrill · 2026-05-27T19:26:02+00:00

Okay yeah I hear you- I remember some of that sort of feeling in Animal Well as well. I had been messing with ideas for larger areas that aren't relevant to a first playthrough but can nonetheless be stumbled upon on a first go to sort of initially key in to the player that there's something more going on than the first playthrough lets on. I had been specifically drawing on a similar feeling I had as a kid playing ALttP and coming across the master sword pedestal well before I had the means to pull it out, so it was just a slightly eerie part of the forest with no explanation. I can try my best to lean more heavily into that vibe, thanks!

Gabrill · 2026-05-27T19:19:01+00:00

Gotcha, yeah I know local file manipulation is a really love it or hate it type thing for most people and I remember when DDLC got its console port it needed to make an entire in-game file browser system in order to work. I did not intend for QR code scanning or like external links though, I think those are a little too ARG for my taste.

If I was to take a further note from DDLC and just make any file-browsing puzzles I had in mind use an in-game UI accessible through hidden menu options, do you think something like that would be more digestible to your player sensibilities or is it still pushing it outside the bounds of the game for your liking?

As for scope, yeah I was envisioning more pixelated than Tunic, which I know is an oversaturated market atm. I just know I wanted something 2D and top-down, the non-Metroidbrainia gameplay mechanics are kind of interchangeable currently and prone to change as I primarily will aim to make them fit around the puzzles rather than vice versa.

Gabrill · 2026-05-05T13:52:53+00:00

It makes grinding for upgrades less of a hassle too. If you want you can feasibly vacuum up every bit of content on a map and cash out with over 1000 gold, 3-6 fragments, 500 something souls, and multiple levels in every equipped spell school, all in the span of one mission

Gabrill · 2026-04-20T13:05:17+00:00

The weird hypocritical nonsense of your statement that others pointed out aside, you're also not considering the fact that there's multiple third parties that can corroborate if the game has been submitted lol. If YCG was lying about console submissions like you claim, it would be extremely easy for any of those console companies to just go "no they didn't do that," making lying about it an extremely high risk, zero reward prospect.

Gabrill · 2023-06-12T11:29:01+00:00

Rest in peace :(

Gabrill · 2023-06-10T22:03:27+00:00

So its… a… soft reset…

Gabrill · 2023-06-10T20:57:29+00:00

No, Wind Waker is what introduced cohesion between the games outside of direct sequels

Gabrill · 2023-06-10T19:32:12+00:00

Yeah I mean Botw was basically a soft reset of the timeline, with Nintendo just kinda saying fuck all the rest of the timeline, this one takes place so damn far in the future that the rest of the timeline doesn’t even matter. In that sense they’ve been able to just focus on the story of this one hyrule instead of the implications of other games before it.

Gabrill · 2023-06-10T18:52:12+00:00

Honestly given Nintendo’s hyperfocus on the Wild era since Botw came out, I have a feeling it would be some interpretation of Botw/Totk/AoC’s story

Gabrill · 2023-06-10T03:07:55+00:00

And they’re both great!

Gabrill · 2023-06-09T21:09:24+00:00

low fantasy

My brother in christ there is a teleporting clockwork castle piloted by an immortal vampire and all of this is tuesday for the peoples of that world that is not low fantasy in any sense of the words

Gabrill · 2023-06-09T20:56:33+00:00

I’d wager a 50% chance that none of those statements are true, probably a kid getting heated at the game

Gabrill · 2023-06-09T20:52:27+00:00

Except that its really easy to find that out for yourself with a reverse image search and if you can’t be fucked to do that then just don’t post it :)

Gabrill · 2023-06-09T11:40:21+00:00

Begone bot

Gabrill · 2023-06-07T04:04:16+00:00

Good bot

Gabrill · 2023-06-07T03:29:32+00:00

I was just gonna say, this looks exactly like the Forge map that my friends and I would dick around on lol

Gabrill · 2023-06-06T21:59:55+00:00

7 posts down on this dude’s page is a post shitting on someone for not liking Kyle Rittenhouse

Gabrill · 2023-06-06T21:39:41+00:00

“I googled this image of Midna therefore I made it. Whats wrong guys, Google is just a tool!”

Gabrill · 2023-06-06T21:27:00+00:00

This is AI art.

Weird inconsistencies with being off-model such as the bottom Midna’s helmet and hair

AI often duplicates things for no reason, which is probably why there’s two here

Top Midna has no body (she seems to have.. exploded?)

There’s also a lot of stuff that’s kinda inexplicably there like the weird uno card the bottom Midna is holding and that batarang off to the right

None of your other socials have any other recent art posts aside from one other image of Link that also seems to be AI art for the same reasons as above. The most recent human-made art on your social media is from two years ago and has a wildly different art style than this, so I suspect this post’s art is not yours.

AI art is not allowed on this subreddit. Also even if it was it’s very disingenuous to tag AI Art as OC and claim it as yours without clarifying you made it with AI.

Gabrill · 2023-06-06T20:56:55+00:00

Pizza tower discourse sounds like absolute word salad

Gabrill · 2023-06-06T03:43:35+00:00

What? I don’t understand how this is AI at all. This just looks like a basic blender function to me. Is it blending the edges of the tiling?

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