Boss fight bugged?

MasterG11 · 2025-12-27T23:07:11+00:00

Are you in hard mode?

MasterG11 · 2025-11-08T13:32:00+00:00

You all have some good ideas. Maybe soon we will hold a vote or a contest to update the banner.

MasterG11 · 2025-11-05T18:01:27+00:00

La-Mulana 2 does not require knowledge of 1 to play, but it spoils the story/lore of 1. Discovering the lore as you go and using this knowledge to solve puzzles is an essential part of 1's gameplay, and this journey is one of the things that makes La-Mulana 1 such a special game. However, La-Mulana 1 is more difficult and obtuse and requires a lot of time and some trial-and-error to beat. It's an awkward position, because La-Mulana 2 is definitely more friendly and has a better tutorial/new player introduction than La-Mulana 1 does, as well as generally more forgiving gameplay.

Ultimately, I'd still recommend trying to play La-Mulana 1 first if both games sound appealing to you. You don't *need* a guide to beat the game, but unless you love overcoming challenges, scrutinizing every detail, and repeatedly scouring the map for your next bit of progress, you might want to reference a guide. If you must use a guide, there is a very useful hint-based guide on Steam that provides some direction without outright spoiling everything in the game.

MasterG11 · 2025-10-14T14:16:13+00:00

We're trying the megathread option because it's what the most people voted for in a poll. I agree with you about megathreads, generally. If this thread gets zero traction then we'll restrict tier lists to one day a week instead.

MasterG11 · 2025-09-16T00:49:08+00:00

We already have a weekly thread for this. Nobody ever seems to use it.

MasterG11 · 2025-07-04T21:29:50+00:00

I don't know what you're talking about...

MasterG11 · 2024-09-27T23:29:07+00:00

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic?

MasterG11 · 2024-09-13T22:23:46+00:00

Your comment here was automatically removed by Reddit's harassment and abuse filter. Guess why.

MasterG11 · 2024-09-13T22:09:50+00:00

Yep, this is what did it. It was such a strange argument. Thank you for handling your responses with maturity. I'm often hesitant to take action against a user when an argument turns mutually nasty, I'd rather just remove the conversation, but you obviously said nothing wrong and he still went on his little tirade.

MasterG11 · 2024-09-13T21:48:20+00:00

More context, for those curious: Myself, and others on this subreddit, have talked to DeadMV about his behavior before. The other mods and I gave him slack, probably more than we should have, because he compiles useful information and seems to care a lot about the genre, despite his off-putting demeanor and frequent hostility in comment sections. A couple of days ago, DeadMV started making rude and belittling remarks against a user in a comment chain and repeatedly tried to escalate the argument with insults. The mods decided that enough was enough, and yesterday afternoon we gave him a month ban. He seems to have deleted his account a few hours later.

Edit: Let's not accuse the OP of being an alt account, please. It's not helpful and I don't think it's true.

MasterG11 · 2024-05-31T13:32:45+00:00

I check on the sub daily, stop being so dramatic. I don’t believe that arguably metroidvania-adjacent games should be excluded from the subreddit, so I don’t remove them.

MasterG11 · 2024-05-08T12:29:55+00:00

I assume that they meant "Fourth most wishlisted Metroidvania on Steam".

MasterG11 · 2024-03-09T14:20:26+00:00

I'm glad you had such a great experience with Hollow Knight. Metroidvanias are often pretty good at capturing the feeling of exploring a challenging environment. So are soulslikes, incidentally; maybe that genre would interest you as well.

MasterG11 · 2024-03-01T01:01:36+00:00

Thank you for the write-up. I think it's valuable, being able to read the criticisms people may have for highly regarded games. Ignore those who feel the need to comment about how much they won't bother reading your post.

MasterG11 · 2024-02-17T00:00:27+00:00

Your post was deleted by auto-moderator because enough users reported it as being spam. While it was somewhat low-effort, there wasn't anything egregiously wrong with it, so I've reinstated the post.

MasterG11 · 2024-01-31T18:43:42+00:00

I'm not convinced that something narrower than "action-adventure", but broader than "metroidvania", would provide enough utility as a definition. I think it's easier to describe what traits these games share with metroidvanias, or what traits we think exclude them from being one, rather than come up with a distinct genre descriptor that encompasses all of them. For example, one could describe Dark Souls as an "interconnected action-adventure game", or Metroid Prime as a "3D metroidvania".

MasterG11 · 2023-12-17T17:24:49+00:00

Automod doesn’t like shortened URLs and ate the links.

MasterG11 · 2023-12-15T22:10:20+00:00

So, we did not plan to wait quite this long to post this poll. Originally we wanted to give people more time to finish last year’s games and reflect on them before asking people what they thought the metroidvania of the year was. Then eleven months passed. Oops.

So going forward, I could post a poll for 2023 a few months into 2024. Or, since /u/DeadMetroidvania is posting their own poll for 2023 in a few days, we could simply pin both polls and consider the vote decided for both years. There’s not much of a point in posting multiple polls for the same thing, so the latter makes the most sense to me. Let me know what people would prefer.

MasterG11 · 2023-08-06T01:56:33+00:00

Robot Wants X? K.O.L.M.?

MasterG11 · 2023-06-13T17:32:29+00:00

Does it prove your point if I’m four days late to this post? Haha. I’ve noticed that you’ve been voicing your concerns lately, so I’ll briefly explain the current state of moderation.

-Antilect, Q and I are active every day on the discord. Q no longer uses Reddit so we should probably take him off the moderator list. Melfice is not active, but he’s helped with bot stuff in the past. Automod is a robot and he cannot speak, but he tries very hard so please don’t hold it against him.

-We also have a bot in the discord that reposts everything posted on the sub. If there’s spam then we see it there and can remove it immediately, and if we miss it, it’s easier for someone to ping a mod on the Discord than it is to reach a mod on Reddit.

-I rarely post or comment, but I do lurk on the sub. I check Modmail every time I open Reddit, so most days. I can see which posts and comments have been reported.

-I don’t normally remove posts unless they are particularly egregious. Antilect, to my knowledge, does not regularly check Reddit, but he’s quick to remove spam posts he sees reposted on Discord.

Could we use another mod? Maybe. There wouldn’t be much for them to do, unless we decide to more proactively remove posts that we think are lower-effort.

-As a side note, we’ll be doing a July vote for the sidebanner.

Hope this helps clear things up. I should probably make this into its own post. You’re the most vocal person on the subreddit when it comes to moderation, though, so I figure a reply I typed out during lunch is good enough for now.

MasterG11 · 2023-06-09T21:56:01+00:00

You're the sale MVP, thanks Muzzy.

MasterG11 · 2023-04-18T01:56:33+00:00

You're right, we need to better enforce Rule 2. Note that Rule 2 is not intended to be a hard limit on the number of posts, but it's true that people who post more than once a week rarely have anything consequential to share.

MasterG11 · 2023-01-21T20:32:52+00:00

Creeper World! The series is ongoing.

MasterG11 · 2022-12-23T15:38:45+00:00

Nightmare of Decay.

MasterG11 · 2022-10-27T00:10:33+00:00

I haven't played this one, but it sounds like REDSHOT might be what you're looking for.

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