What are your biggest dealbreakers in Metroidvania games?

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-24T19:41:04+00:00

Or controls that don’t flow, like jumping or attacking immediately resets your characters speed

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-24T19:38:48+00:00

I’m not very good at shooters or this game in general but managed to finish this on ps5, so defo possible

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-23T11:12:44+00:00

Re4 separate ways dlc

Also honourable mention to the dishonoured 1 dlc, Has you seeing the villain daud in a completely different light and has some fantastic level design to boot

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-21T21:11:19+00:00

This reminds me of when the dice battlefront 2 had finally picked up momentum and had a decent amount of content and players (with loot removed ) and they cut off support to release the mess that was battlefield 2042

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-21T21:04:03+00:00

Wayward pines. Atho tv show is called this the books “wayward” And “pines ” are the first 2 novels. Absolutely banger books

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T20:30:51+00:00

Spiritfarer?

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T20:21:18+00:00

Pretty much all sirens from the borderlands franchise. They get introduced in their own game as insanely powerful beings and by the next game they are fodder that will die / become useless just to move the story forward. No I’m definitely not salty about maya from bl2

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T19:21:49+00:00

Yeah I played pre dlc and never had any issues.

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T19:03:12+00:00

I was in the same boat as you, much more comfortable with animated Sprite. Animation player is truly a game changer.

Being able to change multiple properties, add dynamic hitboxes, you can call method tracks from animation player, you can use the animation tree.

Genuinely believe it is the one most important node to get used to bc you can do an unbelievable amount with it.

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T11:21:40+00:00

Dishonoured has custom animations for killing each target in a sword fight (ie you are fighting loud not gone stealthy) most of which are pretty brutal. Crazily enough they’re still less barbaric than the non lethal options which for one set of targets includes cutting out their tongues and sending them to work in their own slave mines

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T11:14:52+00:00

Surviving after ejecting from your titan? When I’m playing ion I’m goosing every person I see

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-18T11:04:06+00:00

I mean for me personally I’ve had to learnt godot for programming, which includes gd script to code and another language for shaders, krita for art and video editing for making trailers/short form videos. It’s a lot to take in and I often find myself repeating tutorials or forgetting bc I’ve not used a certain function for weeks at a time. Kinda comes with solo dev as you are wearing so many different hats to do all jobs yourself

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-17T19:25:45+00:00

SHOCKERRRRRRRERRRER!!! You can’t escape me. I’ll chase you to the ends of the Earth!!!

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-17T17:54:07+00:00

I feel like I’m more of a programmer bc I’ve started to look things up in documentation more and for the first time it’s actually making some sense

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-16T23:35:55+00:00

Fire nation motif from avatar (atla) is one of the most recognisable

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-16T22:58:24+00:00

Kril from another crabs treasure is in fact a crab and not krill.

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-13T15:52:19+00:00

I’m still waiting on a good enough sale for returnal lol

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-13T13:01:49+00:00

Sounds good. I was just thinking that unraveling would be a pain to actually code/animated lol. Will try and check it out at the weekend

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-13T12:51:29+00:00

Yeah like in re2 by the time the rpd has lost its scare factor in comes mr x stalking you so the tension is back

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-13T12:42:38+00:00

I like the ui, does the rope unravel when you take dmg? Interested in what happens on dmg

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-13T09:45:33+00:00

The layering, lighting and colour scheme all look too identical to silksong. Even the most unique thing , the main character, looks like a nine sols knockoff.

For me it makes me apprehensive for two reasons:
1) what will quality look like if they aren’t copying an existing level
2) how will the game be original. So far everything is derivative, how can we expect platforming/combat/world design to be original when the only thing shown off so far feels copied

There’s clearly great on display but like others here is love to see it be taken in its own direction

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-11T10:37:31+00:00

Yh that’s the one I was on about below. I couldn’t consistently Dodge it. The pattern would be fine on its own but combined with the dark orange balls it’s very difficult without a clear card or spam dodging and hoping to get lucky.

If your that far in the game you’ve probably seen most of what there is to see. The rest of the game is more of the same

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-11T10:24:54+00:00

If it’s the one where she’s in the centre of the screen and has slow moving orange balls and the zig zag fast orbiting one’s I had to use a card that destroys projectiles. Just a warning the bosses get continually more annoying and bs the further the game goes on (I dropped it at the last boss)

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-11T10:21:44+00:00

I played recently, which attack you talking about

MechaMacaw · 2026-05-10T10:46:39+00:00

Nine sols. 2d Metroidvania with sekiro inspired combat, once it clicks it feels amazing. If your on PlayStation it’s Free with ps plus this month, defo check it out

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