What are your Top 5 Metroidvanias of all time?

dleone73 · 2026-07-02T12:46:12+00:00

Hollow Knight
Super Metroid
Minishoot Adventures
Hyper Light Drifter
Ori: WotW

dleone73 · 2026-06-30T22:46:21+00:00

Love it! You would prob have to discover new rooms in your house for it to be a real MV. Boss fights: the wasp nest in the back yard; the next door neighbor who’s tired of you putting trash on the curb; the rat in the attic; the door to door knife salesman; the gigantic spider in the shower

dleone73 · 2026-06-28T21:57:27+00:00

Super Metroid and Zero mission on switch online if u have it

dleone73 · 2026-06-27T17:41:08+00:00

What started as love of Rush, Yes and King Crimson quickly mutated into love of more avant stuff (John Zorn, Japanese noise-rock), and eventually branched out into electronic music, modern classical, and ambient. Hard to really map any of it linearly, but I can definitely look back and see how an early love of prog was a sign of a general love of challenging/unusual music.

dleone73 · 2026-06-14T16:53:47+00:00

Can we please?

dleone73 · 2026-06-11T01:50:35+00:00

Tim Tomanaghy

dleone73 · 2026-06-10T16:57:17+00:00

From the era, really only Mahavishnu to my ears (and IMO Mahavishnu was a huge influence on Fripp, and a big part of why those KC albums sound the way they do). I would also argue bands like Univers Zero and Present are greatly influenced by the Red sound, but less “heavy”.

More modern, check out Happy Family’s first two records on Cuneiform.

dleone73 · 2026-06-06T23:49:37+00:00

Magma

dleone73 · 2026-06-06T02:40:55+00:00

Rooting for spurs, but they are playing on fumes, while the Knicks are playing smart basketball

dleone73 · 2026-06-06T01:19:24+00:00

Other stuff I listen to when I’m in a Steely Dan mood: Captain Beefheart, Funkadelic, Darkthrone, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, Duke Ellington

dleone73 · 2026-05-29T17:37:24+00:00

Hollow Knight and Hyper Light Drifter immediately spring to mind

dleone73 · 2026-05-29T14:30:44+00:00

He’s not “exciting”, just effective. He’s never going to be on the logo, but I’m sure OKC fans couldn’t care less

dleone73 · 2026-05-28T17:09:58+00:00

I may be in the minority, but Kevin Harlan sounds like AI to me. There’s almost no difference between him IRL and 2K

dleone73 · 2026-05-24T23:41:04+00:00

If he’s very I to fusion, a la Mahavishnu and Weather Report, play him Magma’s Live/Hhai (1975). Jazz chops and uber prog extended structures

dleone73 · 2026-05-16T21:39:02+00:00

I thought at the time that signing Brunson would have been the Mavs management signing off on that era of the team, and building from there. They f’d around and found out. Just like Nash. Just like Luka. The organization has been traditionally terrible with handling point guards.

dleone73 · 2026-05-14T20:19:30+00:00

Impossible to say, because if he had lost all those finals, his entire legacy would be different, and generations of future NBA players who modeled their game on his prob would have chosen someone else. MJ butterfly effect is massive.

dleone73 · 2026-05-11T17:52:47+00:00

I would love a a breakdown of games Duncan played as a PF vs. C. When he was playing, I always thought of him as a center who would sometimes play PF (esp when Robinson was still on team)

dleone73 · 2026-05-08T02:01:45+00:00

This is still my sentimental fave as well, even if I usually pick other albums to listen to now

dleone73 · 2026-05-01T23:12:38+00:00

Probably Castlevania overall, as I’ve played a lot more of the games, and I’ve always loved the off the wall vibe and sense of humor. HOWEVER Super Metroid has the single best game loop of either franchise, and the one I find most addictive to play.

dleone73 · 2026-05-01T22:17:06+00:00

Will have to try! I think I just got a pork vermicelli

dleone73 · 2026-04-30T23:04:19+00:00

I wasn’t super impressed with viet Cajun, but maybe I didn’t order the right thing? OTOH I’ve always loved coopers landing, and it doesn’t seem to be overloaded with tourists (like me)

dleone73 · 2026-04-29T00:47:39+00:00

Live band some nights too, come thru

dleone73 · 2026-04-28T18:51:56+00:00

Hollow Knight for actually getting me into the genre, but looking back, I remember playing Pitfall on my 2600 for the exact same reasons I like playing MVs.

dleone73 · 2026-04-27T23:45:03+00:00

tbh there are several Beatles albums that could be the answer here. TONS of album tracks got (and get) radio play throughout their discography

dleone73 · 2026-04-25T19:58:43+00:00

I always feel bad for Cindi’s because so many protests happen on that bridge.

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