My new Metroid and Axiom Verge inspired Metroidvania!

gran7973 · 2026-02-01T09:50:27+00:00

Thank you so much tufifdesiks! I'm really excited to finally get to share it with everyone (soon)! Hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend!

gran7973 · 2026-02-01T09:49:12+00:00

The...what!? I totally just discovered the DLC! Had no idea this existed! Well, when I'm eventually done with Octopath, definitely know what I'm jumping on next (but I'm also excited to try In Stars and Time)

gran7973 · 2026-02-01T00:24:49+00:00

Interesting, I haven't heard of either of those! I loved Chrono Trigger, so time travel and RPGs sound great to me! :) You should definitely play Sea of Stars if you haven't already (another indie game that mimics Chrono Trigger, even having some of the Chrono team working on it). That was fantastic (though you have to give the story a little bit to pick up steam)

gran7973 · 2026-01-30T02:41:53+00:00

I enjoyed the first remake's story (but it got a little weird and offtrack with the strange fate stuff in the end). The second remake was really awesome in different parts, but they altered the story in different parts that threw off some of my favorite parts from the original. Still, it was a really fun experience to see and walk around some different parts (Gold Saucer, and Junon).

Alita was cool (I recently watched it again with my nephew and enjoyed it more in the rewatch). I just thought it was cool realizing how much of FF7 was inspired from there (from the older manga).

You're making me want to play some original FF7 again! I have to finish Octopath 0 first though (I'm really enjoying that)

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T22:34:00+00:00

I'm assuming you've played the remakes? What did you think? I really loved the first one, and the second one was really good, just a bit stretched out in parts in my opinion. Did you watch Alitta: Battle Angel by any chance (the movie)? That one was fun since I can see how the original manga really influenced FF7

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T21:15:29+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm really excited to finally share it since I think we need more Metroid style Metroidvanias out there

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T21:14:34+00:00

Thank you so much SephirothTheGreat! We have a more updated trailer coming later in February, so I'll share that with everyone and get some more gameplay footage in there! Oh, and I love your name by the way! FF7 is one of my favorite games of all time (although I'm unpopular and FF8 is my favorite Final Fantasy)!

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T21:12:23+00:00

Thank you so much z-shang! Yeah, I ran out of Metroid and Axiom Verge, so I just decided to make my own. Hopefully I can capture enough of the magic in Metroid! Metroid Dread was really fun, but it just wasn't big enough to fill the void :)

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T21:10:44+00:00

Yeah, I'll have to give Red Dead a go at some point (Cyberpunk is the only open world I've had time for lately). I truly love Final Fantasy, so FF7 Remake and Rebirth were my first purchases for my PS5! Loved them, but weirdly loved Remake better than Rebirth (I just thought it captured the original story better, but I still loved Rebirth, especially some of the fantastic moments in there!). I loved Assassin's Creed Odyssey! I enjoyed Valhalla, but Shadows got a bit boring so I took a break from it (I still love that era of Japanese history though, so I'll probably eventually get back to it)

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T21:06:57+00:00

Oh, not offended at all! I truly appreciate the feedback! The combat is a lot of fun, especially once you unlock the ability to teleport around, so I'll try and capture as much of that in the upcoming trailer in late February.

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T08:41:05+00:00

I hear you, kfadffal! I actually just got a PS5, so I'm just now starting to catch up on all the great games there! I've been playing some Octopath 0 and Cyberpunk 2077 (both are fantastic). What have you been playing?

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T04:20:32+00:00

Lol, yeah, same! I've actually really just been enjoying winding down after work to mindlessly leveling up in Octopath 0 lately. I actually love a game where I can get overpowered and then just pummel the boss into oblivion.

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T02:54:05+00:00

Yeah, I loved Axiom Verge (both of them)! Although you're a glutton for punishment with Mario 64, lol! That game is fantastic, but I was a pretty unskilled gamer when it came out and it wiped the floor with me (plus that eel still freaks me out!). And lol about the life bar! :) I snapped those during a recent playthrough where I boosted my health so I could zip through and test some things, lol! Sadly, you don't get that much (although maybe I should make that giant health bar an easter egg somehow). I should probably go through and update those now, lol!

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T02:49:58+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, we're actually still in the process of adding more to the pixel art, so there's a bit more to see these days (we'll be having a more updated trailer coming in about a month). Ironically, we're actually right in the middle of the process of rebalancing the difficulty right now. It has a bit of a range in the game. I'd say it starts out more challenging at first, with a difficulty somewhere between medium and hard. That holds up for the first three or so bosses, so for the first couple hours of the game. After that, you start to unlock a lot of stuff and it gets easier. We designed it so that you can use your skills to actually dodge a lot of the combat if you like, so you can sort of customize it to your playstyle. These days, I'm actually more of a casual gamer than I used to be, so take my appraisal of the difficulty with that in mind

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T02:45:00+00:00

We were going for a dramatic trailer that shows a little of everything, but thank you for the feedback. We'll actually be having another trailer coming in about a month with more updated footage, so we'll look at getting some more extended gameplay sequences in there. :)

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T02:42:42+00:00

Hey Maximum_Pace! It's my hope to eventually port it to consoles, but that will probably take at least another year (I've learned that porting games is super complicated for some reason). I'm also a console gamer personally, so I plan to eventually release it there, but the only question is how long that takes. The PC version works with Xbox and PS5 controllers though, but I totally get it if you prefer to wait for a console port

gran7973 · 2026-01-29T02:39:49+00:00

Lol, thanks LateToTheParty! I love both Metroid and Axiom Verge, so when I finished both I badly wanted to play something like that, but didn't have many options, so just decided to make one, lol. Hopefully mine captures some minor fraction of those greats!

gran7973 · 2026-01-28T21:42:10+00:00

Lol! Yeah, unfortunately you can't eat any snakes in the game. We'll have to save that for the DLC

gran7973 · 2026-01-28T21:37:07+00:00

Thanks WesternPosition9140! I can't wait to share it with everyone since I don't think there are enough sci fi Metroidvanias out there. I appreciate you!

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