@coda is there a better name for the metroidvania genre? I know IGA (not sure how he prefers the pseudonym to be formatted?) calls it Igavania (probably copyright reasons?) but that's still referencing castlevania
@Felthry in honesty I’m not sure there really is. It is interesting though how most games right now seem to be a combination of, at most, less than a dozen major game tropes/trendsetters that permeate the scene.
@coda I mean, there've always been genres. They just usually had better names than "<popular-game>like"
@coda FPS started out as "doomlike" so renaming badly-named genres is not hopeless
@Felthry true! Every FPS once was just a weird clone of doom.