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Is Hollow Knight the best metroidvania???
| Yes-wait
Aww crap Ori and the Blind Forest exists.
| C'mon don't be like that. Our certainly looks pretty but Hollow Knight is better in gameplay and sheer amount of content.
| Why did the autocorrect change Ori to our
| i was just thinking of asking for a good complex metroidvania. oh well, i guess i had to get this game after all
| Get it. Hollow Knight is about to get its third free expansion and without it I already got like 200 hours logged in the game.
| Yeeee- no.. it's Shovel Knight
| Shovel Knight is not a metroidvania
| I agree with Hollow Knight being fucking amazing, and Shovel Knight is not a metroidvania.
| Hollow knight got an interesting art style but on the gameplay side has really nothing new, even the enemies are everything you already saw in other games, also has a good bunch of bugs. The game is kind of cool and enjoyable, but certainly not the best you can play.
| >>151462
It doesn't bring much new stuff to the table, but it polishes the old stuff so, so well. I'd say it's definitely is one of the best metroidvanias on the market, if not THE best.
| Tbh Ori is way more polished with much better/more creative/more structured level design and not to mention that animation.
But Hollow Knight is more expansive and has more fleshed out world.
Despite being both metroidvania it's like comparing apples to oranges apparently
| Well I'm playing Axiom Verge right now and it's fucking amazing. I couldn't get myself to finish hollow knight tho
| >>151491
Ori is indeed a lot more creative and about as polished, I'd say, but honestly it felt a LOT more linear than Hollow Knight.
| >>151519 Yeah. Ori is a really linear game. Not nearly as open as good metroidvanias should be. Still an amazing game though, but as a metroidvania I'd say Hollow Knight is stronger.
| Shin-Chan GBA and DS games are the best metroidvania games ever created
| Personally I didn't see what was the big hooplah about Axiom Verge. Also, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is almost not a metroidvania, but if >>151233 really likes the Shovel Knight style that much, they should give it a try.
| Id say metroid or castlevania are better
| >>152287
Well, funnily enough, they're not. Maybe some igavania games are on par though, but Hollow Knight offers more polish and otherwise more progressive ideas. Also, better visuals, atmosphere and lore.
| shovrl knight is good
| Only people new to metroidvanias think HK is the best.
| Again, Shovel Knight is not a metroidvan8a. Also, >>152589, I have to differ; until now my favour8te had been Metroid Zero Mission, which I've played (and replayed) since I got my gba a long time ago. But HK objectively improves on every aspect, from sheer amount of content, to the mechanics and the lore.
| >>152603
Content sure, since it has received a handful of expansions, but the mechanics in HK are nothing new. The more isn't anything special either. The gameplay is tight but bosses and enemies are underwhelming. A majority of the ost felt like background noise to me since so much of it is ambience.
| >>152740 when they say "mechanic" they probably mean something like the control is more polished, not necesarrily that it's new. Polishing an existng thing is still a plus.
Also I disagree with your idea that "ost feels like background noise" is a bad thing. The music sets the tone for the game perfectly, and to boot, it's still beautiful if you deliberately listen to it.
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| because I would certainly think so