I haven’t played a Metroidvania in a while and I’m looking for suggestions of some good ones to try. Some I would recommend:

Ender’s: Lilies (Magnolias is good too, but play Lilies first. The setting and theme hits better.)

Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps (Will of the Wisps did bring a tear to my eye)

Monster Sanctuary (a creature capture metroidvania)

Any system is good, interested to hear of other good ones that are out there.

        • dukemirage@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Yes. At least I didn’t hit any roadblocks like in Hollowknight where a lot of patience and concentration was required to beat certain bosses and not lose your sanity on the ridiculously long ways to the arena.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Hollow Knight didn’t really do it for me so I haven’t tried Silksong yet (I hated not having a map for each area until I purchased one).

      I may have to try putting an emulator on my Steam Deck and seeing if Super Metroid holds up.

      • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        4 days ago

        If you didn’t like Hollow Knight you probably won’t like Silksong either.

        The game is good, and incredibly polished, but feels aimed at the people who 100% the first game and wanted more.

      • Ofiuco@piefed.caEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I may have to try putting an emulator on my Steam Deck

        I always tought it was standard for pc players to have at least 1 emulator installed, usually Retroarch or Emulation Station.

        But since you are willing to give them a shot, try Metroid Fusion too, I admit it’s heavily on rails, but it feels fun and the movement is improved over Super Metroid.

        There is a patch to make Super Metroid behave somewhat like MF, but I think playing it vanilla first is fun on it’s own.